{"id":22,"date":"2007-01-13T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=22"},"modified":"2007-01-13T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T18:22:44","slug":"tideline-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Tideline Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tideline Blue\" id=\"image21\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/tideline_blue1.jpg\" \/><em>Isla and Ked<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the world of Japanese animation &#8220;Blue&#8221; seems to be a code-word denoting something to do with the ocean, and so it is with this anime, in which a major disaster, the &#8220;Hammer of Eden&#8221; or oceanic surge, has caused a huge temporary inundation and billions of human deaths. The survivors are struggling to reconstruct, but are fundamentally divided. The submariner Gould, captain of a double-hulled submarine attack vessel, wishes to impose an efficient dictatorial rule, while the (female) Secretary-general of the UN wishes to restore a democratic tradition.<br \/>\nAmidst all this, the boy Ked lives on an island on top of which a UN naval aircraft carrier is stranded. Ked has a twin brother, whom he hates, who serves in one of the navies.<br \/>\nKed is acquainted with Isla, a young woman a little older than him, who is pregnant. In the action-packed first episode, Gould attacks the UN forces on the island, much of the town is destroyed, Ked&#8217;s brother turns up, and Isla gives birth.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve seen the first two episodes and skimmed the third so far. This anime is quite a lot of fun, and unlike some anime, in which several episodes can pass without the plot going anywhere, things seem to go at a brisk pace in &#8220;Tideline Blue&#8221;. It&#8217;s far from deadly serious. There are plenty of humorous moments. For instance, in episode three, the expression on the ostrich&#8217;s face when it thinks it is going to be eaten is laugh-out loud funny. Not an outstanding anime, but worth checking out if this sketch makes it seem interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isla and Ked In the world of Japanese animation &#8220;Blue&#8221; seems to be a code-word denoting something to do with the ocean, and so it is with this anime, in which a major disaster, the &#8220;Hammer of Eden&#8221; or oceanic surge, has caused a huge temporary inundation and billions of human deaths. The survivors are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tideline Blue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}