{"id":8352,"date":"2018-06-24T07:37:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T12:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=8352"},"modified":"2018-06-24T07:37:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T12:37:19","slug":"amanchu-advance-what-a-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2018\/06\/24\/amanchu-advance-what-a-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanchu Advance: what a waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI wasn&#8217;t quite sure why so many people who&#8217;d liked the original series were so down on <cite>Amanchu Advance<\/cite> until this happened in the penultimate episode:\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/amanchu-04.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Amanchu Advance: heteronormativity for the win\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/wissewords2\/2016\/07\/17\/amanchu\/\">The original series was all about the blossoming relationship between Teko and Pikari<\/a>. Teko was the shy, timid girl who had to leave her home town and friend behind as her parents had to move for their jobs, who found a new friend in the exuberant and outgoing Pikari, getting introduced to the wonderful world of ocean diving. The focus was firmly on their friendship, with a bit of a lesbian undertone to it that surely wasn&#8217;t just my imagination. It had a good supporting cast, but the centre remained Pikari and Teko.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/amanchu-05.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Amanchu Advance: Kokoro-chan\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Amanchu Advance<\/cite> changed that. It started off by introducing Kokoro-chan, a twelve year old girl as Teko&#8217;s rival for Pikari&#8217;s love, with a similar but slightly older girl as the same for Teko, though the latter featured much less. This in itself wasn&#8217;t bad, but it did eat up screen time that could&#8217;ve been spent on Teko and Pikari. What was worse was that for three episodes, both were completely ignored in favour of the story of Peter, a school ghost who on special nights would attempt to seduce a girl to join him in his dream. This was the same plot line that got me to drop the original manga and it wasn&#8217;t much better animated. And then, in the penultimate episode, it was revealed that Kokoro-chan was actually a boy and Teko immediately started rooting for him to romance Pikari. Again, something out of the original manga.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAll of which means that all of the slow buildup of the first series and the first half or so of this one, all the little signs we&#8217;ve had about how Pikari and Teko felt about each other, didn&#8217;t matter. Because here is a twelve year old boy with a crush on Pikari, so let&#8217;s make sure the audience know that this is the approved relationship for her.  What a waste. What a disappointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t quite sure why so many people who&#8217;d liked the original series were so down on Amanchu Advance until this happened in the penultimate episode: The original series was all about the blossoming relationship between Teko and Pikari. Teko was the shy, timid girl who had to leave her home town and friend behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,294],"tags":[2597],"class_list":["post-8352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-lgbt","tag-amanchu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352","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=8352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8353,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions\/8353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}