Soap Bubbles Background

In manga and anime, a background decorated with light shapes similar to "soap bubbles," shabon-dama シャボン玉, is generally used to create a calming, endearing or romantic mood.

Often, such bubbles are drawn using dots.

Manga: Aho Girl, Aho Gāru アホガール (Volume 1, Chapter 3, Page 26)

• Examples
• References

Examples

For reference, some examples:

Manga: Aho Girl, Aho Gāru アホガール (Volume 1, Chapter 3, Page 26)

• Context: Akkun あっくん, who doesn't have friends, makes his first friends.
• genki...... dashite kudasai ne?
  元気･･････出して下さいね？
  [Cheer up,] okay?
• yoshi yoshi
  よしよし
  [There there].
• yokatta nee Akkun
  よかったねーあっくん
  [Isn't that great,] Akkun.
• nadenade
  なでなで
  *pat pat*
  • Reduplication of:
  • naderu
    撫でる
    To pat. To caress.
• ...yasashisa ga tsurai...
  ･･･優しさがつらい･･･
  ...kindness [hurts]...

Manga: Kemono Michi けものみち (Chapter 5)

• Context: Hanako 花子, a voracious dragon girl, wants to devour Shibata Genzou 柴田源蔵.
• itsuka Genzou-sama wo ajimi sasete wa moraemasen ka? (shokuyoku-teki na imi de)
  いつか源蔵様を味見させてはもらえませんか？（食欲的な意味で）
  Genzou-sama, someday won't [you] let [me] have a taste of [you]? (in the appetite sense.)
• (sei-teki na imi de) ajimi ka......
  （性的な意味で）味見か･･････
  (In the sexual sense) have a taste, huh......
• o, omae ga otona ni natte kara na?
  お　お前が大人になってからな？
  A... after you become an adult, okay?

Manga: Saiki Kusuo no Psi-Nan, 斉木楠雄のΨ難 (Chapter 163, オーラΨ（サイ）トをかいくぐれ！)

• hanarero yo oi!!
  離れろよオイ！！
  Let go of [me], hey!!
• Mikoto tte yonde yoo~~
  命って呼んでよぉ～
  Call me Mikoto~~
• atashi tsuyoi otoko suki nanda yo ne~~♡
  アタシ強い男好きなんだよね～～♡
  I like strong men~~♡
• chou do-emu dashii~~
  超ドＭだしィ～～
  [I] am a ultra, super masochist~~
• shiranee yo! ii kara hanarero!!
  知らねーよ！いいから離れろ！！
  [I don't care!] [Just] let go of [me]!!

References

• シャボン - tonbi.jp, accessed 2020-03-31.