Reviews for The Beauty of Simplicity
Existential Complaining chapter 1 . 10/16/2017
What a nice little oneshot. You really got the characters down pat. Skull, Panther, and Mona's banter feels like it's straight from the game with how they talk. Skull normally saying something stupid, Panther calling him out on it, and Mona putting salt in the wound lol.

Fox's lines are just full of purple prose lol. While I get that he isn't always like that in the game, the parts where he does use an extensive vocabulary like this seem to stick out. And you noticed the "Let us beat this rubbish mentality into submission" quote from Yusuke too lol. It was always the funniest when he would say that three times in a row.

I probably could've checked the question Ryuji had for his homework, but I've done enough math for the day lol. I hate Calculus soooo much lol. Anyways, your interpretation of Queen was actually pretty good. You understood her level-headedness and overall smartness, and didn't make her into the stereotypical "Oh I'm so smart" character. I've seen small fics like that. Waste of time smh.

Then there's Oracle and Noir. Not much to say about Oracle since she pretty much talks like the way you wrote her lol. Although just to be clear, I'm not calling her a bad character (Hell, I romanced her first lol), she was really just the hacker of the group and an otaku to the core. But then there's Noir. Not too much of her here, but tbh, outside of her dad's Palace she doesn't have much to go off of lol. I'm not saying she was bad here tho. She really just became the happy and supportive part of the Phantom Theives. But that's only if you didn't hang out with her.

I see you decided to go the somewhat silent protagonist route when writing Joker. Not bad, tbh. Not to mention that Akechi's thought about the way he talks actually reflects in game dialogue decisons we have, so that's a nice detail.

And finally, the protag of the oneshot, Akechi. Honestly, it was hard NOT reading this in his voice. You really know how to do inner dialogue well tho, and what I said actually is because of that. We don't see much of Akechi's real side, but based on what we have actually seen, I feel that you've done a good job.

But yeah, good job on the oneshot! You wrote the characters well, so it was an enjoyable read.
Sun Kasai chapter 1 . 10/16/2017
I really liked it. You managed to bring out their personality pretty well for a first try and i especially like how you did ryuji who is pretty much the most loyal phantom thiev and of course the Relation Giro and joker have. You made it clear that there are torn emotions within akechi and the way your joker acted seemed pretty believable. The part with Ann was a welcome Addition as well since it would make sense that a detective would find that quickly when observing these people for a long time. Lastly I like how you hinter that the thieves dont really trust akechi with ryuji coming to his aid and how it is clear that akira had a big impact on their lives and how much this bothers akechi.
Overall that was very entertaining to read and i look forward to your future persona works :)
rebfan90 chapter 1 . 10/12/2017
I thought it was good!
The dynamic between joker and crow would be interesting to read!