{"id":410,"date":"2006-03-26T16:05:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T00:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=410"},"modified":"2006-03-28T23:51:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T07:51:18","slug":"shinigami-no-ballad-episode-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Shinigami no Ballad &#8211; episode 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Beyond the Light&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb03-01.JPG\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"338\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>General consensus on this episode is that it&#8217;s different to the first two. I agree, but I don&#8217;t like the ways in which it is different. I&#8217;m normally a fan of understatement, but this episode is understated to the point that virtually nothing happens.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kantarou&#8217;s RPG loving grandfather has recently died. Among his posessions, his grandfather left a &#8220;treasure&#8221; map as their final game together. Kantarou plans to visit his grandfather&#8217;s village and see the game through alone, but he is joined by his best friend Tomato, who seems to have a suspicious agenda.<\/p>\n<p>This episode is very pretty, but it features lame effects for framing the past (a blurry white ovoid enclosure) and is more interesting for the fact that it features both a PS2 and PSP than it is for anything else. It&#8217;s a naturalistic tale that shows the interactions between Kantarou and Tomato in a slightly warm, but also detached, fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Momo and Daniel (the wing\u00c3\u00a9d cat, who I have so far neglected to name) had a very minimal presence and were next to pointless to the story. I mean, this episode was <i>nice<\/I> enough but something about it didn&#8217;t click.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb03-02.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\" title=\"Tomato\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb03-03.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\" title=\"Very well prepared\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb03-04.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\" title=\"Sunset\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb03-05.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\" title=\"Bed time\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb03-06.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\" title=\"Children\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sb03-07.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\" title=\"Marble\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Beyond the Light&#8221; General consensus on this episode is that it&#8217;s different to the first two. I agree, but I don&#8217;t like the ways in which it is different. I&#8217;m normally a fan of understatement, but this episode is understated to the point that virtually nothing happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","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\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}