{"id":402,"date":"2007-03-05T21:50:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T02:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/archives\/402"},"modified":"2008-06-17T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T03:14:00","slug":"does-manabi-straight-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/03\/05\/does-manabi-straight-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Manabi Straight Actually Make Sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing a total of three episodes, I can&#8217;t get past the obvious problem that everyone else comments on: that the supposed high school students look ten years old (at most). Is this just a stupid and distracting drawing convention? Is the world of the future suffering from an epidemic of some terrible chibifying disease?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not, since the students from the other high schools look like normal teenagers, as does Manabi&#8217;s brother. Here&#8217;s another possibility: perhaps Seiou High School is a special school for child prodigies, a school full of Chiyo-chans if you will.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThere is no support for this in the dialog, but if we assume that the main characters are actually 10 years old it would explain a lot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the girls seem bright but very immature.<\/li>\n<li>Why they get clobbered in the inter-school dodge ball tournament.<\/li>\n<li>Why Takako is shocked when Manabi addresses her using &#8220;chan&#8221;. She&#8217;s actually much older.<\/li>\n<li>Why the students from the other schools seem to regard the Seiou students with amused tolerance.<\/li>\n<li>Why the Seiou students seem intimidated by the students from the other schools.<\/li>\n<li>Why holding buckets of water is considered an appropriate punishment for a high school student.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, it&#8217;s just a wild idea, but it makes sense to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing a total of three episodes, I can&#8217;t get past the obvious problem that everyone else comments on: that the supposed high school students look ten years old (at&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/03\/05\/does-manabi-straight-make-sense\/\">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":[150],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-manabi-straight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}