/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>37839281
It's very personal. honestly, i'm kind of pessimistic and i have a dark curiosity. I used to read a lot of war diaries for example. vengeance is nowhere near as important or professional obviously, but you get the idea. grim fascination.
> Basically every character that's around for more than a paragraph is comically evil
Trish isn't evil. Nina isn't evil. Jack isn't evil. Their parents aren't evil (outside of the mc's succumom) You just haven't read very far in. I don't think anybody in this story is legitimately evil; I guess june gets the closest, and she brings out the absolute worst in the mc too. But even she has a few legitimate complaints that get brought up later. I get why you would feel its an edgefest, because vengeance is so frontloaded with misery. And again a lot of my appreciation it is personal, not everybody will like stories like this. I'm a weirdo with a dark curiosity. but even if you don't like dark shit, there is just not a lot of stuff that is as fascinating, miserable, and logical as vengeance. I get why these characters are such assholes. They're made wrong, incomplete, all screwed up inside. And they're set loose into the world and their flaws bring out the flaws in others. it's fascinating to watch. it satisfies that dark curiosity i have, gives me some sort of catharsis. I finish it and think "oh, that's what it would be like if everything in my life went wrong. glad I don't have to deal with that." And it's legitimately not edgy either. There are optimistic characters, happy moments, the promise of betterment just out of reach. The characters all in some way want to be better. They just can't be better..
>>37839379
glad to hear it's more than you thought. enjoy it as much as you can. if you continue, let me know what you think in some future thread-I'll lurk and be on the lookout for your post. Be warned, the story was never completed and it very much ends on a cliff hangar. We have some spoilers for the various endings, but there's not much connectivity. I know some guys were planning on collecting some of the fragments, so hopefully you'll get something out of those. I just wish I could talk to YBA, the guy who wrote the story, one last time. Tell him I appreciated his work and that I hope he's doing okay.
Oh yeah and I won't lie I don't get the willy t reference. I'm not exactly cultured.