# Things I learned from watching Anime **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450 "2005-03-20T18:26:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/1 "2005-03-20T18:26:23Z")
Hair Styling What Shinto Shrine Maidens are. (Sailor Moon) All Japanese women are incredibly cute teenagers who wear sailor suits at all times (except when they’re in the bath, which they take frequently.). All Japanese women are able to transform into superpowerful beings. The bigger a person’s eyes are the cuter they are. (I saw an anime the other day, if the girl’s eyes were any bigger she wouldn’t have any face left) The Japanese aren’t inscrutable. Whenever they show emotion their heads grow to gigantic proportions. Giant Robots are cool! The Japanese love giant robots. Japanese men get nosebleeds easily. All you have to do to be a Japanese villian is stand around looking menaceing and florish your cape dramatically. Japanese villains seem to think the only way to conquer the world is to destroy it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/2 "2005-03-20T18:37:20Z")
And, from the little anime I’ve seen, most women, even ones that are supposed to be of mature age, have the voices of young girls. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/3 "2005-03-20T20:43:54Z")
English-speaking Japanese people go “uuuuh - uuuh - ummmm - uhhh” a lot when they’re under stress. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Dr.Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Love)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/4 "2005-03-20T20:48:07Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Japanese men get nosebleeds easily. I haven’t watched much anime, but I’ve seen this. Anyone care to explain what the reason for this is? ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/5 "2005-03-20T20:55:06Z")
> [@Dr. Love](#): > > I haven’t watched much anime, but I’ve seen this. Anyone care to explain what the reason for this is? The explanation I was given was that people get nosebleeds when they’re turned on or attracted to someone else. Visual shorthand. At least that’s what my anime freak friends claim. ---
**Author:** ![Imbrium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Imbrium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imbrium)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/6 "2005-03-20T21:05:22Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > The explanation I was given was that people get nosebleeds when they’re turned on or attracted to someone else. Visual shorthand. At least that’s what my anime freak friends claim. From [Anime Laws of Physics](http://www.abcb.com/laws/index.htm): Law of Nasal Sanguination “When sexually aroused, males in Anime don’t get erections, they get nosebleeds. No one’s sure why this is, though… the current theory suggests that larger eyes means smaller sinuses and thinner sinus tissue.”… “Females don’t get nosebleeds, but invariably get one heck of a blush along the cheeks and across the nose, suggesting a lot of bloodflow to that region.” There’s also an “All I’ve Ever Learned, I’ve Learned From Anime” on that site. ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/7 "2005-03-21T00:59:58Z")
the best way to fight is to stand around glaring at each other, gritting your teeth, choking out the occasional threat, and growling. for like 3 years. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/8 "2005-03-21T02:13:31Z")
The last five minues in the life of the planet lasts for 8 half-hour episodes. It doesn’t matter if people die, we’ll just magically bring them back to life at the end! Anything is possible if you mold enough chakra. Half of all men are horribly inept, especially around women. The other half are all super hot, mysterious, and don’t care about girls to the point where you could sit on their face naked and all they’d say is ‘get off’\*. The younger the mechanic, the more expertise they have. A woman who is 5 1/2 feet tall at 30 will be 3 feet tall at 70. The man was always 3 feet tall. You can spend 15 minutes talking in the middle of battle, and the other guy will wait for you. (Bleach kinda spoofed this a couple times) \*[sub]but that’s what I was doing![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/9 "2005-03-21T02:54:15Z")
[Japanese cartoons are weird, man.](http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail57.html) I had never heard of the nosebleed thing. That’s, uh, an interesting insight. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/10 "2005-03-21T03:48:10Z")
When Japanese people become embarassed, a huge teardrop (almost as big as their entire head) appears for a moment, before disapparing. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/11 "2005-03-21T04:53:13Z")
In Japan, you sneeze when other people are talking about you. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/12 "2005-03-21T06:16:19Z")
> [@Earthworm Jim](#): > > English-speaking Japanese people go “uuuuh - uuuh - ummmm - uhhh” a lot when they’re under stress. What’s the reason for this anyway? It’s the second most annoying thing about anime for me, just behind the decision to animate at 1 frame a minute. ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/13 "2005-03-21T08:35:11Z")
you don’t really need a discernable nose to get by in life. also: in general, men who look like stoned women can kick your ass. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/14 "2005-03-21T09:56:51Z")
A substantial portion of the world’s women - what would you say the figure is, 40% - are extremely curvy Amazons. And even short woman will somehow manage to have long, slender legs. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/15 "2005-03-21T10:00:12Z")
Life does not have a middle act. (Seriously - most anime movies I’ve seen consist of 45 minutes of exposition followed by 45 minutes of action climax, with perhaps a quarter-hour of actual plot development in between) ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/16 "2005-03-21T10:05:59Z")
The only thing cooler than a giant robot is a giant transforming robot, the bigger the better. The ultimate in cool is ship-sized and/or multipart giant transforming robots, such as Voltron or the SDF-1. If you face off against a hulking brute paired with a slight, shy girl, be afraid of the girl. Be very, very afraid. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/17 "2005-03-21T10:51:28Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > The explanation I was given was that people get nosebleeds when they’re turned on or attracted to someone else. Visual shorthand. At least that’s what my anime freak friends claim. The idea is that their body is going into overload. There is a comic, “Kirirtei no Brown” where the guys get erections instead of nosebleeds–but try getting that on your Saturday morning cartoons. Not sure who started the idea that a nosebleed can substitute for an erection–but in a sense it is at least healthy that they are representing the fact that dudes do have a “reaction” to girls. Smurfette had to live with a bunch of eunuchs. I would also like to make some comments: 1. Not everything made in Japan is released internationally 2. In Hollywood 90% of everything released is drivel based on scantily clad women. Anime is the same and has the same amount of variety as Hollywood in terms of number of genres and quality of what is released 3. Things that are made in Japan and are released internationally are the things that SELL outside Japan. You see a lot more big eyes and tentacle sex in the US than Japan, just because it is more foreign and the whiteys all like to show off how funky it is. (Though I have met the guys who make tentacle sex Dojin, and frankly I must vote them as some of the scarier humans on the planet. I hope they never have children.) Go watch Cowboy Bebop and then come back if you still think it’s all funky. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/18 "2005-03-21T13:22:25Z")
> [@Earthworm Jim](#): > > English-speaking Japanese people go “uuuuh - uuuh - ummmm - uhhh” a lot when they’re under stress. I think the reason for this is that it is what real people often do during times of stress. Me, during a job interview: I was qualified for the xp90 sytem and the…um…errr…type 40. On topic: Taboos Are Made To Be Broken. All attractive characters are bisexual Corollary : Except the guys. Usually. The Cute Girl Slap Effect : Cute girls have the right and the ability to slap people who upset them regardless of difference in speed, fighting skill, or strength I could think of any, so I took the above items from what little clean items I could find from: [The Almighty Laws of Hentai Physics](http://www.improfanfic.com/h-classic/) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/19 "2005-03-21T13:27:26Z")
Everything bulges before it explodes. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-anime/295450/20 "2005-03-21T16:11:14Z")
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