{"id":36993,"date":"2018-10-13T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T13:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=36993"},"modified":"2018-10-13T09:33:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T13:33:58","slug":"johns-oddities-plush-genma-saotome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/johns-oddities-plush-genma-saotome\/","title":{"rendered":"John\u2019s Oddities: Plush Genma Saotome"},"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>Viz produced these 12&#8243; Genma Saotome plush dolls with blank dry-erase marker signboard in the early 2000s. They used to be very commonplace, but these days I wonder how many contemporary fans remember them or have even ever seen one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/genma.saotome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/genma.saotome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"714\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/genma.saotome.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/genma.saotome-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/genma.saotome-768x914.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/genma.saotome-378x450.jpg 378w\" 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":36994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36993","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\/genma.saotome.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36993","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=36993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36995,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36993\/revisions\/36995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}