{"id":418,"date":"2006-05-26T00:18:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T05:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=418"},"modified":"2006-05-26T05:54:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T10:54:19","slug":"ai-yori-aoshi-second-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Ai Yori Aoshi: Second Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Zaitcev has a <a href=\"http:\/\/zaitcev.livejournal.com\/61930.html\">great post on Aoi Sakuraba<\/a> with lots of screenshots.  It reminds me of how charming that character is and how much I enjoyed watching her.  He also talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/zaitcev.livejournal.com\/56889.html\">some of the major shortcomings<\/a> of the series.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sort of avoiding watching it again.  I remember the series fondly, but it was one of the first anime I&#8217;d ever watched.  The show is full of cliche&#8217;s and predictable situations, but since I was new to anime it all seemed fresh and new to me.   I have a feeling that if I were to go back and re-watch the story it would look quite different.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Zaitcev has a great post on Aoi Sakuraba with lots of screenshots. It reminds me of how charming that character is and how much I enjoyed watching her. He also talks about some of the major shortcomings of the series. I&#8217;m sort of avoiding watching it again. I remember the series fondly, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}