Jul 06, 2022
To:Kya Hon
This is in response to this comment and the last comment about it:
Yeah I understand that position; it makes it very obvious this is a narrative, this is a book. But I guess in the way it's framed, it's never trying not to be; even the intro to the book is Akira telling you how much of an otaku he is, even doubting whether or not the voice he's using to tell the story in is too cringey to relate to you as the audience. Even to the point where he knows he's in a webnovel and knows he needs your views, likening it to how Mayu must feel about her streams. It's all a part of his ultra self-awareness; he's so concerned with how he comes across that he misses some blatantly obvious things in his path (the biggest one being in the title) - in this way he is flawed. In trying to cover his bases, he ends up drawing attention to the things that bother him but don't bother anyone else, making issues out of nothing; he does this both inside and outside the meta of the narrative, he's the same speaker either way.
I guess what I'm trying to get across is that Akira, the narrator, has the same issues as Akira, the character, they have the same flaws and I try to highlight those flaws even in his fourth wall breaks; hopefully strengthening the idea of who he is as a person beyond how he thinks of himself and into how he actually is.
Now with all that said and done, whether or not that works as a story device and viewers enjoy it is a whole different thing that I really appreciate the feedback on - I am curious whether many see it more as a positive or a negative because I'd like to address it.
