Well well well, would you look at that? I\u2019m back in business. The Cento\u2019s ever-so-kind Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor decided to pay me a visit in my prison cell and pay my bail so I could, quote, \u201cdangle keys in front of our bored readers.\u201d Whatever that means. I mean, y\u2019all have attention spans, right? The kind that last more than three seconds? Okay, good. I have to repay my debts, after all. I\u2019ve learned that much from my experiences with the mafia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hah, well… no amount of serving time could beat the need to infodump onto an unwilling audience <\/em>out of me. That\u2019s right. I see all the social cues\u2014I know people don\u2019t like me\u2014and I literally don\u2019t care.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, I will be talking to you about anime<\/strong>. Yes, Japanese animated shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We just established that I don\u2019t care about social cues, after all. No, I don\u2019t go outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Did you know…<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026that the longest-running anime ever is a television show called Sazae-san, and has over 2,000 episodes, with 55 years of being on-air?<\/p>\n\n\n\n …that the manga authors of Hunter X Hunter<\/em> and Sailor Moon<\/em> are married?<\/p>\n\n\n\n …that one of the most popular animes of all time, Death Note<\/em>, is banned in China due to superstitions about gods of death? Please don\u2019t write your teacher\u2019s name in a book and inform them they\u2019re going to die, kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n …that the portrayal of titans in Attack On Titan<\/em> comes from the manga author once encountering drunk customers at a cafe? Average Centre student activity, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n …that some Japanese animators are able to animate entire episodes on their own, such as Ryosuke Nishii animating episode 10 of Your Lie in April<\/em> by himself? Honestly, also an average Centre student activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n …that, at times, Studio Ghibli\u2019s speed of production has been 1 minute per month, due to the amount of painstaking, hand-drawn details? Jinkies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n …that a lot of the pirate characters in One Piece<\/em> are based off real pirates, such as Edward Teach (i.e., Blackbeard)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n …that one of the earliest animes that has survived into modern history is The Dull Sword<\/em> (Namakura Gatana), a short released in 1917? Very vintage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n …that the style of anime was greatly inspired by Disney\u2019s hand-drawn animation in the 1970s, and vice versa? I love copying my neighbor\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s all for now. Hope you enjoyed the facts, because I am currently being dragged off to a padded cell. Already. Again. What the hell, man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well well well, would you look at that? I\u2019m back in business. The Cento\u2019s ever-so-kind Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor decided to pay me a visit in my prison cell and pay my bail so I could, quote, \u201cdangle keys in front of our bored readers.\u201d Whatever that means. I mean, y\u2019all have attention spans, right? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8660,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions\/8660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}