{"id":1098,"date":"2009-05-13T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T19:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:08:46","slug":"mikan-watch-23-pretty-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"Mikan Watch #23: Pretty Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFrom (I think it was) episode 8, not so much an actual mikan box as it is a picture of a mikan box on the front of the manga the younger brother is reading.<\/p>\n

Woah, meta.<\/p>\n

I’m yet to figure out a particularly valid reason as to why I’ve actually been finding myself watching Pretty Cure – “because it’s there” isn’t really a valid excuse given that, whilst I’m at Funi’s video streaming site, I could just as well be watching the new Fullmetal Alchemist (which I’ve still not started on), or Captain Harlock or Galaxy Express the like. I guess I just have too much affection for janky magical girl shows, and Pretty Cure is certainly pretty janky in so much as it’s really not a particularly great show, though it is at least diverting.<\/p>\n

Still, I’ve got to wonder if those are really the best masters for the show that Toei could scrape up for these streaming sites. It looks, and particularly sounds, like fifth-generation VHS fansubs. I’m kind of wondering if they’ve been taken from a set of tapes they’ve been using to try and flog the show to English speaking countries for the last five years. There’s no way a show from 2004 should be looking and sounding worse than a show from the 70’s.<\/p>\n

Which, again, makes me wonder why I’m even watching it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From (I think it was) episode 8, not so much an actual mikan box as it is a picture of a mikan box on the front of the manga the younger brother is reading. Woah, meta. I’m yet to figure out a particularly valid reason as to why I’ve actually been finding myself watching Pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikan-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6376,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/6376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}