Hello world!
Welcome to the null set !! 
Hello everyone and welcome to my first blog. I intend for this blog to cover two of my interest areas – anime and print science fiction – and when the two mix. You can also expect very occasional posts about manga and SF movies/series as well. Postcountwise it will probably be about 75% anime versus 25% science fiction since it takes longer to read a novel or an edition of a magazine then watch an episode of anime.
The blog is named “the null set” because I am pessimistic when I consider the set of anime watchers and the set of print science fiction readers but in reality I suspect there is a fair amount of overlap between the two. My desire to blog comes from the feeling when I’m watching or reading something amazing and wanting to share it with other people; therefore, don’t expect me to blog about shows I dislike except to urge others to stay-away. I will try to be fair when I rate something on this blog so if something’s not my cup of tea I won’t exaggerate or lie; likewise with something I love. When I talk about a great book or anime like Dan Simmons’ Ilium/Olympos or Gainax’s Gurren Lagann I won’t gloss over how it takes probably close to 200 pages of Ilium to establish what’s going on or episode 4 of Gurren Lagann but, in the end both deserve the highest possible awards.
As you can probably tell by now I am not in any way a writer nor an elitist critic just a fan of anime and science fiction. When I grade something it will be out of a scale of 12 and approximately work out as:
- 12/12 Perfect (or as close to perfect as possible)
- 11/12 A+
- 10/12 A
- 09/12 A-
- 08/12 B+
- 07/12 B
- 06/12 B-
- 05/12 C+
- 04/12 C
- 03/12 D
- 02/12 F
- 01/12 Epic Fail
When something rates a 12/12 a secondary score will be added (out of 100) in parenthesis’s to roughly show how awesome and important it is. For example Gurren Lagann episode 26 would rate a 12/12 (100) whereas Clannad episode 14 would rate probably a 12/12 (40) because though it’s about as perfect as possible and ends a story arc, it is not a final climax episode and it only hits awesomeness towards the end of the episode.
So welcome and have a nice day
Filed under: meta/office keeping | Tagged: Clannad, dan simmons, gainax, gurren lagann, ilium, mars, meta, office keeping, olympos
Nice blog! I like the scoring system you’ve come up with
By law, you must warn me before you divulge any spoilers! Promise!!! (and a couple extra spaces before and after the spoiler so I can easily skip it without accidently seeing it)…. Don’t tell me this is too complicated, this is the Law of Blogs.