Multidimensional Princess Sakura and
Captor Sakura. Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations by Clamp
Card Captor Sakura: Honey by Chihiro
Tsubasa Chronicle Tokyo Revelation:
Synchronicity by Yui Makino
Saturday, 29 August 2026
Saturday, 1 August 2026
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Cosmic Songs for Summer 2026: Daft Punk, Resident Evil and Final Fantasy
Enjoy my selection of the best cosmic songs for summer 2026.
To Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) Nobuo Uematsu 2001
One Love (Resident Evil: Extinction) Aiden 2007
Saturday, 11 July 2026
Summer Reading Challenge: Science Fiction and Fantasy Ebook Novels in Amazon Kindle
Year of the Fire Horse 2026 Gosho Selection
My three novels about life in the Universe
Saturday, 4 July 2026
Ancient Egypt: Yu-Gi-Oh and the Grand Egyptian Museum
For visitors dreaming with GEM, the new Grand Egyptian Museum, I
decided to share a new video from Yu-Gi-Oh. Kazuki Takahashi: October 4, 1961 – July 4, 2022 Yu-Gi-Oh!
Some religions like Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism believe in reincarnation
while others in the afterlife. Online fanart of Takahashi’s
masterpiece.
Saturday, 27 June 2026
Inuyasha & The Strawberry Moon
On June 29 there will be a full Strawberry moon so it will be awesome to see it with the best Inuyasha movies and songs.
Affections Touching Across Time (2001)
The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (2002)
Swords of an Honorable Ruler (2003)
Fire on the Mystic Island (2004)
Saturday, 30 May 2026
Review of Spooky Graded Readers: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Short Ghost Stories
To begin with, these two spooky graded readers is one of the best ways to learn and improve your English level while becoming familiarized with traditional ghost stories from the United States and England.
The first one, published by Oxford Bookworms Library, is a collection of the best tales from the American author Edgar Allan Poe. The best stories are The Black Cat and The Masque of the Red Death. The Black Cat denounces the problem of alcoholism and animal rights with the black cat being a powerful ghost to denounce the evil truth. Then, the Masque of the Red Death is relevant nowadays after the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the book could have more reading activities and some famous works like the Raven should have been included.
Moving on, Penguin Readers with the book The Man with Two Shadows and Other Ghost Stories is entertaining and provides students with useful vocabulary and functional language. All ghost stories have a mysterious and surprising ending, however, from my opinion, the best ones are The Ghost Detective by Mark Lemon, 1866, and The Ghost in the Bank of England by an Anonymous writer, 1879. The Ghost Detective presents an interesting concept of ghosts living in portraits that can give signals to denounce a murder while the Ghost in the Bank of England shows the popular superstition of lucky and unlucky desks in a workplace.
Finally, the best thing about the two spooky graded readers is the wonderful illustrations drawn with classic pen-and-ink shading techniques like stippling and hatching. Moreover, the activities may be repetitive but is a good way to learn specific vocabulary and how to find and understand the main ideas and details in the stories.
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Faerie Lord by Herbie Brennan: Old Norse Gods Protect the Destiny of a Fairy and her Mortal Companion
In this review, I will summarize what I loved the most and disliked from Faerie Lord, an epic adventure for all readers similar to Star Wars and Dune.
First of all, the writer was brave to begin a novel with a gloomy setting such as the Gatekeeper Mr. Fogarty’s imminent death by temporal fever. Temporal fever causes all fairies and humans to age rapidly and die. Moreover, temporal fever has the side effect of having visions about possible futures. In a way, it can be compared to real world pandemics like COVID-19. Next, the young hero of the story, Henry, is just a typical high school student who has worries like becoming a teacher, falling in love, and getting along with his authoritarian mother. Then, the novel changes into an epic adventure that could have been more complex. It is quite simple because characters like the blue boy Lorquin, similar to the Native American Tonto in the Lone Ranger, is just there to make sure Henry saves his love, Blue, Queen of Hael. The same happens with the bad guy, Lord Hairstreak, is just lucky to create a pandemonium in the Fairy Realm. Still, some things were good like to bring a cute giant hare, the charno, to help the hero and his captive princess. Particularly, the charno is described the same as Lopmon from Digimon Tamers. Furthermore, the hare has a secret weapon, a magical hammer: Just like the legendary sword Excalibur of King Arthur, the hammer is the only weapon that can kill a gigantic silver dragon / Midgard serpent that threatens Henry and Blue. Mysteriously, the hammer only works when Henry and Blue use it together having the same curse as the Sword in the Stone.
To conclude, it is a fun novel showing that a fantasy story can have dark themes and still be suitable for all readers. A fun way to see fairies and demons fight for power in different Realms while at the same time learning the moral lesson about the power of love, friendship and bravery.
Here is my favorite quote from the novel, I believe everyone can relate to Henry’s relationship with his mother and the future:
“Whatever university he ended up in, he’d plod through to a mediocre degree, then become a teacher, because that’s what his mother wanted. She was a teacher. Actually she was the headmistress of a girl’s school. She kept telling him teaching was great because of the extended holidays, as if the measure of a good job was how long you could stay way from it.”(p. 10)
Saturday, 16 May 2026
A Spaghetti Western Legend: Lee Van Cleef. “Best of the Bad”
A Spaghetti Western Legend: Lee Van Cleef. “Best of the Bad”. My selection of his unique movies with tremendous action and extraordinary cinematography:
1952 – Kansas City Confidential (Tony)
1967 – Death Rides a Horse (Ryan)
1976 – God’s Gun (Father John and gunfighter Lewis)
1969 – Sabata
1971 – Return of Sabata
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Saturday, 2 May 2026
Summer 2026: Alien Earth & Venom Please Save My Earth
While summer 2026 is arriving, enjoy my fan art of Alien Earth & Venom King in Black. It would be awesome if in the future there will be a movie with the two spooky aliens in a tropical jungle to save our planet.
