{"id":2746,"date":"2011-08-19T21:43:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:08:00","slug":"mikan-watch-53-mawaru-penguindrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=2746","title":{"rendered":"Mikan Watch #53: Mawaru Penguindrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis one comes from Calaggie<\/a> (who gets bonus Waffle points for sporting a Ritsuko icon) on the Twitters, taken from episode 6 of Mawaru Penguindrum. Seizon Senryaku and all that.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Ikuhara, I’ve been watching Utena recently, thanks to the Rightstuf\/Nozomi re-release that’s presently ongoing. I’ve seen Utena before – I’ve had all the less-than-ideal CPM disks since they put them out, but calling that release staccato would be being generous. It wasn’t exactly the ideal circumstance under which to watch such a dense show.<\/p>\n

Though, honestly, I’m not entirely sure I can really blame the release pattern for me not entirely getting Utena (in a comprehension sense – I love it as a show). It’s a show that simply makes me feel dense<\/i>, painfully aware of the limitations of my own intelligence. Actually, it’s the people write<\/i> about Utena who make me feel dense – I just can’t comprehend media at the kind of level some of these people can. I read an explanation of the Nanami cowbell episode once that blew my mind.<\/p>\n

(Also I’m pretty sure that people who can not only fully comprehend the Utena movie, but also explain it to other people in a manner that makes sense, are actually Newtypes, or maybe JAM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one comes from Calaggie (who gets bonus Waffle points for sporting a Ritsuko icon) on the Twitters, taken from episode 6 of Mawaru Penguindrum. Seizon Senryaku and all that. Speaking of Ikuhara, I’ve been watching Utena recently, thanks to the Rightstuf\/Nozomi re-release that’s presently ongoing. I’ve seen Utena before – I’ve had all the […]<\/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-2746","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\/2746","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=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6340,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/6340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}