{"id":1181,"date":"2009-06-15T22:50:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T21:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:08:46","slug":"mikan-watch-27-this-ugly-and-beautiful-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Mikan Watch #27: This Ugly and Beautiful World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/mikan\/kono_mikan_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFrom episode 7 &#8211; the beach episode &#8211; comes this rather unusual and distinctive design.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnd just for those sick and twisted and so very, very wrong individuals who get off on such things&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/mikan\/kono_mikan_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA couple of Ringo boxes.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, not exactly the greatest show ever. That said, I don&#8217;t really get the hate it seems to generate from some parts of fandom &#8211; at worst, it doesn&#8217;t really seem anything deserving worse (or particularly better, to be honest) than extreme indifference. They could really have done with knock-off Devilman action, as it makes it really hard to care about it when it becomes important when it&#8217;s spread so thin across the rest of the series.<\/p>\n<p>They could also have done with having a far more aggressively, well, Gainax ending &#8211; Hikari totally should have destroyed the world, and everybody would totally blame Mari. It&#8217;d be, like, &#8220;Dammit, Mari, I <i>told<\/i> you it was a bad idea to want to be porked by your <i>cousin<\/i>!&#8221;. That would have been neat.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/mikan\/kono_mikan_3.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAnd, just for the hell of it, my standee of Hikari in her swimsuit from episode 7, which was a pack-in with the 50th issue of Megami. No, I don&#8217;t normally have it on display &#8211; I had to dig the thing out of the cupboard. Honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From episode 7 &#8211; the beach episode &#8211; comes this rather unusual and distinctive design.<\/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-1181","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\/1181","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=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5790,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/5790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}