{"id":8666,"date":"2013-04-07T22:03:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T02:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=8666"},"modified":"2013-04-07T22:03:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T02:03:12","slug":"sasami-san-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2013\/04\/07\/sasami-san-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasami-san Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, Akiyuki Shinbo is an enormously talented director but his work tends to leave me cold (with the major exception of <a href=\"\/fun\/tag\/madoka-magica\/?order=asc\"><em>Madoka Magica<\/em><\/a> which is all-around amazing). I enjoyed <a href=\"\/fun\/tag\/madoka-magica\/?order=asc\"><em>Sasami-san@Ganbaranai<\/em><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theanimenetwork.com\/Anime\/Sasami-sanGanbaranai\/Info\">Anime Network<\/a>) more than most of his shows but I still can&#8217;t really recommend it, particularly after watching the final episode which was not titled &#8220;Sasami Makes a New Frenemy&#8221; but might as well have been.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jou-and-Sasami.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jou-and-Sasami-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"Jou and Sasami\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jou-and-Sasami-550x309.jpg 550w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jou-and-Sasami-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jou-and-Sasami-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jou-and-Sasami-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jou-and-Sasami.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe have an interesting premise about ancient barbaric gods in a modern setting. The story is fascinating, often unsettling and sometimes quite funny. But ultimately the characters are not people I would like to get to know better and the story itself doesn&#8217;t make much sense. Sure you can look up the mythological references, but some random mythological references don&#8217;t make an incoherent story coherent.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: interesting but not great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, Akiyuki Shinbo is an enormously talented director but his work tends to leave me cold (with the major exception of Madoka Magica which is all-around amazing)&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2013\/04\/07\/sasami-san-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":[552],"class_list":["post-8666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-sasami-sanganbaranai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666","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=8666"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8673,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions\/8673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}