{"id":53,"date":"2007-05-31T21:30:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T21:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-08-29T19:37:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T19:37:26","slug":"perrine-monogatari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Perrine Monogatari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image54\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/perrine1.jpg\" alt=\"Perrine\" \/> <em>Perrine with caravan and dog Baron<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is getting a mention here as it was the only title of the 23 or so World Masterpiece Theater animes that I hadn&#8217;t seen. I just got hold of a copy of episode 1.<\/p>\n<p>In the original children&#8217;s book by Hector Malot , Perrine&#8217;s father was a photographer who dies when the family is travelling in Bosnia. In the anime, Perrine and her mother travel to France, where they hope to meet Perrine&#8217;s rich grandfather. On the journey through Europe, they work as photographers to make ends meet. Perrine&#8217;s mother dies, but Perrine travels on alone with her dog, Baron, and finds her grandfather. She realises that he is a cruel man, and instead of identifying herself, takea job in his string factory.<\/p>\n<p>The novel starts with the death of Perrine&#8217;s mother, all scenes preceeding being created by the scriptwriter Akira Miyazaki. On the evidence of the first episode, this is a rather unexceptional anime, and the scene shown is typical of the design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perrine with caravan and dog Baron This is getting a mention here as it was the only title of the 23 or so World Masterpiece Theater animes that I hadn&#8217;t seen. I just got hold of a copy of episode 1. In the original children&#8217;s book by Hector Malot , Perrine&#8217;s father was a photographer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=53\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perrine Monogatari&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/53"}],"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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}