rate_review Reviews

oh hell yeah! i bow down to the best bleach fanfiction author of ALL TIMES!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its over!!!!


Ahem, with that now out of the way...

I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed reading this story (WTECS is still my favorite, more Ichigo/Tatsuki centric). It is defiantly a worthy follow up to the first story and expands the universe in so many ways. I loved all the pairings (save for maybe the "beyond crack" Kon/Nel pairing). The writing, as usual with with your stories, is top quality. I don't see writing of this caliber anywhere other than professionally written and published novels!

I think that you wrapped almost all the loose ends up in this last chapter(s) and brought this part of the story to a close. I also really like how you have made the transition into the Soi Fon story. This new character seems to be an interesting one, with knowledge of Soul Society and who some of the people are. It seems you've hinted that he knows (or knows of) Kuu. Perhaps a Shiba connection? He might even know Ichigo!

I know this new story with be Soi Fon/OC centric, but I do look forward to some cameos from our favorite characters from the first two stories (I will be begging for Tatsuki, Tsuki and Masaki/Ikki.......what can I say... I love those characters).

To wrap all this up, your writing has been (without any offense to other writers out there) the best and most enjoyable for me to read.

I eagerly await the start of this next story and see what you do with the Soi Fon character and how her normally cold character has evolved because of the influences of all these other characters.

Until then...

AWESOME!!!!!! Oh, the Karin and Ran explanations were my favorites. (Karin is my favorite Bleach character, and Ran/Shiro is my favorite pairing. Wonderful early birthday gift for me.) And I LOVED the Nel/Kon bit. I think he deserves love too and I'd been wondering where Nel was the entire story. I thought maybe I overlooked her. When you made the end fit to the new story your writing I jumped for joy. Nice setup. I can't wait for the new story!!!!

P.S. I also can't wait to see (hopefully) Senna/Katsuo cuteness. "They’re exactly like me and Ichigo were! Dammit, I did not need to say that.” lol

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i must admit i am very glad. i remmeber in a review for what the eyes can't see i had asked what had hapened to kon, and now i know! thank you, but i must admit i never expected him and nel.

Haha, I'm a huge fan of a GNO (but then, that's probably a given...). What an interesting epilogue! I liked how you cleared up some of the couples' stories (haha for KuuKen!), it was a nice little touch. Especially the Ulquiorra/Karin!

Oooh, looks like you're getting ready to launch into the SoiFongOC story! I'm really looking forward to that!

Closing thoughts...wow, what a wild ride. When I asked for a sequel, I definitely couldn't have imagined getting this! I thought a one-shot, or a couple of chapers. 391 pages is pretty epic, in my opinion, so kudos to you, friend! I loved all of the second generation, I think you've done so well with all of them. So thank you, thank you, thank you, for this story!

Let me put it this way.

391 pages of well-written awesomeness > 1/2 a page of hastily written criticism

In English, you've beaten me out by labor theory of value alone. I've got a thick skin. Ever since I showed a 27-page, single-spaced, typed short story written at white heat over two sleepless nights to one of my dearest friends, only to have him call it crap and refuse to read past page 12, everything else just bounces off. Don't worry about hurting my feelings.

Besides, I'm not moonymuch or XSTALKERX. I just started reading somewhere around Chapter 16, after all. You're right. Putting my personal character interpretations up here this late in the game isn't helping anyone. I felt at first that your pairings were a tad odd, and I still might rib you about them, but I like that you've taken plausable but unconventional directions and made them work, emotionally and cinematically.

That Ichigo/Hollow point is an excellent one, and one I hadn't though of before. You win there, hands down.

I could whine about meaning absolute materialism in the technical, philosophical sense, but instead I feel fine just agreeing to disagree about some things.

Anyhow, actual review. I *did* like reading about various character histories, and I liked the chosen segue of an ending. Always funny to see Rangiku drunk, and I was wondering how she and Toshiro got together.

Further more, while I like Ulquiorra as the stoic villain, homicidal madness barely restrained by his rational mind, I was surprised to find myself almost touched by his little scene with Karen. Who knows? If Kubo lets *Grimmjow* turn over a new leaf, maybe Ulquiorra could give up the idea of "that which I cannot see does not exist" (317:21).

So, yeah. No hard feelings here, and I hope none over on your end. I'm still reading, and I'm still waiting, and I hope that if I ever do get my story written down you read and enjoy it as much as I have yours. Good luck.

Great job finishing up! Your Soi Fong idea seems promising, and I hope you can get to it soon!

just had the funniesr thought and thought i'd share. kon as the kids nanny or as there toy when they were teething.

oh yeah! keep up the great work your stories are awesome! i don't think i will ever get bored with them!

Now, first of all, I enjoyed this chapter. I really did. Sure, sometimes your writing style is a tad slow and overdescriptive, but no one's perfect and I have the same problem. I also kind of like the Tsuki/Sora pairing, and I cannot express the deep, whimsical amusement I gain from realizing that Uryu has gone just as grey as dear old dad.

I also like your fic. Really, I do. I have some problems with it, sure.

Ulquiorra, for one, is and has always been a cold, vicious monster, lacking a conscience and a belief system outside absolute materialism.

And, I don't really like the whole King angle. Ichigo never accepted his Inner Hollow. Instead, he learned to control it. To paraphrase an awesome Terry Pratchett quote from Night Watch: "Vimes felt the Beast surge up all around him. And that's all it was: a beast. The Beast didn't think. It was *dumb*. What you were, what *you* were, was not the Beast."

But this is nitpicking. The sheer inventive craftsmanship of it is something special.

Not Bleach special. But special.

Sure, some of the special powers are kind of far-fetched and overcomplicated, and a good deal of it tends to drag. But I can confidently state, having read through the whole of both stories despite my complaints, and despite my Ichigo/Orihime shipping, that this is easily the best piece of Bleach work I have ever read outside Bleach itself.

It tweaked my muse. I'll probably never write *my* Bleach epic, but it will have been indelibly impacted by yours.

So, to conclude, while imperfect, Not Perfect is GOoD, and it's still a fine piece of work. Well done.

A final note: KUKAKU and KENPACHI? The frick were you smoking?
...No offense.