GraPara! - Vol. 14 Ch. 135 - Sex Scenes

[rymar]

They are not shooting JAV btw....somebody has to stop this. It is of no use for a normal movie cause they would have to cut it anyway. Whole chapter is stupid. Ending is gonna be worse, I bet.

 

[Xandersenpai]

Well, I didn´t like that last 2 panels. I think this is the way Fumi has found to try to help him more than Sakura so she can best her in his heart. It is not a good way but she looked quite struck by that pen. In her head that pen means he still has Sakura in his mind. Still is quite a dumb action by Fumi. However many people are acting like Fumi was making out with a man in a hotel or something. She is in a normal movie. She went out of script but it is not like she is going to suck him off. No one would allow that, even the actor would feel uncomfortable. If the NTR is the intense kissing, there are many movies with sex scenes where they kiss intensely.
The writing is still trash but compared to Sakura´s NTR this is nothing, just a jealous girl playing it dumb and calling for attention.
My take is that the scene will get stopped, then either Shinobu has a talk with Fumi to comfort her and secure their relationship or we go straight into a timeskip where Shinobu is alone with a vague explanation. Then maybe Sakura could appear and who knows.
I wish he would just stop Fumi and be serious about them with a good ending but the author is Airi so the chances are close to 0.

 

[whorainzone]

Wasn't guilty girl or destiny lovers axed only for a part two to come out anyway?

Gc wasn’t axed and didn’t the mangaka of dl ended the first season completely open just to come back after months or years to make this stupid ntr bait?

 

[Shinratenseikami]

What are the chances of Katsura Airi making a full blown NTR doujin version of this like what she did with Karami Zakari? 🤔

 

[Goukenimaru]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Riho Iida has automatically risen above Sakura Katsuragi as the least abhorrent Katsura Airi female character in my personal opinion, as filthy as Iida became throughout Karami Zakari she never spiraled out of control through lies and misunderstandings, she was a honest slut in original doujin and went with it, Kousei as the protagonist was never lied to by Iida in any event.

Oh the irony of Iida becoming a liar in the Manga remake version for sole purpose of protecting her relationship with Kousei.

Now there's real chances Sakura in this series finishes her run as being rewarded with greatness and career advancements for every mistake she made and every misunderstanding she perpetuated. At this point I'm really hoping Shinobu ends up alone if Airi really is determined to burn all bridges with Fumi out of spite, anything but taking Sakura back.

 

[BegoneThoth]

You got all the way to the end of the story, and you STILL trust this hack of an author?

You would fit in great in the world of the story, where everyone are naive gullible sweethearts.

Not really sure where that's coming from, most of my comment was stating factually what happened.

 

[Wyou]

"if it is a sex scene, ill have my sex." kek

 

[jonasadan]

They are not shooting JAV btw....somebody has to stop this. It is of no use for a normal movie cause they would have to cut it anyway. Whole chapter is stupid. Ending is gonna be worse, I bet.

I want to believe what you're saying, but with Grapara, you never know, I think it's very possible they'll end up having real sex

 

[Xandersenpai]

Not really sure where that's coming from, most of my comment was stating factually what happened.

I am on that boat too. I Thought the same

 

[diphuc1]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Riho Iida has automatically risen above Sakura Katsuragi as the least abhorrent Katsura Airi female character in my personal opinion, as filthy as Iida became throughout Karami Zakari she never spiraled out of control through lies and misunderstandings, she was a honest slut in original doujin and went with it, Kousei as the protagonist was never lied to by Iida in any event.

Oh the irony of Iida becoming a liar in the Manga remake version for sole purpose of protecting her relationship with Kousei.

Now there's real chances Sakura in this series finishes her run as being rewarded with greatness and career advancements for every mistake she made and every misunderstanding she perpetuated. At this point I'm really hoping Shinobu ends up alone if Airi really is determined to burn all bridges with Fumi out of spite, anything but taking Sakura back.

As an unpaid Sakura lawyer, I have zero arguments against this with all the info and foreshadowing present leading into 136.

Iida > Sakura

 

[hugorito420]

I want to believe what you're saying, but with Grapara, you never know, I think it's very possible they'll end up having real sex

I also want to believe that

 

[hugorito420]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Riho Iida has automatically risen above Sakura Katsuragi as the least abhorrent Katsura Airi female character in my personal opinion, as filthy as Iida became throughout Karami Zakari she never spiraled out of control through lies and misunderstandings, she was a honest slut in original doujin and went with it, Kousei as the protagonist was never lied to by Iida in any event.

