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<\/a><\/p>\nLaid-Back Camp<\/a><\/b><\/i> \u2014 There’s hardly any story: high-school girls talk about camping and occasionally pitch tents. What makes it noteworthy is the solitary camper Rin, who is presented as a competent, personable, well-adjusted introvert who genuinely enjoys doing things on her own, and who is treated with respect by the other characters.<\/p>\n Cells at Work<\/a><\/b><\/i> \u2014 The red blood cell focal character is overly ditzy, but otherwise this is probably the finest example of educational entertainment ever produced.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n We Rent Tsukumogami<\/a><\/b><\/i> \u2014 It looks I’m going to have to sit still long enough to write a proper review of this underappreciated small-scale detective series, since apparently no one else has noticed it. Another time, maybe.<\/p>\n Nobunaga no Shinobi<\/a><\/b><\/i> \u2014 The third season felt a little more forced and wasn’t quite as funny as the first, but it had its moments.<\/p>\n Hozuki no Reitetsu<\/a><\/b><\/i> \u2014 I was about to cancel my Crunchyroll subscription, but at the last moment they added the second and third seasons of the series centered around Enma’s chief of staff, and I relented. The first season is still the freshest, but the newer episodes are nevertheless generally at least good and often very funny. Hozuki<\/em><\/strong> is probably the show from last year I enjoyed most. There are many more screencaps below the fold.<\/p>\n The above I can recommend. I also watched the rest of the much-praised Planet With<\/a><\/b><\/i>, which I had earlier been unimpressed with. It turned out to be Gurren-Lagann<\/a><\/b><\/i>-lite, watchable, but with preachiness instead of spiral energy. Cardcaptor Sakura: the Misdeal<\/a><\/b><\/i> spent too much time being nice and too little telling a story. Possibly the eventual continuation might redeem it, but I’m not optimistic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Life in hell, Japanese version:<\/p>\n So, were there any shows last year that were worth watching? Let’s see…. Laid-Back Camp \u2014 There’s hardly any story: high-school girls talk about camping and occasionally pitch tents. What makes it noteworthy is the solitary camper Rin, who is presented as a competent, personable, well-adjusted introvert who genuinely enjoys doing things on her own, … Continue reading “Looking back”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-art-and-screen-captures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-esE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55592","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=55592"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55647,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55592\/revisions\/55647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"