Well, Chelle still has yet to critique those spritesheets I've emailed her, and the person I commissioned for Madoka's fic needs some time to refine what she's already re-written. So, to fill the time in, I decided to start looking at Bonds earlier than I was expecting to. Was originally gonna wait until Fanfiction.net's document manager discards all chapter copies of I Was Kagami Hiiragi after their 90-day storage period, in case I need to make any unexpected changes to anything, but with 34 chapters of that and 20 comprising Bonds, I will only have to discard four from IWKH in order to see things through here.
As it turns out, Blood had started the fic by describing a warm spring day on which everything starts out peacefully. Honestly, I don't know how that had eluded me for a whole year until he started hosting Crap Unread. Hell, I didn't even notice that the first time with Luckier Star, weeks before reading Blood's first two fics (which in turn was before Blood started hosting Bonds). Yeah, I did ditch that one almost immediately, but only because of some cockamamie that its author pulled out of his ass to keep everyone at Ryouou High even after graduating (which was pointed out in a review; nevermind that the manga still goes on with all the same characters even after some of them graduate and move on to different colleges).
I will admit, though, that I myself wasn't always aware of when the school year ends and starts anew in Japan. For one thing, it took me a whole year and a half (May '09 thru Jan '11) to watch the whole series through the first time around. In general, I prefer to watch anime on DVD the first time around, before re-watching it online at any point. Most anime I watched at the time was rented from Netflix, and it tends to be a matter of months between points that I feel like watching anything. The way each episode jumps from subject to subject did not help me keep track of things, and the show itself was just one more before growing onto me only gradually.
Even when I went on to think up the basic premise of what would be Starbound around Thanksgiving of '11 and got all then-eight volumes of the manga for Christmas the month after, I was just relying on what the show was in general. It wasn't until much later on that I would re-watch the anime in-depth on YouTube (more than once) and come to put everything together, and even to this day and after multiple read-throughs, I still don't remember every single thing that took place in the manga.
Having realized that, I suppose that might explain the conflicting chronology between Blood's fanfics and canon, provided his situation was similar. Would have been reason enough to spell it out for him while reviewing Crap Unread, unless he had been clearer with his response when I brought it up the first time.
In any case, I'll be sure to rewrite everything involving the weather and the time of year before I actually put the chapter up.
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