{"id":496,"date":"2007-08-04T17:35:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T16:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:09:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:09:04","slug":"mikan-watch-1-shana-tan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Mikan Watch #1: Shana-tan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/mikan\/shana_tan_1.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=464\">mentioned this before<\/a>, and probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=291\">done a comic on it<\/a> (twice, actually), but the random appearances <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basugasubakuhatsu.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/12\/of-mikan-boxes-obscure-anime-memes-and-clint-howard\/\">&#8220;Mikan&#8221; boxes<\/a> (that is, the shipping packages for tangerines) in anime shows is one of my favorite anime memes. In my infinite nerdishness (or, rather, the quest for easy content), I have decided that I feel the need to post every time I actually notice one in an anime show. That said, I have to say that I&#8217;m starting to think that they are far less prevalent than I&#8217;d somehow gotten it into my head that they were, or at least better hidden.<\/p>\n<p>Shakugan no Shana-tan, however, makes absolutely no attempt to hide them &#8211; they stick them front and centre, nice and obvious.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/mikan\/shana_tan_2.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nSince I&#8217;m on the subject of Shana and memes, I have to admit that the robot being numbered &#8220;28&#8221; amused me. As someone who watched Gigantor in their youth, I am, of course, of the opinion that 28 is the only robotic serial number worth knowing &#8211; particularly if the robot in question is blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve mentioned this before, and probably done a comic on it (twice, actually), but the random appearances &#8220;Mikan&#8221; boxes (that is, the shipping packages for tangerines) in anime shows is one of my favorite anime memes. In my infinite nerdishness (or, rather, the quest for easy content), I have decided that I feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","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\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6405,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/6405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}