{"id":1468,"date":"2017-01-21T02:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T02:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/21\/ushio-and-tora-hamburger-substitute\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T23:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:25:57","slug":"ushio-and-tora-hamburger-substitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/21\/ushio-and-tora-hamburger-substitute\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburger Substitute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On recommendation from my co-host Devmani on Hey Listen, I took look at a revitalized series Ushio and Tora (Ushio to Tora \u3046\u3057\u304a\u3068\u3068\u3089). Starting as a manga in the year 1990 before making its way to OAV (original animation video, long story short, VHS) in 1992, it was reborn in 2015 as a full length televised series. Maybe Japan has taken a page from Hollywood, seeing as how Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z have made a comeback as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you may as well hear it now, and again forever more. I am a huge fan of early anime ranging from the 60\u2019s through the 90\u2019s. While I remain a fan of anime today, I find the super clean, crisp picture to detract a little whimsy from the presentation. Nothing looks hand drawn anymore, despite the fact that it indeed may be. However, I found that Ushio and Tora was a picture perfect recapture of late 80\u2019s character style that really brought me back to a time when hair was always long and flowing or short and spiky. Or both?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/156148762540_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/156148762540_1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/avoutput.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/156148762540_1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The story was also an amazing revival of classic shonen tale. It was nice to see something in the vein of Yuyu Hakusho and Dragon Ball that didn\u2019t feel the need to overly modernize. The characters aren\u2019t necessarily original, but they have a lot of heart and you can feel their suffering. My only criticism is that, for the first time ever, I wish there were more filler episodes and side stories. I feel like I didn\u2019t get a good chance to experience Ushio and Tora getting to know each other outside of their main story. This was a very lean story, even at 39 episodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/156148762540_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/156148762540_2.jpg 540w, https:\/\/avoutput.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/156148762540_2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I highly recommend this show. It\u2019s a solid representation of a time not forgotten, but sorely missed. Shonen anime is still alive of course, but it doesn\u2019t have as much pure emotion and tears as Ushio, nor does it provide as much antagonism as Tora. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ushio And Tora (2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1690,16],"tags":[109,515,291,1580,1579,1578,1577,1576],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime-reviews","category-reviews","tag-anime","tag-manga","tag-review","tag-shonen","tag-tora","tag-ushio","tag-ushio-and-tora","tag-ushio-to-tora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}