Another World: A Wizard named Catweazle

This Grubby Disheveled Wizard named Catweazle, fleeing the sword blades of Norman Soldiers, packs up his Toad Familiar Touchwood and casting a Spell leaps into a pond only to emerge nine hundred years later...

He doesnt realy cast a gate, rather it is more like a wish (to be wisked away to safety), so as this is a nineth level spell, Catweazle is at least an 18th level Magicuser. His age is to be considered decrepid (over fifty). His brown robes are foul and stained and he reeks of a nasty odour. He has taken Toad as his familiar and until his departure to the future, he lives with his spellbooks and laboratory in a candle-lit cave.

Its probably one of the early UK Isekai to be had in children's TV viewing.

Short Fiction: Takahashi's Fight

Takahashi Reiko sat on the cool concrete in her dark navy blue school uniform awaiting Kendo, out of sight of the crowd moving about the street that could be heard here behind the metal and brick of her Kendo school. The brutality of the high school far from her thoughts, though it had regularly imposed itself on her life and shaped those thoughts. Kendo was her retreat. A hiding place from high school bullying that afforded no grounds for retreat. Education increasingly was an equality afforded those who took it from others, and that was an equality her Sensei had taught her to fight for though she still struggled to comprehend why the fight was no longer a shared struggle with shared rewards.
Other than her Sword, Takahashi was not in anyway someone who stood out. She was at the age of seventeen, youthfully pretty, with the straight black hair of her mother, standing one metre-fourty six tall. She had sacrificed social popularity for a respect both learned and earned. One that her parents, though they had wanted more from her than mediocrity, and wanted more for her than high school, accepted as their daughter's destination in life.
"Perhaps you might find a husband if you do well." Her mother had commented this morning at breakfast though her mother had wanted her to do well and go on to University every conversation up to this morning. Takahashi wondered what had happened to her mother that she would have accepted so much less for her daughter.

Takahashi was brought back to the world when the noise of the street intruded down her alley and a young man made the blind turn down the alley behind the Kendo school only to be quickly nailed to the wall of the building in that distant alley end by a spear.
Takahashi, wide-eyed in surprise at the event that unfolded, screamed in horror when a giant well muscled shirtless man over two metres in height appeared near the meat on a stick and pulled it from the wall. Takahashi sat quietly clutching her sword until she was sure the predator had seen her at which she, back against the wall, she stood slowly and pulled her sword from its scabard.
Takahashi wasn't a killer, as her Sensei often reminded her, and she would always be denied the power it took to kill. Now, this monster of a man, obviously a foreigner by his dark skin and monstrous size had murdered someone with ease, and here she was in an alley way where he controlled one of two exits.
"Sensei?" Takahashi leapt at the back entrance to the kendo school and knocked. She desperately wanted her teacher to be early. At this the ugly man at the end of the alley accelerated toward her, speared meat on a stick in hand. She could see him now with greater accuracy. He was ugly and monstrous in a way that seemed reminiscent of Oni from some fantasy anime, and his clothing, what little of it she could see, though he hid behind his impaled victim, seemed predominantly bloody yet scant to non-existant. And now as the monster, the meat on its skewer screaming and flailing out of some last moment of life ahead of him closed on Takahashi, she screamed at the terror of it all and dropped into a ball diving beneath the skewered meat impacting the wall where she had been.
Her path, sword in hand, scratched her monster's leg as she passed unleashing a spray of blood that painted her, as she slipped its grasp. And she ran for her life down the alley toward the distant turn and the escape of the public and crowded street beyond.
Takahashi slid into the alley turn, her shoes slipping in the dark blood as she looked back down the alley and watched the giant monster chasing after her approach. Takahashi, on her hands and feet, finger painting like an awkward child, crawled out of the blood screaming, only to impact against an unexpected new obstacle that disarmed her of her now panicked flailing sword and silenced her objecting screams, attempting to strike her unconcious, though the impact had felt more like a hard body blow.
Takahashi vomited down the back of the individual now carrying her like a butcher a piglet over his shoulder and she would have remained there had the monstrous giant pursuing her not attacked her abductor for the prize piglet that was clearly his.
A roar of hostile intent screamed in Takahashi's ears as the Monster impacted with the thief, and she dropped against the alley wall with her scattered sword, the weight of a monster landing on her leg, breaking bones as she pushed her sword out blindly impailing something that dropped heavily and unexpectedly on the point of the blade. A voice screamed and died on top of her as she passed out from the pain in that alley-way in Ginza.

