{"id":7157,"date":"2012-04-03T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T23:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2021-04-22T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T16:59:00","slug":"rule-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/rule-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging for nearly nine years \u2014 the anniversary of the launch of my first weblog is a week from Saturday \u2014 and I long ago realized that I&#8217;ll never <a href=\"http:\/\/rsmccain.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/how-to-get-million-hits-on-your-blog-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get a million hits in a year<\/a>, or ever. I am not interested in blogwhoring, I&#8217;m too contemptuous of politicians to care about their blather and posturing, and I dislike making unnecessary enemies.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I can do, though, is post pictures of pretty girls. Conveniently, <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/lets-artist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard&#8217;s anime magazines<\/a> are a rich source of such. Here&#8217;s another batch of scans. These are from two editions of a &#8220;New Video Magazine,&#8221; one from 1986 and the other from 1991. Both are similar in format to <strong><em>Vversion<\/em><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/historical-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which I looked at previously<\/a>, so this time I&#8217;m focusing mostly on the cheesecake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/covernvm86.jpg\" alt=\"'86 cover\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/86ks.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/86rem.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=2119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dream Hunter Rem<\/a><\/em><\/strong> began as tentacle porn. If you&#8217;re unlucky, you might stumble on the original version of the first episode; keep some brain bleach on hand just in case. A censored version became popular with a wider audience, and a several more episodes were released, the most recent in 1992. I took a look at the cleaned-up first episode <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/anime-history-classic-schlock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/86fandora.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yet another creation of anime&#8217;s weird uncle, Go Nagai.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/86outlanders.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/86twinkle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=7078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twinkle Heart<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seiji Okuda<\/a>, who also was responsible for <strong><em>Dream Hunter Rem<\/em><\/strong>. He subsequently was involved in many noteworthy anime, including recently <strong><em>Summer Wars<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Arrietty<\/em><\/strong>. As far as I can tell, no one has ever bothered translating <strong><em>Twinkle Heart<\/em><\/strong>. I suspect we haven&#8217;t missed much.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/86twinkle2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nvm91cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nvm91-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nvm91-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nvm91-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>RG Veda<\/em><\/strong> was CLAMP&#8217;s first published manga, and probably the first made into an anime.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nvm91-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Devil Hunter Yohko<\/em><\/strong>, again. The 1991 edition of the magazine was noticeably more risqu\u00e9 than the 1986.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t recognize any of the following.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nvm91-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nvm91-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nvm91-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nvm91-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nvm91-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nvm91-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging for nearly nine years \u2014 the anniversary of the launch of my first weblog is a week from Saturday \u2014 and I long ago realized that I&#8217;ll never get a million hits in a year, or ever. I am not interested in blogwhoring, I&#8217;m too contemptuous of politicians to care about their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/rule-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rule 5&#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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-art-and-screen-captures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1Rr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157","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=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131480,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions\/131480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}