{"id":205,"date":"2005-12-20T20:49:03","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T12:49:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-24T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T05:33:09","slug":"nostalgia-anime-blocker-corp-machine-blaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/205\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia Anime! Blocker Corp Machine Blaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image\">Was watching some cartoons with my kids this evening and the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Robot\">giant robots<\/a> came up. Told my son that when I was a kid my first giant robot series that I saw was <a href=\"http:\/\/super-robots.com\/13MachineBlaster\/13.htm\">Blocker Corp Machine Blaster (1976)<\/a>. I found the website which brought waves of nostalgia. I was around 8 years old at the time &#8211; about the age of my son now. I remembered as a kid and sharing with my friends in school drawings of the giant robots and stories about the latest episode. This was all just before my family moved to Tokyo -thereby unleashing further waves of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\">anime mania<\/a>. One of the early anime (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anime\">anime at wikipedia<\/a>) that my brothers and I enjoyed as kids were the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=1472\">Time Bokan<\/a> series which includes Yattaman and its various permutations. Those were hilarious slapstick anime which we enjoyed. And then there was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=971\">Dr Slump \/ Arale<\/a> series.<\/div>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was watching some cartoons with my kids this evening and the subject of giant robots came up. Told my son that when I was a kid my first giant robot series that I saw was Blocker Corp Machine Blaster (1976). I found the website which brought waves of nostalgia. I was around 8 years old &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/205\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nostalgia Anime! Blocker Corp Machine Blaster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1723],"tags":[1728,264,1729],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-anime","tag-entertainment","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20004,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/20004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}