| because if you get a cold, it means youre sick, so if youre sick,you should stay home no matter how small the cold is because it can get worse. (its what my mum tells me) |
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| Here, in my place, cold symptomps are headache, fever, loss of appetite, fatigue, stomach pain, nausaea, vomitting, and diarrhea. I can't see anyone can go to work/school like that. |
| In order to be earthquake-resistant, buildings in Japan are built from light materials and very poorly insulated. Thus the heated "kotatsu" table as well as space heaters in anime - it gets very cold there even indoors. |
| You obviously can't function properly when you have a cold. |
ScazoN said: because if you get a cold, it means youre sick, so if youre sick,you should stay home no matter how small the cold is because it can get worse. (its what my mum tells me) You have awesome mum. Skip school every time you sneeze. |
| Ad Astra Per Aspera |
baki502 said: When I was in 4th grade with 38 degrees of fever, I went to school and wrote an A on my german exam. Now Im writing Fs while being completely healthy ^^. But yeah it seems silly to stay in bed. Even when I have the harshest of colds I atleast am watching anime or gaming, I just cant sit in bed and do nothing. Yea pretty much this if i have exams in school i go no mather what, and people tell don't be on computer if your sick it will only get worse stay in bed and sleep but i can't do that to boring iwatch movies or streams atleast. I would say for the cold question for RomComs its for purpuse of getting a girl to take care of a boy i guess. |
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| So they can show another character taking care of them. |
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| Japanese people overwork themselves to death (literally) already, I don't think having a cold on top of it will help any xD |
| I used to think like OP until I got a really bad case of flu a couple of years ago. It was really bad, I can tell you that. |
| The writer who penned Clashing Feelings. You can buy the light novel on Amazon. |
| If colds were considered deadly in Japan; then you wouldn't see so many people walking around with a mask. |
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| I will just assume it's just used as a plot device since I've seen it so many times in anime in general. |
| Everytime I see people bedridden in anime with a 'cold' it seems more like the flu instead. I've had colds - everyone gets them at one point or another - and I've never had such a bad one to the point of being completely bedridden. So I assume it's either something far more severe than the simple 'cold' or it's just an exaggerated trope. |
 It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether! It's an entirely different kind of flying. |
| I get colds easily, but everyone tells me not to complain. In anime, it is either exaggerated, more than a cold or it proves Japanese people have shit health, I go with the first point. |
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| Because otakus in japan don't take care of themselves. |
| That's cuz they don't have ObamaCare. |
| It's a perfect excuse to miss school. Anyways, anime colds look more like the flu. I can understand taking a day off for that. In Japan, I think they just wear one of those surgical masks for colds and just go about their day. |
| Sometimes it's just for melodrama, like a lot of other things. |
 ~Appilesh~ |
ItsMaz said: I always thought it was the flu, too, since these bouts of sickness seem to be few and far between while managing to be pretty serious. If I see an anime character just puke once from one of these colds then I'll be 100% sure.Everytime I see people bedridden in anime with a 'cold' it seems more like the flu instead. I've had colds - everyone gets them at one point or another - and I've never had such a bad one to the point of being completely bedridden. So I assume it's either something far more severe than the simple 'cold' or it's just an exaggerated trope. |
I'm also filled with pure-hearted ulterior motives. |
| I agree that it's probably just a plot-device, to model a certain situation. But even irl people call anything that makes them sneeze "cold", be it a flu, an arvi or whatevs. Also I think you can get really bad, when you have high temperature, no matter the reason. And many mcs are high-schoolers, so they can rest. Frankly, maybe that's not such a bad idea - it lets you get over without nasty consequences, and you don't pass it on to other people. Btw, nowadays it's become much more realistic. We've currently have an epidemic, and there're like 60 deaths in our city only. |
| This is because japanese can't think of something creative. |
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ExTamplier said: This is because japanese can't think of something creative. That applies to everything bad about anime though. |
| every single one of my forum posts is dumb and invalid except for 1, I don't claim them it was a different person it was all fake |
RainyRai said: Yes, but thank god we have Kill la Kill.ExTamplier said: That applies to everything bad about anime though.This is because japanese can't think of something creative. |
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ExTamplier said: RainyRai said: Yes, but thank god we have Kill la Kill.That applies to everything bad about anime though. Praise the lords above for Kill la Kill. True savior of anime. |
| every single one of my forum posts is dumb and invalid except for 1, I don't claim them it was a different person it was all fake |
| I'm no doctor but i'm pretty sure that due to a faster rate of mutation on behalf of some viruses, especially due to the overpopulation on japan as whole, a lot of those colds present much more aggressive symptoms than those experienced by the western population. |
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| it's their culture I guess 30characters |
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.” -Bansky  |
| Maybe it meant something more in the past, but at this point it's just a set up for some romantic development. |
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| I have a bad cold right now. It is deadly. Knocked out for a week. |
Molly712 said: In my school,if we stay home for a cold we get fined. In my country, sick leave is a law. If your temperature is over 37.2 C, or you get any other kind of bad stuff happening to you, the doctor will write you a paper that verifies that, and you can miss school/work until the doctor says it's okay for you to work. Also, school fining students is just plain weird. Where do you live? |
Hope you'll get better soon. We had the same variety last year - being knocked out for a week, two days simply lying without movement, then two weeks of cough. It's so nasty. Now I hate those who go to work when sick. |
| Not always, but sure trasted seriously. They want something drmamtic, but to much or they want to use as an exuse for something else. |
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| A cold is not deadly in anime , but it's a DEATH FLAG! , NanoDesu |
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| There are some infections that you should stay home for but it's based more on your symptoms. For instance you can't really do anything productively anyway if you are feverish, constantly vomiting, or having diarrhea. There would be no point in going. On the other hand a simple head cold is not going to affect you much other than being really annoying. Regardless, I work around food so if you are sick they tell you GTFO and go home so you don't infect half the city. |
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| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| Don't you know that colds are lethal and deadly? They can even kill you know! I've looked death eye to eye many times and escaped only by the skin of my teeth. |
| Because a heavy cold can be really bad, that's all. |
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| Japanese take colds more seriously than most other people. Easy as that. |
| I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed this. Anyway I think that they make it such a big deal to put a handicap on a certain character, give an episode a theme, have an excuse for that character to be taken care of by another character, or a reason to exclude a particular character for various reasons. Sometimes in anime when somebody gets sick, their love interest will come over and care for them. In a way, giving a character a cold could be a easy and efficient plot device to deepen their relationship with another person. |
| You are now breathing manually. |
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