Character has a cold

>character has a cold
>they act like they're seriously sick

They can be deadly

Japanes peoples immune system is shit!

Ever notice with colds, Japanese characters pass out for some reason? Every time.

Don't forget the amnesia.

If a normal person had any of those symptoms, they would be in the hospital or bed sick for a month. Is Japanese immunity that bad?

The anime cold is just as real as the fact that the main staple in Japan is omurice or that school roofs are open for secluded lunches.

anime hardly ever portray lazy kids who search for every little reason to stay at home from school.
If the cold is not serious there simply is no reason to even mention it.

>not knowing about the deadly Japanese cold
Anna's VA died of it...

due to their isolationist culture the japanese have a shit immune system

There is a list of nation with the highest death from flu.
Egypt is first and Japan is in top ten.
Anyone still have it?

It literally is. The people literally live just to work in Japan with very little time for self. It has taken a toll on their immune systems which is just barely existent. A certain voice actress literally died from it.

It's the n.1 excuse in Japan for taking a day off. It's bad for their image to take their paid days off, so they make their companies use them for their 'I had a fever/a cold' days.

No, she died of pneumonia.

That was influenza, and yes people die from it. Not only the Japanese, by the way.
Pneumonia and influenza, both start with a fever and something that looks like a cold. Both illnesses kill a lot of people every year in Japan.
And not only in Japan.

>source: my dad works for Nintendo

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No, it was pneumonia.

That makes no sense.

But that happens in anime so it's just a stupid anime cliche!!111

Then you're an idiot and should have stayed in school

not true. Youre expected to come into work even with a cold or fever. The only exceptions are bed ridden sickness and the flu.

It makes perfect sense. Immune systems are trained by exposure. Genetic variety increases the variety of immunities in your population.
Of course this doesn't mean a country should be running a 15%+ immigrant pop. That way leads to guaranteed disaster. But a sprinkling of xeno spices does help.

Japan is not a tiny town. It has more than 100 million people. They have enough genetic variety.

> They have enough genetic variety.
Then why do all of them look the same?

>He doesn't know about the deadly Japanese cold

How can Japan seem so happy in my animes but be so cruel in reality

I was away from work three days this week because of a cold.

Inbreeding. It has become such a major issue to the Japanese that it's common knowledge their genes are fucked up and make them more susceptible to illnesses.

If only they didn't marry their own sisters and cousins.

Are you literally serious about this literal cold, literalky?

Literally

I died once from a cold

It's not their fault that their sisters/cousins tend to be fuck-hot

It dates back to the Sengoku Jidai. A lot of inbreeding started there, and it just continued on until the Meiji era where it was officially frowned upon. But in rural areas especially, mothers and sons and fathers and daughters had babies quite often.

That's nothing. I once came back to life from a cold.

So we have Truck-Kun and the deadly japanese cold. Is there a third cause of death meme?
Suicide?

Radiation really messed them up. Back in my grandpas day they would find Jap soldiers buried in the rock in Okinawa after 20 days without food or water still alive and ready to kill you. banzai

Japanese colds are serious business.

'That'.