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[Jul. 26th, 2005|01:00 pm] |
The poop: @bout , console hack , Last Review , Ratings System , Tags , Watch list
@bout
Click here to learn a little more abot me...Or not. It might be my profile but I don't really feel like sharing all that much.
console hack
This is what I used to do before I got into the whole anime blogging thing. For years I had websites about hacking videogames and consoles. This site holds a small portion of the information and files I've collected over time. I've recently gotten back into this hobby so if I do anything worth boasting you'll be sure to hear about it.
Last Review
Yeah, as I write this I've only reviewed ONE thing. But if I ever review anything ever again, this little section will get updated. The [+] and [#] convey exactly the same thing as the Watch List.
Ratings System
After thinking LONG and HARD about this, here is how I will handle DVD reviews. American stuff and Japanese stuff will have to be handled different. When we get a show over here, it's split up between 3-4 DVD's. The distributors try to milk as much money from these shows as possible. Usually that's all they can do. Licensing these properties into other merchandise is a big risk unless it's something popular like Ghost in the Shell or Dragonball.
American shows are different. Most of the time, these shows get released in season sets. Sometime you might even get multiple seasons for around the same price of a single season of another show. Usually depends on how long these episodes ran and how many there were. Older shows seem to do this more. And that's odd because if anything older shows ran longer!
Here's what it boils down to. DVD released in season sets will get a single overall rating. Anime DVD's with 3-5 episodes in them will get rated per episode. Why?
Okay, let's say I just finished reviewing all the episodes from the first volume of Love Hina. Let's say there are five episodes on that disk. One episode gets five stars and the rest get two. So now the decision is yours to make. Clearly the disk is great for having that one episode, but with all the other episodes not making the cut, is it worth it for you to spend the money? That's not my decision to make. Anime DVD's a lot money. Well, when compared to season sets they are.
With season sets before even reading the review you probably already know if you're going to buy it or not. You were probably already a fan of the show. I figure people that read those reviews either want to read my opinion or actually are looking for purchasing advice. And in the latter case, they probably just want to read about what's included on the disk and if it's worth buying for the features. I'm the kind of geek that won't buy a season of a show unless AT THE VERY LEAST there's a commentary for every episode. Or at least half of them. Otherwise, I can just catch the show in re-runs. Right?
So yeah, there's also the review system itself.
I rate STUFF on a five point scale. I think it's the most effective way. Even 4 point scales have their merits. Ten point rating scales come off as arbitrary. Like the reviewer pulled the number out of a hat. Why all the fine tuning? Tell me, what's the (vans) difference between a 6.5 and a 7? Rare, but even worse is when a reviewer uses all the numbers in between in their 10 point scale. Then (technically) it's a fucking 1000 point scale. Yeah, good job, you gave that game/move a 6.32. THAT MAKES COMPLETE SENSE. I think I saw Judgement Day do this but I only saw the show once. I could be remembering it wrong. But those rating DID feel arbitrary like I said. It's like they were bullshitting, man!
Five point scales are great though. NO FUCKING DECIMALS, just raw numbers. Why is it great? Because there's no confusion. NONE. Nothing to analyze. If the disk get between four and five stars, I clearly enjoyed it. Zero and two stars, you might want to stay away. Three stars? Not bad but not supa excellent either. Something to think about. It's very simple. Hell, you can even pull this off with a four star system.
And I know, it's not all about the points alone. But not everybody else knows that. That's why I gave this a lot of thought.
Also, ratings will be context sensitive. I WILL rate these shows for different reasons. So you can't really do a side-by-side comparison and be like "But you gave THAT show a four!" If the focus of the show is on fanservice I'll rate accordingly, same with violence.
Are we clear? I DIDN'T WRITE ALL THIS SHIT BECAUSE I HAD NOTHING BETTER TO DO!
Tags
Here's a list of the tags used on this page and their meanings.
action
ass This means there might be a gratuitous booty shot or two in this episode.
boobs As with the ass tag, the keyword here is gratuitous. Think, Eiken Club.
ch This journal is split two ways. The first part of the journal deals with my anime fandom. The second part has to do with videogames and videogame hacks/exploits. Threads tagged with ch are all about the latter. Especially the hacking and exploits.
classic Old school anime. Or even remakes of old school anime.
comedy Obviously stuff that's funny or part of the comedy genre.
crap
cute Either there's a character that looks cute in this or a character does something in a cute way. Yeah, this tag is stupid, I know.
dl Entries tagged with this contain downloadable content.
ecchi Japanese for 'indecent sexuality'. Contains sexual humor. Sometimes that humor is mild, sometimes it's very suggestive. Ecchi and fanservice don't go hand in hand and that's why they each have their own tag.
fanservice Ass 'n' titties bouncing, wobbling, and squeezing all over the place. It can also mean something happens in this episode that fans didn't expect but really really wanted to happen. A good example of this would be episode 135 of Naruto. I consider this episode to have fanservice because there's so little of it on the show to begin with. VERY little. So when they show us a little leg or zoom in on the boobies, the fans are happy. This tag could also mean seeing more of a character's flesh. Like this and this and this. Also, a fanservice centric episode won't necesseseraily have any ecchiness to it. Wikipedia has an excellent entry on the word.
fantasy Magical girls, monsters, ghosts and angels. If it has any of those, it's in the fantasy category.
games
hentai Toon poon! Anytime I talk about hentai it gets this tag. Don't confuse this with cartoon nudity. I only use this tag for pornographic material. Also, in Genshiken they spoke of hentai so I used the tag for those episodes.
lesbian
maids
mecha Giant robots, transformations, and mobile suits.
nonsense
pics
school
sci-fi Space, robots, ufo's and techno-babble. While there is a seprate tag for mecha, it's only because not all mecha shows have sci-fi in them. And hey, not all sci-fi shows have mecha!
sentai
shojo Japanese for 'young lady' or 'little girl', refers to anime or manga targeted at girls. Examples include Uta Kata and Mai HiME. Of course, both those shows have crossover appeal but that's not the point!
shonen Japanese for 'boys', refers to anime or manga targeted at boys. Like Naruto and Bleach.
sports
tivo This is a MUST SEE episode. Either that or the episode has a MUST SEE sequence. Or, it might mean that I really liked the animation of that episode. Whatever the case, when you see the tivo tag, be sure to get yourself a copy because it's really worth it.
usa I use this tag for American cartoons. I don't have a specifica tag for Japanese shows since those far outnumber all my other entries.
Watch List
This is a list of anime and shows that I'm currently watching and doing summaries for. These are shows I intend to cover from start to finish. If a show isn't on this list then don't expect me to cover it sequentially, or at all. If there is a [+] symbol next to the show it means that link will lead you to where you can download the show. If there is a [#] symbol, it means the show is licensed and will lead to an Anime News Network link. |
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