{"id":8027,"date":"2004-11-24T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/11\/24\/moetan-2-announced\/"},"modified":"2004-11-24T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-24T17:41:00","slug":"moetan-2-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/moetan-2-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Moetan 2 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sansai Books has announced the forthcoming release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moetan.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moetan II<\/a>. The first Moetan book, published in November 2003, was a strange Japanese\/English dictionary for &#8220;otaku&#8221; that combined risqu\u00e9 illustrations of pre-adolescent mascot character Nijihara Ink with bilingual entries such as &#8220;Expensive: Dahhhhhhh! Don&#8217;t launch lots of expensive missiles too quickly.&#8221; The first Moetan dictionary was a cult hit especially among Japanese college students.<\/p>\n<p>Moetan II will include 1600 entries, selected from the 17,291 submissions from Japanese fans contributed during a campaign this past summer. The first volume of the two volume Moetan II will retail at 1,000 yen and go on sale in Japan in January 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonphase.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moon Phase<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toranoana.jp\/mailorder\/comic\/041220moetan2\/041220moetan2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Comic Toranoana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sansai Books has announced the forthcoming release of Moetan II. The first Moetan book, published in November 2003, was a strange Japanese\/English dictionary for &#8220;otaku&#8221; that combined risqu\u00e9 illustrations of pre-adolescent mascot character Nijihara Ink with bilingual entries such as &#8220;Expensive: Dahhhhhhh! Don&#8217;t launch lots of expensive missiles too quickly.&#8221; The first Moetan dictionary was [&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-8027","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\/8027","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=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}