As one of the source books available for Seraphim Guard's HeartQuest RPG, Musical Mistresses is a solid addition to the HeartQuest library. It provides a magical girl setting for the game that can be played either tongue-in-cheek or more seriously, depending on which set of villains is chosen as antagonists for a campaign. Even if you're not intending to use the setting in either tone, it does provide some good examples and pointers for setting up your own magical girl campaign.

The book opens up with a bit of game fiction introducing the three Musical Mistresses and one of the villains, showing off the more tongue-in-cheek style of play, followed by a proper introduction to the setting. The characters section gives some pointers for creating your own Musical Mistresses, as well as providing the backstories and stats of the three main ones as well as villains and other NPCs (a few NPCs don't get stats, but they're fairly minor ones for the most part).

Once you've gotten your characters set up or chosen, it throws three adventures of different tones of play at you. One with the Phantom Thief (the more light-hearted villain), one with the Po 'Kran (the somewhat more serious one), and one with a rival classmate (the obligatory school ?queen?). The adventures are playable in their own right, but also provide some good examples of how to set up Musical Mistresses adventures of your own.

Following up on this is the Extras chapter, which is more of an appendix. It provides opening and closing themes as well as references that are a hallmark of most of the HeartQuest line. These would be a glossary and a list of recommended series for those new to the magical girl genre of anime.

Overall, the writing, editing, and layout is quite good, and very printer-friendly. The writing in particular tends to lean towards a more casual, tongue-in-cheek tone that adds to the fun of reading through the book. However, the artwork is hit-or-miss, with a few pieces that are nicely done, and more than a few that could've stood some improvement at the very least. That being said, Musical Mistresses is a fine addition to one's HeartQuest library, or to one's anime RPG library in general.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Very fun tone and good writing, as well as useful pointers and examples for other magical girl campaigns.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Some of the artwork could've been much better.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

Another great adventure with ideas for campaigns for the Fudge system.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

Good writing, an amusing premise and some LOL moments. And cheap! What more could one ask?