Linguistic Archaeology: Rivers in Japan

River Names
1. Abashiri
2. Ishikari
3. Chitose
4. Yūbari
5. Toyohira
6. Makomanai
7. Anano
8. Kushiro
9. Mu
10. Rumoi
11. Saru
12. Shiribeshi-Toshibetsu
13. Shiribetsu
14. Shokotsu
15. Teshio
16. Tokachi
17. Tokoro
18. Yūbetsu
19. Akan
20. Niikappu
21. Shibetsu
22. Shizunai
23. Koetoi
24. Mitsuishi
25. Iwaki
26. Takase
27. Mabechi
28. Kitakami
29. Naruse
30. Natori
31. Abukuma
32. Yoneshiro
33. Omono
34. Koyoshi
35. Mogami
36. Aka
37. Oirase
38. Kuji
39. Naka
40. Tone
41. Edo
42. Ara
43. Sumida
44. Kanda
45. Tama
46. Tsurumi
47. Sagami
48. Fuji
49. Agano
50. Shinano
51. Seki
52. Hime
53. Kurobe
54. Jōganji
55. Jinzū
56. Shō
57. Oyabe
58. Tedori
59. Kakehashi
60. Chikuma
61. Kuzuryū
62. Abe
63. Ōi
64. Sa
65. Tenryū
66. Toyo
67. Yahagi
68. Shōnai
69. Kiso
70. Nagara
71. Ibi
72. Kushida
73. Miya
74. Kuzuryu
75. Kita
76. Yura
77. Yodo
78. Seta
79. Uji
80. Yasu
81. Katsura
82. Hozu
83. Kamo
84. Kizu
85. Dōton-bori
86. Yamato
87. Maruyama
88. Kako
89. Ibo
90. Ki
91. Kumano
92. Shingu
93. Muko
94. Sendai
95. Tenjin
96. Hino
97. Hii
98. Gō
99. Takatsu
100. Yoshii
101. Asahi
102. Takahashi
103. Ashida
104. Ōta
105. Oze
106. Saba
107. Onga
108. Yamakuni
109. Chikugo
110. Yabe
111. Matsuura
112. Rokkaku
113. Kase
114. Honmyo
115. Kikuchi
116. Shira
117. Midori
118. Kuma
119. Ōita
120. Oono
121. Banjo
122. Gokase
123. Omaru
124. Ōyodo
125. Kimotsuki
126. -kawa
127. -gawa

Lets ignore repeat use of -gawa and -kawa and add them individually as these are repeating suffix that likely mean river.

Total: 127
Vowels
A % E % I % O % U %
71 55% 28 22% 67 52% 55 43% 43 33%

Consonantes
B % C % D % F % G %
16 12% 6 4% 7 5% 1 <1% 11 8%

H % J % K % L % M %
32 25% 7 5% 44 34% zero 0% 26 20%

N % P % Q % R % S %
28 22% 1 <1% zero 0% 28 22% 44 34%

T % V % W % X % Y %
33 25% zero 0% 3 2% zero 0% 19 14%

Z %
7 5%



River Names by Popularity of Use

55% A:
52% I, a: Ai, Ia.
43% O, i, a: Oi,
34% S, K, u, o, i, a: Kako, Ki, Aka, Kiso, Sa,
25% T, H, s, k, u, o, i, a: Asahi, Hii, Sho, Oita, Ota, Takahashi, Takatsu, Kita, Shokotsu,
22% R, N, E, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Oono, Kase, Hino, Seta, Shonai, Kakehashi, Seki, Shinano, Tone, Naka, Takase, Koetoi, Akan, Anano, Teshio, Shira, Rokkaku, Katsura, Tedori, Ara, Oirase, Natori, Naruse, Saru, Tokoro, Ishikari, Kushiro,
20% M, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: kimotsuki, Omaru, Kuma, Matsuura, Muko, Kumano, Kamo, Hime, Tsurumi, Tama, Omono, Kitakami, Mitsuishi, Mu, Rumoi, Makomanai,
14% Y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Honmyo, Yamakuni, Yoshii, Yamato, Maruyama, Yasu, Yura, Miya, Toyo, Tenryu, Koyoshi, Yoneshiro, Toyohira, Yubari,
12% B, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Ibo, Yabe, Saba, Ibi, Abe, Oyabe, Kurobe, Abukuma, Shibetsu, Yubetsu, Shiribetsu, Shiribeshi-Toshibetsu, Abashiri, Yubari,
8% G, b, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Gokase, Onga, Go, Shingu, Nagara, Yahagi, Agano, Sagami, Mogami, Abashiri,
5% D, J, Z, g, b, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Oyodo, Midori, Ashida, Sendai, Doton-bori, Yodo, Kushida, Kanda, Sumida, Edo, Banjo, Oze, Tenjin, Kizu, Hozu, Uji, Kuzuryu, Jinzu, Joganji, Kuji, Shizunai,
4% C, j, z, d, g, b, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Kikuchi, Chikugo, Chikuma, Mabechi, Tokachi, Chitose,
2% W, c, j, z, d, g, b, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: -gawa, -kawa, Iwaki,
<1% F, P, w, c, j, z, d, g, b, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Fuji, Niikappu,
Zero use: v, q, l, x

Conclusions
The Oi River is known to 43% of the population using the minimum alphabet. This location will be the most significant site for initial Japanese population development Archeology. The Oi river source begins at Mount Aino (literally Mount-ain though Ai-noyama will be its later name). Implying a proto-english subgroup migrated east and settled the Oi river in Japan.

