{"id":696,"date":"2011-04-09T09:53:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T09:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=696"},"modified":"2011-04-23T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T14:09:18","slug":"winter-2011-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2011:  wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-726\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Merry1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Merry1.jpg\" alt=\"Merry from Yumekui Merry\" title=\"Merry1\" width=\"400\" height=\"222\" class=\"size-full wp-image-726\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Merry1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Merry1-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yumekui Merry<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>Hourou Musuko<\/strong> (Wandering Son): The episode count signalled the end. It certainly wasn&#8217;t a strong wrap-up ending! Beautifully made and sensitively scripted, with several interesting characters, it sometimes felt like a kind of gender sci-fi. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Fractale:<\/strong> The final episode was stupid and annoying &#8211; no surprise there. Candidate for the best animated series with the worst script. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Yumekui Merry<\/strong> (Dream Eater Merry): I really liked this series and its main characters, despite its increasingly complicated conceptual underpinnings. The &#8220;final battle&#8221; sequence was a bit drawn-out and predictable though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica:<\/strong> Still waiting for last 2 episodes because of problems in Japan, but I thought this was the hit of the season. Deceptively cute at first, then becoming shockingly dark and powerful. Magical Girl anime will never seem the same again. <strong>Apr 22nd:<\/strong> Episode 11 maintains the standard. Episode 12 finale is a fumbling anti-climax, but not to the point of ruining the series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kore wa Zombie desu ka?<\/strong> (Is this a Zombie?): Loved this for its warmth and crazy humour, and its original characters.  Less successful when trying for drama, but overall well worth watching.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gothic:<\/strong> A 26-episode series, still running.<br \/>\n<strong>Level E:<\/strong> I got fed up with the focus on the schoolboys and dropped it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hourou Musuko (Wandering Son): The episode count signalled the end. It certainly wasn&#8217;t a strong wrap-up ending! Beautifully made and sensitively scripted, with several interesting characters, it sometimes felt like a kind of gender sci-fi. Fractale: The final episode was stupid and annoying &#8211; no surprise there. Candidate for the best animated series with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winter 2011:  wrap-up&#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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}