[ Fanworks Recs ] - TeniPuri, GetBackers, Hikago, & Love Mode

[tomomichi]

Notes/Babbling: Catching up on TeniPuri bit by bit... uwaaaah! ;__; It means I'm running out of fic again, though! *pouts* People! Write me more, dammit. ^_~
Series:
    Prince of Tennis - 5 Fanfics
    Love Mode - 1 Fanfic
    Hikaru no Go - 1 Fanfic
    Get Backers - 2 Fanfics



- Get Backers - Warm & Fuzzy by X-parrot - Okay, I love just-this-side-of-shounen-ai as much as the next GB fangirl. I do. But sometimes the kissing is desperately craved and I adore this fic for scratching that itchy for me--but I also adore it 'cause the cow pjs are just too effing cute. XD I adore X-parrot's scenario of how Ginji came into posession of them, could just see Ban-chan looking at him and thinking he was so damn cute and I loved the author's notes and I loved the kissing. Much to love here. XD (Ban-chanxGinji.)

- Hikaru no Go - See With Different Eyes by Aishuu - Originally, I was not going to rec this until it had more than the prologue down, because I like to have self-restraint sometimes. Then I read. And prompty said, "Screw this, I WANT MORE and I gotta babble about it!!" There are many things I like about Hikaru no Go, but first in my heart will always be Sai, because I just loved him. His passion for the game, his pure, shining love of it... that was wonderful and I adored it, so when he left... it hurt terribly and episode 63/64 actually made me tear up when Hikaru cried out to God to let Sai come back. So, to see a fic like this, by an author I trust to do it justice... I am all atwitter with anticipation. There are so, so many wonderful opportunities with this concept (Hikaru getting his wish and going back in time to when he first met Sai), such wonderful conflicts will this bring up (Let Sai play all the games this time? What about Hikaru's own well-established love of the game? What about all the people he's going to meet? What about Touya?) and I'm just so eagerly awaiting more of it. (No warnings/pairings.)

- Get Backers - Ordinary Business by White Cat - There's been so much good GB fic lately that it's been difficult for me to keep up (what with the raging Prince of Tennis obsession and all), but I sat down recently to catch up a bit and I'm glad, once again, to see White Cat turning up in a fandom I like. Glad about seeing a lot of authors I like turning up in the GB fandom, really. And this was a fun little Akabane-san-centric piece; White Cat captured the smooth, charming, graceful, elegant, and polite mannerisms he has, the way he's not really a sadist so much as a sociopath, someone who just enjoys things being interesting... even if his definition of interesting is a bit warped. ^_~ And, once again, I'm so impressed by her writing. *loves~* (No warnings/pairings.)

- Prince of Tennis - Of Some Hidden Time by CalicoKitten - By now, I've generally settled into my pairing preferences with Prince of Tennis; I have my favorites and stuff I'll occasionally read and it's difficult to get me to read outside of those. But after the author's absolutely wonderful "Promises", I figured I'd give this one a shot, even if it was Sengoku/Kamio. And... I don't quite know how to explain it, but I liked it--which was really all due to the author's skill at drawing me into the setting and the wonderful dialogue. She provides just enough details to set the scene, but not too many to bog the fic down and keep it from moving forward. She wrote enough sharp dialogue to keep me interested, but not so much that it felt like a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode. It just... you know what it reminded me of, in an odd way? Some of those lovely Japanese fanart sites that have the oddest pairings, but you look at them and you can't help thinking, "....gosh, that's pretty, I kinda like it. And I can see that...." She characterized Kamio and Sengoku wonderfully, a pairing I wouldn't have thought would have worked, but I found myself quite interested in the story. So, good, solid, wonderful characterizations, fantastic writing, and... somehow capturing the spirit of the series. ....bah, crappy rec. Go read if you like Kamio and/or Sengoku. Is good. (SengokuxKamio.)

- Love Mode - Blurry by Selah - ......eeeeee!!! *snuggles Gaki who pointed this fic out to her* Oh, my god, darling, sweet, wonderful and well-written Love Mode fic about Reiji and Naoya~! *sparkles madly* Oh, I could just absolutely see this, it was so beautifully in character for these two and just makes me want to snuggle Naoya all over again. *hearts* And, of course, I love Reiji being all gruff and irritable, but it's so clear it's only because he cares and the author got Naoya's quiet and reserved and almost shy nature down just perfectly. This was a fic about one of those moments that's small, but so meaningful and just... eeee! Love Mode needs more of these! (Some slight Reiji+Naoya.)

