On the origin of bells and nuthots
| Rewatching Blood Lad*
dammit autocorrect
| Never saw this myself, but probably originates from 'getting your bell rung' which comes from boxing, meaning to be struck so violently that you are temporarily incapacitated.
| Upon further research I learned it is Specifically The sound of a standing bell.
From Wikipedia: "In Japan, the name for a bell of the standing type varies between Buddhist sects. It may be called rin (りん) kin (磬),dobachi, keisu, kinsu (きんす),sahari or uchinarashi, among other things. Large temple bells are sometimes called daikin (大磬), while small versions for a home altar are known as namarin.[...]In Japan they are also used in kabuki theatre."
| >>1065015
That would make sense. But upon this new data it is quite intriguing.
Why not use a ring bell sound then? Do they use standing bells in Japanese boxing? Or perhaps it's a reference to something like else entirely?
Given it's Japan it can be some archaic clever pun or joke with the name of the bell "Rin/Namarin" and balls.
The involvement of it in KABUKI also seems significant, while I don't have the cultural repertoire to know kabuki, I have a quest for summer vacation
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| I was researching Blood Lad the other day and on a particular moment a thief gets kicked in the junk and there was a bell sound for comedic effect. Then I had an epiphany, on nearly every similar situation on anime the Sound effect of a bell is used. To such extent that even if a hit is not shown if the bell is played it is implied to be a groin attack. This also appears to be mainly or exclusively on anime. I wonder how did that come to be, where did this trope originate?