Reviewed By: TheDancingQuill On: March 28, 2006 20:53 CST
Rating(s):Style of Writing: 10 of 10
Originality/Creativity: 9 of 10
Enjoyment Factor: 10 of 10
Overall Rating: 8 of 10 Comment/Review:
When I stumbled upon the fushigi yuugi section here in mediaminer(had been meaning to get around to looking for it in here) this idea popped out at me. Now, I am not one to give false or undeserved praise praise, because ndeserviong praise encourages stupid people to write more and false completely misleads the writer(also bad), but this story is fantastic. It has the same feel as the origional, and has the same triggering factor(some one did their homework, i see; very good, very good). while i do believe you have the depression part nailed head on, for the foreigner part in tokyo, i do have a small problem with it. For you see, i lived in tokyo for almost a year(was only about five though, so I wasn't able to fully enjoy the experience), but the people there seemed pretty nice to me. now, maybe it was because I lived there at the most gullible age that one can be, but I don't think there is that much prejudice towards outsiders. now, it may come at a higher age, but thats just this ones opinion. As to the A/N in ch. 4, Let me say, from one social reject trans-location victim to another, I feel your pain. I also have to admire how you have used that experience to strengthen the characters (armina-chan gets a cookie). As for this humble reader, he shall be putting this fic in his favorites and checking regularly.
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