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My favourites of 2025

Posted on March 3, 2026 by Bee Keogh-Britcher

Another year over a new one begins so its time say what my favourite books, tv show and films where of last year. (Also other things that I enjoyed)

All of this are ones that I enjoyed last year they didn’t all come out in 2025

Books

It wasn’t a great year for reading last year i managed to read 22 books, but here are my favourite books.

All the best for the future by Greg James

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I really enjoyed this book it was funny and interesting, it got me thinking but the main thing to say about this book is that its not an autobiography. I have done a review for this one which you can find here.

Project hail Mary

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This was my November book for a book club I’m in at work so I just got it on audible not knowing what it was about which I think made for a better reading experience especially as the main character has no memory of how he got to where he is. It was an amazing read with great characters a great story it was funny and the last few chapters had me on the edge of my seat. I also can’t wait for the film to come out in March

A language of dragons

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This book was from fairyloot and it was amazing.

Secret of the wings

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When this book was announced I know I needed to read it as I’m a fan of the tinkerbell films and I think the queen and the loured of winter is an interesting story so its amazing to get more of there story in this book.

Tv show

Celebrity traitors and just Traitors

Its a great show the celebrity version was made and we had such good celebrities rather then the normal shows where you dont recognise any of them.

What a year for traitors we had last year

The silent witch

I couldn’t not include one anime. I dont think its one you can bing as it gets a bit depressing in places.

The Paradise

I can’t say much about this show without spoiling it buts its amazing best show on disney plus last year and probably the best this year with season 2.

Film

Briget Jones mad about the boy

I saw this film with some friends from work and I cried at the end it was such a selection of love and life and I thought they did a wonderful job of dealing with loss as well as family and finding love once again.

Kpop demon hunters

Great story great songs lovely animation.

 

Games

Dreamlight valley

The tiny book shop

Flame craft dules

Other things

Running

I started running in 2024 and I actually really enjoy it which I would never thought I would of said in 2023.

Crocheting

And this year I have started crouoching which has been lots of fun and I have made lots of granny squares, book sleeves and a pair of gloves.

And that is my 2025 favourites lets see what favourites 2026 will bring (also hopefully more blogs).

My favourite anime/manga

Posted on September 17, 2023 by Bee Keogh-Britcher

I tried to make this a top 5, and I did feel like a top 10 was to much but I’ve ended up with 10 so I guess this is  

My top 10 favourite anime and manga

oron host club

this was the first anime I ever watched and so it will always have a special place in my favourite anime’s. I really like how bonkers this anime is well how bonkers the boys of the host club are and how Haruhi express her disgust over everything they do.

One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an ¥80,000 vase that belongs to the ‘Host Club’, a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it’s there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.

 

 

 


Fruits basket 

I really enjoyed this anime and I’m currently reading the manga. I like that you really express so many emotions in fruits basket there are lots of said moments but at the same time there is funny stuff.

After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out…into a tent!

Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn’t long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own–when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!

 

my roommate is a cat

Oh my gosh this anime is so sweet I like that each episode is halfed so that the first half is from Subaru point of view and then the second half is from Haru. I really would like to get ahold of the manga of this one as I feel like there my be a lot more to the story.

Subaru Mikazuki is a shy novelist who is no good with people, then one day he meets Haru a stray cat who sparks inspiration for a new book, know Subaru has a cat. See how the pair grow as they navigate their new life together from the each others point of views.

 

 

 


Orange

I definitely prefer the manga to the anime and I really like that it is just two (if not big) volumes that you need to collect and read rather then 200. It definitely is a more serious manga then the others on my list but I feel that it handles the topics very well.

Everyone has regrets in life. So who wouldn’t take the chance to change the past if given the opportunity? When sixteen-year-old Takamiya Naho receives a mysterious letter, claiming to be from her twenty-seven-year-old self, her life is suddenly thrown into flux. The letter informs her that a new transfer student by the name of Naruse Kakeru will be joining her class, and to keep her eye on him. What is Naho to make of the letter’s contents and its cryptic warning?

 

 


Yuri on ice

This is one of the few anime on this list that I’ve watched in full multiple times and that I think I will probably watch every winter. I really like the relationship between Yuri and Victor and the way Victor is so flamboyant and Yuri is shy, you get to watch there relationship grow each episode and see Yuri grow in confidence thanks to Victor. I like that it is a ice skating anime about a competition and you get to know all the different skaters.

Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsuki faces a crushing defeat during the Grand Prix finals and heads home, unsure of whether or not he wishes to continue his skating career. After a video of Yuri mimicking Russian figure skater Victor Nikiforov’s routine goes viral, Victor decided to become Yuri’s coach, much to the dismay of his coach, his fans, and his fellow Russian skater Yuri Plisetsky.

 

 

 


Snow White with red hair

I really like that this manga was born from a fairy tale, but it is definitely so much more than that past the first chapter. I like how Shirayuki stands on her own two feet and works hard at what she does but at the same time she’s not afraid to accept help from Zen or Obey. I have watched show twice and I’ve started reading the manga as there is a lot more story then is in the anime (as is often the case), I really like the notes that the author puts in in some chapters discussing her writing process. I googled were the show finishes in regards to the manga and it’s volume 8 but apparently there are some changes that happen so I’m just reading from the beginning, so far I’m really enjoying what I’ve read and I’m looking forward to getting to the new stuff.

Shirayuki is an herbalist famous for her naturally bright-red hair, and the prince of Tanbarun wants her all to himself! Unwilling to become the prince’s possession, she seeks shelter in the woods of the neighboring kingdom, where she gains an unlikely ally-the prince of that kingdom! He rescues her from her plight, and thus begins the love story between a lovestruck prince and an unusual herbalist.

 


ascendancy of a bookworm

My husband and I binged this one last year (I think) we really enjoyed it and I hope that we get a New season soon. The show stared of just a nice fuzzy show about a little girl who was trying to make a book in a new world but slowly it became much more then that.

Urano, a young Japanese soon-to-be librarian, dies in an earthquake. She is reincarnated in another world as a young girl named Mayne, but learns that books are scarce and only provided to prestigious elites. Mayne (retaining her memories from her previous life) decides to create and print her own books so that she can read again.

 

 

 


spy x family

This is such a fun concept with three would be family members all hiding big secrets from each other and a fun show. I like the way it has moments of being really silly like when Anya is trying to get in to the school and moments that are really sweet when Anya finds Bond.

A spy known only as Twilight needs a family as part of his undercover mission, so he quickly marries a city hall worker and adopts a child and dog. Unknown to him, his family has secrets of their own: his wife Yor is an undercover assassin, his daughter Anya is a runaway psychic who can read minds, and his dog was from a laboratory that gave him the power to tell the future. All these four subjects must bond together as a family to manage their own affairs and be together as best as they can.

little witch academia

this was anther one of the first anime’s that I watched all the way through.  I like that they then released a manga for it with a mix of old and new stories.

Akko Kagari is an ordinary girl who joins the renowned witch academy for witch girls, Luna Nova Academy. When she was younger, she went to Magical Festa, a magic show hosted by a witch named Shiny Chariot. Akko was so mesmerized and inspired by Shiny Chariot’s performance that she dreamed to someday be a “cool” witch like her.

my next life as a villainess all routes lead to doom

Once again we have a bonkers anime on the list I’ve watched all of season 1 and some of season two I’ve also read some of the manga, I’m enjoying both

Katarina Claes is the only daughter of a duke. One day she hits her head so hard that she remembers her past life, during which she played a game very similar to her life now. She is now an antagonist of the otome game and she knows every possible outcome. With her knowledge of the game, she tries to avoid a route that will end with her death, or exile. Will her knowledge save her?

and just because I can’t just do 10 here are some honourable mentions

new Game 

this is just a lovely show with great characters and a great show

The main character Suzukaze Aoba graduates from high school and joins a game company. The person who made the game that Aoba loved as a grade-schooler just happens to be Aoba’s senior at the company. The story follows girls who work and aspire at the Eaglejump company.

The devil is a part time worker

I really enjoyed the first season and this is one of the first shows I watched but I’ve not been a big fan of the new series.

Hilarity and fun ensues when Satan ends up in modern day Japan without any magic to return, and starts working part time in a fast food joint.

sugar apple fairy tale 

I do really like this show it’s a got a different art style in the anime and the manga (which is new to the U.K. so that will take some time to read) I have put it in my honourable mentions as season 1 isn’t finished yet so I can’t say it’s a favourite.

Anne Halford is a candy crafter determined to follow in her mother’s footsteps and become a Silver Sugar Master, a title bestowed only by royalty. In order to travel to the capital and realize her dream, she purchases Challe, a handsome but foul-mouthed fairy, as her bodyguard. Anne wishes to befriend her new companion, but in this kingdom where fairies are treated as property, Challe wants nothing to do with humans.

