The time has come for Alibaba, Aladdin and Morgiana to go their separate ways and leave the protection of Sinbad and his Eight Generals on Sindria. All three have different goals in life to pursue:…

“Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it had been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed in it.”…

Warning: may contain spoilers.

“Happiness is a warm gun Happiness is a warm gun, mama When I hold you in my arms And I feel my finger on your trigger I know nobody can do me no harm” –…

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…

“Hikari’s eyes suddenly froze with overwhelming sadness…like a lull in the sea.” Miuna

Warning: spoilers

Five years have passed since the people of the Sea Village, Shioshishio, went…

“No good will come of you going up to the surface.” Lord Uroko. 

For years without number, the people of the land have co-existed –  uneasily – with the people of the sea, their neighbours…

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…

Amnesia may be a rare occurrence in the real world but in fiction it’s a common trope inflicted either on the main character or sometimes the love interest. It’s exploited to achieve several goals…

Saito Hiraga, the young Japanese school student magically summoned to the country of Tristain to be the familiar of Void Magic User Louise de la Vallière etc. etc. is rather puzzled. He died at …

It’s been many months since Muneakira Yagyu and his Master Samurai girls defeated the great evil Gisen; now he’s back from his journey of training and longs to see how his dojo is doing. But in his…

Warning: contains spoilers.

“Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.” – Jani Allan. 

It is the third and final…

Saito Hiraga – once an ordinary high schooler in Japan – has been spirited away by magic to the country of Tristain and is now the familiar of Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière. This spirited…

Episodes 1-7 (Streaming on Crunchyroll)

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman.

As in my last review…

“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.” – George Orwell.

Continuing …