{"id":2608,"date":"2010-08-12T16:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T22:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:49:07","slug":"memo-to-funimation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/memo-to-funimation\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo to Funimation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been planning to purchase the the first few discs of <strong><em>Soul Eater<\/em><\/strong> when my budget permits. However, if you force me to endure the preview of the <em>SE<\/em> dub every time I watch an episode of <strong><em>Baccano!<\/em><\/strong>, I might change my mind. ((Yes, I know ways around this, but it&#8217;s still inexcusable. Also, every time I see the unskippable antipiracy notice, I feel a sudden strange urge to make illegal copies of every DVD I own.))<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/theperiodictableofjapan-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/theperiodictableofjapan-1-640x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"402\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-73868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/theperiodictableofjapan-1-640x402.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/theperiodictableofjapan-1-1024x644.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/theperiodictableofjapan-1-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/theperiodictableofjapan-1-1536x966.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/theperiodictableofjapan-1-1200x755.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/theperiodictableofjapan-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know which is more depressing: the number I don&#8217;t recognize, or the number that I do.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animeraku.com\/\">Anime Raku<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Raiga in the comments links to a <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=0AldOQ_eofZLndFoza3NqNU5OTG9DVm1QSUt6SGVzcnc&#038;authkey=CLfKlNAM&#038;hl=en#gid=0\">spreadsheet<\/a> with explanations.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/interest\/2010-08-12\/20-most-popular-anime\/game-names-to-give-children\">Naming your kids after anime characters<\/a> is a dumb idea, but it&#8217;s no worse than calling them &#8220;Jimi Hendrix&#8221; and &#8220;Janis Joplin,&#8221; as did one erstwhile neighbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been planning to purchase the the first few discs of Soul Eater when my budget permits. However, if you force me to endure the preview of the SE dub every time I watch an episode of Baccano!, I might change my mind. ((Yes, I know ways around this, but it&#8217;s still inexcusable. Also, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/memo-to-funimation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Memo to Funimation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,30],"tags":[278,437],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","category-grumbling-and-muttering","category-silly-people","tag-idiots","tag-periodic-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-G4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73871,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/73871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}