I hear the fandom bashing her nonstop. They seem to criticize her more than other authors. What is the deal? Are her works really that bad?
I hear the fandom bashing her nonstop. They seem to criticize her more than other authors. What is the deal? Are her works really that bad?
that sounds like a meme answer but i'll bite. Why? What makes them disliked?
She makes money from writing, that has to be pretty good
かん汗ぎゅう牛じゅう充とう棟
Expresses the exceeding size of one's library.
Books are extremely many, loaded on an oxcart the ox will sweat.
At home piled to the ridgepole of the house, from this meaning.
Read out as 「Ushi ni ase shi, munagi ni mitsu.」
Source: 柳宗元「其為書,處則充棟宇,出則汗牛馬。」— Tang Dynasty
There's no way Nasu would trust her to be part of his Fate writing team if she wasn't a good writer
Well, to begin with I feel like the question itself isn't that worthwhile. How do you define a good author? Someone's whose works sell? Then yes she is. Do people like her works? Yeah. Do some people dislike them? Yes. Are there more people who like than dislike her works? Most likely, yeah.
As for the critique she so frequently and vehemently receives from this fandom, an important thing to remember is that the vast majority of these people can't even read what it is she's writing, and can only perceive it through a filtered translation attempt, and subsequently end up only parroting what a few select JP readers have said. Because of this they end up only being able to really actually comment on things like general story structure, pacing, and at best characters, rather than the quality of the writing itself and the prose. On top of this I think it's become an inflamed subject, where people want to be able to blame her for being shit as well. I mean, just look at how much more nowadays you see stuff like "so who's the writer for this chapter" right after release (at least I'd say that wasn't as prevalent back in the day).
And yeah, I think Heian is one of the worst things I've ever read. I think Olympus at times was a real drag, and Fragments has weird pacing owing to its structure. But I think Scandinavia is in most ways decent overall, as was Tunguska, Camelot, etc. Honestly, being decent most of the time places her in the same bracket as pretty much most other TM writers.
I'd prefer her to stop writing random gag events though, that never works.
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I've been saying this for YEARS.
Don't have much of an opinion on her myself but she was the one who wrote Olympus which contains my single favorite scene in FGO to date so I'd like to think she's not *that* bad.
burn your dread you coward
Good concepts, annoying writing quirks and execution.
Yes. But not a good FGO or certain type of Fate sidestory author.
She's a author with a unique writing style and very defined strengths and weaknesses... and she's being shoved into a box that support none of said strengths, and bring a focus to said weaknesses.
I'd say its akin to judging Nasu by his work on Last Encore or early FGO.
A predetermined prequel story, a side story that exists just for fun I guess attached to that, and Extella and FGO.
FGO and Gacha in general are both terrible mediums for writing, honestly.
Try some What a Beautiful.
Crypter backstory should be by Nasu, at least conceptually. I think what happens after the Lostbelt King dies is all him, usually.
Any Kirschtaria scene would've been Nasu, if that's what you're talking about. Otherwise I'm a bit lost.
Rule of thumb is that Nasu writes every before they set foot in the Lostbelt (Chaldea setup, transport aboard the Border), any similar epilogue stuff (I think he's said after you beat the Lostbelt king it's him again), and then in the actual chapter he'll write Crypters, Beasts (mostly, this one doesn't seem as clear cut), and characters that "span multiple chapters" to ensure consistency there.
She seems good as an LN author rather than being a visual media author. Because I feel with LNs she gets more freedom in her writing at least in terms of her fate works
Last Encore is Nasu though, Sakurai just adapted it for TV.
Absolutely, but I still wouldn't count it as an example of her writing ability.
She's more competent a writer than pretty much everyone on this forum - and yet FGO is still bad. Explain that, reddit
かん汗ぎゅう牛じゅう充とう棟
Expresses the exceeding size of one's library.
Books are extremely many, loaded on an oxcart the ox will sweat.
At home piled to the ridgepole of the house, from this meaning.
Read out as 「Ushi ni ase shi, munagi ni mitsu.」
Source: 柳宗元「其為書,處則充棟宇,出則汗牛馬。」— Tang Dynasty