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There’s still little time for anime. The only current series I’m up-to-date on is Oh! Edo Rocket<\/em><\/strong> (or Oedo Rocket<\/em><\/strong>, or Ohedo Rocket<\/em><\/strong>). ((Though I download Denno Coil<\/em><\/strong> and Seirei no Moribito<\/em><\/strong> as new episodes become available)) Eighteen episodes have now been subtitled, and it continues as off-the-wall as ever. The word is<\/a> that the dramatic story is concluded in the twentieth episode and the remaining six focus on comedy, which is fine with me.<\/p>\n The soundtrack is distinctive. About half of it is big-band swing; the rest is mostly swing\/rock hybrids, with a bit of pseudo-flamenco here and there. I don’t know how well it will sustain repeated listenings, but in small doses it’s fun. Here are a couple of examples:<\/p>\n (This tune recurs in different arrangements throughout the series. Another setting can be heard in the second video excerpt here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Speaking of soundtracks, I discovered yesterday that the other dealer is selling Geneon CDs for $5.99<\/a>. This includes many outstanding OSTs \u2014 Haibane Renmei, Azumanga Daioh, Someday’s Dreamers, Noir<\/em><\/strong>, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Edo cyber caf\u00e9, circa 1842. The otakusphere has been around longer than I had realized. There’s still little time for anime. The only current series I’m up-to-date on is Oh! Edo Rocket (or Oedo Rocket, or Ohedo Rocket). ((Though I download Denno Coil and Seirei no Moribito as new episodes become available)) Eighteen episodes have … Continue reading “Swingin’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[660,386],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-current-viewing","tag-music-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4xam3-swingin","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}