Oh the irony of Iida becoming a liar in the Manga remake version for sole purpose of protecting her relationship with Kousei.

Now there's real chances Sakura in this series finishes her run as being rewarded with greatness and career advancements for every mistake she made and every misunderstanding she perpetuated. At this point I'm really hoping Shinobu ends up alone if Airi really is determined to burn all bridges with Fumi out of spite, anything but taking Sakura back.

Unfortunately i agree with that.

 

[BegoneThoth]

I am on that boat too. I Thought the same

Like, people are acting like Fumi is about to film some super hardcore JAV. It's a movie. The issue was never whether she would sleep with someone else. It was about having a love scene in the movie.

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On a related note, the two boyfriends are actually correct in their assessments. However the author is clearly in the "free the nipple" type of female empowerment. Whether someone thinks that's stupid is a separate issue. But that isn't the same thing as the author going Gal Cleaning.

 

[2domi2]

Anyone know where to find the volume bonuses for last volume(13)?

Now about the actual chapter; this chapter was so comically bad I just originally laughed at it and considered waiting for the finale to say my thoughts. But since this is the semi finale I can't just ignore how bad it is as a joke lol. Even ignoring the ntr(since I don't really mind it), story wise this semi finale mad no sense. So mini rant and wall of text incoming that I'll hide with spoiler to not clog up comments:

Spoiler

To start, this took an extra week?? I get if it's for the artist but your telling me this is the best thing the author could think of with an extra week.. seriously?

Next, did shinobu really need to be told themes and such by a side character? Why can't figure this out himself, did we need 8 pages of the semi finale dedicated to a side character forcing the "themes" the author thinks this manga is representing. The mc just rejected the idea of Fumi doing the shoot last chapter, why is he so lobotomized here thinking that sex is a must have for filming. This entire manga he has filmed non sex scenes while liking the scenes, why is he suddenly so "sex is necessary for a good film" it just sounds rushed. And again why not let shinobu develop by himself not be told themes and such by a side character then develop. I think some people are misinterpreting the pen scene as him wanting sakura but it shows he likes the feeling of making a rising star, he wants to turn fumi into a star and that's his real life passion not making a movie I'd say.

But that was the only "decent" part of the chapter. This next part just doesn't make sense at all. Fumi is told she doesn't have to do the thing she didn't want to do by her lover, she sees him altering the script literally in front of her and her thoughts are "he only likes sakura still". This just isn't how a human would think.

Imagine you thirsting over a a guy or girl for months on end while they're in a relationship, the girl cheats on the guy and you are the one to push for the relationship. So your down bad for this person (she even tried to get him to date her while the two were dating and kissed him) and you see this person you're down bad for use their ex's wallet one time. Are you then going to throw away all the work you've done and bang the first person you see out of jealousy? No, no human goes from such a small annoyance to immediate infidelity especially when they were the down bad one pushing for a relationship. In the real world they'd talk it out, she sat on this for a month after and never once told or mentioned it? Really..

Meanwhile Sakura is just a complete side character now just doing stuff. You could ask wasn't she realizing what she valued more than gravure was the relationships and friendship that came of it not gravure itself so it's out of character for her to just be okay with sex scenes with random men(and was one of her main issues this entire manga...) but honestly her character is just finished at this point so who cares.

I still can't tell if her and playboy were dating as he still is only referring to their one night stay and how he regretted it and isn't mentioning if they kept it up after.

What happened to showing sakura consequences? Or sakura thoughts after cheating? Or anything involving sakura finding out shinobu never cheated?

The girl mentioned it's tough going out with an actress obviously meaning what's about to happen with shinobu and fumi relationship which but it just feels lazy imo. This whole chapter just felt like "themes and such, anyway ntr!" It genuinely feels like a one-off doujin pretending to be a manga. Storytelling and set up wise ignoring the ntr this is up there for worst semifinale I've read. All the characters went braindead and are one tracked minded to only one idea for some reason like the author is speaking rather than the characters.

Lastly if shinobu is a regular human obviously he'll step in next chapter but if he's not he'll let it happen (which is looking likely). It just takes him stopping the scene and asking her what's wrong and that should clear everything up, at worst a real person would just schedule the shoot another day till their spouse is okay mentally. If he just watches paralyzed with medusa stare this manga will officially be the worst romance manga I've read. It makes you question what even was the point of this manga besides ero ntr scenes, shinobu movie is secondary and barley shown, there's no themes besides obvious ideas told and the characters the last 20 chapters all act on impulse. What message is there here??

