{"id":752,"date":"2009-05-14T03:31:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T08:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/?p=752"},"modified":"2010-11-13T04:12:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T09:12:46","slug":"instant-review-futakoi-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/14\/instant-review-futakoi-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Review: Futakoi Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Futakoi Alternative is <s>the anime adaption of &#8220;Pinball, 1973&#8221; by Haruki Murakami<\/s> a <a href=\"http:\/\/animehistory.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/02\/higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni-dvd-omake-nekogoroshi-hen\/\">schizophrenic<\/a> 2005 slice-of-life\/loli twin moe\/yakuza\/action\/Snatch homage\/multi-episode Giant Robo reference anime by schizophrenic studio ufotable. It&#8217;s awesome, you should watch it. The end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gothlolimask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gothlolimask-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-755\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gothlolimask-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gothlolimask.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bigfire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bigfire-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-756\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bigfire-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bigfire.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><small class=\"aligncenter\">the best episode (also the second-to-last episode)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d actually started watching this in 2005 but stopped at the low point, around episode 9 &#8211; I didn&#8217;t understand why it was suddenly about a terrorist squid \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but now that I finished it I don&#8217;t think that was too bad. That wasn&#8217;t actually a drop in quality in the show itself, but the script constantly changes genres and the one from &#8220;drama&#8221; to &#8220;fake Imagawa show&#8221; took a while. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I think that&#8217;s doomed it over here &#8211; the middle part is a long slice-of-life show of the kind nobody around here wants to buy or watch, which probably means a lot of people wouldn&#8217;t sit through it even if they did like all the rest. Although ufotable did try to make an even more Western-style show and ended up with the boring and still weirdly otakuish Coyote Ragtime Show, so maybe it&#8217;s just as well?<\/p>\n<p>Also please post if you got my joke in the first paragraph without looking it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Futakoi Alternative is the anime adaption of &#8220;Pinball, 1973&#8221; by Haruki Murakami a schizophrenic 2005 slice-of-life\/loli twin moe\/yakuza\/action\/Snatch homage\/multi-episode Giant Robo reference anime by schizophrenic studio ufotable. It&#8217;s awesome, you should watch it. The end. the best episode (also the second-to-last episode) I&#8217;d actually started watching this in 2005 but stopped at the low point, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}