Flying Sweat Waves

In manga and anime, sometimes sweat drops are drawn shooting away from a character's head in waves.

In comics, these sweat drops would be called plewds, and would mean the character is tense or anxious, among other things. However, while normally only a few plewds are drawn, sometimes waves of plewds are drawn instead, forming multiple layers flowing away.

Anime: Blend S, ブレンド・S (Episode 8)

• Examples

Examples

For reference, some examples:

Character: Sakurai Izumi 桜井泉
Anime: Nichijou 日常 (Episode 2)

• In Nichijou, Sakurai-sensei sweats profusely every time she has to deal with anything.

Left: Bonobono ぼのぼの
Right: Shimarisu シマリス
Anime: Bonobono ぼのぼの (1995) (Episode 1)

• In Bonobono, various characters sweat all the time.