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In anime and manga (Japanese-originating animation style), it is very common to see sexually/romantically-aroused characters suffering nosebleeds, sometimes intense ones. Sometimes referred as the Japanese Slapstick, this rarely occurs in real life, but is based on a Japanese "old wives' tale", which states that becoming sexually excited can cause nosebleeds.[citation needed] Such occurrences are generally played for laughs and signify "loserhood" and/or virginity. This conception regarding nosebleeds also exists in Chinese culture.
The English trip-hop musician Tricky makes a reference to sexual arousal causing nosebleeds in the song "Abbaon Fat Tracks" in his 1995 record Maxinquaye.
Detective Conan (Case Closed) involves a high school detective shrinking into a child from the ingestion of APTX-4869 from a crime syndicate. He currently lives with his "friend" Ran whom he actually loves, as so does she, but they refuse to admit it. She is unaware of his real identity, and often treats him like a kid. Because of this, there have been occurences when he has taken baths with her. When she mentions it, he gets a severe nosebleed. He also got a nosebleed when she mentioned her trip to a hotspring with him.
One more example is from the American show Beavis and Butt-head, where Beavis gets punched three times in the nose, resulting in a nosebleed; the lack of intelligence from both characters and Butt-head's insane ideas results in Beavis suffering great losses of blood before they purchase tampons to stem the blood flow.
In the show Everybody Loves Raymond episode "Mozart", Robert quit piano lessons given by his mother because it caused him to have nosebleeds. At the end of the show, Robert is shown playing the drums with his brother, Ray, beside him with tissues when his nose bleeds. He is shown tilting his head backwards, which is NOT advised but was the theory in previous times.
In the movie The Ring, victims get nosebleeds after having seen the videotape.
In Michael Frayn's three-act play Noises Off, Frederick Fellowes gets nosebleeds whenever he sees instances of violence.
In Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Antenna", Carl is paid to watch an alien TV show, which is really just a recording of two aliens stacking boxes, while he tilts his head back. This results in his head growing large and losing lots of blood by a nosebleed. Despite this, he continues after he gets yelled at by the aliens on the TV to "Tilt your head back!" In the end of the episode, the effect happens to Meatwad and Frylock as they watch a live recording of Master Shake doing stand-up comedy.
Famously in the second series of UK sitcom "The League of Gentlemen" the entire town of Royston Vasey suffers from chronic nosebleeds as a result of eating 'the special stuff' from Hilary Briss' Butchers shop. The 'special stuff' being human flesh!
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