Akanbe This is the act of pulling down one lower eyelid and sticking out the tongue saying Bleah! In Japan this is referred to as akanbe (a corruption of akai me, "red eye"), and it's called mon oeil ("my eye") in France and Quebec. This is in fact a Japanese cultural trope, but you'll see it everywhere in anime.
Anime & Manga[]
- Princess Mashiro does this to a trio of castle guards in the first episode of Mai-Otome, as seen in the image above.
- Ranma and Akane give each other the Red Eye fairly frequently in Ranma One Half. Ranma gave once the Red Eye o Principal Kunō
- Goku does this a lot as a child in Dragon Ball, as does present Trunks later on.
- Hanaukyo Maid Tai La Vérité episode 7. Yashima Sanae has been insulted by Ryuuka, who insinuates that she's giving up on the expedition. As Mariel and Yashima Sanae walk off hand in hand, Yashima gives this to Ryuuka.
- Squid Girl does this when Goro tells her and Takeru they're not supposed to be sitting in his lifeguard chair.
- Yu-Gi-Oh: Jounouchi does this to Yami Malik after he reduces the latter's LP to 0 in the Battle City semifinal match up determining duel.
Films — Live-Action[]
- Apone does this to Hudson in Alien S "Look into my eyes"
- Achilles does this to Alexander in the live-action Mecha movie Robot Jox
Music[]
- Shown on the album cover for Yuko Miyamura's first album, Kenka Banchō.
Video Games[]
- Mega Man's taunt in any crossover game he's featured in.
- There's an emote for this for The Voiceless cast of the second Snowboard Kids game.
- The pirate Briggs in Golden Sun: The Lost Age, while making off with a nice ship, is chided by his wife into doing what he apparently talked about all the time while in jail — give your party the Red Eye. He was apparently on the verge of chickening out. He's stolen the ship and is well on his way out to sea, and he's almost too scared of Felix for a parting gesture.
Web Comics[]
- Ariel does it in Drowtales as she leaves her "room" (really a cell that was formerly used to hold disobedient slaves). The author is French-Canadian.
Western Animation[]
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Appeared in the They Might Be Giants "Istanbul (not Constantinople)" video of the music video episode. Considering how the episode was sourced to Tokyo Movie Shinsha, it may have been thrown in by the animators and kept.
- In Teen Titans, when Control Freak has been bested by the Titans East, he cries foul, zaps himself into the TV and departs with this gesture, leaving the Titans East to try and figure out what the hell just happened.