Ha ha, I laughed again at the last line. Perfect!

I love the way you picked up on a relatively minor character trait in the show and not only created a very plausible explanation for it but wove it into his background and used it to make him even more human and sympathetic. A very sweet incident between the two and very true to character. Once again, great work!

Nice addition to the story!

This went a few places I don't think I would have considered with the characters. There obviously is the canon aversion Eiji has to paperwork (but in that particular ep he seemed to be refusing to do the paperwork just to irk Sakura.) You took that little piece of information and spun a quite believable story around it.

I really like how Eiji automatically defaults to aggression and withdrawal when he's upset -- his reactions to the others' teasing really enacted that well. To the unobservant, he's just being prissy because he's the current target of the teasing, but, in fact, he's hiding something.

This was nice, humorous and a good read. I continue to love your characterizations of Eiji and Satoru!

--EK

hahahahahaaha, poor Eiji!!

I love the scene with the rest of the team, Eiji needs discretion lessons too!

well, a beautiful chapter again, as always.

This was a rather funny, wicked and interesting and totally out of left field.

I love the idea of him teaching Eiji to read, it's an interesting side of them both, great work, as well...

While I followed this story from pretty much the beginning, it's just taken me this long to submit a review. (I try to take one day at a time, but lately several have attacked me at once!)

What I enjoyed most about this piece was the characters. I thought you did a great job with Eiji especially. His awkwardness in social situations and the fact that he was slightly clueless about emotions and attraction came through really well and helped drive the piece forward. That said, Satoru was a great blend of boldly jumping into the attraction and being hesitant for Eiji's sake. Nice work there.

Interestingly enough, I really enjoyed your takes on the other Boukengers relationships at the end. That would make an interesting addition to any futher pieces in this series, especially the Sakura/Souta hinting. (Or, should I say, Souta's unrequited love for Sakura.)

Great work! I hope you continue writing in this fandom!

-- EK

“Tomorrow I’m getting us a self-inflating, queen-size air mattress.”

that was the cutest part ever!! Let me tell you I really admire the way you describe love scenes between them. They're so... m... slow... and... pasionate, cutes... ah... I love them.

Masumi going to Natsuki *o* ... Sakura going to Souta... m... well, yeah, they'd be a nice couple but I don't know, I've never thinking them together, so it's strange for me.

But the fact that you had considered Sakura's obvious feelings for Satoru was great.

Keep writting!!

Really, really sweet - and hot. I liked this as a beginning to their relationship - not too fast, and very believable. Also a damn good adventure story, very appropriate for this series!

I did feel a bit badly for Sakura; her reaction was very understandable. It would be interesting to see how that works out in the end, especially with Satoru's ideas about who should end up with whom.

This was a very dramatic scene, and the stakes were even higher than life and death for Eiji - yet I had to chuckle a bit at the image of good guys and bad guys alike gaping in disbelief at that kiss. Very nicely done - dramatic, romantic, intense.

Also a nicely believable way for the Boukengers to rescue Eiji. Now, I can't wait to see what the aftermath of this will be!

wa...everyone see everything... *o*... human feelings, but... well, I don't think love could be a really human feeling on this times, but I understand the point.

Nice to see the writers block is gone, this is a lovely chapter.

Really good to see the first kiss between the two of them, that was really well done.

Great work, loved it. As always!

I always love your battle scenes, and this is no exception. A really great job of visualizing the mechas in a fight, and the humans (and Questors) controlling them.

On a quieter note, the subtle interplay between Eiji and Satoru was handled very well. But of course you had to throw a monkey wrench in their way - not to mention give us a cliffhanger!

>.< I really hate Gai and Rei... I hate them more than ever!!

and poor Chief, he need to control himself in front of everyone... ._.

ah... I have a very bad feeling about this, Eiji... Ashu side... >.< what would Satoru do?

Excellent chapter my friend...

Really like how Elji was captured, that was totally believable and really well written...

great work, keep it up..

>.< ah, Gai and Rei... leave him alone!!

it was... excelent, the way they kiss, so cute and calm *o*

What a wonderful first kiss scene - sweet and touching, realistic in that Eiji is new to all of this. You've done a great job of leading into it, and of describing it.

For whatever reason, the image of them just barely touching each other's arm and shoulder made me sigh...