{"id":1931,"date":"2008-11-08T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T20:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2008-11-08T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T20:18:19","slug":"ef-taxes-my-credulity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/11\/08\/ef-taxes-my-credulity\/","title":{"rendered":"ef Taxes My Credulity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>ef&#8211;a tale of melodies<\/em> provides a neat answer to one of the main <a href=\"\/fun\/2008\/02\/03\/the-ending-of-ef%e2%80%93a-tale-of-memories\/\">objections<\/a> that I raised to it&#8217;s predecessor <em>ef&#8211;a tale of memories<\/em>. Unfortunately it strikes me as the sort of answer that creates more problems than it solves.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#oni\">oni<\/a> <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#visual_novel\">visual novel<\/a><\/span>Apparently there are <em>two<\/em> identical-looking Japanese cities called &#8220;Otowa&#8221;, one in Japan and one in Australia. No explanation is provided as to how this came about; even the characters sound a bit disbelieving as they explain it. Did the Japanese, perhaps, decide to build duplicate cities when they colonized Australia in 1945?<\/p>\n<p>This does indeed solve one major problem: we now learn that Kei lives in Japan while Chihiro lives in Australia. But the more I think about this the more problems I see. For example, both cities must have been devastated by earthquakes at about the same time, and rebuilt in the same way. How likely is that?<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore Yuu Himura and his church have to exist in both cities simultaneously. Is he a supernatural being? Or does he have an identical twin brother?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is all part of a brilliant master plan by the writers. On the other hand, maybe the writers just realized what a monstrous plot hole they had created when they first combined two separate <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#visual_novel\">visual novels<\/a> into a single <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a>, and are now engaged in the wildest backfilling operation in history in an attempt to cover it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ef&#8211;a tale of melodies provides a neat answer to one of the main objections that I raised to it&#8217;s predecessor ef&#8211;a tale of memories. Unfortunately it strikes me as the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/11\/08\/ef-taxes-my-credulity\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[218,104],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-ef-a-tale-of-melodies","tag-ef-a-tale-of-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}