{"id":874,"date":"2008-06-20T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/06\/20\/ive-found-interesting-correspondences-in-your-dna\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T10:51:00","slug":"ive-found-interesting-correspondences-in-your-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/06\/20\/ive-found-interesting-correspondences-in-your-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;ve found interesting correspondences in your DNA.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I finally broke out my subtitled, un-cut copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arcadia_of_My_Youth\" target=\"_new\">My Youth In Arcadia<\/a>. I&#8217;ve owned the cut, dubbed release for a long time, to the point that I know the script pretty well, and I looked forward to seeing what had been removed from the original.<\/p>\n<p>I only made it to the end of the World War II sequence, but I was still pretty surprised. While this version is clearly a slightly better translation, so far the only new material I&#8217;ve seen is the World War I-era prologue. Plot points that I&#8217;d assumed would be better explained in an uncut version remain murky.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is a common condition with anime films, which have a habit of stringing together cool sequences with a minimum of narrative linkage, and letting the viewers fill in the gaps from their own imaginations. I&#8217;m not saying that it&#8217;s an invalid technique &#8211; there are some American SF \/ Fantasy movies that would have been better had they explained less &#8211; but I was hoping for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I finally broke out my subtitled, un-cut copy of My Youth In Arcadia. I&#8217;ve owned the cut, dubbed release for a long time, to the point that I know the script pretty well, and I looked forward to seeing what had been removed from the original. I only made it to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,30,17],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-anime","tag-movies","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-e6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}