Why a cold is so deadly in anime?

TheReaper784 said:
Srsly whenever someone in an anime gets a cold he crashes and stays at home for a few days. Here in israel when you get a cold the pepole tell you to suck it up ( Which is what everyone do) and go to school because it aint that bad (because it really isnt)

So I was thinking. When they say "cold" do they really mean cold? or is it a translation problem? orthey mean a virus ( and a rather strong one ) because I dont think anyone will collapse from a simple cold.

So in short. In animes what do they mean by saying "cold"? And why is it so damn deadly that in a couple hours you will collapse???

yazio said:
Because if you don't take care of yourself, you die.

yazio said:
Because if you don't take care of yourself, you die.

TheReaper784 said:


You know they dont cough blood right? They are simply really fucking weak and suddenly collapse. Which is dumb as fuck

tiro_finale said:

When I was a kid, my parents forced me to go to school even when I had a fever or other things worse than a cold, a cold would be the silliest of reasons to stay at home.

mecharobot said:


Yeah. It's such a nice thing to infect all your classmates/coworkers. Because you're just so badass.

mecharobot said:
Yeah. It's such a nice thing to infect all your classmates/coworkers. Because you're just so badass.

tiro_finale said:
What kind of medical brainwashing show have you been watching? It doesn't catch like magic.
A cold doesn't stop people (and me) to talking to each other normally and people are still mostly safe, also when you leave with a cold you take some tissues to sneeze your nose in.
And even in the rare occasion someone catches a cold just by staying near you or talking to you, I don't think it'd still be a big deal.
I think because some group of societies isolate themselves so much against some kind of viruses, such as cold's, their immuno system isn't as strong against it as people who are more used to it.
Nothing badass about it stop being a pussy

Heredity said:
come on, that's just ignorance. there's a lot more to spreading around a cold (or flu) than sneezing.

Nucksen said:
Something i read a while ago, can't find a good source though, so there's no proof for that:
In many Real Life Cases, Dead from Cold is just a Code for an "improper" death, e.g. drug overdoses, suicides, yakuza-related deaths etc. If the family or some other people don't want the real cause of death to be known, most doctors will write Death from Cold into the Death Certificate and no further questions will be asked.

nucleon said:
Most likely translation problem or the author had the wrong idea. Which anime specifically? If the person gets fever and collapse, its likely to be influenza. In the old days they are not well-differentiated and maybe both called kaze. But nowadays, the public health education should have made them clear.

Influenza can kill a young man even now. The famous Hong Kong SARS, and the middle east influenza (MERS-CoV) and H9N7, H10N8 in China. Just last winter we saw a rise in H9N7.

Even if it does not kill, it's better to stay home. A severe case will feel like a combination of: dizziness, altered sensation of body parts such as the limbs feel light but lack of strength, difficult to concentrate, headache, muscle pain in addition to cough, sneeze and even diarrhoea.

jayss said:
when you're wet, your body temperature can become lower due to the process of evaporation taking the heat away.

So when the air temperature around you is cold, then your body heat is already escaping through the air. Adding wet hair on top of that means that your body heat is being taken away even more.

When the body temperature drops, your immune system is actually affected greatly, which is what can cause people to be more susceptible to cold viruses.

Obviously you're not going to catch a cold immediately, but it's just a precaution.

It's kind of like how a lot of American people like to tell others to "keep warm" or "bundle up" during the winter time.

DGemu said:
Itsa plot device.

TheReaper784 said:


Finally someone with a brain who actually said somthing LOGICAL

baki502 said:


Thats just cheap tough. If it really has no logic behind it and is just a cheap plot device then I just hate it.

Higashi_no_Kaze said:

Seriously, I don't know, it's probably a fetish thing. If in doubt, it's always a fetish.

tiro_finale said:
I didn't say it was, as I said, it is too hard to catch a cold from someone by simply talking. Maybe if you kiss that person...

nucleon said:
From the replies, many are not nearly close to know how to differentiate 'cold' vs 'flu'. Maybe there's a need to update the health education in their schools too.