A Fannish Post! Alert the press!
sciathan_file and momebie posted a meme using summaries from "Better Than It Sounds," which I won't do in its entirety, but I'll share one: this particular summary is masterful:
A traumatized English teacher tries to be a good person. Everyone ignores him -- with the exception of his student, God, who mocks him and then ignores him.
And on that note -- I caught up on this series. I read ch. 64-65 in English and skimmed the raws for the newer chapters.
1. Where the heck are Raimei, Raikou, and Gau?! Don't we deserve to know how they are doing? We got to see everyone else, Hattori a couple times, even Hana and Miharu's grandmother.
2. I still really don't get Kasa et al. I hope it will all become clear at some point, and failing that, I hope it becomes clear when I read the official translation.
3. Just exactly how much of that in the field was Kotarou? Nasty shapeshifter.
4. The scene with Thobari crying and kneeling in front of Miharu. Again. Guh.
5. I love looking at young flashback!Thobari. More guh.
6. Also Yukimi, when he gets up and... doesn't put his arm around Miharu, because he's on the wrong side, but he sort of leans, anyway. More guh.
7. For a while there, I was really, really scared that Koichi might be Miharu's father. (The hair! The glasses! The birds!) So I was pretty grateful for the reassurances that it wasn't so.
8. As for Shimizu Kourin -- that was interesting and good... but not that interesting and good. Shouldn't Thobari have had something to say to Raimei about her mother at some point?! I feel that the story is coming apart a tiny bit at the seams. Not a lot, but it's a winding journey here -- Yoite's got to be linked back into this soon.
This story is a bit like the tides, it has ebbs and flows. I really get the sense of that we are seeing snippets and slices of a full and complete universe here -- with most fiction, the main characters are important, but you don't get the sense that their parents and grandparents necessarily were, for example. In this story, it's quite clear that every single person has a complete story to tell, and each story would be worthwhile and revealing to learn about.
A traumatized English teacher tries to be a good person. Everyone ignores him -- with the exception of his student, God, who mocks him and then ignores him.
And on that note -- I caught up on this series. I read ch. 64-65 in English and skimmed the raws for the newer chapters.
1. Where the heck are Raimei, Raikou, and Gau?! Don't we deserve to know how they are doing? We got to see everyone else, Hattori a couple times, even Hana and Miharu's grandmother.
2. I still really don't get Kasa et al. I hope it will all become clear at some point, and failing that, I hope it becomes clear when I read the official translation.
3. Just exactly how much of that in the field was Kotarou? Nasty shapeshifter.
4. The scene with Thobari crying and kneeling in front of Miharu. Again. Guh.
5. I love looking at young flashback!Thobari. More guh.
6. Also Yukimi, when he gets up and... doesn't put his arm around Miharu, because he's on the wrong side, but he sort of leans, anyway. More guh.
7. For a while there, I was really, really scared that Koichi might be Miharu's father. (The hair! The glasses! The birds!) So I was pretty grateful for the reassurances that it wasn't so.
8. As for Shimizu Kourin -- that was interesting and good... but not that interesting and good. Shouldn't Thobari have had something to say to Raimei about her mother at some point?! I feel that the story is coming apart a tiny bit at the seams. Not a lot, but it's a winding journey here -- Yoite's got to be linked back into this soon.
This story is a bit like the tides, it has ebbs and flows. I really get the sense of that we are seeing snippets and slices of a full and complete universe here -- with most fiction, the main characters are important, but you don't get the sense that their parents and grandparents necessarily were, for example. In this story, it's quite clear that every single person has a complete story to tell, and each story would be worthwhile and revealing to learn about.