Violet Evergarden

this is a lovely and emotional show which I had to put on my list somewhere

After four long years of conflict, The Great War has finally come to an end. Caught up in the bloodshed was Violet Evergarden, a young girl raised to be a deadly weapon on the battlefield. Hospitalized and maimed in a bloody skirmish during the War’s final leg, she was left with only words from the person she held dearest, but no understanding of their meaning. Recovering from her wounds, Violet starts a new life working at CH Postal Services. There, she witnesses by pure chance the work of an “Auto Memory Doll”, amanuenses that transcribe people’s thoughts and feelings into words on paper. Moved by the notion, Violet begins work as an Auto Memory Doll, a trade that will take her on an adventure, one that will reshape the lives of her clients and hopefully lead to self-discovery.

Konosuba 

To be honest this is pretty close to the top 10 it is a really fun show if not a bit to male focused in the comedy, however the characters are all rounded, if not odd and the story is interesting.

Kazuma Satou, a high school student, gamer and shut-in, died on an average day walking home from school, performing the one heroic act of his life. He reawakens in the afterlife, greeted by a beautiful but rude girl named Aqua, who claims to be a goddess that guides the youth whose lives got cut short. Aqua then offers him a choice: to go to heaven, or to get sent to a another world to defeat the Demon King. Of course, Kazuma’s gamer instincts kick in, and he chooses to start a new life in a real-life RPG. There’s one last choice Kazuma has to make: he is allowed the choice of one thing to take with him to the new world. After puzzling over it, he chooses…Aqua? Join Kazuma on his adventures as he tries to transfer his virtual gaming knowledge to real-life adventurer experience!

and that’s it my favourite anime and manga. I think this will always be my favourites for various reasons and  I think I’m going to try to post one of this yearly to talk about that years anime in pacifically but always know these are my favourites.

Stories of the month

Posted on August 1, 2023August 2, 2023 by Bee Keogh-Britcher

It’s once again a new month and it’s time to share what stories I have read or seen (it’s not many)

Books

Demon in the wood

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It was good but not much really happened in it. it was quite underwhelming but it was cool to see a different side of the Grisha world and Erik. The art was quite good, though.

Before he led Ravka’s Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy burdened by an extraordinary power. Eryk and his mother, Lena, have spent their lives on the run. But they will never find a safe haven. They are not only Grisha – they are the deadliest and rarest of their kind.

Feared by those who wish to destroy them and hunted by those who would exploit their gifts, they must hide their true abilities wherever they go. But sometimes deadly secrets have a way of revealing themselves…

films

the Barbie movie 

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It definitely wasn’t what I expected but I really liked it. It was a bit heavy on the feminism at times but I felt that the Ken’s got there moments as well which made up for it. I really liked the soundtrack and I’ve been listening to I’m just Ken on repeat since the album came out. And no it’s not some mind blowing blockbuster but it delivers on what I wanted from this film which is some lightheartedness nostalgia and a good time.

Barbies days are always amazing in Barbieland but then one day everything changes and her foot goes flat know if she’s going to fix things she’s going to have to go to the real world! With the unwanted help of Ken, Barbie heads to the real world but what they discover could not just change their lives but the whole of Barbieland.

 

 

 

 


The ladybug movie

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It feels like I have been waiting for this film for a life time and I’m not really sure how I feel about it. I did think it was going to continue with the show but it ended up being a new story completely and rebooted the story. There was also singing which felt out of place at times which wasn’t helped by Marinette’s singing voice being a lot older than her character is but some of them were quite good but I felt like we could of done with less songs and more character growth and story lines.
I liked that all the original cast was in there and the animation looks amazing I do wish the tv show could look like that (I know why it can’t but a girl can dream)

This exciting Miraculous origin story follows shy Parisian teenager Marinette as she starts the year in a new high school. On her way home, Marinette saves a mystical old man who gives her the Miraculous gem, transforming her into the superhero Ladybug, bestowed with powers of creation. At school, Marinette has fallen for Adrien, the sheltered son of millionaire fashion designer Gabriel Agreste. Meanwhile, Adrien has been transformed by another Miraculous gem into the superhero Cat Noir – and begins to fall for Ladybug, his opposite. Unaware of each other’s true identities, the duo team up to battle the supervillain Hawk Moth, who in reality is none other than Adrien’s father, seeking control of the Miraculous gems to bring his wife back to life. With Hawk Moth sowing chaos and destruction across Paris, Ladybug and Cat Noir’s talents are put to the test in fierce battles with his minions. Yet still greater tests lie ahead. Can Marinette, as Ladybug, find the courage to believe in herself? Will this star-crossed hero and sidekick become something more to each other when their masks come off?

tv shows

the helpful fox senko-san

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My husband and I started watching this on funimation back when it was a thing with dubs but when we switched to Crunchyroll at first wasn’t there and then when it was added a few months later it was only in Japanese with subs but they recently added English dubs so we were finally able to finish it.

