Anime

Has covid affected your enjoyment of anime?

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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?

Removed 3y
I'm glad you're recovering. I didn't have COVID. But I started watching anime because I was bored at home during the quarantine period. So in a way, that's what got me into anime.
- TheRealKyuubey 3y
  I mean it was like fourteen months ago so
  Removed 3y
  oh nice
Wolfborg 3y
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.
- Removed 3y
  "ultra rare heart problem"
  
  Little fun fact: The one you got might be rare, However, "heart problems" as a whole? Not rare enough :/..... not that people are willing to admit it
NyxCrab 3y
Everything being on lockdown cus of Covid was what led me to eventually giving anime more of a shot so I guess in a way you could say Covid got me into anime lol. I haven't gotten Covid itself yet and I'm hopeful I'll manage to avoid it as long as I can.
Akobundu 3y

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?
- Reina23 3y
  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
  Akobundu 3y
  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.
- TheRealKyuubey 3y
  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.
  Akobundu 3y
  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.”
  TheRealKyuubey 3y
  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.
  Akobundu 3y
  I see. I understand.
  
  Also what made you assume I would nitpick on your decision?
  TheRealKyuubey 3y
  Because you already kind of did?
  continue this thread →
  Removed 3y
  ............ 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.
SophiaWithAph 3y
uh i never got covid but in a dif way..

i got into anime right before covid started watching some anime i think and then during the pandemic i started binging different animes and stuff like that cause i was bored
Flashun1 3y
No? I didn't start watching anime more seriously until June 2021. In addition, I didn't have COVID before and after that up until now. But yeah, COVID in 2020-2021 was much more brutal.
Removed 3y
Ive had covid 3 times, I don’t even bother at this point
Twi 3y
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.
Gathor 3y
In my case it didn't affect that much. It was like a "heavy" cold, I was tired more than anything. I remember I was watching Non Non Biyori at that moment and I could only watch 1 or 2 episodes max before falling asleep. After like 5 days I was feeling a lot better.
Removed 3y
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- Taluun 3y
  
  there is nothing to worry about
  
  Over 6 million people died so far. Roughly the same amount of Jewish people died in the holocaust as a point of scale and that lasted even longer.
- Taluun 3y
  Locking this sub thread since people are trying to spread misinformation about covid and the vaccine.
  
  Reminder it is a serious virus and the vaccines not only help with symptoms but help reduce your chances of getting it.
Lannis 3y
You are free to take the vaxxine if you so wish. I just don't wanna
BluBilly 3y
A bit, i used to watch a lot more anime before but COVID has made me work much more and relax with a new medium, so i play alot more games/read manga alot more. I'm still caught up to the news and everything but i don't care much (Except for HnK, Berserk and HxH).
TheRealKyuubey 3y
@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.
NepNep 3y
I had COVID (after 2nd booster), and I started watching selector wixoss at the time

honestly, i enjoyed it a lot more

selector infected WIXOSS
Taluun 3y
Just so people know, our traffic increased significantly literally march 2020 as the lockdowns happened it took 7 years to get 400k users, we now, 2 years later, have more than 1.6m
Weeble 3y
Lockdown had me join this site so i'd say it made more of an "otaku" though i fucking despise that phrase being applied to me
TohkaTron 3y
Nothing can ruin anime for me, not even COVID. (I think I might of had it, but I'm not sure since when I got sick, it just felt like a common flu.)
Removed 3y
I don't really know what happened but last year I watched a lot of anime, got back into anime after years not watching anything and this year, I barely watched something. I'm more into dramas lately, started in March, will continue to watch them until I get bored and then what? Who knows.
Mica23 3y
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.)