Reviewer: singe Signed 
Date: April 29 2023
Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Research Trip
Well, that's a huge letdown.
I really enjoyed this story when it was being updated. The premise of a group of kids learning about health and the body through interacting with their giant teacher was an A+ premise, and the early chapters which were just that were pretty good. Unfortunately it was sorely lacking when it came to the student characters.They were all shallow and interchangeable. The main problem is that they all had basically the same attitude when it came to giant girls, so when the point is seeing their interactions with said giant girls, they were all basically the same. Some gender variety would've gone a long way. I get that the plot requires them mostly be boys, but there still could have been some girls who inadvertently got involved, and they would've stood out and help the others stand out, and really opened up the story as far as what could be done with the characters. Still, they worked well enough as objects to be acted upon, and that really is enough when that's the whole point of the story.
The story really picked up with the first and what turned out to be only major arc, with them sneaking into the girls' locker room and the aftermath of that. It was great seeing how people treated them when they were considered disposable, and watching them realize that, and how in over their heads they were was fun and exciting, as was the danger and stakes. The weak characters start to become a real problem in this arc, as now that they've been separated, knowing who each of them are helps keep track of them, and when they're all basically the same, that's hard to do. I found myself asking "which one is this?", "how many were there originally?", and "didn't that one die?" way too often.
I wish the arc didn't resolve so neatly. Having them all live and be fine undercut the danger, as did returning to the status quo. It's easy to say that in hindsight, it should've ended after that arc, but even at the time, resetting everything seemed like a bad idea. I can't say I was enjoying the chapters that came after that arc nearly as much, but who knows, maybe it would've picked up and have been even better. Still, I do wish it had continued.
I'm torn on whether the final chapter is better than if it simply had never ended and we never got any sort of closure at all. From my limited perspective, I was predicting an impending burn-out and hiatus. The chapters were too long and too regular to be continued indefinitely, especially when it was seemingly the only piece the writer was working on, a recipe for writer's block and burn-out. Plus, the story teaser, chapter 18 was a really bad sign, since research shows that announcing your goal before you're done hurts your chances of completing them, so I wasn't surprised at all when updates stopped.
Chances were low for a continuation, but with this update, there's no longer any hope. Blaming it on being "born again" or whatever, is weird and not thoroughly convincing. It sounds like an excuse, considering apparently writing more would be sinful, but releasing more wouldn't? I imagine this actually happens pretty commonly, though not in such a dramatic fashion, where people move on and become ashamed or embarrassed by their old work, and that's why some writers delete all of their stories, but if that was the case here, I'd expect the story to be deleted, not updated with the writer's manuscript, like they're the Tolkien Estate publishing The Silmarillion posthumously. The main problem is that the formatting is so poor that it's hard to read, and that it's so clearly unfinished that I find it hard to imagine anyone would be satisfied with it.
Personally, I think I'd rather not have had the final chapter. It's poorly written and formatted. It's weird, self indulgent, self righteous, and preachy. The whole thing reeks of ego, and I'll never be able to fully separate that from the rest of the story.
