Anime girls have all sorts of accessories and visual effects to give them personality. Glasses, cat ears, maid uniforms, pigtails, you name it.

But the eye patch is among the most underrated accessories in anime. And an eye patch on a girl can mean any number of things. It could mean she’s a badass, it could mean she has a traumatic past. In some cases, they might just be wearing it because they’re a little odd.

But motivations aside, here are 13 of the coolest girls to sport the eye-patch look – and surprisingly, not a single one of them is a pirate. Go figure.

1. Rikka Takanashi (Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai)

Rikka Takanashi is an unusual girl. She wears her eyepatch because she claims her right eye holds a terrible, dark power, contained only by her pure maiden’s heart.

So, you know, she keeps the eyepatch on for the good of the world.

Except that her right eye just contains a color contact, she’s a totally normal girl, and the eyepatch is totally unnecessary. There’s a reason the English title of this anime is Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Emphasis on the “delusions.”

 

2. Shimei Ryomou (Ikkitousen)

There’s a lot to Shimei Ryomou. Her left eye contains the soul of a dragon, for starters. She’s a B-rank fighter in the Ikkitousen universe, and has a bit of a split personality.

One of those personalities is a psychosexual battle freak. The other is a shy, demure girl who wears a heart-shaped eye patch and works at a cat maid cafe.

Ikkitousen is a weird show.

3. Sofia Valmer (Jormungand)

Sofia Valmer, better known as Valmet in the series, is a former Finnish officer who lost her right eye on a peacekeeping mission in Africa. Because of this, she feels extremely uneasy anytime she sets foot in Africa.

But despite her traumatic past, she tends to keep a pretty upbeat personality. She is in love with Koko, her boss, and has remained a talented fighter with knives. So she’s doing okay.

4. Minene Uryuu (Future Diary)

For someone who starts out trying to blow up an entire school full of kids, Minene Uryuu becomes an incredibly sympathetic character as the events of Mirai Nikki unfold.

And unlike a lot of characters on this list, Minene doesn’t start out with an eyepatch. You see exactly what happens to her left eye in the series, and that makes the eyepatch itself that much more significant as you get to know her.

Not quite a protagonist, not quite an antagonist, Minene acts as sort of a rogue agent throughout the survival game. She will help Yukiteru when it suits her, but she’s also prone to freelancing.

Minene has clear, sympathetic motivations but often questionable methods. Those aspects of her personality combine to make her a one of the more complex characters you’ll see. You kind of want to root for her, but you also cringe when she’s successful.

5. Mei Misaki (Another)

So Minene’s eye patch was there to cover a lost eye. Rikka’s was there simply out of delusion. What can we expect from this?

Well, Mei Misaki’s eye patch is definitely covering something special. But the mystery of exactly what is one of the major components of Another.

Just know that she has something to hide under that eyepatch, she’s a pretty creepy character, and is known as the one that “does not exist.

6. Kyuubei Yagyuu (Gintama)

The second overt reference to legendary samurai Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi on this list, Kyuubei was raised as a boy to satisfy his family’s need for an heir.

She is androphobic and recoils at even the slightest touch of a man, but doesn’t mind touching anybody with her skilled swordsmanship.

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7. Mio Sakamoto (Strike Witches)

Mio’s eye patch defines her character in the traditional way, as that of a battle-hardened warrior. 

She is always taken seriously and trains many of the witches since she is an experienced veteran. 

Her eye patch gives her that rough exterior to match her disciplinarian personality when she is training new recruits.

8. Jiyu Nanohana (Juubee-chan: Lovely Gantai no Himitsu)

Okay, so what if the eye patch isn’t hiding anything? What if, instead, the eye patch is a transformation mechanic? And heart-shaped!

That’s what we have here. Kiyu Nanohana is just a normal, albeit popular, 14-year-old girl. But when she dons the eyepatch, she becomes the reincarnated soul of Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi, one of Japan’s most famed samurai.

But why would she need to do that? Well, naturally, there’s a rival clan that has a centuries-old score to settle with Jubei, and she needs to fight them off regularly.

Duh.

9. Abiru Kobushi (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei)

Because she’s always heavily bandaged, friends and classmates often fear that Abiru is the subject of domestic violence. In actuality, she just has an obsession with pulling animal tails, and that leads to situations where she needs bandages, as you would expect.

Well, that’s some of the time. She also admit she often just wears the bandages for the attention.

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10. Laura Bodewig (Infinite Stratos)

Laura is another character whose eye patch helps define her as someone strong-willed and determined. 

She initially is obsessed with proving her strength and beating some of the other characters but soon softens up to them.

11. Hephaistios (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka)

First off, Hephaistios is sporting one of the coolest designs for an eye patch you’re going to see.

And second, she’s a magical blacksmith goddess. She doesn’t have the biggest or most important role in the series, but shut up, she’s a magical blacksmith goddess.

She also helps Hestia and Bell by forging a dagger for Bell that grows in strength as he does. And since Bell’s whole thing is a rapid growth rate, she effectively is responsible for destroying the balance of the universe.

So that’s cool.

12. Chihiro Shindou (ef – A Tale of Memories)

On the surface, Chihiro seems like a normal girl that lost an eye in an accident, but there is so much more to the pain and suffering she has endured. 

Her eye patch serves as a reminder that even though Chihiro looks normal, she is still greatly affected by what happened in the past. 

It also has the benefit of easily identifying her from her twin sister.

 

13. Arashi Nikaidou (Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankeinai yo ne)

Arashi is a natural leader and her eye patch helps her exude that image. She is the president of the student council and has immense power over seemingly everything. 

Arashi also seems to have a knack for discovering secrets while maintaining her own, adding a sense of mystery which is again promoted by her eye patch.

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(source:onlinefanatic)