As a fan of survival games, A Chinese Ghost Story can show that the developers often depict drowning as chaotic and frightening.Character gasping, struggling, the vision inadvertently blurred to convey a sense of desperation, as well. While this is just play acting in a game, it is near to the real thing.
From a medical perspective, once water enters the lungs no oxygen reaches any of our organs, giving the worst possible situation drown is when one behaves irrationally and becomes incapacitated. The water in my mouth flooded straight into my lungs which might have made things horribly painful, or maybe it meant I just passed out and then there were no thoughts at all for self-defense to consider. Probably it was rather unpleasant right up until the moment unconsciousness overtook me.
Can you imagine being engrossed in one of the most suspenseful anime scenes?-The protagonist is surrounded, hope seems to be running out, the screen filled with panic and desperation-that's gripping isn't it?Such a scene paints a picture similar to what drowning might feel like.
A person in the throes of drowning cannot get air, so water fills and floods their lungs, shutting off all chance of suckling in oxygen. Lack of oxygen causes light-headedness, pain in the chest and a sense that there isn't even enough time to get a breath.
In his book "Don't worry--I'm a Hypochondriac: Medicine for the Worried Sick" Claus-Christian Carbon, professor of psychology at Bamberg University writes it is 'highly painful and absolutely horrifying' You can do no worse than that from what I can tell because it describes perfectly an anime feature really is amazing.
So we often see in anime and games, which explains why it's loved by everyone all over the world irrespective of nation or nationality, if you die from water filling your lungs, it is a frightful and tragic way to go.