Hey bleufleur, this is the occasional anonymous reviewer "eve" from ff.net. I saw this fic up on Archive of our Own and realized that it may have been updated (it was!). I just wandered back into the Prince of Tennis fandom and was delighted to read this story over again + new chapters I hadn't read yet. I thought I'd just do the overall story-review thing here. By the way reviews really took off on ff.net since the last time I checked. Belated congratulations on breaking 100 reviews
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Hi again, Eve! Let me start by saying that for someone as long-winded as I am, I take your detailed comments as the highest compliment possible. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts
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Especially regarding tennis. Fuji is constantly called a tennis genius with unlimited potential and is regarded as such by all the Important People, but we have no real idea where he stands in the tennis hierarchy. I have a hard time believing Fuji would lose so badly to Sanada, but then again pre-series Fuji is not nearly as strong as end-series Fuji is. I don’t know, I have faith that you’ll sort it all out better once the tournaments start. I’m admittedly a little apprehensive about how the entire story will pan out. One of my biggest hesitations (I have a few) of Rikkai!Fuji is who will win in the end. Seigaku’s triumph is definitely the underdog story that everyone loves in sports movies, but removing Fuji from his crucial spot in Seigaku’s team and placing him as the main character of this story makes that complicated, and that’s not even considering the role Ryoma will play in relation to Fuji, if he does. Maybe the final match will be Fuji vs. Tezuka and we gloss over which team prevails? Haha I’m just getting ahead of myself
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I knew that Fuji losing to Sanada rather decisively might not be popular with the readers, but I felt it was necessary. Even at the Kantou tournament in canon, Fuji is the one that points out to Echizen that Sanada is the strongest player in Japan...and that’s long after where he’s at in the timeline of this story. One thing that stuck in my mind when determining Fuji’s skills in comparison to players like Sanada is that Konomi-sensei said in one of the Fanbooks (40? One of the Pairpuris?) that Fuji would never develop Muga. I’m paraphrasing because I don’t remember where it was, but I think he said that Fuji would never be able to let go of his control, and so he could never take the step to be on the same level as the top tier players capable of Muga, who he defined as Echizen, Tezuka, Yukimura, Sanada, Kintarou and - if I’m remembering this right - Shiraishi. I'm pretty sure that he said Shiraishi's Bible tennis made him very close to breaking the barrier of the first Muga door
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