Quote:It doesn't hit any of my usual fandoms, you see, so that miss isn't really a surprise.
'Blue Blue Glass Moon, Under the Crimson Air' is a Love Hina/Negima/XXXHolic/BLEACH/Rozen Maiden/etc. fusion with a Keitaro/Kanako focus and poly possibilities done the _good_ way ... it's a wonder Nate hasn't run across this yet, to tell you the truth.
As for reading it... Honestly, I got to about chapter ten before my desire to reach through the screen and throttle the obnoxious bitch was too much to take. It might have taken longer to that point if the narration hadn't just taken it for granted that she was right, that terrorizing and assaulting people who irritated her was an acceptable thing to do. Mary-Sue 'so perfect and so strong' elements I can take, but combining them with that kind of malice... I'll grant that it might just be a piece of close third person characterisation, but even if I felt inclined to be that generous, keeping completely in her head without a moderating break to someone else definitely spoiled whatever effect he was going for.
I can see the similarities to RAALS, yeah, but the sense of humanity, the little touches like the 'scars coming from mistakes' bit in the Kuno scene, are completely absent, and what's left afterwards is transformed into something that makes me feel unclean for having read it. Maybe it's a consequence of my tendancy to try and empathize with everyone rather than just the protagonist of a tale, but for me this story's flaws far outweigh its virtues.
Which, from what you've said about it, is a pity, but no less true for that.
Ja, -n
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