{"id":36927,"date":"2018-09-23T13:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T17:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=36927"},"modified":"2018-09-23T13:08:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T17:08:46","slug":"johns-oddities-nakazawas-fuu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/johns-oddities-nakazawas-fuu\/","title":{"rendered":"John\u2019s Oddities: Nakazawa&#8217;s Fuu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be the first person to admit that my collection of anime merchandise &#038; memorabilia is neither the largest nor the most valuable. I collect what I like (when I can afford to) and have a particular fondness for unusual and novel items. These items aren\u2019t necessarily rare or valuable; they\u2019re just odd and unexpected, from a non-Japanese perspective. I\u2019ll share some of them, one per day, in case anyone else finds these collectors\u2019 items fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><em>Samurai Champloo<\/em> character designer Kazuto Nakazawa drew this postcard sized sketch of Fuu for me at the 2006 Otakon convention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nakazawa.Kazuto.sketch.Fuu_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nakazawa.Kazuto.sketch.Fuu_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nakazawa.Kazuto.sketch.Fuu_.jpg 1197w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nakazawa.Kazuto.sketch.Fuu_-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nakazawa.Kazuto.sketch.Fuu_-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nakazawa.Kazuto.sketch.Fuu_-450x302.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be the first person to admit that my collection of anime merchandise &#038; memorabilia is neither the largest nor the most valuable. I collect what I like (when I can afford to) and have a particular fondness for unusual and novel items. These items aren\u2019t necessarily rare or valuable; they\u2019re just odd and unexpected, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-omake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nakazawa.Kazuto.sketch.Fuu_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36927","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=36927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36930,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36927\/revisions\/36930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}