{"id":701,"date":"2014-03-09T21:25:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T13:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=701"},"modified":"2014-03-10T08:07:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T00:07:01","slug":"finaly-finished-kikis-delivery-service-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Finally Finished Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service (Book)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote last July, I started trying to <a title=\"Permanent Link: Reading Japanese (Teen) Literature\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=690\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read Japanese (Teen) Literature<\/a>. Well, I&#8217;m nowhere near as fast reading Japanese as the person I was sniffy about who took a month to read a Pratchett. However, eight months later and I finally reached page 259 of Majou no Takkyubin this evening. Book 2 is on order and should be delivered soon (for Y1 plusY250 P&amp;P). Plus there&#8217;s a live-action movie due out soon. It&#8217;s almost impossible to find English-subtitled Japanese movies in Japan, of course, but as with the book I will try this out to see how well I can follow the movie. In particular I&#8217;ll be interested to see how much they follow the book, whether they draw anything from the Ghibli <a title=\"Kik's Delivery Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineghibli.com\/kiki\/\" target=\"_blank\">movie<\/a> (that one was as close to the book as Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle was, by the way, i.e. it was clearly inspired by it but not in any way even an attempt to do any kind of semi-faithful translation to the screen) or whether they do their own thing with the concept.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a long time, but I&#8217;m still pleased with being able to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote last July, I started trying to Read Japanese (Teen) Literature. Well, I&#8217;m nowhere near as fast reading Japanese as the person I was sniffy about who took a month to read a Pratchett. However, eight months later and I finally reached page 259 of Majou no Takkyubin this evening. Book 2 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-japanese-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}