Besides that if a movie script says one scene, and the actor or actress ignore it getting nude and immediately kissing another actor the scene would be stopped anyway?? It's not some porno where people just act on desire it's all scripted and would be dangerous+stupid if actors just started ignoring directors and the script-instead forcing themselves on the other actor.

I know the author doesn't care and just wants to spite shinobu and that it's an ntr work so not to take the plot seriously, but the characters themselves don't act human anymore, it's just feels cringy and feels like bad writing. What even was the point of the cheating arc if this was sakura fate in the end. Anyway I think writing this comment was longer than author thought about this chapter though lol

Okay actual last predictions: sakura is clearly gonna become just a JAV star or maybe an actor her fate is sealed. Maybe some vague slop at the end where her and shinobu meet. If Fumi does the sex scene just assume it'll be some double panel ntr pages showing both fmc getting railed while discussing shinobu's thoughts+ "themes and such" again. There's a decent yet low chance shinobu interrupts or the scene is stopped because their off script and then shinobu finally says he loves fumi for once and boom their saved (but I doubt author can resist to do this). As other people said definitely a time skip will happen. The last volume bonus will definitely involve that scene where blonde guy got asked by twintail childhood friend to do a photoshoot in the house and I'm near certain it'll be her first time, not as a dream or anything.

Finale is aug 21. Can't wait!...[Spoiler/]

 

[BegoneThoth]

They are not shooting JAV btw....somebody has to stop this. It is of no use for a normal movie cause they would have to cut it anyway. Whole chapter is stupid. Ending is gonna be worse, I bet.

Normal movies have love scenes. This one doesn't even seem like it would be particularly extraordinary.

 

[diphuc1]

Anyone know where to find the volume bonuses for last volume(13)?

Now about the actual chapter; this chapter was so comically bad I just originally laughed at it and considered waiting for the finale to say my thoughts. But since this is the semi finale I can't just ignore how bad it is as a joke lol. Even ignoring the ntr(since I don't really mind it), story wise this semi finale mad no sense. So mini rant and wall of text incoming that I'll hide with spoiler to not clog up comments:

Spoiler

To start, this took an extra week?? I get if it's for the artist but your telling me this is the best thing the author could think of with an extra week.. seriously?

Next, did shinobu really need to be told themes and such by a side character? Why can't figure this out himself, did we need 8 pages of the semi finale dedicated to a side character forcing the "themes" the author thinks this manga is representing. The mc just rejected the idea of Fumi doing the shoot last chapter, why is he so lobotomized here thinking that sex is a must have for filming. This entire manga he has filmed non sex scenes while liking the scenes, why is he suddenly so "sex is necessary for a good film" it just sounds rushed. And again why not let shinobu develop by himself not be told themes and such by a side character then develop. I think some people are misinterpreting the pen scene as him wanting sakura but it shows he likes the feeling of making a rising star, he wants to turn fumi into a star and that's his real life passion not making a movie I'd say.

But that was the only "decent" part of the chapter. This next part just doesn't make sense at all. Fumi is told she doesn't have to do the thing she didn't want to do by her lover, she sees him altering the script literally in front of her and her thoughts are "he only likes sakura still". This just isn't how a human would think.

Imagine you thirsting over a a guy or girl for months on end while they're in a relationship, the girl cheats on the guy and you are the one to push for the relationship. So your down bad for this person (she even tried to get him to date her while the two were dating and kissed him) and you see this person you're down bad for use their ex's wallet one time. Are you then going to throw away all the work you've done and bang the first person you see out of jealousy? No, no human goes from such a small annoyance to immediate infidelity especially when they were the down bad one pushing for a relationship. In the real world they'd talk it out, she sat on this for a month after and never once told or mentioned it? Really..

Meanwhile Sakura is just a complete side character now just doing stuff. You could ask wasn't she realizing what she valued more than gravure was the relationships and friendship that came of it not gravure itself so it's out of character for her to just be okay with sex scenes with random men(and was one of her main issues this entire manga...) but honestly her character is just finished at this point so who cares.

I still can't tell if her and playboy were dating as he still is only referring to their one night stay and how he regretted it and isn't mentioning if they kept it up after.

What happened to showing sakura consequences? Or sakura thoughts after cheating? Or anything involving sakura finding out shinobu never cheated?

The girl mentioned it's tough going out with an actress obviously meaning what's about to happen with shinobu and fumi relationship which but it just feels lazy imo. This whole chapter just felt like "themes and such, anyway ntr!" It genuinely feels like a one-off doujin pretending to be a manga. Storytelling and set up wise ignoring the ntr this is up there for worst semifinale I've read. All the characters went braindead and are one tracked minded to only one idea for some reason like the author is speaking rather than the characters.

