{"id":4665,"date":"2015-12-30T20:59:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T19:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:03:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:03:23","slug":"mikan-watch-101-blue-exorcist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=4665","title":{"rendered":"Mikan Watch #101: Blue Exorcist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/blue_mikan_1.jpg\"\/><\/center><br \/>\nFrom the first episode of the TV version of Blue Exorcist, being used as a container to transport items from one homestead to another.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI actually watched this a few weeks ago, though I had previously seen the movie when it screened at the Glasgow Youth Film Festival a couple of years back. I pretty much just watched it because I was looking for something I could have on as background noise whilst getting other seasonal-matters sorted, and the dub was sitting there on Netflix (though, apparently, I also have the BDs sitting around, but messing around with disks feels like actual effort at this point). It&#8217;s a pretty OK one of these kinds of shows, ultimately, with the occasional flash of really stellar animation that you&#8217;d expect to pop out of a Bones production, and the series conclusion that eventually ends up being something of a hot-mess that you&#8217;d also normally expect from this kind of thing. It&#8217;s not really something I&#8217;d particularly either try to persuade or dissuade someone from watching.<\/p>\n<p>The slightly weird thing coming into the TV version of Blue Excorist from having previously seen the movie (which is mostly notable for it&#8217;s frankly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/blue_bg_2.jpg\">astonishingly<a\/> high quality <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/blue_bg_1.jpg\">background art<\/a>) is that they rather noticeably adjusted Shiemi, and pretty much just Shiemi&#8217;s, character design for the movie.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/blue_mikan_2.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/blue_mikan_3.jpg\"\/><\/center><br \/>\nAside from the fact that her usual double-ahoge only really appears briefly in the feature film, they considerably softened the outline of her hair, and way rounded the rest of her features, resulting in her looking a smidgen plumper, but also considerably more &#8220;adorbs&#8221;. Not that there&#8217;s anything particularly notable in this other than it being surprisingly noticeable, even given the couple of years between me seeing the movie and the TV show.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/blue_mikan_4.jpg\"\/><\/center><br \/>\nAlso, there was a Mikan box in the movie, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the first episode of the TV version of Blue Exorcist, being used as a container to transport items from one homestead to another.<\/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-4665","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\/4665","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=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}