{"id":6510,"date":"2011-12-22T21:59:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T02:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2011-12-22T21:59:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T02:59:42","slug":"heroines-and-heroes-and-a-new-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/heroines-and-heroes-and-a-new-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroines and heroes, and a new poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Balsa\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/balsa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/balsa-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Balsa\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6511\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Balsa (<i><b>Seirei no Moribito<\/b><\/i>) is the most heroic character in anime according to visitors to this site, followed by Simon (<i><b>Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann<\/b><\/i>), Homura Akemi (<i><b>Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica<\/b><\/i>), Kenshin Himura (<i><b>Samurai X; Rurouni Kenshin<\/b><\/i>) and Vash the Stampede (<i><b>Trigun<\/b><\/i>). Others receiving votes are Edward Elric (<i><b>Fullmetal Alchemist<\/b><\/i>), Nanoha Takamachi (<i><b>Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha<\/b><\/i>), Nausic\u00e4a (<i><b>Nausic\u00e4a<\/b><\/i>), Rem Saverem (<i><b>Trigun<\/b><\/i>), Togusa (<i><b>Ghost in the Shell<\/b><\/i>), Allen Schezar (<i><b>Vision of Escaflowne<\/b><\/i>), Yoshika Miyafuji (<i><b>Strike Witches<\/b><\/i>), Yoko (<i><b>Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann<\/b><\/i>), Alphonse Elric (<i><b>Fullmetal Alchemist<\/b><\/i>), Ashitaka (<i><b>Princess Mononoke<\/b><\/i>), Spike Spiegel (<i><b>Cowboy Bebop<\/b><\/i>) and Eboshi Gozen (<i><b>Princess Mononoke<\/b><\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>There is a now poll up: which is the outstanding romantic couple in anime? I&#8217;m doing this one in two stages. Vote for up to three in the first round. The top ten will advance to the final round.<\/p>\n<p>I regret that I had to disqualify a few of the nominees for not being old enough. In a few years Syaoran and Sakura, Hayama and Sana, and Haraken and Yasako will be good candidates, but ten and eleven is a little young for serious romance, no matter what CLAMP thinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balsa (Seirei no Moribito) is the most heroic character in anime according to visitors to this site, followed by Simon (Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann), Homura Akemi (Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica), Kenshin Himura (Samurai X; Rurouni Kenshin) and Vash the Stampede (Trigun). Others receiving votes are Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist), Nanoha Takamachi (Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha), Nausic\u00e4a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/heroines-and-heroes-and-a-new-poll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heroines and heroes, and a new poll&#8221;<\/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":[3,23],"tags":[674],"class_list":["post-6510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-polls","tag-polls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1H0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510","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=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}