First up, a Sailor Moon-inspired story which completely blew me away. Sailor Nothing. Don't worry, you don't need to know anything about SM to understand this, though a little familiarity with the magical girl genre would help. Warning, 18+ content.
Sailor Nothing is the story of a girl whose life is ruined by her role in fighting the forces of evil. Unable to maintain the graceful facade her role requires, emotionally abused by her Kamen and prone to fits of wild rage, she is unceremoniously removed from her position, but finds it impossible to leave the only life that has any meaning for her - the life that increases her chance of finding peace in death.My school is Wazurau High School in a prefecture at the outskirts of Tokyo. My class is 2F, and I sit near the lockers in the back where the heat exchange vent is, since I get cold very easily. I do pretty well in school, especially in literature. My teacher tells me I'm reading and writing two grade levels above where I should be, so I try not to let it show a lot; no need to flaunt that or make anybody feel bad. Sometimes it's really hard to concentrate, which takes care of this for me... I get very tired, because I'm up very late. See, there are shows I can't see during the day because I'm usually very busy, so I can only see them at night... plus I have other things I have to do at night. From time to time.
I guess I should explain why I'm tired, now that I think about it.
My show is almost done, but I won't be able to go to bed soon. That's because I'm a perfectly ordinary girl and I have an ordinary life... but I've also got another life. And I hate it. I hate every minute of it.
It's got great characters, (my favorite would be Shin, the maverick student journalist) great villians, (Cobalt, the demon born from an architect) and the presentation is excellent, but saying anything there would spoil some nice surprises. Chapters 5, 7 and 8 had particularly memorable presentation for me.
As I read, it felt like I was reading a mahou-shoujo "Lisa Fitzgerald" both in tone and quality. This story gets a A+.