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Jun 22, 2023
Rika and Hikaru are pretty wholesome / good-natured friends. Very cute, and honestly Akio's experience that led to his ailurophobia is actually the exact same as how I got to be scared of cats for well over 15+ years.
I love the idea of a cat plushie and I guess I'm a little surprised that I myself do not own one for my cat to maul...
With that kind of immediately gratification after making your proposal to get over your phobia, it can't be that hard to get over your fears right?!
I also quite enjoy your sort of opening monologues. They're clever!
I really enjoy the opening bit, but I would've liked to see you go further with it! What would Napoleon, Caesar, and the Khan all have to say?! I think it would give your narrator a really nice interiority / complexity and elevate the opening section. Other than that, I love cats and I also used to be scared of them, so this caught my eye immediately!
Jun 21, 2023
"I had no inkling that such a worthless profession existed" is a pretty sweet burn. The idea of this person also simultaneously working as her manager sounds pretty hilarious. Is a profession managing a worthless profession also worthless?
I like these diary entries, I think they have a lot of personality and gives the story a lot of interiority! The grandma just has a ton of spunk and it's a breath of fresh air.
I definitely wasn't expecting a rich life story through....twenty plus worlds! I do like that the narrator's sort of use of language has essentially been changed by the fantasy worlds they've come across and they've basically abandoned a lot of the language of Earth in the process.
I like the flow of the ritual, I think it blended elements of the world and the actual narration nicely!
Whoa lore dump. I think it's a bit heavy on the details here, but a lot of that can be solved by sort of intermingling the dialogue and narration that you place at the end of the chapter and mixing it with the worldbuilding so that it flows a bit more smoothly.
I was a little skeptical with respect to the premise, but the worldbuilding and cadence of the narrative is pretty thoughtful and purposeful.
I get that you're trying to differentiate the voices based on the chapter titles, but I think it would be best to sort of create a new kind of voice for Konya which would more easily allow us to recognize them!
Things feel a bit disjointed, but I do like how you've written Alice, she has these eccentric notes about her that make her difficult to pin down.
Two chapters in and Kiyoshi has fainted and gotten sick twice! Poor kid has no constitution. :(
I definitely knew guys who had anxiety about not receiving any Valentine's day chocolates, and I think this overdramatization is a great interpretation of it!
I like that you sort of devoted a lot of time in this chapter to strictly dialogue. That being said, I think your efforts are a little bit undercut by the fact that you describe so much action in the chapter. A lot of the sort of organic and interesting narrative play gets interrupted by reading what someone is doing rather than what I want, which is to read what they're saying!