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Jun 21, 2023
I've definitely heard the age joke, but with 911 instead of jail.
I'm enjoying the way you characterize your narrator and others through the dialogue, there's a really nice flow and back and forth as Neil kind of reckons with his position in life versus those that are more or less flourishing around him.
Wow, that's brutal! Part of me definitely gets sort of Your Lie in April vibes from the story, but without the excessive melodrama and misplaced pretension. Interested to see where it goes from here.
The familiar Rachmaninoff is in c#-minor! An important distinction!!!
I like the sort of contrast in the tone, prose, and dialogue that you use to frame the narrative. You have the sort of weighty / lofty elegance of the performance and the more down to earth and grounded dialogue and feelings of the narrator after the end of it. Nicely done.
A nice convincing depiction of pretention, especially as like layers of dramatic irony placed atop one another.
I liked the wistful nature of the narration, and the dialogue was snappy and realistic too. The jokes and friendliness between people was playful and fun.
There's a very nostalgic presence in the way you present the story that I like. I will say I think you lingered a bit too long on the expansive visual imagery, you had one prosaic passage and then shortly after another one about musicality and the symphonic texture of the wind. These are okay in isolation but can be overwhelming because personally I wanted to see more internal narration and characterization!
I enjoy the framing you use to introduce the narrative. Cool, casual cafe atmosphere to introduce us to your story. :)
I'm not gonna lie, the phrase troublesome gangster feels kind of wholesome for some reason in the way you delivered it. Makes Akari sound a lot less threatening than his reputation.
I enjoyed the way you wrote Stan getting chewed out, between the dialogue as well as the sort of fixation between light/dark.
If he's already missing his shots at practice, wait till he gets flustered by the girl at the actual game! x)
I love the astrology section. They are so perfectly nonsensical and I can absolutely see some diva witch using them to calculate the statistical probability of success.
At the very least I can appreciate how honest Yuta is with his preference for maids.
Curious to see how you investigate Haru's preferences versus Grace's appearance and personality. It seems he's not super convinced that he actual prefers a manic pixie dream girl and yet...there she is...
I'm waiting for the narrator to take over the conversation with "Ok, boomer."
I think you just took spawn camping to another level with this chapter.