{"id":2624,"date":"2024-02-15T14:14:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2024-01-03T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:36:42","slug":"media-you-might-have-missed-the-toys-that-made-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=2624","title":{"rendered":"Media You Might Have Missed: The Toys That Made Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love that more people are getting into Docuseries, even if it is mostly true crime. In the last few years we&#8217;ve seen some very interesting series. One of the coziest has been The Toys That Made Us, a short series focusing on the culture and ideas that created not just the toys of today, but, in some cases, entire cultural concepts.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/toyssanio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/toyssanio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/toyssanio.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/toyssanio-74x41.jpg 74w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I recommend the whole series, I particularly wanted to highly recommend one episode in particular: Season 2 Episode 4 on Hello Kitty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Starting at Shintaro Tsuji&#8217;s first creations of flowery sandals this episode covers more than just Hello Kitty herself and Sanrio, but also the entire establishment of Kawaii culture, from Japan to today.<\/p>\n<p>As kawaii shows no signs of slowing, I feel a thorough and digestible history of the movement is a valuable addition to public media collections. The Toys That Made Us is available on Netflix, or on DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love that more people are getting into Docuseries, even if it is mostly true crime. In the last few years we&#8217;ve seen some very interesting series. One of the coziest has been The Toys That Made Us, a short series focusing on the culture and ideas that created not just the toys of today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[457,458,456,455],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tvmovie-reviews","tag-hello-kitty","tag-kawaii-culture","tag-sanrio","tag-the-toys-that-made-us"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-Gk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}