{"id":7725,"date":"2004-09-02T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/02\/viz-to-promote-yu-gi-oh-with-peta\/"},"modified":"2004-09-02T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T15:04:00","slug":"viz-to-promote-yu-gi-oh-with-peta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/viz-to-promote-yu-gi-oh-with-peta\/","title":{"rendered":"Viz to Promote Yu-Gi-Oh with PETA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has announced a partnership with Viz to promote kindness to animals through Yu-Gi-Oh. Apparently Yami Yugi, main character of Yu-Gi-Oh, &#8220;can be tough when he needs to be. But the animated hero also has a soft spot for animals.&#8221; Shonen Jump Magazine Vice President Yumi Hoashi states, &#8220;Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh! is a role model for young people today, and we think he can help them realize that being cruel isn&#8217;t cool, but sticking up for animals is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to PETA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/\/www.teachkind.org \/\" target=\"_blank\">TeachKind website<\/a> can read an interview with Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi, order a free limited-edition Yu-Gi-Oh poster, and enter a contest to win an exclusive and original Yu-Gi-Oh! illustration signed by Takahashi.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/pressrelease.php?id=538\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has announced a partnership with Viz to promote kindness to animals through Yu-Gi-Oh. Apparently Yami Yugi, main character of Yu-Gi-Oh, &#8220;can be tough when he needs to be. But the animated hero also has a soft spot for animals.&#8221; Shonen Jump Magazine Vice President Yumi Hoashi states, [&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-7725","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\/7725","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=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}