Tag: anime’s

23 MAR

Pop Culture Imports: A Cult Japanese Reality Show Returns, a Samurai Bloodbath, and One of the Best New Netflix Animes

(Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best, wackiest, and weirdest foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.) It’s nearly the end of March and spring is in full bloom. Or at least, it’s supposed to be. Four days into spring, and the northeast has already been ravaged by a massive snowstorm, […]

09 MAY

Anime’s Bloody Nose Trope Isn’t Backed By Science

[Image: szk_glks] In anime and manga, when characters get excited—often sexually excited—blood dribbles, or squirts, out of their noses. But is this backed by medical science? Nope! Advertisement The notion that arousal or excitement induces bloody noses (hanaji or “鼻血”) isn’t just part of anime or manga iconography. It’s also become an old wives’ tale […]