Anime Glasses, also known as Scary Shiny Glasses, is an anime and manga trope in which a character's spectacles flare with a bright reflection that fully covers their eyes1. The blank white lenses signal that the character is calculating, scheming, or plainly villainous, and the effect is often paired with the character pushing the frames up their nose using an index finger1.

Fans point to Gendo Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sōsuke Aizen from Bleach, and Professor Souichi Tomoe from Sailor Moon as textbook examples of characters drawn this way5. Outside anime itself, the visual moved into meme use as shorthand for someone with narrow but very deep expertise on a niche subject, usually paired with a caption bragging about that expertise6.

Making an Anime Glasses image typically means either photoshopping a bright white glare across the lenses of a photo, as abosl did in 20132, or physically constructing glasses with reflective plastic inserts in the style of @dekantsu's 2018 build3. Captions usually claim deep but strangely narrow knowledge of a single topic, matching the Reddit convention for the format6.