Living Will - Reviews

OMG WHAT A DISSAPOINTING ENDING MAN, JUST WHY DID IT HAVE TO END THAT WAY?????!! 

Story had a nice start in introducing the couples backstories but I will add that Janet is a serious badass which is very slim to see her type of character in the Yuri world.

I don't want to tell people what happened in the end but again I'm just beyond disappointed. You'll understand why when you get to read it...

Beautiful art and love the character design... but if you've read any amount of GL the story is pretty typical. The setting and character design of Janet are a little unique (not her personality though, that's pretty standard) but pretty much everything else is just typical yuri and even general romance/drama tropes. Nothing new to see here. Everyone is upset about the ending but given the tone of the piece I really didn't expect it to go any other way. 

Some tropes with examples:

Man gets in the way of yuri -> a common trope in GL/BL in general

Cold dark girl + bubbly light girl (with baggage) -> Akuma no Riddle, Kannazuki no Miko, Strawberry Panic

Tragic End -> Utena, Kannazuki no Miko, Shiroi Heya no Futari (the first yuri ever)

Female Assasin -> Akuma no Riddle, Noir

Anyway, despite it being kind of predictable... I did enjoy it. Mostly due to the art and stylistic choices of the artist. 

It's about a girl that wanted to be loved and an assasin that it's doing her job. This is a tragic story with beautiful art. It's really short so it's worth reading. 

Haha, guess who's crying :<

I enjoyed this short story. It had a nice gloomy atmosphere, pierced only by Jeanne's desperate cheerfulness. Jeanne just wants to be loved, but feir pure intentions end up putting fem in the crossfires of a drug dealer and the assassin hired to end fem.

I actually don't mind a good tragic ending, but with an emphasis on it being good. And I can't really say that this was a well-written ending. Interestingly, the tragic nature of the ending doesn't actually feel out of place--their stories both start from a point of tragedy, so it feels poetic that they would end in tragedy as well. No, what feels out of place is the final confrontation. Why would Janet's boss only send one person to kill off an entire gang? Why would Jeanne predict the need to protect Janet? And even if fe did, why would fe assume that fe would even be capable of personally doing so? Wouldn't it have been more reliable for fem to call the cops on feir ex-boyfriend? Are there even cops in this world?

Just to reiterate: everything previous to chapter ten was very enjoyable and if the author had written a tragic ending that had actually made more sense, this story could've well been a masterpiece. As is, it's pretty good, if a bit contrived at the end.