Wahhh!! I need the continuaation pleaas!
Part of me realizes that it's better to have a longer story, than one that rushes to the end. But the lizard hindbrain re-aimed at consuming media wants to read the ending sometime around immediately.
Ah, the story is absurdly romantic. It's all loneliness and comradery and admiration and the desire to understand another condensed in a doujin. I mean, when you come down to it, it's another doujin with someone crushing hard on their best friend, but I thought it avoided feeling boilerplate.
Then again, I have a soft spot for good mushy stories (and good fanworks), and this story is Eri realizing that her close friendship with Nozomi is kinda mixed with enough first-love-longing to fill an atomically shitty book of poetry.
I believe it's the focus on Eri's perspective that makes this interesting; centering on her uncertainty, her sensations as she falls in love, her need to somehow resolve things with Nozomi.
It's not a one-character study, as it gives room for other characters to breath and interact with her.
But, I would say it is a doujin that largely dwells in the mind of the story's protagonist, one that hinges on her stream of consciousness. I think it aids the romantic tone of the story.
