{"id":41789,"date":"2018-01-10T17:49:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T22:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=41789"},"modified":"2018-01-10T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T22:49:25","slug":"plant-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/plant-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant identification"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cardcaptor Sakura<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is back. The first episode of the new series spent most of its time reintroducing the characters from the original<\/a>, and I can’t say just how triumphant this return is likely to be until I see more.<\/p>\n

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There is a lot of floral imagery. Cherry blossoms, above, are inevitable in the first episode of any school anime. Others seem more arbitrarily selected, and are sometimes hard to identify.<\/p>\n

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I think those are gazanias framing the characters, or maybe Chrysanthemum carinatum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Gerbera? Pyrethrum? Or something else?<\/p>\n

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At first glance, those look like roses. However, I’ve never seen roses that blue, and the leaves are wrong. Either the artist took too many liberties, or they’re something else.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps those are highly stylized polemoniums, but that’s just a guess.<\/p>\n

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I have no idea what those are supposed to be, and I wouldn’t trust anything Yamazaki says about them.<\/p>\n

Aya Hisakawa is Kero-chan again, so there’s that to look forward to, even if the botany is a bit muddled.<\/p>\n

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I sampled a few other new series. The first episode of Laid-Back Camp<\/a><\/em><\/strong> featured a quietly competent girl, experienced in camping and comfortable being alone. (Her hairstyle suggests that she might be a future Florence King.) Unfortunately, there was another girl, and it looks like the series is going to be another damned high school club story. Wonderduck<\/a> also found the first episode noteworthy.<\/p>\n

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Slow Start<\/em><\/strong> features cute girls, one with grossly oversized boobs. I lasted 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is girls with swords. There’s magic and monsters and political intrigue, and the principal character smiles too much. I might watch more, or I might not.<\/p>\n

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The above image is from the opening to Pop Team Epic<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. It has nothing to do with the rest of the show. The image below is more representative. If you thought Teekyu<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was over-intellectualized and excessively subtle, you might enjoy PTE<\/em><\/strong>. It’s a pity that the jokes aren’t funny.<\/p>\n

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I read some of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki<\/em><\/strong> manga. Some of it was creepy; some of it was ridiculous, and probably not intentionally so. Junji Ito Collection<\/a><\/em><\/strong> animates some of his stories. The first episode featured one of his “humorous” stories. I don’t share Ito’s sense of humor. I may give it another try, but I don’t have much appetite for horror.<\/p>\n

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Working Buddies<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is a series of shorts about a pair of cats trying various jobs, presumably intended for children. It’s rather dull, noteworthy mainly for the annoying pseudo-animation (the outlines of the characters are constantly mechanically distorted when they are otherwise motionless), but furries might appreciate some of the sentiments.<\/p>\n

If none of these turns out to be worth watching, there’s Made in Abyss<\/em><\/strong>, which I can at last watch without paying Amazon.com twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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