{"id":8050,"date":"2018-01-16T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2018-04-04T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T21:27:20","slug":"killing-bites-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2018\/01\/16\/killing-bites-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Bites &#8212; First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nRatel is the South African word for honey badger, making <cite>Killing Bites<\/cite> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg\">Honey Badger Don&#8217;t Care<\/a>: the anime.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/killing-bites-01.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" alt=\"Killing Bites: honey badger don't care\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Killing Bites<\/cite> is another edgy underground death match series like last season&#8217;s <cite>Juuni Taisen<\/cite>, which had to prove its edginess in the first episode by opening with the almost gang rape of our heroine. Not the best of starts and having Ratel walk around in her underwear for the rest of the episode doesn&#8217;t help either. There must&#8217;ve been a better way to introduce the hapless regular guy who&#8217;ll serve as the audience&#8217;s stand-in other than by having him be the accidental driver of a rapist gang.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/killing-bites-02.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" alt=\"Killing Bites: ratel vs lion\" class=\"aligncenter\"\n\n\n<p>\nAfter that unsavoury start, the episode moves on to a battle between Ratel and another beast warrior, Brute Lion. The fight scene to be honest wasn&#8217;t too impressive, but of course she beat him handily or otherwise the series would&#8217;ve ended there and then. Instead we got a lot of exposition to explain the series&#8217; setup, most of which was  rather dull and which eats up the rest of the episode. A so-so start then of what might be an enjoyable trash series. For the moment I&#8217;ll keep watching, as long as it can keep the rapiness to moderate levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ratel is the South African word for honey badger, making Killing Bites Honey Badger Don&#8217;t Care: the anime. Killing Bites is another edgy underground death match series like last season&#8217;s Juuni Taisen, which had to prove its edginess in the first episode by opening with the almost gang rape of our heroine. Not the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[2508,2569],"class_list":["post-8050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-first-impressions","tag-killing-bites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8053,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions\/8053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}