{"id":3301,"date":"2009-07-12T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T16:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2014-10-25T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T18:26:08","slug":"kyoto-animation-jumps-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/07\/12\/kyoto-animation-jumps-the-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto Animation Jumps the Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the appeal of <a href=\"\/fun\/2007\/10\/10\/melancholy-of-haruhi-suzumiya-anime-review\/\"><em>Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya<\/em><\/a> as it was originally broadcast was in the uniquely confusing way that it was presented. It created a sort of meta-story in which the original story was further illuminated by the viewer&#8217;s own reaction to the way it was presented. The viewers didn&#8217;t mind that the show was messing with their heads because the whole thing was so wonderfully entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>Now with the second season Kyoto Animation seems to be trying for the same kind of &#8220;mess with the viewers&#8217; heads&#8221; effect, but the original inspiration is no longer there. Instead of applauding, the fans are up in arms. Particularly infuriating is the &#8220;Endless Eight&#8221; storyline which has so far repeated the same episode 4 times with minor variations. This isn&#8217;t fun; it&#8217;s just annoying.<\/p>\n<p>Probably any possible sequel would have been a disappointment, but it appears that KyoAni may have destroyed the value of the franchise. Furious fans are already vowing not to buy the DVDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the appeal of Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya as it was originally broadcast was in the uniquely confusing way that it was presented. It created a sort of meta-story&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/07\/12\/kyoto-animation-jumps-the-shark\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[624,82,292],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-endless-eight","tag-haruhi-suzumiya","tag-kyoto-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","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=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10621,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions\/10621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}