Okay, to be fair, Soul Chess has its good points. It actually uses the Visoreds, for instance. And Lelouch's takedown of Aizen is nothing short of awesome. The use of Tatsuki and Sui-Feng was a terrific idea. Hisana being alive was nice.
It also has a lot of bad points. The grammar, though it gets better as time goes on, is questionable. The male gaze is seen at many points, even introducing female characters with their cup sizes. Smut is overused constantly, even having whole chapters of Yoruichi/Sui-Feng or Mia/anyfemaleArrancar lesbian sex. The straight sex is no better, if minimal. It overall reeks of the author having nothing better to do or trying to make up for a bad part with lots of sex to distract the readers. Mia overall is an awful character, existing mostly to gross out Kaien and provide fanservice. I rejoiced when she died and nearly screamed when she was resurrected. Lelouch, too, comes off as an arrogant douchebag who is never humbled and always gets what he wants. Similarly, the author seems to love to resurrect characters when they should by all rights be dead. If you kill a character, they should stay dead, right? The repeated use of clunky character descriptors in place of names is utterly annoying and the author likes to linger on mundane things and purple prose. Also, Lelouch cannot. Freaking. Lose. He overshadows all the characters who were perfectly adequate in canon. There are more original characters than regular characters.
Why Did I Like This Again?
Okay, to be fair, Soul Chess has its good points. It actually uses the Visoreds, for instance. And Lelouch's takedown of Aizen is nothing short of awesome. The use of Tatsuki and Sui-Feng was a terrific idea. Hisana being alive was nice.
It also has a lot of bad points. The grammar, though it gets better as time goes on, is questionable. The male gaze is seen at many points, even introducing female characters with their cup sizes. Smut is overused constantly, even having whole chapters of Yoruichi/Sui-Feng or Mia/anyfemaleArrancar lesbian sex. The straight sex is no better, if minimal. It overall reeks of the author having nothing better to do or trying to make up for a bad part with lots of sex to distract the readers. Mia overall is an awful character, existing mostly to gross out Kaien and provide fanservice. I rejoiced when she died and nearly screamed when she was resurrected. Lelouch, too, comes off as an arrogant douchebag who is never humbled and always gets what he wants. Similarly, the author seems to love to resurrect characters when they should by all rights be dead. If you kill a character, they should stay dead, right? The repeated use of clunky character descriptors in place of names is utterly annoying and the author likes to linger on mundane things and purple prose. Also, Lelouch cannot. Freaking. Lose. He overshadows all the characters who were perfectly adequate in canon. There are more original characters than regular characters.