Angel's Anime Rating Guide

I picked up Apothecary Diaries ... Season 1 Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she's sold as a lowly servant to the emperor's palace. But she wasn't meant for a compliant life among royalty. So when imperial heirs fall ill, she decides to step in and find a cure! This catches the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promotes her. Now, she's making a name for herself solving medical mysteries! Season 2 When a favored concubine becomes pregnant, Maomao is put to the test as her food taster. She must keep her wits sharp, not only to protect the concubine but also against rising dangers in the palace. A new concubine with powerful ties, an unsolved attempt at Jinshi's life, and a foreign envoy with impossible demands hint at a grand conspiracy poised to engulf the empire. Apothecary Diaries follows the exploits of Maomao, a skilled apothecary working for her father, as she finds herself kidnapped and sold into service...

I picked up the Ancient Magus' Bride ... Season 1 Suffering a tragic childhood, Chise Hatori has lost all hope for happiness until a mysterious mage named Elias takes interest in her aptitude for magic, Unaware of what lies ahead, he decides to make her his apprentice--and his bride. Season 2 Seeking answers about her curse, Chise joins the College--a school of bright young sorcerers with dark family secrets. When a powerful book disappears, mysterious forces drain magic from those around Chise and her only way to help puts her deeper in peril. The College remains under lockdown while the magic book and its user are at large. When one student's family takes center stage, Chise dives into the fray to save her friend. But this is no simple rescue mission. This is a battle between gods. In the first season of the series we meet Chise as she is bought in an auction by a mysterious skull-faced figure named Elias. Chise is apparently a being with unique qualities that mages of a...

Some time ago, I acquired code for a decent page numbering mechanism from another site (now non-existent) Web Archive Link and adapted it for my own use with the Contempo template. The original version required editing the theme code. I prefered something a bit less permanent, so, I stripped some of the functionality and converted the code to a simple HTML/JavaScript widget. My version doesn't work with search results, label pages, archive pages or static pages. Consider this little more than a proof-of-concept. Add the following code snippet as an HTML/JavaScript widget: <script type='text/javascript'> var maxPageSize=7; //Articles to show var perPage=maxPageSize; //Articles to show var numPages=3;//Number of links var firstText ='First'; var lastText ='Last'; var prevText ='&lt;-- Previous'; var nextText ='Next --&gt;'; var ellipse = '&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;'; var urlactivepage=location.href; var home_...

Recently, I watched Always A Catch! and I enjoyed the series quite a lot... Born into a legendary ducal family, martial prodigy Maria “Mimi” Annovazzi loses her claim as heir and is suddenly ordered to marry into prestige. With no options left in her homeland, she transfers to a neighboring kingdom—only to be publicly dumped at graduation by a prince she’s never met over an engagement she didn’t even know she had! Will Maria be doomed to the life of a spinster?! Always A Catch! follows the exploits of Mimi, a princess, as she struggles to find a suitable husband. Mimi was essentially raised as a boy and trained to take on the mantle of being her family's head. But, when her mother gives birth to boy, Mimi finds herself trying to be more "lady-like" as she undertakes her new responsibilities which include marrying well. I really like strong female characters and Mimi definitely checks all the right boxes. Her family are apparently some sort of martial arts experts and...

Holiday and British dramas Movies: A to O Movies: P to Z Anime Cartoons Star Trek / Star Wars It's been quite a while, a little over four years since my last post. The giant 150-pound (68 kilos) tube TV which held pride of place in the front of the room has been replaced with a flat screen TV. Under the TV is a new chest of drawers. One can never have too much storage space. My DVD recorder has been retired. It wasn't seeing a lot of use in the streaming-only era. It's been replaced with a Blu-ray player -- one of those app-ified thingies that would love to have an internet connection. Both the Blu-ray player and the TV are going to starve for internet access. In the corner, by the door, the book shelves were reorganized to hold more DVDs instead of books and the bottom-most book shelves were replaced with a smaller chest of drawers. Holiday fare and a lot of British dramas are well represented in that cubby. Movies and TV shows are on two walls w...

On Saturday April 9th, I went to Fan Expo formerly known as  Wizard World in Philadelphia . Early on Saturday, one of the local news stations, apparently either unaware of or unconcerned by the name change, showed file footage from a previous Wizard World event.

Recently, I watched Gate ... On August 20XX, a gate suddenly appears in Tokyo's Ginza district, unleashing a portal where monsters, medieval knights and other fantasy beings come from another world and wreak havoc on Tokyo. The Japanese Defense Force take action against these monsters and push them back into the Gate. Third Reconnaissance Team is dispatched to the Special Region lead by officer (and otaku) Youji Itami. On their travels, they are joined by a beautiful elf girl who is a survivor from the dragon's rampage and guide the group across the dangerous new world. The story of Gate revolves around a mysterious portal from another world that suddenly opens onto our world. Our hero, Itami finds his trip to the annual comic convention interrupted by a flight of dragons and hordes of hostile beings rampaging through Tokyo. The invaders have the advantage of surprise until the Japanese Self Defense Force shows up on the field of battle with modern weapons and promptly cut t...