Dripping Sweat

In manga and anime, sweat drops used as symbols are normally drawn appearing and staying at the same position on a character's face. However, in some cases the sweat is drawn dripping, like real sweat.

When this happens symbolically, it's typically because they're in panic, sweating profusely, faced with a sudden and extremely complicated situation, nervous, frozen with intense fear, and so on.

Character: Sagara Sousuke 相良宗介
Anime: Full Metal Panic, フルメタル・パニック！ (Episode 9)

• Examples

Examples

For reference, some examples:

Character: Asagaya Minoa 阿佐ヶ谷未乃愛
Anime: Animegataris, アニメガタリズ (Episode 1)

• daradara
  ダラダラ
  (For a liquid) to drip endlessly. (mimetic word.)
• ase wo daradara nagasu
  汗をだらだら流す
  To let sweat flow endlessly. (literally.)
  To sweat endlessly. To drip sweat continuously.

Character: Sena Izumi 瀬名泉水
Anime: Love Stage!! (Episode 1)

• ase-mamire
  汗まみれ
  Covered in sweat. (face, skin.)
• ase-darake
  汗だらけ
  Permeated with sweat. (clothes.)

Left: Togashi Yuuta 富樫勇太
Right: Tsuyuri Kumin 五月七日くみん
Anime: Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! 中二病でも恋がしたい！ (Episode 2)

• In anime, a blue face symbolizes shock.

Anime: Ouran High School Host Club, Ouran Koukou Hosuto-Bu 桜蘭高校ホスト部 (Episode 7)

• Context: guards of a private police sweat through their clothes while doing a dogeza 土下座 at karate 空手 and jūdou 柔道 champion Honey-senpai ハニー先輩.