{"id":1734,"date":"2015-03-24T21:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T01:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2015-03-24T21:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T01:23:57","slug":"this-week-in-anime-wars-of-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/this-week-in-anime-wars-of-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Anime: Wars of the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s topic is a pretty simple one: I found a cool thing on the Internet. No deep insights or industry analysis, just several minutes of <em>Star Wars<\/em> ships blasting one another to pieces in a lavishly detailed, old school anime style. Kind of a tenuous link to this column\u2019s subject matter, but who cares? Things blow up real good. Here\u2019s the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PN_CP4SuoTU?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I remember playing <em>X-Wing vs TIE Fighter<\/em> on my dad\u2019s PC as a kid, so this dredges up quite a lot of nostalgia for me. It also calls to mind the <em>Star Wars Battlefront<\/em> Xbox games, the <em>X-Wing<\/em> novels and comic books, and an armada of Action Fleet and Micro Machines toys, many of which still lay dormant in a box somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewing anime professionally can sometimes put a little extra distance between me and the things I watch. Every once in a while, it\u2019s nice to just sit down for a few minutes and marvel at something that a few people spent an absurd amount of time putting together.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all I\u2019ve got this week. I\u2019ll be back to picking things apart at the molecular level next time. Until then, use the targeting computer, Luke. That\u2019s what it\u2019s there for.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This Week in Anime\u00a0is hastily cobbled together by Paul Jensen. You can follow his ramblings about anime and manga on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cardboard_shark\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s topic is a pretty simple one: I found a cool thing on the Internet. No deep insights or industry analysis, just several minutes of Star Wars ships blasting one another to pieces in a lavishly detailed, old school anime style. Kind of a tenuous link to this column\u2019s subject matter, but who cares? <a href='http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/this-week-in-anime-wars-of-the-stars\/' class='excerpt-more'>[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}