— A character (usually a female) has had a rough day. She's suffered some sort of physical or emotional trauma that makes her want to run home. Naturally, the first thing the woman wants to do is go home and take a nice, long, hot shower. This is not surprising; many people find the best way to relax after a hard day is to take that shower, put on fluffy pajamas and just let it all go. Water is also an archetypal purifier in general, capable of symbolically washing away sins or past events -- though that doesn't mean it'll work.

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Of course, when it comes to, these showers of angst are solid gold (and no, not that kind of shower). You can't argue with the titillation provided by seeing a hot-bodied person nude, soaking wet,. However, in some cases, this can border on creepy, such as when the Shower of Angst lingers on a woman who was recently raped. That particular version of the trope is common in soap operas. This is also a good opportunity to use a shot to prevent things from getting too explicit.

The post-rape shower also has ramifications in a scenario -- if the victim takes a shower before a SAE kit has been collected, then vital forensic evidence is lost. Men are not in the least exempt from this trope, since every shower scene is also a.

This male variant often features a hunky male leaning towards the wall, with the running water falling on his back. Contrast -- a joyful, liberating shower in the rain. Can also be an instance of if the showering becomes a compulsion.

Contents [] Advertising • The from the Montana Meth Project. Anime & Manga •: Roberta has one after her master, Diego Lovelace, is killed by a bomb at a political rally in the first chapter of El Baile de Muerte. She also shatters the bathroom mirror in anger. •: In the OVA after Riki's gang is attacked Riki takes one, reminiscing about all that has happened.

Most notable is the one Asuka took after her at the hands of an Angel. • Henry from after Terriermon digivolves, where he reflects on his duties as a Tamer and his pacifist beliefs • has a few of these too. Keiichi finds a depressed Satoko passed out in the bathtub from being in the hot water for too long. • It's more complicated than that: She was hallucinating that her abusive uncle had told her to stand under the boiling hot water and count to 10,000, since moving into his house meant she stopped getting treatment for her Hinamizawa Syndrome.

She went along with all of the horrible things he did to her because of a combination of guilt (blaming herself for Satochi's disappearance), blackmail (he constantly threatened to burn down Satoshi's room), and plain old fear. • Kaede Fuyou in goes on her friend Asa when the boy they both love, Rin, shows interest in her. She has one of these before climbing into Rin's bed naked to cuddle with him. •: Lucy has one after she the. •: After Mima endures a good deal of disturbing hardships, she partakes in a hot bath which she screams into as she hugs herself underwater. •: During the aftermath of his traumatic loss to Edo and being demoted in the pro leagues, Kaiser Ryo Marufuji takes a shower after losing yet another duel, while reminiscing about being fired by his sponsor. He's by the end of the episode.

• In: The Animation, bounty-hunting heroine Iria takes two in a six-episode OAV. • Kozue Izumi from is found taking one of these after she was assaulted by the other girls at the end of episode 18. •: Yoko takes a surprisingly -free Shower of Angst after Kamina dies.

• Averted in the manga, when the cartoonist behind it, Kotaro Mori, gives you a complete view of her naked body, with boobies clearly visible. Yeah, Mori, a good time to see a woman naked is when she's just had her heart BROKEN.

•: After being raped by a newly-demonic Griffith, Casca is seen sitting fully-clothed under a waterfall. Also Griffith, after he becomes a prostitute to make money, complete with a wonderfully disturbing scene of him angsting while clawing at his arms until they bleed when washing himself.