James Nicoll Reviews

1988’s¹ Dragon Sword And Wind Child is the first volume in Noriko Ogiwara’s Tales of the Magatama. The translator is Cathy Hirano.

Found as a lost orphan and adopted by kindly foster parents, Saya is a perfectly normal teen of the People of the Light… except for her frequent nightmares, in which demons feature prominently.

A word about cosmology.

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The Good Witch of the West, Volume 1, is the first installment of a manga adaptation of Noriko Ogiwara’s eponymous light novel series. Art is by Haruhiko Momokawa. Translation is by Barbara Randall Kessell.

Firiel Dee was raised in rustic isolation by her widower father and his elderly retainers, with surly apprentice Rune as her main companion.Accompanied by a more outgoing friend, Firiel decides to attend a ball given by a local count. Just like Cinderella in the fairy tale. Matters develop in a non-Cinderella direction.

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