This is a review of volumes 1 to 3
I’ll be the first one to admit it – I am not My Love Story!!’s target audience. For one thing, I am not a teenage girl. For another, I tend to hate romance stories, myself…
“Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.” – Quentin Crisp
Fumi Nishioka is a new transfer student at Kurokado Private High School. She has suffered a lot: her…
“There are two things I like stiff and one of them’s jelly.” – Dame Nellie Melba
When she was growing up, the five-year-old Komomo Ninomiya had just about everything.…
“I was an unwanted child. I was always being handed off and kicked out. But now…I’ve finally found something to cling to.” Chise, reflecting on her new life as her master and magus Elias takes…
“The body is but to the soule as a clogge tied to the legge.” – James Cole (1629).
Kuro Karatsu is a shaven-headed student at a Buddhist college with few prospects. If he has one…
Warning: contains spoilers.
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. Consign their parts most private to a Rutland tree… And gentlemen in London now still abed shall…
‘A comedy of educational proportions!’
Wienner, capital city of Granzreich in the late nineteenth century. King Viktor has five sons – but, aware that as the course of history …
“The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” – T. S. Eliot
The front cover of this…
“There are two main types of Varuga. One type was created by Kafka themselves using cellular fusion. The others were mutated after being exposed to the blood or other bodily fluids of the first …
“My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a …
May contain spoilers.
“Housework can kill you, if you do it right.” – Erma Bombeck
At the age of 16, orphaned girl Himari Momochi inherits her ancestral home – not that…
“Clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularity accompanied by hate, and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but…
“Wow! That looks good and smells tasty!” Kenji, contemplating a potato, ham and cheese pancake cooked for breakfast.
Since Fumi Yoshinagi first introduced us to co-habiting forty-something…
“We servamps get power from your blood. Actually the will in your blood. But you have none.” Kuro to Mahiru. “Do you protect your friend? Or kill him?”
Mahiru Shirota’s…
It’s tough to be the younger son of a gorgeous model turned actress and a singer/talent agency CEO, especially when your older brother Shogo is the lead singer in a world-famous rock group. And …
“He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.” – Bertolt Brecht.
Every anime fan will be aware of the fact this is year which Neon Genesis Evangelion takes place. The year…
“I’m just your… friendly neighbourhood vampire.”
High-schooler Shirota Mahiru – a kind-hearted young man – finds a stray black kitty, calls it ‘Kuro’ and takes it home with him. Imagine…
“Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.” – William Shakespeare (Viola in “Twelfth Night”)
Comedies…
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Speaking as someone with a disability and who got picked…
Fifteen-year-old orphan Chise Hatori is sold at a mysterious slave auction – for a cool five million pounds – to a British mage who plans to train her as his apprentice. Elias Ainsworth is very much…
