{"id":596,"date":"2002-12-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/12\/04\/ask-john-whats-the-relationship-between-anime-guys-and-roses\/"},"modified":"2002-12-04T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-04T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-whats-the-relationship-between-anime-guys-and-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-whats-the-relationship-between-anime-guys-and-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: What&#8217;s the Relationship Between Anime Guys and Roses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s with all these guys who fight using some kinda rose weapon? I&#8217;ve got nothing against it, but I sometimes wonder why. I could see they give a rose weapon to the guy who&#8217;s suppose to a &#8220;ladies man&#8221; but I was wondering is there something deeper.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nI may be mistaken, but I&#8217;ve always believed that the significance of roses is little more than what it appears to be. Roses have always represented a natural duality. They&#8217;re beautiful, but also have harmful thorns. The rose is a symbol of elegance and refinement, but also a threat of pain. The rose is also associated with romance, and by extension in anime, the romantic, chivalric hero or beautiful villain. It&#8217;s difficult to imagine a better icon or weapon than a rose for heroes and villains who represent grace and class combined with cruelty or danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What&#8217;s with all these guys who fight using some kinda rose weapon? I&#8217;ve got nothing against it, but I sometimes wonder why. I could see they give a rose weapon to the guy who&#8217;s suppose to a &#8220;ladies man&#8221; but I was wondering is there something deeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}