Lastly if shinobu is a regular human obviously he'll step in next chapter but if he's not he'll let it happen (which is looking likely). It just takes him stopping the scene and asking her what's wrong and that should clear everything up, at worst a real person would just schedule the shoot another day till their spouse is okay mentally. If he just watches paralyzed with medusa stare this manga will officially be the worst romance manga I've read. It makes you question what even was the point of this manga besides ero ntr scenes, shinobu movie is secondary and barley shown, there's no themes besides obvious ideas told and the characters the last 20 chapters all act on impulse. What message is there here??

Besides that if a movie script says one scene, and the actor or actress ignore it getting nude and immediately kissing another actor the scene would be stopped anyway?? It's not some porno where people just act on desire it's all scripted and would be dangerous+stupid if actors just started ignoring directors and the script-instead forcing themselves on the other actor.

I know the author doesn't care and just wants to spite shinobu and that it's an ntr work so not to take the plot seriously, but the characters themselves don't act human anymore, it's just feels cringy and feels like bad writing. What even was the point of the cheating arc if this was sakura fate in the end. Anyway I think writing this comment was longer than author thought about this chapter though lol

Okay actual last predictions: sakura is clearly gonna become just a JAV star or maybe an actor her fate is sealed. Maybe some vague slop at the end where her and shinobu meet. If Fumi does the sex scene just assume it'll be some double panel ntr pages showing both fmc getting railed while discussing shinobu's thoughts+ "themes and such" again. There's a decent yet low chance shinobu interrupts or the scene is stopped because their off script and then shinobu finally says he loves fumi for once and boom their saved (but I doubt author can resist to do this). As other people said definitely a time skip will happen. The last volume bonus will definitely involve that scene where blonde guy got asked by twintail childhood friend to do a photoshoot in the house and I'm near certain it'll be her first time, not as a dream or anything.

Finale is aug 21. Can't wait!...[Spoiler/]

Thanks for this insane write-up, I enjoyed reading it and learned some things. This chapter really did waste a lot of time before going 0-100 towards the end.

 

[BegoneThoth]

...

Improvisation is actually fairly common. The fact that even in the revised script there is a love scene, just one that uses direction to protect the actress, would help ease the crews minds. For better or for worse.
🧐

 

[samhiuy]

The conflict in Sakura's plotline is whether she should continue to do more adult oriented material. She wants to. The other female characters are supportive because the author's message is some sort of women's liberation.

I don't think KA has any moral message to express. She just hates men and wants to see them in despair. It's not like doing adult scenes, cheating on your partner or getting gangbanged after rejection are "liberation." Most women would find that idea appalling. If she actually cared about women's rights, she would be writing consequences for all the terrible men in the series. Instead, she only focuses on hurting the MC.

It's more likely that KA is just unhinged. Perhaps she got rejected by a man once IRL because of her sexual past. That's why she is making all these NTR works as revenge to protect her ego.

 

[Alsatia]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Riho Iida has automatically risen above Sakura Katsuragi as the least abhorrent Katsura Airi female character in my personal opinion, as filthy as Iida became throughout Karami Zakari she never spiraled out of control through lies and misunderstandings, she was a honest slut in original doujin and went with it, Kousei as the protagonist was never lied to by Iida in any event.

Oh the irony of Iida becoming a liar in the Manga remake version for sole purpose of protecting her relationship with Kousei.

Now there's real chances Sakura in this series finishes her run as being rewarded with greatness and career advancements for every mistake she made and every misunderstanding she perpetuated. At this point I'm really hoping Shinobu ends up alone if Airi really is determined to burn all bridges with Fumi out of spite, anything but taking Sakura back.

The lying from Iida was something revealed in the final chapter was it not? Then there was the 50.5 chapter.

Do you think something similar can happen here? Like some kind of twist to change perspectives along with the bonus chapter being that epilogue

 

[jonasadan]

Like, people are acting like Fumi is about to film some super hardcore JAV. It's a movie. The issue was never whether she would sleep with someone else. It was about having a love scene in the movie.

---

On a related note, the two boyfriends are actually correct in their assessments. However the author is clearly in the "free the nipple" type of female empowerment. Whether someone thinks that's stupid is a separate issue. But that isn't the same thing as the author going Gal Cleaning.

Well, judging by how the scenes are depicted in the manga, it looks like they're actually having sex, I might be wrong about that, but I think that's why people are afraid of it or strongly opposed to it.