Dec 04, 2024
So far so good. For better or worse, I don't think I have much to say. The only thing I dislike and by a large margin was the use of 'incel', which was... immersion breaking to say the least. I think the setting would benefit from a bit more grounding, which is to say, description. I imagine that the nekomimi (saying this as a slur) village is isolated, but not so much that they don't know current technology or 21st century internet slang apparently. Still, they hadn't seen a human before, which makes me wonder. They also seem to speak the same language as the gynoid and know about Dvorak and nukes? I don't know, it'd be nice to have a better sense of space and time, not to get spoonfed with title crawls but to like... know if I should picture huts, or burrows, or skyscrapers, or what have you when it comes to nekotown.
This is purely a me thing but it also seemed kind of strange that she'd randomly call herself 'human' when, the first time she saw one, she literally shot them, and the entirety of her encounters with them has ended in their demise. Kind of strange, but it's not a nitpick since it's the beginning of the story and this might get expanded upon later. I figured it could be something to do with what the gynoid said before, but... still? How would one (1) encounter with a robot lead to this train of thought (I must again emphasize that they've had 0 contact with humans so far other than to kill them). But I digress.
I don't like or dislike the characters so far, but they seem to have a solid baseline. Sprout especially seems far more introspective than one would father purely through dialogue (at least at first?) so it's interesting to think that if the story were to be from, I don't know, the gynoid's POV, she might come across as a brash, hotheaded teenager instead. I don't know, we'll see. These are all first impressions after all.
