When I caught covid in March of last year, before I finally got vaccinated a few months later, I was about 7 episodes into Record of Lodoss War. That illness was really weird, like, in the way it fucked with my head. I felt like I was in a waking coma for almost a week, to the point that I couldn't retain interest in anything longer than the average youtube video.
So I never finished the series, and wound up selling it in a DVD lot on ebay.
Have any of you had unvaxxed covid, and did it have this effect on you?
Edit: Or, did the lockdown actually get you MORE into anime?
Never caught covid, but I did have really bad reactions to my second dose of the vaccine. Had some typical side effects at first but then I had the worst chills I've ever experienced in my life. Then the next morning my chest hurt and it turns out I had a super ultra rare heart problem that can happen from the vaccine. Overall I felt fine soon after, but the docs were concerned and I had to stay at the ER and hospital for a few days.
During this time, I was also trying to binge through all of WIXOSS, and it felt like it was getting progressively worse each season. Now whenever I think about the WIXOSS anime, I remember going to the hospital and being really stressed out and scared. Or those terrible chills. And also joke to myself about how the terrible sequels could've been the last anime I ever watched.
So I never finished the series, and wound up selling it in a DVD lot on ebay.
So you didn’t consider to wait until you were fully recovered before finishing Records of Lodass War? Is this a problem you have been struggling with in regards to watching anime since catching Covid even after you you were no longer sick and vaccinated?
Honestly, I can understand the decision... when you're sick, it can be difficult to pay attention for that long. I can see both sides of the discussion in regard to that
Oh I fully can understand as well l. I have been there before earlier this year when I was under the weather. It was hard for me to focus on the anime; especially being that I was watching anime in sub, so I had to pause in the series I was watching until I was well enough. It put me behind in terms of seasonal anime I am watching this season (two of which I have not caught up with yet).
However I do not see what this has to do with the question I asked earlier regarding if there were potential after affects of Covid that had an effect on them instead of during when they were sick. Also, I did not bother reading the replies of this post so I have no idea what others are saying.
I probably could have gotten back into it if I tried, but even before I got sick it wasn't really clicking with me. I still would have finished it otherwise, since I'd bought the physical copy and everything, but by the time I was feeling like myself again I wanted to start something new.
So base on what you shared with me this seems to have less to do with Covid and more to do with the anime not leaving a strong enough impression on you to want to finish it. You mentioned after all that before catching Covid the anime “wasn’t really clicking with you.”
Yeah, but I very rarely drop an anime that I paid for the physical copy of. I wasn't really into Lodoss, but under ordinary circumstances, I would have finished it.
Covid killed my interest, and I moved onto other things. You can nitpick that if you want to, I guess, but I don't really see the point.
............ If that's the case, then a normal fever probably would have had the same effect. You already weren't into it. So as a person who rarely drops, bet it really takes that "extra push" to make you do so. If exhaustion and being sick is able to make a person stop doing what they like for a while, then it's MORE than strong enough to make them quit watching what they're NOT into.
My situation was more like I couldn't focus on anything since my eyes hurt and my head pounded so much. I was bedridden for like... 4-5 days - sleeping 18 hours a day.
It stopped me from watching stuff for that time period, but it didn't make me lose interest in anything. It definitely made it harder for me to want to continue 86, though, because I tried to continue it (I had it stopped at 7/12 or 8/12) at the beginning of my Covid adventure. It did not go well. There was too much yelling, saturation, and reading.
Nothing extreme, though.
@Taluun I can attest to this. I got covid for the second time early this year, but this time with both my shots, it wasn't even half as bad.
Nope, lol. When I had co vid a few months back I rewatched like 50+ Hunter x Hunter eps and my symptoms were very minor, in other words a good time.
On the other hand, the vaccine didn't kill my interest but very well nearly killed me (not really but it was prolly the sickest i had been in my life.)