Triangle Eyes

In manga and anime, sometimes when a character is angry, scowling, they're drawn with semi-circle eyes, or "triangle eyes," sankaku-me 三角目, typically as completely white eyes, regardless of what their original shape was.

Character: Kurahashi Riko 倉橋莉子
Anime: Love Lab, Ren'ai Rabo 恋愛ラボ (Episode 1)

Examples

For reference, some examples:

Edward Elric エドワード・エルリック, example of "anger mark," ikari maaku 怒りマーク.

Character: Edward Elric エドワード・エルリック
Anime: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi 鋼の錬金術師 (Episode 1)

A forehead shadow, popped veins, anger marks, jagged teeth, and steam coming out of nose are other angry symbols.

Kokkuri-san コックリさん, example of triangle eyes.

Character: Kokkuri-san コックリさん
Anime: Gugure! Kokkuri-san 繰繰れ！コックリさん (Episode 1)

Izumi Konata 泉こなた, example of osoroshii ko 恐ろしい子.

Left: Hiiragi Tsukasa 柊つかさ
Middle: Hiiragi Kagami 柊かがみ
Right: Izumi Konata 泉こなた
Anime: Lucky☆Star, らき☆すた (Episode 7)

Shigure シグレ, example of "anger mark," ikari maaku 怒りマーク.

Character: Shigure シグレ
Anime: Hataage! Kemono Michi 旗揚!！けものみち (Episode 4)

References

三角目 - tonbi.jp, accessed 2020-04-18.

3 comments:

MizulynApril 21, 2020 at 2:44 AM
Hello! I just wanted to say that I really love this website, it's been super helpful for me :)

I have a question about different eye types.

I know there's all different kinds, especially in anime-- but I'd say a lot of them are derived from the main three. Upturned, Downturned, and....round?

Round aka "normal/default" eyes, I'm not sure what they would be called. I've seen both marume (まる目) especially in eye make-up tutorials: https://www.furyu.jp/news/2017/08/korekawa.html but I've also seen kurime crop up every once in a while: https://twitter.com/hanari0716/status/1231522246142746626?lang=bg which would be more accurate?