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Iwanako: Mean Time to Breakdown suddenly appears to refer to a narrative involving rail transport of some kind. However, I prefer to think of it as a real transport of the mind, in which we accompany the heroine on a journey with a perilous and romantic future that has not yet been laid out in rail...

Jake Zero wrote:You are a sick fuck, you know that?

Were you intending to be offensive here?

I was NOT being offensive or anything of the sort. Eurobeatjester can support me on this. The thing about the craft of the writer, especially in online forums, is that it requires the ability to somehow convey appropriate mood and nuance. EBJ's support is irrelevant here. If your statement was rhet...

Sorry it’s been awhile since the last chapter, I hope this one is worth the wait. As always feedback is greatly appreciated. Enjoy. Disclaimer: I’ve been informed that this chapter shares some themes with Dewelar’s Developments. I haven’t read Developments yet (I know, i’m sorry), so i’m not sure h...

Which doesn't invalidate my point in the slightest. It's - and I'm exaggerating here - as if I had argued the moon isn't made from cheese and you countered that IF it were it would probably not be Gouda :-) Ha! But that, exaggeration or not, is looking at it the wrong way round. The evidence is sim...

Of course - that would be the meta-assumption. I was talking purely about in-story-assumptions. If you want to bring Japanese culture into this, I'd say that a divorce is much more unlikely in the first place rather than her simply not being mentioned because of one. Which is why it would not be me...

Not really... In all likelyhood Shizune's mother is dead. Sure there's the distant possibility that she divorced Jigoro and has no contact at all to her family or that she is coincitentally on an extended business trip when Hisao visits, but neither of those possibilities offers an adequate explana...

The more I try to puzzle out the "best" approach, the more cross-eyed I get, so I'll sit out of that discussion. I will say that I hope I'm not the only one who snickered at Oddball's choice of words... No, you weren't the only one. :) An interesting item I'd like to float for now: is it because Sh...

Oddball wrote:You left out Akira. I'd actually do her next, and then move into Lilly.

I'd also put Yuuko and Kenji next to each other, since there's going to be some overlap.

Akira/Lilly then Yuuko/Kenji then Nurse/Emi then Nomiya/Rin?

So far we've had Hisao— Iwanako —Mutou— Hanako —Misha— Shizune (the last two still within our discussion focus). Bold indicates Hisao's love interests. I'm suggesting we do Kenji— Lilly —Yuuko— Emi —Nurse— Rin over the eight weeks from beginning of November to Christmas. Then from Christmas into 201...

It turns out that a fragment remained untold of this fourth part of the Suzuki files. Make of it what you will. Suzu 4b: Morbidity (T -0) 2024 Never guessed that ’24 would be a central year, for all I knew was Suzu—who had to disappear. Through the Axeblade and the gate that takes you down to Hell;...

An interesting item I'd like to float for now: is it because Shizune has one conspicuously missing parent (as opposed to the rest, whose parents—alive or dead—are either fully present or fully absent) that that parent becomes so very important in defining her? Is it better to have that parent in a f...

All these cliffhangers. ALL THESE CLIFFHANGERS. I shall call you 'Sir Cliff'.

I actually suggested Bry keep his own Shizune in the running for this discussion, because she sits at one end of the spectrum in a range of possible interpretations. It's entirely possible that Shizune's calculating attitude and logical analysis of emotional topics would lead to that kind of ruthle...

This is one of the few Hisao x Emi stories I worked out while I was wondering how AtD ought to go. It didn't quite go that way, though. Legwork Hisao slipped on his cleats carefully before standing up and testing the fit. A little tight, perhaps, but nothing a little bit of soccer wouldn’t fix. Eve...