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alt title(s): The Sweat Drop
Confusion, exasperation, embarrassment and similar emotions manifest as an unusually large sweat drop that appears on the temple or the back of the head. Sometimes the "drop sweat" symbol can even apply to a group of people as well. Either a gigantic sweat drop appears somewhere in the middle of the crowd, or a few big drops are scattered around.
Usually limited to comedic anime, but even some serious ones indulge.
The Sweat Drop is also appearing in
anime-influenced American animation. For example, characters in
Totally Spies and
Teen Titans evince both sweatdrops and
Cross Popping Veins.
Examples
Anime and Manga
- The above picture comes from the Blue Seed anime, which has quite a few instances of this trope.
- Occurs frequently in Fullmetal Alchemist, often without regard for which way a character is facing
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- In Pokemon this is also what the Cascade Badge looks like.
- Lampshaded in The Slayers. Lina smacks Gourry over the head with her own sweatdrop for endangering her life without warning her first.
- In ''Yotsuba&!'', on everyone around Yotsuba herself. A lot.
- Dragonball.
- Notable in Yu Gi Oh GX when... the duel academy sign does it. Yes, a piece of wood. And then it does a face fault.
- Sweat Drops appear regularly in the Sailor Moon anime. The dubbed version sometimes cut them out, but these edits were inconsistent, occasionally even having one instance of it removed and another one left intact within the same episode.
- This pops up in Mahou Sensei Negima on occasion.
- Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyoushou sometimes employs this for comical scenes. One instance in particular, in the OAV episode "Kokoro no Yukue", has the drop appear during a Super Deformed scene at the end of the pictured dot-by-dot Visible Silence. It then falls to the bottom of the screen. As a solid object.
Video Games
Webcomics
Western Animation
Other
- Characters established to be anime fans in Gap are sometimes given versions of these. Tom's somewhat fluid preferences regarding anime result in him having these only when discussing the subject.
