{"id":1193220,"date":"2018-07-16T15:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T15:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1193220\/"},"modified":"2018-07-16T15:17:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T15:17:22","slug":"ping-pong-the-animation-why-do-we-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1193220\/","title":{"rendered":"Ping Pong the Animation  &#8211; Why do we Play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/shr1HmCtosw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nA video about one of my favorite shows &#8211; Ping Pong the Animation, talking about how the themes in the show relate to the sport and the player.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to the peeps at Discord for keeping me sane while I worked on this video. You guys are awesome!<\/p>\n<p>The artwork used at the end of the video is by my friend Enpitsu.<\/p>\n<p>Images used :<br \/>\nRunning Human Body by Kjpargeter &#8211; Freepik.com : https:\/\/www.freepik.com\/free-photo\/the-human-body-running_1036783.htm<br \/>\nManeki Neko by Agnessz_arts &#8211; Freepik.com : https:\/\/www.freepik.com\/free-vector\/coloured-chinese-cat-design_1070156.htm<\/p>\n<p>Ping Pong the Animation Official Website : http:\/\/www.pingpong-anime.tv\/<br \/>\nMusic Used : Kensuke Ushio &#8211; Ping Pong the Animation OST<\/p>\n<p>Sources and Relevant Links :<br \/>\nAkuma (folklore) : https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akuma_(folklore)<br \/>\nManabu : https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manabu<br \/>\n[^Those are just translations of the word and a few lines of info.]<\/p>\n<p>Astigmatism : https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astigmatism<br \/>\nMuscle Fibres : https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muscle<br \/>\nThe state of flow I mentioned while talking about Kazama : https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flow_(psychology)<\/p>\n<p>Bonus &#8211;<br \/>\nA very interesting Ping Pong Match : https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZS3O0OOn0a0<br \/>\nAnd in case you&#8217;d like some fun Ping Pong videos, here&#8217;s an interesting channel : https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgJT29ypj-ZGNX5y8GHapKA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video about one of my favorite shows &#8211; Ping Pong the Animation, talking about how the themes in the sh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1193221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[232,135,10358,4388,714789,13090,714790,237955,895],"class_list":{"0":"post-1193220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japanese-anime","8":"tag-animation","9":"tag-anime","10":"tag-masaaki-yuasa","11":"tag-ping-pong","12":"tag-ping-pong-symbolism","13":"tag-ping-pong-the-animation","14":"tag-smile-and-peco","15":"tag-symbolism","16":"tag--the-animation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}