Manga colds
--Never involve sneezing, coughing or snot
--Always involve fever and weakness
--Often involve hospital visits and fever medication
--Are usually fast-onset and end quickly and cleanly once the fever breaks

I have this feeling that sometime way in the past someone translated "24 hour flu" as "cold" and everyone has just followed that original translation ever since . . .

I think it's more likely to be common flu (influenza) rather than 24 hour flu, since you never hear anything about stomach pain or diarrhea. Also, the patients usually wear face masks (which shouldn't be necessary if it's 24 hour flu), and although there isn't snot in this manga specifically, a lot of manga/anime "colds" do involve snot and a runny nose.

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If a person is bedridden with a fever, it's not a cold. I really hate this trope. Call it something else.

Kafka couldn't contain her rizz at the end

What a shameless flirt

If a person is bedridden with a fever, it's not a cold. I really hate this trope. Call it something else.

I mean, it can be a way to distinguish the cold-induced fevers from the more serious ones (flu/etc).

If a person is bedridden with a fever, it's not a cold. I really hate this trope. Call it something else.

I mean, it can be a way to distinguish the cold-induced fevers from the more serious ones (flu/etc).

Colds don't induce fevers. If there's a fever, it isn't a cold.

Kafka couldn't contain her rizz at the end

Even I got a little happy just reading that. Dang, girl!

If a person is bedridden with a fever, it's not a cold. I really hate this trope. Call it something else.

I mean, it can be a way to distinguish the cold-induced fevers from the more serious ones (flu/etc).

Colds don't induce fevers. If there's a fever, it isn't a cold.

Japanese colds have fevers, okay?

If a person is bedridden with a fever, it's not a cold. I really hate this trope. Call it something else.

I mean, it can be a way to distinguish the cold-induced fevers from the more serious ones (flu/etc).

Colds don't induce fevers. If there's a fever, it isn't a cold.

Japanese colds have fevers, okay?

XD

Wow, Kafka nearly died this chapter

Pretty danged hot when she straddled her to search for ice cream.

LET'S GOOOOOOO!

Thank you for this meal

Kafka is done with waiting. Now she's aiming at the real game

In full bloom, indeed.

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

" 'Cause baby, you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, "Oh, oh, oh"
As you shoot across the sky"