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This was fantastic and I don’t think I give due credit in this review. The character development, the world-building, the sheer scale of this thing and how engaging each chapter was… a masterpiece. Many thanks! I'm honored you think so. It's always good to see and hear from new people discovering t...

Only little tidbit I wondered about, that I haven't seen mentioned here, is the line "And that's who I actually am, at least right now." The romantic in me can't help but wonder: was there ever a plan to have the last entry in the diary of Tezuka Rin, and the first entry in the diary of N...

Admittedly, this kind of falls under "Old Shame" for me. It was a work that didn't work. It was intended to take place some time after Rin's good ending, as an experiment for her as well as for me. Perhaps it was because it didn't work for her that it didn't work for me -- or maybe the oth...

Dewelar I am late to this post, but I feel I really have to say how immensely I have been enjoying reading this novel. Many thanks! It's good to know that this story continues to be enjoyed. I don't check these boards as often as I once did, or I would have replied sooner. Yes, because I only got t...

I see that I am very late to the party here. But I loved every word of Developments and couldn't have asked for something better to have binge read the past week. Thanks very much! I'm tempted to ask if there's a copy of this all in one file anywhere because I'd love to have a copy to keep around f...

Is it too late to post praise for this story? Well, I certainly don't think so :D. Seriously, though, this board doesn't really care if you necro a thread as long as you've got something to say about it. I've seen stuff that was buried for years pop back up. I buried it in my bookmarks looong ago, ...

Not bad. This might seem odd for me to say, but if anything this could have been bleaker. Still, it feels a good deal Rinner than most of the stuff I've read on this board.

Blank Mage wrote:Mrs. Tezuka

So, Rin ended up marrying herself. Perfect. Never change this.

I just finished reading Developments, and it seems to me that A Wedding with Lilly was a perfect epilogue to that epilogue ... even though it was written years earlier. *nods* Given my headcanon on how everyone's relationships continue after Developments , I could easily see this happening. Since I...

*nods* If there's not going to be one large story focus, I agree that splitting the group into one or two a week would be best. In reply to forgetmenot above, as I said in my own postscript I definitely appreciated your comments throughout. I can also relate to the concept "this would be a bett...

Next up: Emi Ibarazaki—Fastest Thing On No Legs But before that, we'll allow dewelar to get his last licks in. :) Heh, yeah, I've put this off long enough. Developments was a lot of things for me, above and beyond my desire to explore who the characters of Katawa Shoujo were. As I've said before, I...

I don't normally correct "regular" forum posts, but since this is pertinent to the current discussion and since brythain didn't mention it: I truly do not intend to condescend. I think I have a few problems with reading your material. Here are the two main ones: 1) You don't use contracti...

One thing I forgot to add. I loved the little detail about how Emi didn't want to run professionally, she's not the best and Miki could have beat her with just a little more effort. Too many writers treat her like he's the fastest thing ever. That always bothered me a bit, too, although I understan...

Hey! Very cool to see more new folks discovering this story! It took me a long while to get through this series, but I'm so glad I did. Thanks! Emi was, well, Emi! You did a great job of writing her exactly as the VN portrays her. That's very nice to hear. I tried my best to stay true to all the cha...

Okay, so, let's talk about this thing. I am really, really bad at this kind of thing, but here goes (before I begin I just wanna say I enjoyed the story immensely, but felt it was overly long and convoluted almost but not quite to its detriment. I'll explain below): At first glance Developments seem...

Oddly enough, I think I might be more critical with the stories that I really love rather than the ones that are just good or decent. I am very much the same, so I understand. Responses to come soon. I'm trying to wait until towards the tail end of the review period to respond so as not to influenc...