{"id":8404,"date":"2018-07-14T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T22:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2018-07-14T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T22:47:13","slug":"grand-blue-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2018\/07\/14\/grand-blue-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Blue &#8212; First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<cite>Grand Blue<\/cite> is here! Anime is saved!\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/grand-blue-01.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Grand Blue: why are you running away?\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIt took a few minutes to get going, but once it did it had me laughing my head of for the rest of the episode. It&#8217;s not quite up the level of the original manga, but it got the comedy and the timing right and that&#8217;s all I ask for. Poor fellow up there being chased by two beefy nude blokes is our protagonist, Iori, who hoped to make a fresh new start in college, but any hopes for a happy college life disappear as he has the misfortune to encounter the uni diving club &#8212; who so far have only been diving in alcohol. Resist as he might, Iori soon shows his own idiotic side as he gets involved in their drinking games&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/grand-blue-02.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Grand Blue: important safety tip\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWhether you&#8217;ll like this or not depends on whether you can laugh at seeing the exact same &#8220;guy gets tricked into drinking something that looks like water, but isn&#8217;t&#8221; several times in a row. For some it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animefeminist.com\/review-grand-blue-dreaming-episode-1\/\">just reminds them of awful experiences in their own college life<\/a>. Me, I laughed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Blue is here! Anime is saved! It took a few minutes to get going, but once it did it had me laughing my head of for the rest of the episode. It&#8217;s not quite up the level of the original manga, but it got the comedy and the timing right and that&#8217;s all I [&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":[2508,2607],"class_list":["post-8404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-first-impressions","tag-grand-blue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404","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=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8407,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions\/8407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}