{"id":3996,"date":"2019-07-21T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T23:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/21\/kyoto-animations-stories-celebrated-warmth-and-belonging-the-fire-is-a-tragic-loss-of-life-and-legacy"},"modified":"2019-07-21T08:54:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T23:54:28","slug":"kyoto-animations-stories-celebrated-warmth-and-belonging-the-fire-is-a-tragic-loss-of-life-and-legacy-patrick-lum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3996","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto Animation\u2019s stories celebrated warmth and belonging. The fire is a tragic loss of life and legacy | Patrick Lum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The studio that nurtured creativity and treasured its staff made anime that found magic in the everyday<\/p>\n<p>Like many fans, I wasn\u2019t really aware of specific animation houses or companies when I first got into Japanese animation as a kid. Anime, as far as I was concerned, came from Japan: end of story. But over time, it became apparent that some of my favourite series and movies were all done by the same studio \u2013 a powerhouse named Kyoto Animation.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/19\/kyoto-animation-studio-fire-suspect-named-police-shinji-aoba\">Kyoto Animation studio fire suspect named by police<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/21\/kyoto-animations-stories-celebrated-warmth-and-belonging-the-fire-is-a-tragic-loss-of-life-and-legacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The studio that nurtured creativity and treasured its staff made anime that found magic in the everydayLike many fans, I wasn\u2019t really aware of specific animation houses or companies when I first got into Japanese animation as a kid. Anime, as far as I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[367,41,71,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}