{"id":676,"date":"2007-03-04T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T20:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/04\/waiting-for-paprika\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T21:06:57","slug":"waiting-for-paprika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/04\/waiting-for-paprika\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Paprika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of comics, specifically Japanese comics. But over the years, I&#8217;ve had to abandon them because, like games, they just took up so much more time than I&#8217;d budgeted for them. Maybe it&#8217;s a reflection of problems with my time management.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I rediscovered one of the bookmarks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawn.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Drawn!<\/a>, that someone gave me a while ago. And the entry a couple of days ago was about this highly anticipated Japanese Anime, Paprika. After watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/sony\/paprika\/trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\">trailer<\/a>, my jaw just dropped. The movie looks amazing&#8230; or at least from what I could see from the trailer. One of the quotes from the trailer: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The New York Times\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaosunion.com\/hirasawa\/e\/\" target=\"_blank\">soundtrack<\/a> used in the trailer has been made free for download by the composer, Susumu Hirasawa. It&#8217;s a good idea to download the soundtrack because, after watching the trailer, the music is going to be stuck in your head for a while.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/movie_paprika1.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"199\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Paprika\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/movie_paprika2.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"198\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Paprika\" \/><\/p>\n<p>via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawn.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Drawn!<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of comics, specifically Japanese comics. But over the years, I&#8217;ve had to abandon them because, like games, they just took up so much more time than I&#8217;d budgeted for them. Maybe it&#8217;s a reflection of problems with my time management. Anyway, I rediscovered one of the bookmarks, Drawn!, that someone gave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/04\/waiting-for-paprika\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Waiting for Paprika&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-aU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}