{"id":7950,"date":"2012-09-16T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2012-09-16T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T01:00:06","slug":"natsuyuki-rendezvous-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2012\/09\/16\/natsuyuki-rendezvous-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Natsuyuki Rendezvous Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ryuusuke-in-tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ryuusuke-in-tree-550x308.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ryuusuke in tree\" width=\"550\" height=\"308\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ryuusuke-in-tree-550x308.jpg 550w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ryuusuke-in-tree-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ryuusuke-in-tree-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ryuusuke-in-tree.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI had <a href=\"\/fun\/2012\/07\/21\/natsuyuki-rendezvous-anime-early-impressions\/\">high hopes<\/a> after watching the first few episodes of <em>Natsuyuki Rendezvous<\/em> and it hasn&#8217;t disappointed me. It&#8217;s not a particularly complicated story and they wrapped it up efficiently in 11 episodes with no bloat, no fillers and no hooks for an unnecessary sequel.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help making an invidious comparison with last Spring&#8217;s <a href=\"\/fun\/tag\/dusk-maiden-of-amnesia\/\"><em>Dusk Maiden of Amnesia<\/em><\/a>. Both are somewhat scary supernatural romances but <em>Natsuyuki Rendezvous<\/em> is in a whole different league: more sophisticated and better executed. (To be fair, <em>Dusk Maiden<\/em> was obviously aimed at a younger audience.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had high hopes after watching the first few episodes of Natsuyuki Rendezvous and it hasn&#8217;t disappointed me. It&#8217;s not a particularly complicated story and they wrapped it up efficiently&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2012\/09\/16\/natsuyuki-rendezvous-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,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[524],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-natsuyuki-rendezvous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","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=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7955,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions\/7955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}