{"id":3615,"date":"2003-10-27T13:24:43","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2003-10-27T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2003-10-27T13:24:43","slug":"yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3615","title":{"rendered":"Yo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are observant, you&#8217;ve seen semi-regular comments here from me.  I&#8217;ve known Gregory for a number of years online, and a year and some back he seduced me into the modern world of digital fansubs.  I&#8217;ve been exposed to anime (without realizing it) since the early 1970s, via <cite>Speed Racer<\/cite> and <cite>Star Blazers<\/cite>.  Then, in college, one of my roommates was heavily into All Things Japanese, with shelves full of manga and countless GIFs of <cite>Bubblegum Crisis<\/cite> and the like; I picked up a small amount of knowledge through osmosis.  Finally, some years later, I discovered that my wife was watching <cite>Sailor Moon<\/cite> on FOX in the morning, and I said, &#8220;No, no, let me show you the real thing,&#8221; and my journey to the Dark Side was complete.  Now I&#8217;ve badgered Gregory sufficiently that he&#8217;s given me posting access here, so you&#8217;re all doomed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll certainly be offering my thoughts on recent shows, but I will probably venture beyond that as well, looking at some older shows and perhaps at other aspects of anime, manga, fandom, and Japanese culture.  I help run an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndk.cc\">anime con<\/a> in Denver, and I&#8217;ve studied the language in my Copious Free Time for 8 years or so now, so I flatter myself that I&#8217;ve seen a bit deeper than the surface layer.<\/p>\n<p>(Hm, Movable Type doesn&#8217;t seem to like Unicode, so I&#8217;ll use roumaji: Yoroshiku o-negai shimasu.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are observant, you&#8217;ve seen semi-regular comments here from me. I&#8217;ve known Gregory for a number of years online, and a year and some back he seduced me into the modern world of digital fansubs. I&#8217;ve been exposed to anime (without realizing it) since the early 1970s, via Speed Racer and Star Blazers. Then, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}