| This is something that I have been wondering for a while, in anime (usualy slice of lifes) when a character gets a cold they aren't able to get out of bed, they almost pass out and have fevers and then someone has to take care of them for the day. I understand that this is a plot device just to show another situation on these characters lives but is it normal? Like is it normal to be this bad when you get a cold, or maybe is it normal in Japan? Because I can't even remember the last time I had a fever let alone anytime I has or even seen someone that bad because of a cold... Basically my question is, did you or have you have ever seen someone get as sick as it is portrait in anime? |
  You may grow out of anime eventually... But until then you might as well enjoy it! |
| It happened to me once when i was 13... It wasn't a cold but the flu.. I didn't have the girl i liked come over but after missing school for 5 days, when she talked to me she said yes... |
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| I wonder what's wrong with their immunity, it usually takes only one drop of rain to bring the character down. |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| A lot of times it seems pretty extreme. But worth noting that the Japanese word for a common cold could be/is also used for the flu, not necessarily just the sniffles. |
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| Raindrop, the most overpowered anime villain. |
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Notoshin said: ryo-san said: It happened to me once when i was 13... It wasn't a cold but the flu.. I didn't have the girl i liked come over but after missing school for 5 days, when she talked to me she said yes... Yes to what Yes to obviously... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
| It may not be a cold, it might be some other illness that they don't want to go into detail about, so they just keep it vague and say it's a cold. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
TheBlockernator said: It may not be a cold, it might be some other illness that they don't want to go into detail about, so they just keep it vague and say it's a cold. What other common disease can you get just by getting a little wet in cold weather? |
Phosphophyllita said: I wonder what's wrong with their immunity, it usually takes only one drop of rain to bring the character down. On the other hand, they have that overpowered generic medicine ("Here-I-brought-you-Medicine") that gets them up and doing in no time. Life in anime is simple. |
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JaniSIr said: TheBlockernator said: It may not be a cold, it might be some other illness that they don't want to go into detail about, so they just keep it vague and say it's a cold. What other common disease can you get just by getting a little wet in cold weather? I don't see many characters getting cold's from playing in the rain, from what i see, they just get sick and it's called a cold. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| the rain carries disease and plague in japan from the chinese winnie the pooh air that crosses the sea |
 ☆☆☆ "There's a huge difference between one and infinity. However, compared to the difference between existence and non-existence, one and infinite are nearly the same. I am the child destined to become the best witch... no... The greatest Creator in the world...!" -Maria Ushiromiya ☆☆☆ |
Lime_Bear said: Catching a cold in anime...  ((((000000000000000000000000000000000)))) |
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| lay down because nose won't stop running like dripping tap water. if you never touch a rain drop then fever will probably sink in your skin as soon as you get caught wet. it's still logical, as long as you have a full day of proper rest with proper nutrition you can recover in a day. |
| Dunno, in my experience, I, myself, or anyone I knew had to miss class or something like that because they were under the rain for 0.1 seconds. It's so prevalent in anime that it probably does have some foundation in reality. |
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| you don't know? catching a cold is dangerous. |
| No, Japanese people will keep to their schedules even when sick. |
| その目だれの目？ |
| I've always found it weird how sickness-prone anime characters are, though my perception is definitely skewed since I never get sick and it's been over 5 years since I had a cold of some kind. I have to wonder if there's a difference in illness transmissibility and immune system receptiveness for Japanese people because the idea of getting a cold just from being exposed to cold makes me role my eyes every time. As long as it's used in the plot as a minor thing I don't mind, but it can feel very contrived if used to have a big impact on the story. |
 A society which fails to uphold empathy as its foremost guiding principle is doomed to ignore or even defend the exploitation of its most vulnerable members. |
| I just watched Fruits Basket Prelude and I'm wondering this myself. I mean Are Japanese people really that weak!? |
_Maneki-Neko_ said: Serafos said: Raindrop, the most overpowered anime villain. Don't laugh at that. I almost always catch a cold when I have been out in the rain. We weebs are delicate creatures. xD But I don't even passed out and could walk normally when I had 40+ fever. Not that I felt good tho, but that's not a cold anymore. Tho two or three times I passed out, because during my period I often have iron deficiency, but otherwise it never happened and surely not because of a cold. Lime_Bear said: This is something that I have been wondering for a while, in anime (usualy slice of lifes) when a character gets a cold they aren't able to get out of bed, they almost pass out and have fevers and then someone has to take care of them for the day. I understand that this is a plot device just to show another situation on these characters lives but is it normal? Like is it normal to be this bad when you get a cold, or maybe is it normal in Japan? Because I can't even remember the last time I had a fever let alone anytime I has or even seen someone that bad because of a cold... Basically my question is, did you or have you have ever seen someone get as sick as it is portrait in anime? It's the opposite from what I have heard. You are forced to go to work or school until you are getting really, really sick. So maybe they just the wish to take a day off and that's some kind of wishfulfillment fantasy. Is that assessment based on information or observations that predate Covid-19? Because it wouldn't surprise me in the least if once the pandemic came around they swung the opposite way and encouraged people to stay home even for mild symptoms, at least during the first year or so of the pandemic before vaccines became available. Then again, presuming the Japanese shifted to working from home for jobs that lent themselves to it, it wouldn't surprise me if they leveraged that fact that WFH makes it easier for employees who are "sick but not too sick" to put in at least some work hours where otherwise the commute and working in-office would have been prohibitive. |
A møøse once bit my sister... |
| I remember reading something a long time ago that japanese people get super sick when they get sick due to their hectic lifestyle. But that might have all been bullshit. |
| I'm not from Japan nor am I Japanese, but whenever I get cold I usually have a 38-39 degree fever and everything seems so dark when that happens. So I do need someone to take care of me during that time. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| It could be worse, you could be like Marie from Sispri and get sick from water splashing on you, unfortunately it's not limited to that anime either as I've seen it a few times. Also, the power of love has cured a few colds in anime, sadly no sex has cured a cold in anime even though that does help relieve a cold irl. |
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