{"id":639,"date":"2008-12-11T18:01:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=639"},"modified":"2024-01-26T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T17:35:39","slug":"iwanaga_ps1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/12\/iwanaga_ps1\/","title":{"rendered":"Iwanaga, Ryoutarou: <cite>Pumpkin Scissors<\/cite> vol. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up volume one of the manga <strong><cite>Pumpkin Scissors<\/cite>, by Ryoutarou Iwanaga<\/strong>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/desdenova.livejournal.com\/307829.html\">Pam&#8217;s recommendation<\/a>. Pumpkin Scissors is the nickname of a military unit devoted to post-war relief and reconstruction (apparently we are to get an explanation of the name later).<\/p>\n<p>Pam described it as &#8220;like what <cite>Fullmetal Alchemist<\/cite> would be, if the primary focus of the story was on Mustang&#8217;s unit,&#8221; and I think that&#8217;s pretty fair. As she says, the art style and tone are similar. So far, I found the stories within this volume to be a touch simplistic (especially compared to <cite>FMA<\/cite>), but I suspect that may be usual for establishing volumes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll read more, but that&#8217;s only because we might try the anime, and I prefer to pick one medium and stick to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up volume one of the manga Pumpkin Scissors, by Ryoutarou Iwanaga, on Pam&#8217;s recommendation. Pumpkin Scissors is the nickname of a military unit devoted to post-war relief and reconstruction (apparently we are to get an explanation of the name later). Pam described it as &#8220;like what Fullmetal Alchemist would be, if the primary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/12\/iwanaga_ps1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Iwanaga, Ryoutarou: <cite>Pumpkin Scissors<\/cite> vol. 1&#8243;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,15],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manga","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-iwanaga-ryoutarou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}