Alien Earth Season 2 Fan Trailer
Venom 4 King in Black Fan Trailer
Tuesday, 28 April 2026
Nichiren Shoshu: April 28 Risshu-e Ceremony and the Treasure Hall
The Risshu-e Ceremony commemorates Nichiren Daishonin’s establishment of True Buddhism on April 28, 1253, through the public voicing of the Mystic Law for the very first time. The seed of enlightenment, the Mystic Law, was sown for all living beings and the entire universe.
https://www.nichirenshoshu.or.jp/eng/ceremonies.html
Wednesday, 22 April 2026
Final Fantasy VII Remake & Rebirth
Enjoy this wonderful fan trailer about Final Fantasy VII Remake & Rebirth. In the official websites, you may try out a demo and beautiful content for fans.
Saturday, 18 April 2026
Tuesday, 7 April 2026
Year of the Fire Horse 2026 and Spring Reading Challenge in Amazon Kindle
Enjoy my new video of the year of the Fire Horse 2026 and try out my eBook science fiction novels for the Spring Reading Challenge in Amazon Kindle.
Year of the Fire Horse 2026 Gosho Selection
My three novels about life in the Universe
Friday, 27 March 2026
Review Eric Van Lustbader & Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Legacy
Warning: This review has spoilers. To begin with, the best thing about the novel is that it is written using everyday English and a clear description of the different places where the adventure happens; from famous landmarks to local cuisine and traditions. Jason Bourne is haunted by a crime he didn’t commit along with having to discover his lost Thai son Khan. Therefore, Khan, similar to his father, has become a professional killer and survived alone in the horrors of Southeast Asia. His name, different from his original one Joshua, is the same as the wild tiger Shere Khan from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Moving on, while Bourne tries to find out who is the real killer of his old friends, Alex and Doctor Mo, he meets Annaka. She is a femme fatale who only seeks power to end up in a trap by the real villain: A terrorist named Stepan Spalko.
Here is where the Bourne Legacy is so familiar with the blockbuster James Bond movies. Spalko is the perfect evil mastermind who uses everyone for his own benefit. This can be seen with the manipulation of Islamic terrorists such as Zina and her soulmate Arsenov. Both Annaka and Zina, who seek power and freedom, end up meeting their own doom. Still, Zina is not pure evil but rather someone who regretted her evil path. In a way, thanks to the Muslim Zina, Khan was saved from revenge. He decided to help his lost father Jason Bourne to capture and eliminate Spalko.
To sum up, the novel has lots of action and it feels like you are traveling together with Jason Bourne and Khan to discover places like Budapest, Thailand, France and Iceland. Hopefully, in the future there will be a movie adaptation of this last adventure which humanizes Jason Bourne as a father rather than just the agent to save the day. In this illustration with AI Craiyon, I imagined the main characters like animal spirits surviving in a wild world.
Saturday, 14 March 2026
Final Fantasy VII Remake & Rebirth
Enjoy this wonderful fan trailer about Final Fantasy VII Remake & Rebirth. In the official websites, you may try out a demo and beautiful content for fans.
Thursday, 5 March 2026
Yuzo Takada: Ancient Japanese Mythology and Fantasy
Sharing some wonderful opening songs of Yuzo Takada's series based on ancient Japanese mythology and fantasy.
3×3 Eyes (1987) Three-eyed Mandala Demon Pai with divine powers
Blue Seed (1992) Ancient princess Momiji and her magical blue magatama bead
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Nichiren Shoshu: Ceremonies for the Ancestors
Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism has four debts of gratitude one of which
is to one's parents and ancestors.
The five elements are
earth, water, fire, wind and space….These are, in other words, the
five characters of Myoho-Renge-Kyo. (Gosho, p.
1418)
The Higan-e Ceremony (Spring and Autumn)
March 21 and September 22, the days of the equinoxes. It has an equal duration between day (light) and night (darkness). Help the ancestors to arrive on the other shore with the great ship (faith in the Dai-Gohonzon).
The Urabon Ceremony (July 15 and August 15)
A time to pray for the peace and happiness of the deceased family and ancestors. It is based on the legend of Mokuren who achieved to save his deceased mother. In the Urabon Gosho, Nichiren Daishonin writes: Maudgalyayana's deceased parents live on in him. When Maudgalyayana's life attains Buddhahood, so will the lives of his parents. (Shinpen, p. 1376)
Friday, 20 February 2026
Ancient Egypt: Yu-Gi-Oh and the Grand Egyptian Museum
For visitors dreaming with GEM, the new Grand Egyptian Museum, I decided to share a new video from Yu-Gi-Oh along with famous writers like Emily Sands and S. Chakraborty.
Kazuki Takahashi: October 4, 1961 – July 4, 2022 Yu-Gi-Oh! Some religions like Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism believe in reincarnation while others in the afterlife. Online fanart of Takahashi’s masterpiece.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon (2026)
The Grand Egyptian Museum
Egyptology Coloring Book
S. Chakraborty
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
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