{"id":8576,"date":"2012-11-06T14:31:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T19:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=8576"},"modified":"2020-01-31T12:13:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:13:19","slug":"the-wrong-omen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-wrong-omen\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrong omen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/joshi02.jpg\" alt=\"So you think things are bad now?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I watched the final episode of <strong><em>Joshiraku<\/em><\/strong> before I left for the polling place this morning. That may have been a mistake; I couldn&#8217;t help seeing a political subtext that probably wasn&#8217;t actually there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/joshi03.jpg\" alt=\"Four more years. Four more years. Four more years.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Not Red Reviews<\/a> is posting the translator&#8217;s notes on <a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/12\/re-joshiraku-not-meant-to-be-subbed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this most idiosyncratically Japanese of shows<\/a>: ((Sure, much of the show is obscure even after all the puns are explained, so why waste your time translating it? Oh, and you&#8217;ll never really fully understand medieval or ancient worldviews, either, so why read Chaucer or Homer?)) <a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/09\/joshiraku-01-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode one<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/16\/joshiraku-02-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode two<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/29\/joshiraku-03-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode three<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/09\/joshiraku-04-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode four<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/17\/joshiraku-05-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode five<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/17\/joshiraku-06-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode six<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/29\/joshiraku-07-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode seven<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/25\/joshiraku-08-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode eight<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/01\/joshiraku-09-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode nine<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/notredreviews.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/02\/joshiraku-10-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode ten<\/a>. <strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/notredrevie.ws\/2012\/11\/08\/joshiraku-11-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode eleven<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/notredrevie.ws\/2012\/11\/09\/joshiraku-12-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode twelve<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/notredrevie.ws\/2012\/11\/13\/joshiraku-13-notes-and-the-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode thirteen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/joshi04.jpg\" alt=\"Marching out\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/joshitank.jpg\" alt=\"Which anime is this?\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the final episode of Joshiraku before I left for the polling place this morning. That may have been a mistake; I couldn&#8217;t help seeing a political subtext that probably wasn&#8217;t actually there. Not Red Reviews is posting the translator&#8217;s notes on this most idiosyncratically Japanese of shows: ((Sure, much of the show is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-wrong-omen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The wrong omen&#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":[3,10],"tags":[295],"class_list":["post-8576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-decline-and-fall","tag-joshiraku"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2ek","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576","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=8576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74087,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions\/74087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}