{"id":9524,"date":"2022-03-22T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T14:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=9524"},"modified":"2022-03-25T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T09:29:56","slug":"86-under-pressure-death-be-not-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/86-under-pressure-death-be-not-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"86: Under Pressure &#038; Death, Be Not Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0819JQN94\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/86_(novel_series)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">86<\/a> novel continues from where the <a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/41457\/86\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anime<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/48569\/86_Part_2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adaptation<\/a> concluded. And aside from some early personality differences (which eventually clear up) it&#8217;s a pretty smooth transition.<\/p>\n<p>Content-wise it decides to offer a brief interlude from the horrors of war to focus on the mutual dehumanization the Republic and 86 engage in (the latter as a defense mechanism). But only at the surface level; the actual cause of the Republic&#8217;s sudden suicidality genocidal policies is not mentioned. I&#8217;m wondering now if it actually was revealed in the earlier novels and just cut from the adaptation. That seems like a weird oversight to have made though.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B084MDGTTR\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fifth book<\/a> then returns to the topic of ruinous battlefield horrors while simultaneously giving us a look at another of the surviving countries fighting off the Legion. It also happens to feature some welcome character development for both Shin and Anju. All-in-all ending up both a solid self-contained story arc and continuation of the series&#8217; core plotlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth 86 novel continues from where the Anime adaptation concluded. And aside from some early personality differences (which eventually clear up) it&#8217;s a pretty smooth transition. Content-wise it decides to offer a brief interlude from the horrors of war to focus on the mutual dehumanization the Republic and 86 engage in (the latter as a defense mechanism). But only at the surface level; the actual cause of the Republic&#8217;s sudden suicidality genocidal policies is not mentioned. I&#8217;m wondering now if it actually was revealed in the earlier novels and just cut from the adaptation. That seems like a weird oversight to have made though. Regardless, the fifth book then returns to the topic of ruinous battlefield horrors while simultaneously giving us a look at another of the surviving countries fighting off the Legion. It also happens to feature some welcome character development for both Shin and Anju. All-in-all ending up both a solid self-contained story arc and continuation of the series&#8217; core plotlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[535,536,64,62,30,510],"class_list":["post-9524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-535","tag-asato-asato","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524","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=9524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}