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Yeah, and this is an important thing for people interested in BDSM - the amount of women I've known who were in abusive relationships which, at the time, were framed by their partners as just being "kinky" is way too high.

I mean, that's a different narrative entirely then. I'm perfectly fine with this ending with them getting together because that's the story. To continue after that you have to find narrative tension from another source - which might work, might not, but it almost certainly won't be as good as...

I'm feeling like there is so much telegraphing of a bittersweet, missed opportunity ending that this is exactly what we won't see. It's like - too many death flags so you know a character is going to survive.

Well now that's twice that this manga made me say "Oh shit" out loud.

This panel is a perfect example something that's so low-brow that it becomes high art.

Thanks for the new translation! This is such a good manga - really unheralded.

This is probably super-true - I've stayed out of the rope scene entirely so all my experience is just with masochists and the occasional fellow sadist - individually too I should note, getting to know people via apps or randomly IRL. So I've tended to meet people outside of scenes - some...

When most manga that get pumped out each week are predictable trash, I will gladly take wildly unpredictable trash any day.

It's rare - in any media - that S&M is treated with this much sensitivity. I remember years back watching a documentary on the porn company Kink (one, I believed, financed by the company so not really all that interesting), and how in it they seemed to go out of their way to affirm that their...

Aside from all the love stuff, I love the way this manga just rolls out the side jokes really well in rapid succession, like Yura frantically starting an MBTI test to try to help her club-mate.

The panel of Rihito's perspective of Mika straight up ready to come made me blurt laugh.

This and Hoshi of Girls' Garden are the only two manga that make me laugh out loud consistently. Hoshi of Girls' Garden is a comic masterpiece with exceptionally funny dialogue. This - I have no fucking clue what this is but goddamn it also gets to me.

We're heading towards the most uncomfortable first kiss of all time (I can't wait).

This is excellent so far, really glad it was picked up.

This is the sort of innovation in fan service that I read this manga for.

Whoops! Didn't mean to imply that Hello! Project was creating 12 year old gravure idols - just regular idols. Though that said they get sexualised by the online fanbase just as much as everyone else, and it's not like they didn't in the past have some extremely shady stuff with girls of that age...

Quite a few gravure idols now are starting in their mid 20s now, I think there might actually be more of a market for it (but that's just an assumption based on the popular gravure idols I see crop up a lot). Ino Enohara started at 26, Minami Hori and Aoi Mizobata started at 24, etc. Gravure...

Yeah there are plenty of gravure idols over 20. Ina Enohara is big right now, she's 28.

She's so happy that she can be helpful ❤️.

There are an endless amount of manga about being in love as a teenager, but I don't think any have captured the actual feeling better than this - the attempts to always be physically close, the clumsy flirting, the preoccupation after the fact. It makes me realise just how un-intimate most...