GraPara! - Ch. 131 - Would You Break Up with Her? (Censored)

[box2024]

From Japanese web site on chapter 130 : this new comment (before it'll be deleted) is interesting in the sense that Airi Katsura’s storytelling is terrible! It’s riddled with plot holes and errors. Did the editor order her to write something like this? @box2024 do you think so?

BTW, Yuma is the name of that fucboy.

I wonder if that message really came from Sakura? Or did Yuma send it using Sakura's phone? It's awful that Sakura would say "I don't want to see you anymore" without even saying "Thank you for everything so far." Don't you think that message is strangely unnatural compared to what a normal person would write? If Sakura really did send it, she's a truly terrible person for not showing any gratitude at all. If she was planning to break up with Shinobu, she should have at least said something to thank him beforehand.
32 minutes ago

Well I have read of jp comments saying in an old interview that it was the editor who suggested this story to her but Katsura Airi rather clearly has an netorare fetish so she must have had a hand in it all as for his name I KNOW what it is and it's fuckboi. The message from the phone came from Sakura for sure as for fuckbois conversation I don't think she asked him to tell shinobu all that if she did it was out of character. The conversation was the humiliation ritual that all netorare protagonists who lose the girl go threw it was just to show us shinobu suffering the editor seems to like seeing that.

 

[slyss]

Well yeah, Kodansha‘s to blame for signing Airi. Airi is to blame for this stupid ass writing. The editor is to blame for approving this shit

Kodansha signs anything for Mangapoke, and when you take a look at all the trainwrecks, drama, and controversies Mangapoke's been involved in, along with all the manga they've let continue despite dogshit performance (I still can't believe they let ヤンキーＪＫの異常な愛情 continue for so long, a manga that even had the few Japanese readers who stuck with it utterly confused) and so on, you realize it's actually a hilarious publisher.

Of course, not talking about how they've mistreated their mangaka, which has had Twitter in flames for the past week.

 

[SS-2010]

Of course, not talking about how they've mistreated their mangaka, which has had Twitter in flames for the past week.

Would you please show us those tweets? Thank you.

 

[box2024]

At this point things ultimately end one of 3 ways

Sakura X shinobu

Fumi X shinobu

Or shinobu alone

Regardless how it ends I do not expect an interesting nor satisfying ending. Let alone one that makes people feel happy.

 

[diphuc1]

At this point things ultimately end one of 3 ways

Sakura X shinobu

Fumi X shinobu

Or shinobu alone

Regardless how it ends I do not expect an interesting nor satisfying ending. Let alone one that makes people feel happy.

If we get a solidly written movie production arc it could go a long way regardless of which ending pans out I think.

 

[box2024]

If we get a solidly written movie production arc it could go a long way regardless of which ending pans out I think.

I doubt we get even a solid shitty ending.

 

[diphuc1]

I doubt we get even a solid shitty ending.

All things considered Karamizakari manga had a more wholesome shitty ending so there's a chance.

 

[box2024]

All things considered Karamizakari manga had a more wholesome shitty ending so there's a chance.

I have never been so ready for a manga to end than this one and the funny thing is it isn't anything the author did that deserves the attention but because of the sunk cost of time I have put into this there really is no more story to tell here except fumi x shinobu.

 

[diphuc1]

I have never been so ready for a manga to end than this one and the funny thing is it isn't anything the author did that deserves the attention but because of the sunk cost of time I have put into this there really is no more story to tell here except fumi x shinobu.

Beyond the movie being finished though there's also no story for Fumi x Shinobu once those chapters are used up I feel. We're almost upon 132 and we'll see which doors remain open and which ones close forever.

 

[Wyrm666]

