{"id":394,"date":"2006-03-23T21:20:07","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=394"},"modified":"2006-03-28T23:52:33","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T07:52:33","slug":"shinigami-no-ballad-ballad-of-the-death-god-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Shinigami no Ballad (Ballad of the Death God) &#8211; episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Your voice&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb01-01.JPG\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"338\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>Subtitled &#8220;Momo the girl god of death\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, <i>Shinigami no Ballad<\/i> is Pony Canyon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s six part series to follow <i>HanTsuki<\/I>. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an episodic collection of stories about Momo and her visits to the dead and the dying.<br \/>\nSo far I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting a good vibe from it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis episode opens with Mai and Kouta, friends who walk home together every day. One day they find a cat in the park and Mai decides that they should look after it each day, hiding it at the local shrine.<br \/>\nAs fate would have it, Mai turns out to have some sort of respiratory illness, and Momo, the titular shinigami in flowing white, is on hand to observe proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s little point in saying that Mai does not die, because I think that someone is going to die in every episode of this show. Death is inevitable, and while Momo can prevent needless deaths, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think she can change fate.<br \/>\nThe relationship between Mai and Kouta was fairly well developed for a 24 minute program, although the fact that they are elementary school students was an easy out: it allowed for simplification of the matters at hand, and the cat story would not be plausible any other way.<\/p>\n<p>Kobayashi Akiko is spot on as Momo, lending a sort of deep roughness to the character that indicates experience while still retaining girlishness.<br \/>\nShe concludes the episode with &#8220;People who died can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cry any more, so I cry for them\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It seems a crudely ad hominem statement, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s effective.<\/p>\n<p>While this is by Pony Canyon, <i>Shinigami no Ballad<\/i> shares no major crew members with <i>HanTsuki<\/I>. It is much better off this way, as we end up with more than passable designs, no blurriness in the animation, and generally a better feeling. <i>HanTsuki<\/I> didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hold up past the first episode, so I really hope that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen here.<\/p>\n<p>From past experience, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m giving this a tentative nod of approval.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb01-02.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb01-03.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb01-04.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb01-05.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb01-06.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb01-07.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Your voice&#8221; Subtitled &#8220;Momo the girl god of death\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Shinigami no Ballad is Pony Canyon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s six part series to follow HanTsuki. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an episodic collection of stories about Momo and her visits to the dead and the dying. So far I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting a good vibe from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shinigami-no-ballad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}