{"id":17363,"date":"2009-08-06T13:54:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=17363"},"modified":"2009-08-06T13:54:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:54:34","slug":"legend-of-koizumi-manga-to-be-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/legend-of-koizumi-manga-to-be-animated\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend of Koizumi Manga to be Animated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/popevshitler-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"popevshitler\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/popevshitler-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/popevshitler-337x450.jpg 337w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/popevshitler.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The advertising <i>obi<\/i> on new copies of the second volume of Hideki Ohwada&#8217;s bizarre &#8220;politics x mahjong action&#8221; comedy manga series <a href=\"http:\/\/kinma.takeshobo.co.jp\/story\/mudadumo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ~ The Legend of Koizumi<\/a> reveals that the series will be getting an anime adaptation. The manga stars a dramatization of Junichiro Koizumi, prime minister of Japan from 2001-2006, who engages in &#8220;mahjong diplomacy&#8221; against global dignitaries including George Bush (Sr. and W.), Kim Jong-il, Vladimir Putin, Margaret Thatcher, and the Pope. The manga&#8217;s title, which means &#8220;Reform with no Wasted Draws&#8221; is a parody of Junichiro Koizumi&#8217;s slogan, &#8220;Reform with no Sanctuary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manga creator Ohwada may be better known to English speakers as the creator of the Dai Mahou Touge and Kido Senshi Gundam-san gag manga.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-08-06\/mudazumo-naki-kaikaku-manga-gets-anime-green-lit\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advertising obi on new copies of the second volume of Hideki Ohwada&#8217;s bizarre &#8220;politics x mahjong action&#8221; comedy manga series Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ~ The Legend of Koizumi reveals that the series will be getting an anime adaptation. The manga stars a dramatization of Junichiro Koizumi, prime minister of Japan from 2001-2006, who engages [&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-17363","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\/17363","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=17363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17365,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17363\/revisions\/17365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}