Kuroto Nakano is a young salaryman with a very unhappy and stressful life, almost entirely occupied by his job at the company for which he works. One night, after yet another day spent overworking, the moment he opens the door of his home he finds a seemingly young girl with fox ears and a tail cooking dinner for him – her name is Senko, an 800-year-old fox demigod. Senko has been sent to Earth from the spirit world to relieve Kuroto from his unhappy life and help him find happiness again.

 


Konosuba! An explosion on this wonderful world 

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Well as expected this was a very fun and silly anime with lots of references to Konosuba! I liked that you got find out how (let’s be honest the best character) Megumin became the greatest explosion magic user.

One year before a certain useless goddess and NEET extraordinaire hit the scene, Megumin, the “Greatest Genius of the Crimson Magic Clan,” is hard at work. Ever since a life-changing encounter in her youth, the young wizard has dedicated her every waking moment to the pursuit of the ultimate offensive magic: Explosion magic. Well, every moment not spent hustling food from her self-proclaimed rival. While the big sister’s away, the little one will play too and on a routine trip into the woods, Megumin’s little sister, Komekko, finds a strange black kitten. Little does she know that this cat plays a key role in unsealing a Dark God’s tomb.

 

Good omens season 2

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season two is finally here and it was far to short and it ended up on a cliffhanger of sorts. I wasn’t sure what the story line for this season was going to be as the first season wrapped up the Armageddon storyline, I liked that this season focused on a different flashback story while showing the present day struggles of having Gabriel around.

Season 2: A naked archangel turns up at the door to renegade angel Aziraphale’s bookshop, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and Aziraphale and retired demon Crowley’s lives become extremely complicated. Heaven and Hell are both desperate to find the runaway. As Crowley and Aziraphale attempt to fix a human romance, things become increasingly unsafe for them, in the past and the present.

 

 

 


Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon maid season 1 

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This is just a really nice anime with moments of over the top action and madness. I like that it has a really good mix of a slice of life anime but it still has an ongoing plot with a lot of action.

As Kobayashi sets off for another day at work, she opens her apartment door only to be met by an unusually frightening sight—the head of a dragon, staring at her from across the balcony. The dragon immediately transforms into a cute, busty, and energetic young girl dressed in a maid outfit, introducing herself as Tooru.
It turns out that the stoic programmer had come across the dragon the previous night on a drunken excursion to the mountains, and since the mythical beast had nowhere else to go, she had offered the creature a place to stay in her home. Thus, Tooru had arrived to cash in on the offer, ready to repay her savior’s kindness by working as her personal maidservant. Though deeply regretful of her words and hesitant to follow through on her promise, a mix of guilt and Tooru’s incredible dragon abilities convinces Kobayashi to take the girl in.
Despite being extremely efficient at her job, the maid’s unorthodox methods of housekeeping often end up horrifying Kobayashi and at times bring more trouble than help. Furthermore, the circumstances behind the dragon’s arrival on Earth seem to be much more complicated than at first glance, as Tooru bears some heavy emotions and painful memories. To top it all off, Tooru’s presence ends up attracting several other mythical beings to her new home, bringing in a host of eccentric personalities. Although Kobayashi makes her best effort to handle the crazy situation that she has found herself in, nothing has prepared her for this new life with a dragon maid.

games

gangan impact the mines quest

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I’m very behind in the game as I haven’t played it for a few months but when I got back in to the game there was the mines to discover so I could get to S. the thing that I didn’t like about this quest and the thing I find annoying with the game is that it had no audible dialogue which happens on anything that isn’t the main story even if like in this case you need to do it to get to the rest of the story.

well that is July I would like to try and read more in August but I will wait and see what it brings, till next time.

Stories of the month

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Bee Keogh-Britcher

Hi all. I’ve decided to try and do a reading wrap up but instead of just talking about books I’m also going to talk about the stories of films, tv and games that I’ve seen.

June

Books

Snow White with the red hair vol 2

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I decided to pick up this manga because I really enjoyed the anime which I watched at the beginning of the year but as with many anime there is only one season and the manga well exceeds its story so I did some Googleing and found out that the show ends at vol 8 but that it has some differentses so you should start at 4 so at that point I figured I should just start at the beginning and enjoy the story in a new way.

