{"id":176,"date":"2006-12-03T23:55:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T07:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2006\/12\/03\/blog-006-slice-of-their-life\/"},"modified":"2008-11-22T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T23:15:04","slug":"blog-006-slice-of-their-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/12\/03\/blog-006-slice-of-their-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 006 > Slice Of Their Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 id=\"image117\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/xjaymanx_kare_kano_01sm.jpg?w=545\" alt=\"Yukino and Arima from Kare Kano\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Kare Kano | Image from Google Search<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ah, just finished another slice-of-life high-school dramedy&#8230; the profoundly insightful and timeless 1998-1999 series &#8220;<strong>kare kano<\/strong>&#8221; a.k.a. &#8220;<strong>his and her circumstances<\/strong>&#8220;&#8230; and widely regarded as one of the most-beloved love stories in anime history&#8230; revolving around a teenage girl named Yukino and teenage boy named Arima who both wear &#8220;model student&#8221; masks to hide their darker inner selves&#8230; but as a result of an accidental encounter, they realize in hesitation and shock that they can finally let go of their facades&#8230; while the second half of the series kind of lost momentum, the emotional depth and power of the first half more than makes up for it&#8230; as well as the fitting use of piano and stringed music&#8230; 5 of 5 stars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kare Kano | Image from Google Search ah, just finished another slice-of-life high-school dramedy&#8230; the profoundly insightful and timeless 1998-1999 series &#8220;kare kano&#8221; a.k.a. &#8220;his and her circumstances&#8220;&#8230; and widely regarded as one of the most-beloved love stories in anime history&#8230; revolving around a teenage girl named Yukino and teenage boy named Arima who both &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/12\/03\/blog-006-slice-of-their-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7rIwb-2Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":242,"url":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/03\/11\/blog-044-fateful-circumstances\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":0},"title":"Blog 044 > Fateful Circumstances!","author":"xjaymanx","date":"March 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo 003 by xJAYMANx | Click for all 47 Ah, springtime! Quite fitting for another sunny light-hearted photoshoot! This time, from another top-favorite romantic-comedy series, and one of the most-beloved love stories in anime history, Kare Kano (or His & Her Circumstances; here's my review), we introduce the unforgettable boy-and-girl\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anime Figure&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anime Figure","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/category\/anime-figure\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":358,"url":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2008\/07\/05\/blog-139-your-rarest-figure\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":1},"title":"Blog 139 > Your Rarest Figure","author":"xjaymanx","date":"July 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Your Rarest Figure | Click to enlarge Which is your rarest figure? We've seen the newest favorites, and the biggest wastes, but the rarest? For me, I'd have to say my 1\/8-scale-resin figure \"Arima & Yukino\" (from the classic-anime love-story \"Kare Kano\" or \"His & Her Circumstances\"), released by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anime Figure&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anime Figure","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/category\/anime-figure\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":310,"url":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/07\/07\/blog-093-fateful-circumstances-revisited\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":2},"title":"Blog 093 &gt; Fateful Circumstances Revisited","author":"xjaymanx","date":"July 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know if this has ever been done before -- creating a video by setting a figure photoshoot to music -- but in any case, here's my first one. 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Even if everyone already knows this, I must say, even compared to other high-school comedies Kare Kano (5 of 5 stars), Azumanga Daioh\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anime Reviews&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anime Reviews","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/category\/anime-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":280,"url":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/05\/27\/blog-070-past-future-circumstances\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":4},"title":"Blog 070 &gt; Past &#038; Future Circumstances!","author":"xjaymanx","date":"May 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Image 001 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge Hey folks! If you don't already know, I follow the otaku blog DannyChoo.com. Not blindly, lol, and not only for otaku news, but also for inspiration. And inspiration smacked me yesterday with Danny's post on fan art of his mascot Mirai Suenaga.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anime Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anime Art","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/category\/anime-art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":172,"url":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/12\/03\/blog-004-wild-west-meets-wild-east\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":5},"title":"Blog 004 > Wild-West Meets Wild-East","author":"xjaymanx","date":"December 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Grenadier | Image from Google Search just a little anime update... a couple days ago, friday, finished the 12-episode action-comedy \"grenadier\"... centered on a blond-haired full-figured sharp-shooting wanderer of the wild-western retro-futuristic japanese empire... not bad (3 of 5 stars), but a nice heart-warming conclusion... meanwhile, i'm keeping active with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anime Reviews&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anime Reviews","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/category\/anime-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}