{"id":636693,"date":"2026-10-20T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636693\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:38:09","slug":"love-loss-and-surfing-coalesce-in-first-trailer-for-animated-in-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636693\/","title":{"rendered":"Love, loss, and surfing coalesce in first trailer for animated In Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to point any fingers, but a lot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/steps-first-trailer-amanda-seyfried-ali-wong-netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">animated streaming fare<\/a> coming out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/box-office-august-24-2025-kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-weapons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">these days<\/a> looks very much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/the-twits-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the same<\/a>. Not so in the first trailer for Netflix\u2019s animated adaptation of AJ Dungo\u2019s graphic novel In Waves, where the autobiographical tale of young love and loss amidst Southern California\u2019s sun-dappled surf emerges in a hand-drawn look more in keeping with the heartfelt autobiographical source material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not to point any fingers, but a lot of the animated streaming fare coming out these days looks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-636693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}