{"id":7635,"date":"2004-08-10T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/10\/shonen-bat-returns\/"},"modified":"2004-08-10T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-10T15:01:00","slug":"shonen-bat-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/shonen-bat-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Shonen Bat Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a> reports that Geneon has officially confirmed plans to retain the original Japanese name &#8220;Shonen Bat&#8221; in the subtitle track of the forthcoming Paranoia Agent DVD release. Geneon&#8217;s initial marketing translated the name &#8220;Shonen Bat&#8221; to &#8220;Lil&#8217; Slugger,&#8221; which caused a small controversy in the fan community over the impression that &#8220;Lil&#8217; Slugger&#8221; was not a translation which retained the meaning and integrity of the original Japanese name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anime News Network reports that Geneon has officially confirmed plans to retain the original Japanese name &#8220;Shonen Bat&#8221; in the subtitle track of the forthcoming Paranoia Agent DVD release. Geneon&#8217;s initial marketing translated the name &#8220;Shonen Bat&#8221; to &#8220;Lil&#8217; Slugger,&#8221; which caused a small controversy in the fan community over the impression that &#8220;Lil&#8217; Slugger&#8221; [&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-7635","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\/7635","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=7635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}