The reason for this page is twofold. The first is that I wanted a better method to show the past blog posts of The Null Set then the current small drop-down box that just states the month, year, and number of entries. The second was that I wanted newer readers of The Null Set the chance to see a hand-picked listing of my favorite entries from the past that they might have missed.
For a Better Understanding of How I’ll View an Anime
- The 5 Most Influential (non-anime) Animation Shows
- The 10 Most Influential Anime Shows, Part 1 and Part 2
- Personal Top 10 Anime Series, June 2010 – Part 1, Part 2
- Personal Top 20 Anime Series, June 2012 – Part 1, Part 2
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Anime Year in Reviews
I conceived of these posts as a way to spotlight those anime worthy of watching from the past year. I consider these probably the most important posts I write about anime which makes the skipped years infuriating as I look back at my past selves. Oh well, maybe I’ll try to fill in the gaps someday.
2007
2007 Anime Awards (6-10)
2007 Anime Awards (1-5)
Last part of 2007 Anime Awards
A look back from the year 2014 – The Best Anime of 2007
2008
Part 0: Introduction and the Anti-Awards
Part 1: Character Awards
Part 2: Cast and Assorted Awards
Part 3: Genre Awards
Part 4: Music, Voice, and Animation Awards
Part 5: Memorable Moments and Favorite Episodes
Part 6: Top Anime #10 – #6
Part 7: Top Anime #5 – #1
2009
I was lazy this year.
2010
I was lazy this year as well.
2011
Part 0: Introduction and the Anti-Awards
Part 1: Cast and Character Awards
Part 2: Genre and General Awards
Part 3: VMA Awards
Part 4: The Misfit Awards
The Top 13 Anime of 2011 – #13 to #7
The Top 12 Anime of 2011 – #6 to #1
2012
Part 0: Introduction and the Anti-Awards
Part 1: Cast and Character Awards
Part 2: Genre and General Awards
Part 3: VMA Awards
Part 4: The Misfit Awards
The Top 15 Anime of 2012 – #15 to #11
The Top 15 Anime of 2012 – #10 to #6
The Top 15 Anime of 2012 – #5 to #1
2013
Additionally, I was lazy this year as well.
2014
Part 0 – The Worst Offenders
Part 1: Cast and Character Awards
Part 2: Genre and General Story Awards
Part 3: VMA Awards
The Top 15 Anime of 2014 – #15 to #11
The Top 15 Anime of 2014 – #10 to #1
2015
Part 0 – The Worst Stuff
Part 1: Cast and Character Awards
Part 2: Genre and General Story Awards
Part 3: VMA Awards
The Top 15 Anime of 2015
2016
Will I be lazy this year? We’ll see.
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Editorials
Or call them rants. As opposed to so many long term anime fans, I don’t like spending the majority of the time complaining about anime to the point one wonders why the complainer spends time being a fan of something that they dislike so much. That’s not to say I never go negative. To be fair, not all of these editorials are necessarily negative in tone, but, I thought I should mention the general difference in tone between these pieces and other pieces like my top anime of the year posts. Listed below are some of my favorite and/or noteworthy editorials I’ve written.
- Aang the anti-Avatar
- Thoughts on Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
- If Anime Is Dead Then Death Has Never Looked So Good
- Top 5 Weapons the Students of Highschool of the Dead Should Have Used
- Top 5 Reasons the Zombies Will Win In Highschool of the Dead
- Science Explains Why Catgirls Are Popular
- Explaining Why There’s So Many “Not Blood Related Sisters” and Harems in Anime
- Noragami Might Just Be The Best TV Series From Bones Studio
- Space Dandy’s Lazy Animation
- Having Fun at Anime News Network’s Expense
- Studio Ghibli is Already Dead
- Sword Art Online is Annoyingly Bad
- Aldnoah.Zero – Yes, it is Possible to Get Shot in the Head and Live
- The Problem with Darker Than Black (and Many Other Anime)
- The Bitter Taste Left by the Second Season of Food Wars!
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Anime Quizzes
Winter generally is a miserable time of the year. For the winter season of 2015, I wanted to take my mind off the season and apply some of the useless anime knowledge I’d gleaned, so, I conceived of a project where I’d make a weekly 15 question anime quiz covering many different areas of anime. Here are those weekly quizzes and their weekly answer posts.
| Week 1 | Answers | Week 8 | Answers |
| Week 2 | Answers | Week 9 | Answers |
| Week 3 | Answers | Week 10 | Answers |
| Week 4 | Answers | Week 11 | Answers |
| Week 5 | Answers | Week 12 | Answers |
| Week 6 | Answers | Week 13 | Answers |
| Week 7 | Answers |
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Non-Anime Content
Sometimes my attention wanders from anime and I find myself writing about something else. These meanderings are normally related to science fiction because of my tagline – ” A blog about anime with a little SF thrown in” – but, I sometimes go completely off-topic.
TV
Books
- Book Review: Samurai! and Putting Gurren Lagann and Kenshin in Perspective
- Book Reviews: Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis
- My Problem with –ists Who Believe in –isms
- Seven Question Book Questionnaire
- The Project Itoh Anime Movies and Reading Foreign SF
Other
- A Wintery Visit to the Beach
- Remembering Veterans Day
- When Anime and Politics Collide
- The Late Spring Season Garden Report
- Serving on a Jury
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If you are looking for a more in-depth archive then the links below might be helpful. Each year links to a page where I break that year down into months and display a greater number of noteworthy articles than I did above.
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 – in progress
The Null Set 
Headsup:https://thenullset.wordpress.com/archive/%20Gurren%20Lagann%20on%20SciFi%20Channel%20and%20Tokyopop
That link doesn’t work above.
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@ymarsakar: I forgot to say thanks – thanks for catching that.
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“The second was that I wanted newer readers of The Null Set the chance to see a hand-picked listing of my favorite entries from the past that they might have missed.”
When will this be here??
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