I guess I should probably say what it is about so I shell.

A romantic retelling of a classic fairy tale about a beautiful herbalist and a lovestruck prince.
Shirayuki is an herbalist famous for her naturally bright-red hair, and the prince of Tanbarun wants her all to himself! Unwilling to become the prince’s possession, she seeks shelter in the woods of the neighboring kingdom, where she gains an unlikely ally-the prince of that kingdom! He rescues her from her plight, and thus begins the love story between a lovestruck prince and an unusual herbalist.

 

strange the dreamer

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this was a re listen as I wanted my husband to read it, I gave it 5 stars, Michael’s (my husband) rating is 3 and a half because it is a very slow start.

The dream chooses the dreamer.

Since he was five years old, Lazlo Strange has been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to go in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself – in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever.

What happened in Weep to cut it off from the world? What did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving?
The answers await in Weep, but so do many more mysteries – including the blue-skinned goddess who visits Lazlo’s dreams …

The sinister booksellers of Bath

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this is book two from the booksellers series by Garth Nix. I really like this series and I’m looking forward to the next one although I find Susan a little bit annoying with her dislike of her new found magical abilities but at the same time I can see where she is coming from.

There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity who inhabits the ancient hot spring. Yet this time it is not from Sulis Minerva that trouble starts. It comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger. A desperate rescue is attempted by his sister the right-handed bookseller Vivien and their friend, art student Susan Arkshaw, who is still struggling to deal with her own recently discovered magical heritage.

The map takes the trio to a place separated from the world, maintained by deadly sorcery performed by an Ancient Sovereign and guarded by monstrous living statues of Portland Stone. But this is only the beginning, as the booksellers investigate centuries of disappearances and deaths and try to unravel the secrets of the murderous Lady of Stone, a serial killer of awesome powers.

If they do not stop her, she will soon kill again. And this time, her target is not an ordinary mortal.

Films

Disney Little mermaid Live action

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I’m not going to lie it is basically the original disney film with a few new songs some pointless lyrics  changes a few new scenes, a few less scenes (such as the chafe and Sebastian) and some flat lines. But it was a really enjoyable film with great animal friends and I thought that Halle Bailey did a really good job at bringing Arial to life.

spider man Enter the spiderverse

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well this was a really good film with amazing stylised animation which has become sony’s staple and a really gripping story line but one thing was really annoying about this film and that is that it ended on cliff ending and I’m not sure when the next film will be out.

Tv

the flash finish season 2 and start of season 3

this month Crunchyroll hasn’t really been uploading the English dubs as quickly as it has other months, so I’ve not really watched that many anime, the only anime which I finished this month was masamune kun’s revenge

Games

disney dreamlight valley

know with dreamlight valley technically Im always going to be playing this game but I’m only going to add it to the list after a story update as then the game has a story to tell.
this month we ended the first ark of the game which I thought was good I did think it my of ended differently but in all good and I’m looking forward to the next storyline.

What I’m looking forward to in July

I always start every month with big reading dreams (whether they will come true is another matter) I have been subscribed to fairyloot for a year as of last month and I have managed to finish none of these beautiful books so from next month I would like to finish two of them a month. which are the Darkening by Sunya Mara

v.e Schwab has been hosting a read along of her darker shades of magic books so I should be able to finish the second book and enjoy her video content while doing it

I also have a few manga/graphic novels that are on my tbr pail this month it’s Demon in the wood by Leigh Bardugo

then I have audible and I’m certainly listening to romancing, Mr Bridgerton

in the U.K. tv really starts to slow down as people are more inclined to enjoy the small amount of summer we get so there isn’t much tv shows that are coming out but I am looking forward to watching Marvels secret invasion on Disney+ and there are a few anime that sound fun first one being Reborn as a vending Machine I now wander the dungeon.

there are so many films that are coming out this month that I really want to see we have the new Indiana Jones, movie, the barbie movie and I’m curious about the Oppenheimer film.

well I think that is it for this month

 

Hi it’s me

Posted on March 3, 2023 by Bee Keogh-Britcher

Hi everyone who has somehow stumbled to this blog over the years and maybe kept coming to see more. You my have noted that the blog is a bit empty and is looking a bit different, there has been a glitch and I’ve lost all of my blogs and drafts. So please bare with as I repost stuff as well as new stuff, unfortunately the old stuff will also be new ish as I didn’t save any of my posts so I will be writing them from scratch.

so yes hi I hope you like buzzybooks 2.0 as much as the first one

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