Manga convention question: golden teardrop

December 11, 2006 10:22 PM

One feature of the New Yorker's recent 'Cartoon Issue' was a two-pager by their regular, Roz, documenting her reaction to manga. So... what was that thing sticking out of her friend's head?

I took the liberty of posting scans of the relevant panels from "Turning Japanese" here. The only thing I found via the search machine was this TokyoPop discussion.

posted by Rash to media & arts (5 comments total)

sweat drop, indicating embarrassment.
posted by fleacircus at 10:26 PM on December 11, 2006

What fleacircus said. It's a pretty common convention in manga and anime.
posted by lekvar at 10:54 PM on December 11, 2006

i saw that and was wondering the same thing. thought it was some bizarre nouveau japanese teenager hairdo but sweat drop makes much more sense.
posted by luriete at 11:12 PM on December 11, 2006

First link kinda NSFW.
posted by Morrigan at 8:51 AM on December 12, 2006

wikipedia
posted by SenshiNeko at 11:46 AM on December 12, 2006