{"id":51,"date":"2007-03-05T16:20:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T16:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=51"},"modified":"2007-06-10T10:57:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T10:57:56","slug":"forbidden-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/05\/forbidden-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbidden Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/forbidden.jpg\" title=\"Forbidden Dance\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/forbidden.jpg\" alt=\"Forbidden Dance\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Hinako Ashihara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(TokyoPop) ISBN 1591823455<\/p>\n<p>This is the charming, if eccentric, tale of Aya, a young girl who has seemingly lost the power to dance after an accident at a ballet contest. Her life finally turns around after she sees the boy Akira dance with the <em>COOL<\/em> ballet troupe. Revitalised, she makes joining <em>COOL<\/em> her life&#8217;s ambition, and nothing, not even the fact that <em>COOL<\/em> is an all-male company, is going to stop her.<\/p>\n<p>Aimed at a young teen audience, <strong>Forbidden Dance<\/strong> is replete with the school angst and success pressure that dominates this branch of manga fiction, but the energy, power and enthusiasm of Hinako Ashihara&#8217;s story-telling elevates the tale above the crush of its peers. As Aya&#8217;s story progresses the ending is never a foregone conclusion and even the most jaded reader must wonder \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what next?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In a crowded and conservative market, it&#8217;s good to see quality story-telling in varied settings, and most fans would probably benefit from giving this book a chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2003 Hinako Ashihara. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hinako Ashihara (TokyoPop) ISBN 1591823455 This is the charming, if eccentric, tale of Aya, a young girl who has seemingly lost the power to dance after an accident at a ballet contest. Her life finally turns around after she sees the boy Akira dance with the COOL ballet troupe. Revitalised, she makes joining COOL &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/05\/forbidden-dance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forbidden Dance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}