In manga and anime, when a character has a "nosebleed," hanadi 鼻血, it's often because they're thinking something perverted, lewd, indecent, sexy, and so on.
Anime: Mahoujin Guruguru 魔法陣グルグル (2017) (Episode 6)
In Japanese
The word for "nosebleed" in Japanese is hanadi 鼻血, the kanji meaning:
- hana
鼻
Nose. - chi
血
Blood.- chi ち becomes di ぢ due to rendaku 連濁.
The word hanadi may be also romanized as hanaji because di ぢ and ji じ sound identical in standard Japanese.
- hana kara chi ga deru
鼻から血が出る
Blood leaves from the nose.
Blood comes out from [his] nose.
[He] bleeds from the nose.- shukketsu
出血
Bleeding. Hemorrhage.
- shukketsu
Why Characters Have Nosebleeds
Manga and anime characters have nosebleeds so you can tell what they're thinking or feeling. It's a manga symbol. When a character is thinking perverted things, a nosebleed shows up. That's it. It's a simple way to make their thoughts obvious for the audience.
There's no basis in real life for it. People don't have nosebleeds the way anime characters do. Just like smoke coming out of your head when you're angry isn't normal, people don't pop veins all the time, and nobody has a sweat drop dripping on their face whenever they feel slightly pressured.
- Without further context, we can tell something perverted and embarrassing has gone on in this image from the fact one character has a nosebleed and the other has diagonal lines all over his face.
The idea is just basically:
- ecchi na koto wo kangaeru to hanadi ga deru
エッチなことを考えると鼻血が出る
When [you] think lewd things, nose-blood comes out.- This only happens in anime.
Another relevant phrase:
- koufun suru
興奮する
To be excited.- seiteki na imi de
性的な意味で
In the sexual sense. (of the word excited.) - seiteki na koufun
性的な興奮
Sexual excitement.
Sexual arousal.
- seiteki na imi de
Examples
For reference, some examples of characters bleeding from the nose in anime:
Anime: Yuru Yuri ゆるゆり (Episode 1)
- shiitake-me
しいたけ目
(this sort of eye.)
Anime: Shinchou Yuusha 慎重勇者 (Various Episodes)
- This is more depraved than perverted, but okay.
- haato me
ハート目
Heart eyes. - yodare
涎
Drool.- yodare wo tarasu
よだれを垂らす
To drip drool. To drool.
- yodare wo tarasu
- kaogei
顔芸
Face performance. (in anime, usually refers to faces drawn distorted for comedic effect.)
Explosive Nosebleed
In some series, characters bleed from the nose with some impressive, or rather, explosive force.
Anime: Karin かりん (Episode 1)
- Context: a reverse vampire.
- kyuuketsuki
吸血鬼
Suck-blood-demon.
Blood-sucking demon.
Vampire. - souketsuki
増血鬼
Increase-blood-demon.
Blood-increasing demon.
What Karin calls herself.- fueru
増える
To increase. - She expelled so much blood (from her nose) that she fell with her legs forming a W.
- fueru
In English, this is called an "explosive nosebleed," in Japanese: hanadi buu 鼻血ブー.
The buu ブー is an onomatopoeia for blood spurting out..
Manga: Naruto ナルト (Chapter 1, うずまきナルト)
- buu
ブー
(this.)
Middle: Katsuki Yuuri 勝生勇利
Right: Yuri Plisetsky, ユーリ・プリセツキー
Anime: Yuri!!! on Ice, ユーリ!!! on ICE (Episode 3)
- Context: now in color.
Other ridiculous expressions include blood just flowing out of the nose like a hose.
Anime: Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu バカとテストと召喚獣 (Episode 2)
Pools of blood accumulating on the floor like the character had been just murdered. And, in certain rare cases, "dying messages" written in nose blood.
Despite all this blood loss, in the end this is just a symbol, a trope, and no character is actually harmed from losing blood this way.
They're probably harmed later, when someone beats them up for thinking perverted things.
But never from the nosebleed itself, which actually just disappears like magic a moment later when they're done with the reaction.
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