{"id":661,"date":"2003-03-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/27\/ask-john-who-is-koge-donbo\/"},"modified":"2003-03-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-27T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-who-is-koge-donbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-who-is-koge-donbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Who is Koge Donbo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWho is Koge-Donbo? Why are her works so popular?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nKoge Donbo is the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broccoli.co.jp\/dejiko\/\" target=\"_blank\">Di-Gi-Charat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sugar.pioneeranimation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Snow Fairy Sugar<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaworks.co.jp\/d_original\/pitaten\/\" target=\"_blank\">PitaTen<\/a>.  Her works are popular because they&#8217;re unusually cute, featuring petit, cherub faced, baby-like characters that often have unexpected personalities that belie their outward appearances like Dijiko&#8217;s selfish and spiteful personality and Misha&#8217;s air-headed optimism. Her works are also popular because her stories have a distinctive charm and spontaneity that always seems natural and believable, even when it&#8217;s carefully scripted and formulaic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who is Koge-Donbo? Why are her works so popular?<\/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-661","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\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}