{"id":5336,"date":"2002-10-07T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-07T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/07\/unusual-article-on-spirited-away-online\/"},"modified":"2002-10-07T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-07T14:46:00","slug":"unusual-article-on-spirited-away-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/unusual-article-on-spirited-away-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Article on Spirited Away Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/print\/V13\/19\/thrupkaew-n.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Prospect Magazine<\/a> has published an odd article ostensibly about the international accessibility of Spirited Away.  Astute readers may notice that like many &#8220;mainstream&#8221; discussions of anime, the article immediately focuses on and emphasizes the violent, sexual and adult aspects of anime, going so far as to suggest that Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s Spirited Away is not actually anime at all because it&#8217;s so different from typical &#8220;eroguro (erotic-grotesque)&#8221; anime. The article then provides an interesting critical examination of the Japanese cultural symbols and context of the film in an effort to explain why such a distinctively Japanese film &#8220;plays well anywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Article provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saiyanz-rage.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saiyanz Rage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Prospect Magazine has published an odd article ostensibly about the international accessibility of Spirited Away. Astute readers may notice that like many &#8220;mainstream&#8221; discussions of anime, the article immediately focuses on and emphasizes the violent, sexual and adult aspects of anime, going so far as to suggest that Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s Spirited Away is [&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-5336","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\/5336","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=5336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}