{"id":3335,"date":"2009-07-28T21:37:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T01:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2009-07-28T21:37:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T01:37:02","slug":"like-simoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/07\/28\/like-simoun\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Simoun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete quotes <a href=\"\/fun\/2009\/07\/25\/summer-2009-anime-season-first-impressions\/\">my whimsical description<\/a> of <em>Umi Monogatari<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ani-nouto.animeblogger.net\/2009\/07\/27\/2009-summer\/\">adds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sounds like <em>Simoun<\/em>. The question is, if it\u2019s any good as an <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me set the record straight. <em>Umi Monogatari<\/em> is nothing like <a href=\"\/fun\/2008\/03\/23\/simoun-anime-review\/\"><em>Simoun<\/em><\/a>. <em>Simoun<\/em> is (or tries to be) a tragic-but-beautiful story about ill-fated warriors. <em>Umi<\/em>, unless the writers intend a nasty surprise, is a lighthearted adventure story with magical girls.<\/p>\n<p>Both have <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#yuri\">yuri<\/a> overtones, but so do about half the anime series being broadcast now. That&#8217;s not much of a basis for comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete quotes my whimsical description of Umi Monogatari and adds: Sounds like Simoun. The question is, if it\u2019s any good as an <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a>. Let me set the record straight. Umi&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/07\/28\/like-simoun\/\">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":[90,298],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-simoun","tag-umi-monogatari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","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=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}