{"id":230,"date":"2008-10-10T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2009-12-31T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:45:07","slug":"holidays-get-deadly-with-death-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/holidays-get-deadly-with-death-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays get deadly with Death Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life continues to be hectic and updates to this blog will be sparse probably till the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>I had wanted to write a post with a comprehensive review of the Death Note comic book series with transcribed excerpts but since that takes time, I&#8217;ll just leave you with a hilarious comic strip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgcats.com\">VG Cats<\/a>. Lots of funny stuff there including references to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgcats.com\/comics\/?strip_id=178\">\u3069\u3046\u3076\u3064\u306e\u68ee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the short version of my review is to definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/death-note-%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9-%E6%9C%AC\/s\/qid=1223664919\/ref=sr_nr_n_0?ie=UTF8&#038;rs=467238&#038;keywords=death%20note&#038;bbn=517906&#038;rnid=467238&#038;rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Adeath%20note%2Ci%3Astripbooks%2Cn%3A466280%2Cn%3A467238%2Cn%3A517906\">check it out<\/a> as a resource for studying Japanese. There&#8217;s a lot of text compared to most comic books and the story is very complex. Definitely a good read for people at an intermediate to advanced levels.<\/p>\n<p>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgcats.com\/comics\/?strip_id=233 \">VG Cats<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vgcats.com\/comics\/images\/070430.jpg\" alt=\"Santa's Death List\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life continues to be hectic and updates to this blog will be sparse probably till the end of this year. I had wanted to write a post with a comprehensive review of the Death Note comic book series with transcribed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/holidays-get-deadly-with-death-note\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}