Doesn't encapsulate the whole trope: High Pressure Emotion

I don't think it encapsulates the whole trope, I should add that I made the page on impulse.

Shouldn't this be in TRS?

Also: Laconic.High Pressure Emotion and High-Pressure Emotion.

Moved.

I've seen the exact same trope before for anger. It's rather common. Do we have that one? If so it should probably be linked on the page.

I'm positive we've got the angry one. I want to say it's Steam Out The Ears, but I'm not sure.

We don't appear to have 'steam out the ears from anger'. It's not on the Anger trope index if we do have it.

From what I can find, this is the trope for both anger and embarrassment. The anger bit seems very glossed over in the definition though when it's the more common of the two in both Western works, and Anime I've seen.

edited 22nd Apr '11 2:12:04 PM by shimaspawn

Well anger, embarassment, frustration, getting turned on or any form of Sensory Overload (ok not the trope I was expecting to go too.) can do this.

Asuna in Negima? gets this for all but the getting turned on one. Her vent is the bells in her hair.

edited 22nd Apr '11 2:21:24 PM by Raso

yes, but having the picture and the definition focused on the least common version of it is rather odd. It's more associated with hot headed characters than shrinking violets.

My experience is that its more common with turning red with embarrassment. (The page is lacking in examples trying to think of ones that arnt on there atm.)

The examples are leaning anger in all media forms and it's where the phrase Hot Head comes from. It's by far more common with anger, and I've only seen it for embarrassment maybe once. The examples seem to back this up.

From the description on the blush ones, most of them seem to lack the steam coming out the ears that the defining trait of this.

edited 22nd Apr '11 2:43:36 PM by shimaspawn

Well I guess the examples that I am thinking of it more boils off their heads instead of out the ears the sound effects are still there and all the other signs except for ears.

Ears are always for anger only I guess.

I would say split off the anger ones then because this is literally everywhere with Shrinking Violets and Tsunderes. Most embarrassed ones usually collapse or run away crying after the event.

It doesn't say it has to be the ears.

edited 22nd Apr '11 2:55:59 PM by Raso

I wasn't saying it had to be ears, but a lot of the blush ones seem to just be Luminescent Blush, but brighter and forgetting the steam at all.

Not really most do have the steam (Maybe in a less visable form like sizzling lines) as well as the tea kettle sounds.

A rather epic example of the embarrassed type.(And the next page [1])

Mio◊ from K On blows her stack like a mushroom cloud. (Lacking a bit of red in the shot she had the redness and then blew).

I could get many many examples from B Gata H Kei as well.

edited 22nd Apr '11 3:07:45 PM by Raso

The descriptions need to be better written then. They're just focusing on the blush.

another example from Negima.◊

The moment is usually treated as a huge overwhelming event vs the standard embarrassed moment. Like getting hugged vs the person being there.

The trope doesn't seem to be known though which is an issue, I don't think the examples have wicks attached to them I know DBZ's didn't.

I can see a 2 part picture of angry and the current one for embarrassed. (never seen the show but its a perfect looking example of that type.)

edited 22nd Apr '11 3:25:38 PM by Raso

I only made this thread to get a decent laconic entry, now that it has one.

No, now it has a horrible laconic that has nothing to do with the trope.

For laconic I would put something like "Tea kettle like audio/visual representation of emotional overload" (I am always horrible at making laconic.)

If this trope includes anger, then either it's very new or it's woefully underused...I'd expect the angry teakettle head trope to have a lot more examples and wicks than the page has now.

Bump.

Changed the laconic. Better?

I thought it was said that the description was in need of polishing, or has that been done already? And there's also the matter of the example lists being apparently biased in favor of the anger-based variant over the embarrassment-based one.

edited 11th Jul '11 6:19:59 PM by MarqFJA

Well, the anger-based one seems to be a whole lot more common at least if you're requiring the steam. In western works, "embarrassment" causes a bright red face, but the character is more likely melt into a puddle or pull their head into their collar than blow steam out their ears or from the top of their head. The steam is anger.

Hmmm, that's true. In my experience, at least, it is manga and anime that commonly use steam to signify extreme embarrasment (often as a step-up from Luminescent Blush).

edited 11th Jul '11 7:14:28 PM by MarqFJA