>>47025985I'm glad someone else finally read Scarlet Guardians. I had a couple thoughts that I hope might persuade someone else to try.
>"Lake Trio Magical Girls" is a great original concept.I agree and the unique combination was personally enough for me to check it out even though I'm uninterested in magical girl shit. Something to be said for managing to innovate and come up with something unique in a creative circle as unabashedly derivative as the one we find ourselves in.
>I felt like I was reading an anime episode which is both good and bad.This is... a common trap that a lot of writers fall into and is usually almost entirely a negative point. To this day I can't articulate how Mimiga did it different, but they made it fucking work somehow. I guess the best thing I can say is that where others literally write an episode of an anime - like, attempting transliterate the events of an audiovisual medium into prose, which doesn't work in the first place, and then also have to contend with misappropriated trends and tropes common to anime without understanding why and where they're used in commercial productions. Scarlet Guardians on the other hand is basically only styled and structured after a particular magical girl anime, while still being the respect necessary to write good prose. It uses concepts and tropes exactly where they need to be while still acknowledging that this is a written story and not a TV show, y'know? It sounds simple but I've seen enough people failing to grok that that it's worthy of praise either way.
>Finally something I want to read and I hope I enjoy reading the other chaptersStick with it. Like
>>47026091said, the ending is really something. Pretty much everything is there for a reason, although I guess sometimes the reason is a little fluffy in a way that you could say it didn't really NEED to be there. Not the tightest narration, I guess, but I personally enjoyed it a lot. And the ending arc really is to die for.
