YMMV / Spellbinding Radiance

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The appearance of the elite beat divas in chapter 39.
• Bizarro Episode: The April Fool's Day chapter.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome:
  • John vs. Naesala. Especially when John kicks his ass.
  • John gets another one in when he has to form a battle plan after something goes against the stations of the canon, especially when his plan succeeds with very few casualties.
  • Mist in her battle with the Black Knight
• Crowning Moment of Funny: Oh, dear, where to begin?
  • John's cross-dressing stint is milked for all of its humor. Shinon hits on him thinking he's a girl and Haar walks in on an Almost Kiss with John and Jill while John is still crossdressing and pretending to be Jill's sister. And that's among other things.
    • And the entire cross-dressing stint gets even more Hilarious in Hindsight when it's revealed that there is an ACTUAL Sophia Domivere who is not John in drag.
  • John's training to drill Magic A Is Magic A below.
  • John's interrupted 300 reference.
  • "Hush! I'm LARPing!"
  • Ilyana going berserk after someone burns the food tent, for how over the top her reaction is.
  • "For your information, there were COUNTLESS innocents on board the Death Star!"
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: The author's note for chapter 76 may very well qualify.
  • Chapter 33 also deserves a special mention.
• Fridge Horror: The person who was responsible for the death of Gatrie as well as the cause of great amounts of torment for John early in the story just happened to be a time-travelling ex girlfriend who was also once a friend of Gatrie's and mourned his loss. She also happens to be the same person who killed John in the story. Ax-Crazy much?
• Tear Jerker: Any of the deaths of the canon characters. In terms of tear jerkiness, however, Petrine's death takes the cake.