{"id":390,"date":"2007-11-09T21:35:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2007\/11\/09\/absolute-destiny-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T02:35:09","slug":"absolute-destiny-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/absolute-destiny-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolute destiny apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t had much time for anime or anything else recently, but I did manage to watch the first disc of <strong><em>Revolutionary Girl Utena<\/em><\/strong>. Good grief. I think I&#8217;ll watch <strong><em>Cat Soup<\/em><\/strong> again; that&#8217;s a model of clarity in comparison. I suppose everything will make sense in the end, but seven episodes into <strong><em>Utena<\/em><\/strong>, it&#8217;s absurdity upon absurdity, combined with swordfights, silliness, pointed chins and a minimal animation budget. Surrealistic though it is, it remains mostly on the right side of the line between silly and stupid, and I am curious to see if the writers do make ultimately something coherent out of the nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few odd links. Click at your own risk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chizumatic.mee.nu\/ick_eew_ick\">A term I didn&#8217;t need to learn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glamguns.com\/hk47.html\">So <em>kawaii<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really need to see <a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/popeye.png' title='popeye.png'>this<\/a>. (Found it <a href=\"http:\/\/uncyclopedia.org\/wiki\/Sailor_Moon\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericjoisel.com\/Site\/barbarians.html\">This<\/a> <em>is<\/em> worth looking at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t had much time for anime or anything else recently, but I did manage to watch the first disc of Revolutionary Girl Utena. Good grief. I think I&#8217;ll watch Cat Soup again; that&#8217;s a model of clarity in comparison. I suppose everything will make sense in the end, but seven episodes into Utena, it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/absolute-destiny-apocalypse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Absolute destiny apocalypse&#8221;<\/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":[34],"tags":[660,684],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever","tag-current-viewing","tag-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-6i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}