We all hurt ourselves before. Scraped our knees or elbows on the playground doing backflips while trying to impress a girl. When that happens, the best thing to do is cover it up with a bandage. You’ll usually keep the bandage on for like maybe a week or two, but anime characters, nah, we keep that bandage on for life.

His nose is forever broken.

This is another anime thing that was always weird to me. Characters just have random bandages on their body, usually on their face. The most common places are the nose and the cheeks. I don’t think they ever really got hurt there, it’s just something they have on them to look cool. It’s usually placed on fighting type characters. The hot heads who fight with their fist. The person who always comes to mind is my boi Akihiko from Persona 3.

Now I’m a weeb, but I was a huge weeb when I was younger. I actually thought of just faking an injury and putting a bandage on my nose or cheeks. Hell, I think I may have done it once. But would it actually look cool in real life, or just dumb as fuck? I’m not sure, how about you ask Nell, and see what he thought about it.

My boi Nelly been watching too much anime.

What do you think about the bandage aesthetic? What characters do you think about when you think about the bandage aesthetic? Have you ever thought of putting a bandage on your face just like anime characters? Tell us in the comments.