BARELY even three pages -- it's two pages, and then ONE story spilling past their page limit to make it run over to three. And that's not filtering strictly for Rock/Revy -- that's total stories of all types for the entire damn series. Pathetic, eh?
And yeah, I haven't yet read through them all, but the quality is largely meh, especially for the disappointing handful of Rock/Revy smut pieces. There's a few gen fics or fics focusing on other characters or pairings that are decent -- some of the Shenhua-centric stuff is not too bad, and there's a played-for-laughs Rock/Balalaika crackship piece that's quite amusing. But so far the only good Rock/Revy fic I've found was the one lonely thing in the Yuletide archive, and that was pretty much the same tone as the actual canon -- lots of subtext but no action.
I guess it does have a few strikes against it -- it only got licensed, what, last year? And the anime isn't playing on TV anywhere that I know of, so it's not getting any exposure that way... Plus I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of girls never look past the "boobs bullets and more boobs" cover art, and lack of fanservice guys to balance it out (and y'know, while I think all of the regular boys, Rock and Benny and Dutch and even Chang and Ginji, are pretty cute in their own ways, none of them are typical bishonen fangirl-bait), and just assume it's nothing but a brainless violent jigglefest for the fanboys. Which is a damn shame, because behind all that spectacular cleavage are some of the coolest female characters I've found since Avatar.
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And yeah, I haven't yet read through them all, but the quality is largely meh, especially for the disappointing handful of Rock/Revy smut pieces. There's a few gen fics or fics focusing on other characters or pairings that are decent -- some of the Shenhua-centric stuff is not too bad, and there's a played-for-laughs Rock/Balalaika crackship piece that's quite amusing. But so far the only good Rock/Revy fic I've found was the one lonely thing in the Yuletide archive, and that was pretty much the same tone as the actual canon -- lots of subtext but no action.
I guess it does have a few strikes against it -- it only got licensed, what, last year? And the anime isn't playing on TV anywhere that I know of, so it's not getting any exposure that way... Plus I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of girls never look past the "boobs bullets and more boobs" cover art, and lack of fanservice guys to balance it out (and y'know, while I think all of the regular boys, Rock and Benny and Dutch and even Chang and Ginji, are pretty cute in their own ways, none of them are typical bishonen fangirl-bait), and just assume it's nothing but a brainless violent jigglefest for the fanboys. Which is a damn shame, because behind all that spectacular cleavage are some of the coolest female characters I've found since Avatar.