Nosebleed why anime

Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 11 months ago. Active 20 days ago. Viewed 43k times. For example: Master Roshi Dragon Ball and Umino Iruka Naruto 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.

Improve this question. Beska Beska 1, 2 2 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. And lemme tell ya I can easily imagine anime depicting a boy getting a bloody nose after receiving a beautiful, shiny new scooter. Also a counter example to sexual excitement-related nosebleeds : nosebleeds due to overuse of ability — user Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Gilles Portras, author of The Anime Companion , wondered the same thing: "So I asked a few Japanese and got a variety of pseudoscientific, and occasionally embarassed, explanations about humidity and blood pressure.

Improve this answer. So basically the kids are made to believe that they will bleed from nose if they think of something wrong about the women in the society. A preventive measure for wrong adolescence sexual desires! Although this has fewest votes, it's the correct answer.

Excitement increases blood pressure, the exaggeration of which is a bulging vein or nose bleed. GorchestopherH I disagree. I think it steps around the question: whether there is a difference between what is understood in normal Japanese society vs anime. This answers the question since animes exaggerate the person's reaction to the erotic events in a manner that very rarely happends in real life.

It's like asking why cars explodes in moves and not in real life. Exaggeration and false assumptions. Might add, that I used to know a person that could simple get nose bleed through standing in the sun for 10 minutes.

That's enough to start a reference such as this one. Gao 9, 8 8 gold badges 53 53 silver badges 94 94 bronze badges. This sounds like guesswork to me. I don't mean that as an insult: it sounds like really good guesswork I'm just also hoping to find some external source to provide some solid evidence about this in one direction. But then Ikeda Chitose from Yuru Yuri has nosebleed precisely to point out she is a pervert and doesn't show much shame about it either.

Beska unfortunately, i cannot provide any external source. This is something that has come to me after watching quite a lot of anime over the years. What about Jiraiya? He used to get a nosebleed and he was a perv Lamppshading is pretty impressive at times.

Show 1 more comment. But the science behind a bloody nose when aroused falls flat. According to Dr. Walking while eating is a fairly uncommon sight in Japan. 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?! We can only guess. Sure, its illogical choices can raise a few eyebrows, but sometimes you need the wild and the wonderful to break up your everyday. Why do anime characters bleed through the Nose? Kevin otaku. Table of Content Show Summary. Anime characters bleeding from the nose 3. What Really Causes Nasal Bleeding. See our related articles. Previous Experiences after watching more than anime. Next Katsu Ika Odori-don - The controversial squid.