{"id":370,"date":"2009-11-18T16:52:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=370"},"modified":"2009-11-18T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:55:54","slug":"genius-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2009\/11\/genius-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Genius Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just recently heard about this DVD, I think it&#8217;s worth a mention.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Named after my soirees.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.genius-party.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Genius Party<\/a> is a series of animated short films from <a title=\"Named after the temperature at which water is most dense... what nerds.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.studio4c.co.jp\/top.html\" target=\"_blank\">Studio <strong>4\u00c2\u00b0<\/strong><strong><\/strong>C<\/a>. It consists of seven shorts, with each one coming from a different big-name animator &#8211; the coolest of them all being <a title=\"Visionary who breathed life into Spike.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shinichiro_Watanabe\" target=\"_blank\">Shinichiro Watanabe<\/a> (the awesome director of the awesome Cowboy Bebop&#8230; awesome).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/GeniusParty.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-371\" title=\"A decent range of varying styles.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/GeniusParty-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"Looks Interesting\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/GeniusParty-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/GeniusParty.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A second DVD was released 7 months later, entitled <a title=\"Not to be confused with Batman Beyond.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.genius-party.jp\/beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\">Genius Party Beyond<\/a>. It has five shorts that were supposed to be released with the original films but unfortunately were not completed in time.<\/p>\n<p>These releases tend to be hit or miss. Mostly because each short is hit or miss. A perfect example is the Animatrix. Some of the chapters were pretty impressive, while some dragged on. However anime fans will probably be pleased with the overall product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just recently heard about this DVD, I think it&#8217;s worth a mention. Genius Party is a series of animated short films from Studio 4\u00c2\u00b0C. It consists of seven shorts, with each one coming from a different big-name animator &#8211; the coolest of them all being Shinichiro Watanabe (the awesome director of the awesome Cowboy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,14,49],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anime","tag-cowboy-bebop","tag-watanabe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}