{"id":6581,"date":"2010-10-06T18:38:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T23:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=6581"},"modified":"2010-10-06T18:38:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T23:38:22","slug":"invader-zims-creator-approves-of-panty-stocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=6581","title":{"rendered":"Invader Zim&#8217;s Creator Approves of Panty &#038; Stocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6584\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/4c25feab0185b1fefb8491f08d3c26c9bf52e48e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6584\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6584 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/4c25feab0185b1fefb8491f08d3c26c9bf52e48e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Everybody has been comparing Gainax&#8217;s crazy new show <em>Panty &amp; Stocking with Garterbelt<\/em> to the seminal classics of American animation, including <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em>, <em>Samurai Jack<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Invader Zim<\/em>. Well, it seems even the delightfully twisted mind behind the latter, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jhonen_Vasquez\" target=\"_blank\">Jhonen Vasquez<\/a>, has taken notice of the show&#8230; in particular the animal sidekick Chuck, who bears a startling resemblance to Zim&#8217;s robotic sidekick GIR. Here&#8217;s what Jhonen had to say.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, here\u2019s that Gainax show that took GIR out of the whorehouse he was working in and gave him a new job! \u00a0It\u2019s nice seeing him get some work, but I gotta say it\u2019s a bit on the simple side for my tastes, what with the fart and sh*t jokes, but the ending is pretty ridiculous, and Gainax produces some of the only Japanese animation I can stand without wishing I was the drinking type, so I\u2019m looking forward to more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jhonenv.tumblr.com\/post\/1241717469\/well-heres-that-gainax-show-that-took-gir-out-of\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like Gainax has hit the sweet spot with <em>Panty &amp; Stocking<\/em>. But is all this hype really justified? I&#8217;ll examine this issue in more detail when I review the first episode. Look for it to go live sometime tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>As for Jhonen&#8230; well, he may not be the drinking type, but I bet a few episodes of <em>Hanamaru Kindergarten <\/em>would land him in the emergency room with alcohol\u00a0poisoning\u00a0pretty quick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody has been comparing Gainax&#8217;s crazy new show Panty &amp; Stocking with Garterbelt to the seminal classics of American animation, including Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack and\u00a0Invader Zim. Well, it seems even the delightfully twisted mind behind the latter, Jhonen Vasquez, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=6581\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,31,54,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-fall-season","category-anime","category-fandom","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}