{"id":8974,"date":"2021-02-11T03:27:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8974"},"modified":"2021-02-11T03:42:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T03:42:04","slug":"obsolete-magia-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/obsolete-magia-record\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d8BSOLETE &#038; PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA SIDE STORY &#8211; Magia\u2727Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka \u2606 Magica Gaiden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/40438\/Obsolete\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obsolete<\/a> is a web series exploring the idea of what would happen to the current western-centric technological hegemony if aliens showed up one day and offered a cheap, powerful machine that could be used for both manual labor and combat to anyone willing to pay their price. As the title suggests, it would become obsolete. While there is a simmering conspiracy plotline lurking around in the background that links the various episodes together, it would probably be best to approach this as more of an episodic &#8216;what if&#8217; kind of series with a military theme.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/38256\/Magia_Record__Mahou_Shoujo_Madoka%E2%98%86Magica_Gaiden_TV\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magia Record<\/a>&#8216;s case, it would probably be best to treat it as a stand-alone sidestory rather than as a technical sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica:_The_Movie#Rebellion\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hangyaku no Monogatari<\/a>. It nails the atmosphere and visual style&#8230; but stumbles pretty badly at the &#8216;making you care about its characters&#8217; bit.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you decide to watch a fansubbed version, make sure to avoid any release that uses YameteTomete&#8217;s subs. Arbitrarily changing &#8220;Tamaki&#8221; to &#8220;Iroha&#8221; is just flat-out unacceptable. Gods only know what other bizarre alterations they made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obsolete is a web series exploring the idea of what would happen to the current western-centric technological hegemony if aliens showed up one day and offered a cheap, powerful machine that could be used for both manual labor and combat to anyone willing to pay their price. As the title suggests, it would become obsolete. While there is a simmering conspiracy plotline lurking around in the background that links the various episodes together, it would probably be best to approach this as more of an episodic &#8216;what if&#8217; kind of series with a military theme. In Magia Record&#8216;s case, it would probably be best to treat it as a stand-alone sidestory rather than as a technical sequel to Hangyaku no Monogatari. It nails the atmosphere and visual style&#8230; but stumbles pretty badly at the &#8216;making you care about its characters&#8217; bit. Oh, and if you decide to watch a fansubbed version, make sure to avoid any release that uses YameteTomete&#8217;s subs. Arbitrarily changing &#8220;Tamaki&#8221; to &#8220;Iroha&#8221; is just flat-out unacceptable. Gods only know what other bizarre alterations they made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[455,489,467,16],"tags":[172,203,173,193,176,178,184,232,239,62,412,411,30],"class_list":["post-8974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-autumn","category-2020-autumn","category-2020-winter","category-anime-related","tag-action","tag-anime-original","tag-comic-relief","tag-crunchyroll","tag-drama","tag-dropped","tag-finished","tag-game-adaptation","tag-magical-girl","tag-science-fiction","tag-series","tag-televised","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}