Those 34% tier rivers are significant water ways primarily south west two hundred kilometres in the direction of the Kyoto region implying a significant migration in a south-west direction. North west east of the Oi river is Mt Fuji volcano and beyond it the Sakawa (Sa) river. The only possible conclusion is that they have migrated away from the volcano, considering the proximity of the un-named Fuji River near the Oi river would seem just as inhabitable if not for the possibility of death by sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide from the volcano promising death.

Fuji and Niikappu Rivers are known by less than one percent of the population using the largest alphabet set at the time they are named.

As you can see, a model of population spread over time could be developed for these early peoples.

Art Folio: Castle on the Cliff

A partly ruined structure towers above you...

Preemptive strike: Some random meme

Other Worlds: Arifureta Novelization is psychological trauma

Having gone through the light novels for Arifureta Shokugyo de Sekai Saikyo I can tell you it is in the end a Mary Sue outcome for the Main Character, and thus an expression of the Author's desires. He gets to marry the vampire loli he rescued from the hell dungeon, and he also gets a 'relationship' where he is going to have relations with not only all of his other world harem, but his female teacher, and the surviving female students - all of whom succumb to the idea they want him sexually.

He goes from a bullied and despised weakling only cared for by the two most popular girls in class- yet imprisoned by the fact that any relationship he might attempt to have with them ends in being brutalized by the dominant male classmates to being powerful enough to kill any rival and enjoy any female his power attracts.

It is especially horrifying when you consider what happens to those female students not interested in being in his harem, being one of his wives or prefering one of the other male classmates as the story progresses through 178 chapters of light novels... dead to the last. Dead whether by the Main character's hand, in dispute with the MC's Harem, or in conflicts with others.

Frankly with the fiction peeled off, its a very terrifying delve into the Psychology and Life of the Author. Its almost as though his childhood is the deserved punishment for who he becomes as an adult.

Other Worlds: Arifureta Anime

Sensei levels up to Goddess of Fertility

Arifureta Episode 10 sees an army of Sixty thousand monsters sent by 'the demon lords' to exterminate a Social Studies Teacher who, along with her students, has been unwillingly transported to another world. While we know that a number of her students are 'volunteered' to fight for the Empire, Sensei has apparently escaped to a mountain village with a handful of students where she is teaching the locals modern agriculture.

She pleads with Hajime to save these people and he eventually agrees, though the speech he gives the villagers levels her up from Aiko Hatayama, Social Studies Teacher through Lady Aiko, Aiko - Goddess of Agriculture, Aiko - Goddess of Plenty, to Aiko - Goddess of Fertility (you dont see this in the subtitled version, but its the unsubtitled third time he describes Aiko in the same speech and moment she blushes in embarrassment).
Its also the moment she must realize that (a) not all her students are going to survive to make it home from this Isekai, and (b) Hajime is prepared to personally kill his fellow students to keep her alive.

This is a significant change in the Anime because when the dust has settled on this massacre, and her student Nagumo Hajime-san with the Aid of his OP harem is done slaughtering this army, and dragging its 'leader' back to his Sensei we find it is one of her other wayward students.
The 'demon lords' have concluded from the information they got from her wayward student about this Teacher concerned them so much that they sent him back to murder her and erase her village from existance with an army of sixty thousand monsters.

So what the hell is it about a teacher that could scare a demon lord?
If modern Agriculture is offensive, its to civilizations that prefer to control and manipulate a poorly educated hungry populace.
Its more than likely her lack of loyalty to the Monarch that summoned her and her students to this other world, and any of her objections to the sacrifice of her students to defend it with their lives.

Though most might not understand the significance of this episode, by the end of it Hajime has effectively declared Sensei his prefered political candidate as the next Empress of this Isekai Empire.

Hatayama Aiko: Normal Human, Lawful; Age 25; female; Str 5, Int 12, Wis 9, Dex 5, Con 10, Cha 9; Skills: Appraisal (plants), Teaching, Science (Social Studies), Science (Modern Agriculture); Other Aliases: Sensei, Lady Aiko, Aiko - Goddess of Agriculture, Aiko - Goddess of Plenty, Aiko - Goddess of Fertility.