{"id":16497,"date":"2009-06-25T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=16497"},"modified":"2009-06-25T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T19:26:36","slug":"basquash-site-acknowledges-director-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/basquash-site-acknowledges-director-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Basquash Site Acknowledges Director Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official homepage for the <a href=\"http:\/\/basquash.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Basquash!<\/a> TV anime has released a <a href=\"http:\/\/basquash.com\/announce.html\" target=\"_blank\">formal statement<\/a> confirming a change in series&#8217; supervising director.  The message doesn&#8217;t appear to specifically mention original series director Shin Itagaki by name, though. Anyone with a better grasp of written Japanese than me willing to summarize the full statement?<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly at least chief animator Katsuzo Hirata and series director Shin Itagaki were taken off their work on the current Basquash anime last month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/basquash-site-acknowledges-director-change.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/basquash-site-acknowledges-director-change-411x450.jpg\" alt=\"Basquash Site Acknowledges Director Change\" title=\"Basquash Site Acknowledges Director Change\" width=\"411\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/basquash-site-acknowledges-director-change-411x450.jpg 411w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/basquash-site-acknowledges-director-change-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/basquash-site-acknowledges-director-change.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/moonphase\/20090625#p3\" target=\"_blank\">Moon Phase Diary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official homepage for the Basquash! TV anime has released a formal statement confirming a change in series&#8217; supervising director. The message doesn&#8217;t appear to specifically mention original series director Shin Itagaki by name, though. Anyone with a better grasp of written Japanese than me willing to summarize the full statement? Reportedly at least chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16513,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497\/revisions\/16513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}