http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Nosebleed

Soul: It's okay, cool guys like me see naked women all the time; I'm used to it.

Blair: Right, I'm sure that's why your nose is bleeding. Soul Eater It's okay, cool guys like me see naked women all the time; I'm used to it.Right, I'm sure that's why your nose is bleeding.

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In Japanese media, healthy young men who have no other sexual outlet will often suffer nosebleeds upon seeing the naked female body, or even just a pair of well-filled panties. It's probably a side effect of High-Pressure Blood in a body of a Hormone-Addled Teenager.

The nosebleed is a visual shorthand/euphemism for sexual arousal. It is commonly interpreted that way for males and females, with little trickles of blood indicating mild arousal, and gushing fountains of blood indicating erection/extreme arousal in both sexes. It can also be interpreted as shorthand strictly for erections in males. In that case, when blood shoots from the nose explosively, and in ridiculous quantity, the implication would be an ejaculation.

This happens in virtually every anime with fanservice. It also occasionally appears these days in western media — especially Webcomics — which are open about their manga influences. The concept comes from a Japanese old wives' tale, and might be Truth in Televisionnote The nose (according to The Other Wiki) has erectile tissue that can become engorged during sexual arousal such as sexually induced sneezing which is far more common. under very rare circumstances.

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Such a nosebleed frequently results from a Panty Shot. Compare Visual Innuendo, Something Else Also Rises, and (the far more realistic) Jizz In My Pants. Contrast Psychic Nosebleed, where the blood loss is caused by the strain of overusing Psychic Powers, and especially Deadly Nosebleed, which denotes serious physical injury. Both of these overlap with this more than you'd think; arousal could be considered just another way of overexerting yourself, after all. Peeping on naked girls may also result in a nosebleed via a Megaton Punch to the face, but that's not part of this trope.

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Anime & Manga

Fan Works

Let's just say when Germany and Japan saw Italy cosplaying as Sailor Moon in Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità , they had massive nosebleeds. Just how they had that much blood or hadn't died on the spot is a mystery upon mysteries. Characters, be they Canon or Original, tend to also react this way when relationship teasing, revelations and/or scenes happen in front of them in Fanfiction, usually Yaoi in stories of the Truth or Dare, or Romance-related genres. Especially Hungary and Japan, and sometimes even France.

, they had massive nosebleeds. Just how they had that much blood or hadn't died on the spot is a mystery upon mysteries. In the Ben 10 Fan Fiction Hero High , Ben gets hit in the face to which the girl he has a crush on comes to check if he is ok. His nose starts to bleed from the injury and rushes inside the RV when the girl questions this reaction. At this point Gwen alludes to another reason his nose is bleeding.

, Ben gets hit in the face to which the girl he has a crush on comes to check if he is ok. His nose starts to bleed from the injury and rushes inside the RV when the girl questions this reaction. At this point Gwen alludes to another reason his nose is bleeding. Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: A geyser of blood erupted from Shinji's nose when he saw a scantily clad Asuka wearing a skimpy Supergirl costume: Shinji didn't reply. Instead, a geyser of red shot forth from his nose, and he promptly fainted due to the abrupt blood loss.

Advice and Trust: Mentioned by Shinji when Asuka sneaks into his room: "Once upon a time, you sneaking into my room at night in just a shirt and underwear would have made me pass out from either terror or lustful nosebleeds."

In Thousand Shinji, Shinji and Touji's noses bled several times as Rei explained how Asuka made sure that she took a shower and washed her body properly. "And after I held you down and soaped you up this morning too!" Asuka cried out before realizing that perhaps that was too much information.

Shinji managed to clamp down on his nose in time but Toji suffered an explosive nosebleed and promptly collapsed.

In the Life Is Strange fanfic Saving Victoria Chase, Victoria rubs her foot up Max's thigh and is pleased when Max gets a nosebleed, noting "I thought that only happened in anime." Unfortunately, it's a subversion; it's actually a Psychic Nosebleed from Max overusing her Time Master powers in an attempt to create the perfect date. She faints a few minutes later when she gets blood on Victoria's dress and pushes herself too hard trying to fix that too.

Films — Live-Action

Literature

Bubble 2016: Joe will start to bleed from his nose and become dizzy when he overexerts himself. And since he's a Bubble Boy who spent most of his life in a London hospital due to having a weak immune system, it doesn't take much to get him too worked up.

Surprisingly, mentioned in Meir Shalev's Esau; the narrator says that a book about seduction "had photos that caused me to urgently need a blood transfusion".

Live-Action TV

Music

"Did we go too far, is that why your nose is bleeding?" Maxïmo Park, "Nosebleed" Also in the music video to "Apply Some Pressure" (but can't be a reference to the former because that was two years later).



Music Videos

In the T-ara music video for the Korean cover of Little Apple, the original artists Chopstick Brothers bleed from their noses while seeing the T-ara members dancing.

Video Games

Web Comics

Web Original

In The Gamer's Alliance, Nesa Mikoto's nose starts to bleed whenever he thinks of naughty things or sees women in skimpy clothing.

Whateley Universe: As said in Dorms of Our Lives , Calliope, a lesbian, dabbed at her nose, making the narrator, Eisenmädel, think that Calliope burst a nasal capiliary after seeing a third girl change without a privacy screen, and at the large size of that third girl's breasts.

Western Animation