{"id":4253,"date":"2011-07-21T18:43:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T23:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2011-07-21T18:43:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T23:43:16","slug":"good-news-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/good-news-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news, bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Hertz, Archimedes, Galileo\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mg021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mg021-600x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hertz, Archimedes, Galileo\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The good news: <a href=\"http:\/\/chizumatic.mee.nu\/maybe_theres_a_little_hope\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s more <strong><em>Marie &#038; Gali<\/em><\/strong> translated<\/a>. Wasurenai is up to episode 27. That leaves 13 episodes to go of the first series, plus the 30 of Version 2.0. <\/p>\n<p>Marika, a magenta-haired middle school student who favors EGL fashions and has no interest in science, finds herself marooned in Galihabara, an isolated town populated by famous scientists. They&#8217;re a little different there than they are in history books. Galileo is a buffoonish gonk, Newton is a snooty bishounen who only has eyes for his apple, Darwin is a robot, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Ambrose_Fleming\" target=\"_blank\">(John Ambrose) Fleming<\/a> says &#8220;Yo!&#8221; a lot, etc. Fortunately for Marika, Madame Curie is relatively sane and provides her a place to stay.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Archimedes, Marika, Pet, Hertz\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mg03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mg03-600x336.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Archimedes, Marika, Pet, Hertz\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each of the five-minute episodes illustrates, sorta, a scientific principle. In the episode from which the screen captures above come, Archimedes, Hertz and Galileo compete in a fishing tournament. Through various ridiculous strategies, they catch enough fish and other aquatic creatures to capsize their boat, leaving them up lost at sea in a lifeboat with Marika. The episode ends with a brief lecture on bouyancy from Archimedes.<\/p>\n<p>How much of the science kids watching the show will retain, I can&#8217;t say. It doesn&#8217;t really matter that much, though. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=10688\" target=\"_blank\">Marie &#038; Gali<\/a><\/em><\/strong> subordinates didacticism to broad, goofy humor, to its benefit.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Galileo, Darwin, Robodog, Pet, Marika\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/marika01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/marika01-600x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Galileo, Darwin, Robodog, Pet, Marika\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bad news: <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/liveaction-captain-planet-movie-to-save-the-world,59144\/\" target=\"_blank\">Captain Planet, the live-action movie<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Please excuse me while I throw up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: There&#8217;s more Marie &#038; Gali translated. Wasurenai is up to episode 27. That leaves 13 episodes to go of the first series, plus the 30 of Version 2.0. Marika, a magenta-haired middle school student who favors EGL fashions and has no interest in science, finds herself marooned in Galihabara, an isolated town &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/good-news-bad-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good news, bad news&#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":[3,12,17,21],"tags":[352,402],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-grumbling-and-muttering","category-news","category-occidental-animation","tag-marie-gali","tag-no-no-no"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-16B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","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=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}