For example:. However, when I mentioned this to a Japanese person someone who was not a big anime viewer , she was confused, and adamant that a bloody nose would normally just mean that the person was excited in general, and it would not necessarily have anything to do with sexual excitement. This could and seems likely to be true for Japanese day to day real life, but very different in anime, where the connection to libido seems very clear.
Is there someone that can explain this difference? Is the "bloody nose" in anime just used to signify excitement, and it just happens to often always be sexual excitement because of the plot? Or is it supposed to be just understood how a bloody nose is interpreted in anime is different from normal life? Gilles Portras, author of The Anime Companion , wondered the same thing:.
But the best response I got was from one fellow who simply recounted that when he was a child he was told by his mother that if he stared at a pretty woman he would get a bloody nose. It's basically superstition, like if you sneeze once someone is saying something good about you. If you sneeze twice they are saying something bad.
If you sneeze three times, you have a cold. The bloody nose gag exaggerates the rise in blood pressure when people are aroused, to such a degree that blood shoots out of the aroused character's nose. As far as I know, it comes from embarrassment more than arousal. Note that it tends to not be perverts who get bloody noses at least not when they're dealing with someone other than their primary love interest.
When presented with this kind of situation, all of a sudden, they tend to become quite embarrassed. This embarrassment normally leads to the face being filled with blood blushing. BUT, to show an extreme case of this embarrassment, their nose bleeds instead from the excessive blood pressure buildup. Male characters will develop a bloody nose around their female love interests typically to indicate arousal, which is a play on an old wives' tale.
It has a reference in the end of this sentence that leads here. According here , in anime, nosebleed mostly happens to a character being sexually aroused. It is an exaggeration of having high blood pressure when a real person is sexually aroused. In Japanese media, healthy young men that have no other sexual outlet will often suffer nosebleeds upon seeing the naked female body, or even just a pair of well-filled panties.
It can also be interpreted as shorthand strictly for erections in males. In that case, when blood shoots from the nose explosively, and in ridiculous quantity, the implication would be an ejaculation. As explained on MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia :. Repeated nosebleeds may be a symptom of another disease such as high blood pressure, a bleeding disorder, or a tumor of the nose or sinuses. Blood thinners, such as warfarin Coumadin , clopidogrel Plavix , or aspirin, may cause or worsen nosebleeds.
But in anime, all manners are thrown to the wind — characters will run out of the house with a slice of toast hanging from their mouths.
Others think it started a few years later in , from the manga Tsuraize! Boku Chan , a romance series by Ryouko Takahashi. Japanese anime are not the only cartoons to depict characters overeating. Notably, Popeye the Sailor binged spinach.
In line with your all-knowing grandma, cats may be the most omnipresent creature in Japan. With shrines, cafes, and folklore dedicated to the animals, they symbolize artistic significance. From then, cat symbolism took on a life of its own. In the 12th century, stories of bakeneko, or a shapeshifting supernatural cat that transformed into humans, circulated in Japanese art. These fearful bakeneko would sometimes kill their owners to take their place.
Other examples of mysterious cats, such as the gotoku neko, a cat spirit that mysteriously stokes fires at night to stay warm, littered Japanese literature and art. To this day, cats are still popular; award-winning author Haruki Murakami utilizes cats frequently in his work. Doraemon, a cat robot, and Hello Kitty, a white cat cartoon, amass global fans.
According to Masahiro Koyama, an anime and manga researcher, the difference between stray and household cats in a manga is also important. What are they, and why are they so stretchy?! In short, an average person cannot get a nosebleed from having sex. There is evidence, though, that men who take performance-enhancing drugs such as Viagra can have nosebleeds as a result of the increased blood flow. Overall, the nosebleed trope in manga and anime is a perfect way to express the pent-up hormones of teenagers and lecherous men and sometimes women , even if it has no basis in science.
Unless someone is taking specific medication that induces a bloody nose as a side effect, the likelihood of someone getting one from excitement or arousal is slim to none. That doesn't mean we can't laugh when it happens to a character because they got too excited because they saw a pair of panties, though, or when a vampire produces a waterfall of blood instead of consuming it.
Molly Kishikawa is an American artist living in Japan. Starting with the original broadcast of Sailor Moon on Toonami, she has been an avid anime fan since. Living in Japan for two years, she has seen first-hand how the country views anime and manga. By Molly Kishikawa Published Nov 14, Share Share Tweet Email 0. When asked if arousal could case gushing nosebleeds, the doctor had this to say:. There's a long history behind nosebleeds when it comes to manga and anime. Back in the s, it is believed that artist Yasuji Tanioka was the one to use the innuendo.
Nosebleeds mimic the sudden shift in blood pressure that happens during arousal, but it also looks lewd. In order to avoid censors, franchises used nosebleeds to mimic the look of someone ejaculating, and the code has carried on for decades now.
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