{"id":224,"date":"2007-01-06T00:40:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T08:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2007\/01\/06\/blog-033-rose-colored-consequences\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T19:56:11","slug":"blog-033-rose-colored-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/01\/06\/blog-033-rose-colored-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 033 > Rose-Colored Consequences!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 id=\"image244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/xjaymanx_rozen_maiden_01sm.jpg\" alt=\"Rozen Maiden\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Rozen Maiden | Image from Google Search<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My speed review: &#8220;WOW! Still a miniature yet captivating package!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, my first anime review of 2007!&#8230; Late last night, finished the 12-episode <strong><em>Rozen Maiden &#8211; Traumend<\/em><\/strong>, continuing from where the first season left off&#8230; Once again, it introduces the junior high school boy Jun-kun, and his come-to-life mystical dolls, the red-adorned Shinku, pink-bowed Hina Ichigo, and twin red-and-green-eyed sisters Suiseiseki and Souseiseki&#8230; While the episodes are smilingly sprinkled with new and endearing slice-of-home-life slapstick antics, the deeper drama is taken to a new level when a new doll appears, a defeated nemesis returns, and the &#8220;Alice Game&#8221; pursuit-of-perfection begins&#8230; with both tragic and hopeful consequences&#8230; Once again, this title deserves my maximum &#8220;half season&#8221; rating&#8230; 4 of 5 stars!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:location.href='http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/v4\/addlink.php?language=eng&#038;method=marklet&#038;url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&#038;title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)\" title=\"Otakurl it!\" >Otakurl it!<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/anime\/anime-viewing-list\/\">Click here to see my Anime Viewing List.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rozen Maiden | Image from Google Search My speed review: &#8220;WOW! Still a miniature yet captivating package!&#8221; Ah, my first anime review of 2007!&#8230; Late last night, finished the 12-episode Rozen Maiden &#8211; Traumend, continuing from where the first season left off&#8230; Once again, it introduces the junior high school boy Jun-kun, and his come-to-life &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/01\/06\/blog-033-rose-colored-consequences\/\" 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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-reviews","category-rozen-maiden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}