{"id":6553,"date":"2011-09-22T21:45:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T01:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2011-09-22T21:45:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T01:45:40","slug":"ikoku-meiro-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2011\/09\/22\/ikoku-meiro-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikoku Meiro Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ikoku Meiro no Crois\u00e9e<\/em> (The Crossroads of a Foreign Labyrinth) ends rather abruptly. This may be a feel-good slice-of-life <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a> but it does have an overall story. Yet the ending leaves half the plot threads dangling.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ikoku-Meiro-no-Crois\u00e9e-Forge.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ikoku Meiro no Crois\u00e9e -Forge\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ikoku-Meiro-no-Crois\u00e9e-Forge.png 512w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ikoku-Meiro-no-Crois\u00e9e-Forge-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Presumably they are hoping for another season to wrap things up.<\/p>\n<p>Still I would give a marginal thumbs up to the first season even by itself. The beautiful backgrounds alone make it worth a look. It&#8217;s a bit darker than <a href=\"\/fun\/2008\/12\/28\/aria-the-animation-anime-review\/\"><em>Aria<\/em><\/a> but still upbeat and charming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ikoku Meiro no Crois\u00e9e (The Crossroads of a Foreign Labyrinth) ends rather abruptly. This may be a feel-good slice-of-life <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a> but it does have an overall story. Yet the ending&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2011\/09\/22\/ikoku-meiro-ends\/\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[447],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-ikoku-meiro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","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=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6556,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}