Key:
US (and if not marked)
– American
J – Japanese
E
– European (to be subdivided later if needed)
Facial and
other expressions of mental states and/or emotions
Substitutions
for eyes
Hearts
- love, infatuation, sexual desire
Dollars $ - greed, desire for money
X's - hurt, dead, or passed out
Spirals – mesmerized, hypnotized
Hovering
above head (potentially null Tail &
Carrier)
!
- surprise
? - curiosity, questioning
Hearts - love, infatuation, desire
Circling birds/stars - wooziness, dizziness, partial consciousness
Zzzz - sleep
Stars - pain, dizziness
• potentially as a result of contact
between entities
Dark
Scribble - bad mood (somewhat tornado shaped) (US, J)
Black cloud (with lightning) - depressed or out of luck
Skull and crossbones - avarice, wanting someone dead
Light bulb - an idea, inspiration
Lightning bolt – anger, rage
Bubbles surrounding head - sexual arousal (J)
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Bubble
coming from someone's nose - sleepiness, fatigue (J)
Bubbles coming from someone’s nose or mouth – inebriation
(US, E)
Skulls
(resembling person) coming out of their mouth – death
(Usagi Yojimbo…elsewhere too?)
• Also: Amorphous blobs or lines with sparks at
top
Lines of water/sweat radiating from a head – frustration,
anger
Scribble
(or red) on cheeks - sexual arousal (J)
Scribble (or red) on cheeks - embarassment
Sawing
of a log - Sleep
Hunger - substitution of body parts or whole people for food
substances
Depictions
of Attributes
Curvy
lines above an object - stinky, smelly
Dotted lines as an outline – invisibility, “non-presence”
Depictions
of Contact between Entities
Star(s)
– impact or collision (see also, Stars above)
Indexical
lines
Path
lines
Endokinetic
lines - motion lines attached to their moving object
Epikinetic lines - motion lines which substitute for their moving
object
Exokinetic lines - motion lines trailing behind or otherwise
detached from their moving object
• Variant representations include dotted line
trail behind object
Exoscopic lines - lines emerging from an entity's eyes to show
the path of sight toward an object
• Daggers coming from eyes - avarice
Lines
Surrounding Objects
Perikinetic
lines (motion lines surrounding the moving object)
- shaking, wiggling
Cyclical
Perikinetic lines - spinning,
rotating
Radial
Lines
Periscopic
lines (zoom lines moving toward the object they are focusing
on)
- awareness, surprise, focusing of attention (?)
• curvy or jagged zooming lines - variation
on emotive state
Zooming lines – awareness, surprise, focusing of attention
(?)
curvy or jagged zooming lines – variation on emotive state
straight or jagged lines – radiation
slightly curved – a transcendental state
Curvy lines above an object – steam or smoke
Depictions
of ideas
Man
wearing a barrel - poverty
Flies coming out of a wallet - poverty
Pulling out one's pockets - poverty
Man selling apples - poverty
Dollars
with wings - poverty
