On the Verge of Lunacy

Sawamura Eijun is a gifted pitcher whose uncontrollable erratic throws caught the eye of a scout and assistant director from the Seidou High School baseball team. During a visit to the school, Eijun faced clean-up batter Azuma Kiyokuni with Miyuki Kazuya as catcher. Miyuki's words encouraged a nervous Eijun who throws his best pitch yet and greatly impressed the two. His inability to control his pitches, lack of proper training and exercise however make him an unlikely candidate for the team's ace. Eijun has to start at the bottom. Eijun is joined by freshman Furuya Satoru, also a pitcher with high-speed and strong fastballs and forkballs. Like Eijun, he lacks experience in junior high baseball. He was alienated by his teammates who cannot catch his pitches and called him a monster. Eijun on the other hand was just unlucky to have average teammates who cannot match his passion for the game. Furuya also wants to be the ace of the team. He and Eijun will have to earn t...

Set in the city of Ergastulum, two Handymen take on criminals both the police and the underground cannot handle. Partners Worick Arcangelo and Nicolas Brown are the go-to guys of the cops and the mafia. Worick is the charismatic brains of the duo, while the deaf Nicolas acts as the muscleman. Underneath the intrigues of Ergastulum's gangs lies the mystery of the Twilight, humans who possess extraordinary abilities through the use of a drug called Celebrer. These super-humans are ranked and identified through dog tags. Nicolas wears an A/0 tag. Meanwhile, from across the Handymen's office and residence lives the prostitute Alex Benedetto. Worick and Nicolas are both aware of Alex's wretched condition. The Handymen decided to take her in when her abusive lover died. Nicolas Brown Worick Arcangelo The Handymen Alex Benedetto The first thing you'll notice about this series is its great animation. The choice of the voice actors was als...

When a strange man in red armor slaughtered Igarashi Ganta's entire class and embeds a red crystal in his chest, his life changed forever. Days later he was sentenced to death and sent to a prison camp that  also functions as a theme park. In Deadman Wonderland, inmates are asked to perform various tasks that sometimes result to death. Each prisoner has a collar which constantly injects poison in the bloodstream. There is an antidote however in the form of a candy which must be consumed every three days. It acts as a currency in the prison and is acquired by performing the tasks given to them such as contests and performances. Ganta believes he can still find the "Red Man" and avenge the death of his friends. However, he must first figure out how to survive the lethal games in Deadman Wonderland. With the help of his new friend Shiro, Ganta might just discover something more to the strange events he's been thrown into since the massacre of his classmates. M...

Rikugou Tokidoki is sent to a virtual history museum showing the Edo period to make up for failing his history class. He's the type of student who doesn't pay attention. Not a bad kid, but he's too laid-back. While looking around, he meets Shinonome Kon, also a student. He lost sight of his companion however and was attacked by strange-looking creatures. To his horror, he realizes that his attackers are not part of the simulation. He loses one eye but was saved just in time by a girl name Kuchiha. He learns that the nue which attacked him was controlled by a creature called Yakou. Tokidoki is trapped in the real Edo and has no way of escaping. He is later cared for by Lord Shamon who is acquainted to his rescuer and the student he met in the virtual museum. Surprisingly, Tokidoki seems to have taken a liking to his new life despite finding himself in the middle of a war between demons and humans. Rikugou Tokidoki and Shinonome Kon Tokidoki meets stran...

Emond's Field is a peaceful paradise far from the wars and conflicts of the rest of the world. That was until the trollocs and myrddraal attacked.  Rand al'Thor, Matrim Cauthon, Perrin Aybara, and Egwene al'Vere flee the village with strangers Aes Sedai Moiraine Damodred and Warder Al'Lan Mandragoran. The gleeman Thom Merrilin tagged along, and later, the reluctant village Wisdom Nynaeve al'Meara joined the group to watch over Egwene and the boys. The trollocs seemed to have attacked specific villagers only which is why Rand and his friends had to leave. The Aes Sedai Moiraine isn't clear about her plans for the villagers however, an issue which irritated Nynaeve. For now, their goal is to reach the safety of Tar Valon. Their journey isn't easy however. They were herded by pursuers to an abandoned city---only a prelude to more troubles ahead. The story is told primarily from Rand's point of view. Nagged by thoughts that he was adopted by the parents...

New Spring takes place years before the events in the first book of the Wheel of Time series. The story is about the young Moiraine Damodred and Siuan Sanche training to become aes sedai. They are caught up in trouble when Moiraine, Siuan and Amyrlin Tamra witnessed a foretelling by Gitara. She foretold that the dragon has been reborn. This dragon reborn is the prophesied champion of the light against the Dark One. To find the child, the Amyrlin ordered a record of all the babies born in the areas around Tar Valon and Dragonmount during the last days of the Aiel War. When Tamra and other aes sedai died mysteriously, Moiraine and Siuan undertook the task of finding the dragon reborn themselves. New Spring partly follows Lan Mandragoran's story as well . His carneira Lady Edeyn is trying to restore his name as the king of Malkier, but he later learns it will come at a cost. It's my first book from this series so I was expecting a lot from it. New Spring d...

Published in 1936, the book is divided into three parts. The first is about traditions wherein the author FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan discusses the differences and the validity of written accounts. There are accounts written at the time by persons present at the events they describe; accounts by eyewitnesses but not written down yet; archaeological evidences; accounts obtained from actors or spectators shortly after the event; and accounts obtained by questioning people what happened at the time before or those obtained at second or third hand. He then proceeds to cite examples in legends and myths such as Robin Hood, the Norse Sagas, King Arthur, Hengist and Horsa, Cuchulainn, and the Tale of Troy. The second part discusses what myths are about. According to Lord Raglan, most myths "are about gods, heroes, goddesses and heroines because they are accounts of the royal ritual... [r]itual religions aim to secure the well-being of the community by the due perf...