- Prince of Tennis - On the Good Ship Lollipop by featherypony - This fic had no business being as funny as it was, but somehow... the author made it work. Damn, I'm jealous of that ability. ^_~ This was just... *giggling* pure silliness, but the kind that was clever pure silliness and just made me giggle the entire way through. The thing with the rackets was hysterical, I loved the hell out of the lemon puns, Eiji was darling, and Jiroh... oh, how I absolutely adore Jiroh like this. And the ending cracked me up, too. XD (Some slight OishiEiji hints, but barely, this is pretty much pure gen.)

- Prince of Tennis - Lesson by sailorstarsun - Aww, cute, adorable, silly MomoRyo that I could just see. (Plus, it was short enough to keep my attention span. ^_~) What I love about MomoRyo is that they can tease each other and they're basically on equal footing and they're just so... funny and cute together. Plus! Kissing! MomoRyo kissing! That doesn't get written nearly enough, much less in a way that makes me go all *fluffy~*floaty~*. These two... are just so much freaking fun together. I love that. (MomoRyo.)

- Prince of Tennis - Many Waters by rageprufrock - There are times when I am immensely glad that I am a TezuFuji fan--often times because I've met wonderful people, because I've seen some of the most amazing fanart, because I truly enjoy and flutter over this pairing. But there's another reason I'm glad and it's because I get to read fanfics like these that are just... they take my breath away with how powerful they are. I'm not sure I can even put it into words, but it was like... there was this twisting sensation in me the entire time I was reading, wanting so badly for things to work out, so worried that they wouldn't. Even above the beautiful prose, even above the wonderful characterization and the fantastic lines, I love it when a fic can touch me in a genuine way. I can't say what makes a fic genuine and what makes one feel manipulative to me, I just know and this one felt... natural.

In addition to that, there were a lot of wonderful things to love about this story, despite the almost melancholy... hmm, no, that's not quite right... perhaps it was a distant tone. Something like sad, but not quite. I adored the idea of Tezuka as a doctor (and one of the few non-tennis careers I could genuinely see for him), I loved the little details that Fuji picked up on (the razors or other things that aren't either of theirs, the bruises in particular places on Tezuka....), the way Fuji understood himself in a startling moment of clarity. I think that was my favorite line of the fic, He knows what it meant, all those times he felt the tennis captain -- always the leader, Tezuka, and Fuji is already ready to listen, always willing and ready to do -- staring at his back. He knows why Tezuka seems to know everything, hold the world in his eyes.

Now Fuji understands. Bah, I'm rambling, but I just wanted to say that this is one of those fics in this fandom that I am thrilled to have read because it's gorgeous, it's subtle, because it has wonderful characterizations, because I can see it, the way their future went. The author's Fuji was just... wow. I fawn. I could just see the progression of his thoughts, the way he saw some things, didn't see others, the way those two things came to a head and he got it. I was glued to my screen for this fic in a way I haven't been for awhile--you couldn't have pried me away if you'd tried. Oh, and? The very subtle, careful mention of Atobe? (And Eiji. >_>) Excuse me while I fangirl. I'll need a minute. (TezukaFuji.)

- Prince of Tennis - New Year's Dance by Jennifier D - I was a bit cautious when I started this fic, as I don't always agree with the author (and I'll admit that I'm not sure I agree with her take on the way Tezuka views love... but I don't disagree either, so I'm being hugely nitpicky, I admit XD) on her views of the characters, but... what I liked about this story was that it had this sort of... elegant traditional Japanese feeling to it and I often associate that with Tezuka and Fuji. I also adored the way they just sort of seemed to fall into the relationship, that it was just something natural and not really deliberately considered, but that it was there, that the feelings were there and... I hesitate to call in love, but it was more than just getting along, it... fit. That's the best way I can think of to describe it. So I enjoyed the story a lot. Plus? Pretty pretty imagery. (TezukaFuji.)

Comments

Re: Wah!

[tomomichi.livejournal.com]

Wai~! New fan for me to meet~! ^_~ Good TeniPuri fics can take awhile to find, but it's much, much better than it was three months ago--we've gained some good writers since then. *sparkles* (Of course, it helps that I'm just slightly obsessed with the series, too, and must hunt everything good down. >_>)

And of course it's all right, 's what the journal's for. XD

Re: Wah!

[yukihyou.livejournal.com]

*blink* i would think so... O.o was searching for good fics but *wince* couldn't find and I kinda gave up... some of your recs were pretty cool though *smile*