The character development of this series is way too diluted.
Post movie the major arcs in the manga pacing were a nightmare for a weekly series mind you.
TLDR
After movie arc, the matriarch invites the FAMILY and Chizuru to a pool trip, Mami invites herself in because Kibe, the self proclaimed MC's best friend has a loose mouth for the Nth time, and Mami sweet talks her way to the Granny to get in. Ruka also gets in if others can get it btw. Mami finds out Chiz rent side job and wants to blackmail her but Chiz is under pressure so much that in this very arc MC decides to confess his love for real to her but Chiz is so out of her mind she just walkts away from MC who was still confessing just to answer Mami's phone call, this outraged many because this arc took a hit on Chiz' character and everyone were hating on her, Kazuya saw this as a rejection, got a mental break down and got depressed, then the infamous 218 happened, one thing was MC imagining Chizuru with other men but to add extra salt the author made MC grow a hard on while imagining THAT, the internet was merciless to the author because it hit on Xmas of all thing, then for the first time in years the manga took a week of hiatus and returned, many suspect during that time of lapse the editor in charge of RAG got fired because posterior tankoubons afterwords the author thanks a different editor for working with him.
Anyway Mami wasn't getting her way as she wanted so she just exposed Chiz's side job in front of everyone trying to push Chizuru to shift the blame on MC who was an emotional mess unaware of what was going on , paint him as a creep, stalker and blackmailer, so of course fucking Kibe hits him no questions asked first, then Chizuru after so much pressure decides to save face and kiss MC in front of everyone lying that it's true it's was how they met but she likes MC for real, everyone calms down and let it pass, nobody apologizes to MC who was still clueless abou what just happened with everyong jumping him like a bunch of robbers.
Afterwards Mami rants on Chizuru for not obeying and Chizuru just calls her jealous pissing her off further.
Next arc is cohabitation arc, Kazuya's room burns because of gas leaks. Chizuru feeling all the shit from before was her fault lets him in her house which btw is huge because she inherited it from her late grandparents. Actually a decent to good arc because they cohabitate like normal person, Mini makes a comeback after being left out for the pool arc and she makes them stop acting like idiots.
MC doubts if this was helpful at all, Chizuru is pretty much always with a poker face, Umi also makes an appearance, Chizuru is mildly annoyed at him because he used his connections to find out her place only a few people know, likely one of her school "friends" sold her out because most of the time they fall for Umi's handsome face and become loose mouthes.
He is there once again to tell her to become his gilfriend, and the moment she is rejecting him for the third time he stops her and really begs her to think this through carefully and will give her enough time to think about it and leaves in a taxi. MC and Mini saw this all, then some days later MC's found a new place to live so he has to move out, they go on a date again and she tells MC she can go out with him yet because she still is not clear on her feelings while still doing the actress and rental side job (this caused another viral on websites claiming she rejected him which was of course a lie, they just took a caption and started grifting about it, if you saw that manga panel with no context you got duped by a grifter, I don't like this manga but I dislike grifters far more). MC is ok, unbothered but neither happy, thinks later that maybe it's time to move on and hops in a taxi ready to go to his new place to live and when he was getting sent off by Chizuru she just jumps in the taxi and gives him a deep kiss leaving him once again confused. A new arc is on going but still too early to make a TLDR about it.
Hope it helped you as much as it annoyed me to write lol.

Thank you for the detailed post. I haven't read it though. I have actively avoided KO as soon as i realized the MC reset after the movie arc...

 

[Wyrm666]

ShiSaku is the core premise, cheating happened, but in a mature romance forgiveness is another recurring theme sometimes. Honestly even if ShiSaku is restored, Shinobu and Sakura are nearing the peaks of their career in industry (supposedly, don't know about Sakura) so I don't think the manga would even have that much story left to tell regardless of the ships until we see more info.

Surely you mean Shikura!!

 

[diphuc1]

Surely you mean Shikura!!

That is indeed a better combination, I'll steal this!

 

[box2024]

Surely you mean Shikura!!

Never going to happen man you guys are going to be disappointed next chapter.

 

[Wyrm666]

At this point things ultimately end one of 3 ways

Sakura X shinobu

Fumi X shinobu

Or shinobu alone

Regardless how it ends I do not expect an interesting nor satisfying ending. Let alone one that makes people feel happy.

Shikura

Shifumi

Shilone

 

[diphuc1]

Never going to happen man you guys are going to be disappointed next chapter.

Been mentally prepared for that for a good while now, but my gut check i still screaming otherwise til I see it and so I'm just rolling with it. There's a chance Fumi gets rejected, and there's a chance there's more to Sakuraxfuckboi beyond the crumbs we were given.

 

[box2024]

I can't hate this commter

I'm a fan of Fumi-chan
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I want everyone to be happy. And I want them to reunite with smiles on their faces.
13 minutes ago

 

[Dirigibull]

Equally stupid to me is Shinobu agreeing to hook up with Fumi, the girl who caused the misunderstanding in the first place and made him lose Sakura. Even now his thoughts are full of Sakura so it'd be weird if he just accpeted. Would Airi do something dumb like this, maybe, but for now I'll maintain the slightest of faith, the truth needs to come to light, and hooking up with Fumi here reduces the chances of that happening to 0 effectively.

I don't think it matters. Fumi was essentially the "canary" in the proverbial coal mine. If the situation with Fumi didn't cause this, something else would inevitably trigger Sakura's promiscuity.

 

[diphuc1]

I don't think it matters. Fumi was essentially the "canary" in the proverbial coal mine. If the situation with Fumi didn't cause this, something else would inevitably trigger Sakura's promiscuity.

Likely so, alas Shikura til the bitter end. I blame editor-san

 

[box2024]

Yep this jp commenter gets it.

After doing all that, I don't think I can face him. Or rather, I hope she realizes she's a damn woman and suffers from regret and doubt from now on. The main character of this manga is Fumi-chan.
1 hour ago

 

[Wyrm666]

I don't even care who Shinobu ends up with, as long as Sakura has her "dafuq have i done" moment and he taps Fumi a couple of times. My boy deserves some dubyas at this point...