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Wtf... I think Reverse 1999 might actually have a legitimate writer. The protagonist, Vertin, not being a usable character and not being a self-insert while being a strong presence in the story is an excellent choice. She has a lot more personality and edge than it seems on the surface, and it's clear she's more of a victim to the situation.

All of the early parts of Ch 2 is genuinely masterfully written. There's a bit of a humor despite the terror of the situation. The oujo-sama character whose name briefly escapes me kept confusing the name of the medicine, and it gradually gets more and more further away from the initial misunderstanding, like it becomes Coco Banana at one point.

The peak of the writing, thus far, happens in a conversation between Vertin and the sexy plant lady, where the plant lady's kept an extinct Welsh tree branch, hopefully I'm not getting details too incorrect. It was supposed to be an undying tree that encourages the ghosts of the recently deceased to pass on quickly. They start talking about the metaphorical significance of its namesake and existence, and how ironic that it went extinct due to massive forest fires.

Then Vertin says something beautiful about the significance of having lived and died, that it shouldn't be preserved as a shadow of its former self in a stasis but allowed to die. It showed that the plant lady didn't consider death of things as meaningless as she acted, that her denial is what keeps the tree in stasis. As she learns her mistake, she abandons the tree branch and allows it to finally rest, but the tree, living up to its namesake, shows green-ness beneath the dead surface.

Throughout the whole thing, a formerly unshakeable big villain character keeps telling Vertin to shut up, being shook for the first time on-screen. Not understanding that Vertin has already done the damage and sowed the seed of doubt on the plant lady, he's surprised the plant lady abandoned the branch she was treasuring so willingly.

A lot of subtlety happens there that can't really be explained without a bunch of context. I can't spoil everything but basically it was a pretty desperate situation, and Vertin kinda talk-no-jutsu's a potential ally in a den of villains.

The storm and reverse time mechanics of the world still isn't explained closely quite yet I think. If all these people are gonna get wiped from existence after the storm anyways, it doesn't seem worth going through all the trouble to help these doomed people. But that also probably comes back to the tree conversation, that maybe even in their brief existence before the storm, they're worth saving.

Anyways, aside from all this, I'm also just impressed by how much European/American culture they reference. IIRC, all the characters are named after some art piece as well. I'd try to suggest that Reverse 1999 pull off the reference better than Takt Op gacha did their music pieces. Takt Op didn't quite nail the Vivaldi Four Seasons imo, since Vivaldi lived in a farmland with accelerated seasons.

I didn't expect to be this invested because I knew almost nothing about it, but I'm gonna stick with it, see how it handles future content/events. I get that good game smell that I almost never get in gachas