{"id":676,"date":"2008-04-18T19:48:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T18:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:08:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:08:55","slug":"mikan-watch-6-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Mikan Watch 6: Blood+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/mikan\/blood_mikan_1.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThis is from Episode 14 of Blood+. It doesn&#8217;t actually say mikan, and, on closer inspection, I&#8217;m not actually entirely sure if it&#8217;s an orange or a apple, but I&#8217;m claiming it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/mikan\/blood_mikan_2.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no Mikan boxes in this shot from the first episode, however. What we do have is something of a rarity &#8211; a Pineapple box. That&#8217;s not nearly quite as cool, though.<\/p>\n<p>The first half of the R1 DVD release via Sony is dubtitled, which is rather disappointing. Hopefully this is something that they&#8217;ll correct by the time they release the second box, but I&#8217;m not overly optimistic. As far as dubtitles go, it&#8217;s not the worst I&#8217;ve ever seen, but there are a few obvious differences between the dialogue and subtitles for the shorter sentences. Rather more oddly, there are also short pauses in the video around every chapter break. I don&#8217;t really get that.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and there&#8217;s no chapter break at the start of the OP either, which is mildly annoying.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/mikan\/blood_mikan_3.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI have to wonder how long some Sony employee had to look to find a picture of Saya so horribly off-model for the second DVD case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from Episode 14 of Blood+. It doesn&#8217;t actually say mikan, and, on closer inspection, I&#8217;m not actually entirely sure if it&#8217;s an orange or a apple, but I&#8217;m claiming it.<\/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-676","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\/676","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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6392,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/6392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}