{"id":8600,"date":"2019-01-19T06:15:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T11:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2019-01-19T06:32:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T11:32:18","slug":"girly-airforce-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2019\/01\/19\/girly-airforce-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Girly Airforce &#8212; first impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI was prepared to give <cite>Girly Airforce<\/cite> a chance, despite its utterly boring premise and mediocre looking animation, until this sorry excuse for a CGI Mig-21 showed up:\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/girly-airforce-01.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"The Chinese do not use shitty looking CGI Mig-21s\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd that is clearly a Mig-21 and not say one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chengdu_J-7\">Chengdu J-7<\/a> variants that the Chinese airforce is actually still flying. A minor detail perhaps, but telling. When I first heard this I thought this was going to be like that fictional series from <cite><a href=\"\/wissewords2\/2015\/08\/22\/shirobako-redux\/\">Shirobako<\/a><\/cite>, where you have a bunch of cute girls flying interesting planes defending the world against alien invasion. Well, that&#8217;s sort of what&#8217;s going on here, but a) the planes are butt ugly and a bit boring and b) the girls are actually AIs that need the protagonist&#8217;s manly touch to work properly and now I&#8217;ve lost all interest. Dude&#8217;s an asshole too, spending the entire first episode screaming his head off at everybody and anybody about how he wants to fly. There&#8217;s just nothing to keep me here, nothing that hasn&#8217;t been done before and better.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was prepared to give Girly Airforce a chance, despite its utterly boring premise and mediocre looking animation, until this sorry excuse for a CGI Mig-21 showed up: And that is clearly a Mig-21 and not say one of the Chengdu J-7 variants that the Chinese airforce is actually still flying. A minor detail perhaps, [&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":[2508,2646,2339],"class_list":["post-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-first-impressions","tag-girly-airforce","tag-shirobako"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600","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=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8601,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions\/8601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}