{"id":460,"date":"2008-08-20T20:24:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/?p=460"},"modified":"2008-08-20T20:55:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:55:17","slug":"blog-152-afro-samurai-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2008\/08\/20\/blog-152-afro-samurai-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 152 > Afro Samurai Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-content\/wallpapers-anime\/xjaymanx_afro_samurai_0002_1600.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-content\/wallpapers-anime\/xjaymanx_afro_samurai_0002_450.jpg\" alt=\"Afro Samurai\" title=\"Afro Samurai\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Afro Samurai | Click to enlarge wallpaper<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Finally! A little late, but who cares? Some 18-19 months after its original broadcast, I&#8217;ve finally finished my 25th anime title of the year: &#8220;Afro Samurai&#8221;. Stylishly violent and almost-romantically post-apocalyptic, this 5-episode gem paints quite a refreshingly retro-futuristic view of hell-on-earth, life-long revenge, and inexplicable survival. Haha, Samuel L. Jackson voices the titular lead as well as his babbling sidekick, and why not? A bad-ass playing a bad-ass. Nuff sed, lol. Despite the brevity of the miniseries, the revealing flashbacks cast a shadowy depth to a seemingly simplistic quest. Quite impressive. Four of five stars. Can&#8217;t wait for the second season!<\/p>\n<p>Now that that&#8217;s outta the way, time for some red-eyed ranting, lol. <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Even though my draining 5-6-week doc-editing project for the FBI is drawing to a close this Monday, another client is already starting up for Tuesday~~ a 3-4-week editing project for IBM. Arghhh, after hours upon hours of staring at my computer screens, I think my boiling eyes are gonna burn out of my skull soon! Which explains my desperate lack of blog time~~ visiting blogs, commenting on blogs, let alone writing my own blog posts. <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, despite this temporal lack, <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/rewards\/eng\/?DCTag=xjaymanx\">Danny<\/a>&#8216;s got some nice portal-design news, <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.puppy52.com\/\">Puppy-Chun<\/a>&#8216;s got an endless reservoir of pencil-and-paint cuteness, and <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/angryloli.blogspot.com\/\">Orange-Mimi<\/a>&#8216;s got some eccentric often-sarcastic and amusingly-bashing commentary (not to mention her inevitable &#8220;Code Geass&#8221; spoilers). Should I mention <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=558835396\">Miko-chan<\/a>&#8216;s infinite cyber-chat-energy? So yeah, I think I&#8217;ll survive the office. For now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afro Samurai | Click to enlarge wallpaper Finally! A little late, but who cares? Some 18-19 months after its original broadcast, I&#8217;ve finally finished my 25th anime title of the year: &#8220;Afro Samurai&#8221;. Stylishly violent and almost-romantically post-apocalyptic, this 5-episode gem paints quite a refreshingly retro-futuristic view of hell-on-earth, life-long revenge, and inexplicable survival. Haha, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2008\/08\/20\/blog-152-afro-samurai-attack\/\" 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":[114,58,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afro-samurai","category-blogs","category-danny-choo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}