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

[Apollo_Ibis]

In the end, it's just a bad ending to a manga. Correction, a trainwreck at the end of a manga. We got these threads out of it, with 134 crossing 5500 comments, so.. atleast everything that came from this wasn't bad.. right?

Well yeah, most of these comments weren’t even about the manga. We just started goofing around at some point. That was the best part about this. Now we have to find a manga chapter that’s actually worth it to get 6000+ comments.

 

[MrPP118]

Alright, all things considered here's how next chapter can go:

1. Fumi goes all out to spite Shinobu/to let Shinobu see her, this backfires and Shinobu leaves her, at the same time, playboy fails to reach out and connect with Sakura, the conversation this chapter between playboy and blonde bitch was admitting defeat, Sakura and Shinobu somehow bump into each other after a timeskip, open ending where they smile at one another.

2. Shinobu doesn't get shocked and stops it, he's still the director, he pulls Fumi to one side and they talk it out, happy ending, playboy and Sakura staying together is irrelevant here but to satfisty me, playboy stays with Sakura and cucks himself watching her "act" with another man.

3. Fumi goes all out, Shinobu doesn't stop her and at the same time playboy is unable to stop Sakura, timeskip, Shinobu is alone, cuck ending where he watches porn of Sakura.

4. Same as one but instead of a timeskip, after Sakura leaves playboy she ends up running into Shinobu, timeskip and magically they are a couple again.

 

[ItzDonner]

Just a heads up to everyone enjoying this thread..

Real life is nothing like this. Fictional works often oversimplify real life to make their stories more compelling to the readers. In the case of grapara, Airi has taken the real life idea of misunderstandings leading to critical decisions being made in a flash by people whose minds are clouded by their feelings of betrayal and want for revenge, and cranked it to illogical levels.

People talk. Whenever they face a difficult situation, when they feel like they're not getting enough out of a relationship, hell, even when they're feeling sad about something, people will talk to their loved ones. Sure, there are people that don't.. but that's what you get when you only try to see the negative part of this. A vast majority do try to clear up these misunderstandings.. atleast from my personal experience.

Almost all these major events that happened in the last twenty chapters could've been solved if Airi wrote these characters to be human. But no! These are just two dimensional characters with a one dimensional train of thought. They're written to do this. They were doomed from the start.

Sure, we get some instances.. but those are outliers in the grand scheme of this manga. Sakura could have talked to Shinobu about him allegedly cheating on her. Fumi had a WHOLE MONTH to talk to Shinobu about what he thinks about her, and about his lingering feelings for Sakura, which would have led to this current shooting going normally..


But at last, we can only talk about how Grapara could've had a decent ending.. the work was doomed a lot earlier than this when Airi started to hyper focus on the NTR to make it in her vision. What she sees her characters as will remain a mystery. She's.. truly a special specimen.

In the end, it's just a bad ending to a manga. Correction, a trainwreck at the end of a manga. We got these threads out of it, with 134 crossing 5500 comments, so.. atleast everything that came from this wasn't bad.. right?

Thank you for the heads up man. Worry not we are just venting feelings. True happines in life is to never let things stress you out. If a story is bothering you stop reading. If a person is hurting you stop seeing them. If you are depressed search for help. The secret to happines is to always change what's bothering you. Thank you once again. Peace. Goodnight 😘

 

[Orpheus7]

Just a heads up to everyone enjoying this thread..

Real life is nothing like this. Fictional works often oversimplify real life to make their stories more compelling to the readers. In the case of grapara, Airi has taken the real life idea of misunderstandings leading to critical decisions being made in a flash by people whose minds are clouded by their feelings of betrayal and want for revenge, and cranked it to illogical levels.

People talk. Whenever they face a difficult situation, when they feel like they're not getting enough out of a relationship, hell, even when they're feeling sad about something, people will talk to their loved ones. Sure, there are people that don't.. but that's what you get when you only try to see the negative part of this. A vast majority do try to clear up these misunderstandings.. atleast from my personal experience.

Almost all these major events that happened in the last twenty chapters could've been solved if Airi wrote these characters to be human. But no! These are just two dimensional characters with a one dimensional train of thought. They're written to do this. They were doomed from the start.

Sure, we get some instances.. but those are outliers in the grand scheme of this manga. Sakura could have talked to Shinobu about him allegedly cheating on her. Fumi had a WHOLE MONTH to talk to Shinobu about what he thinks about her, and about his lingering feelings for Sakura, which would have led to this current shooting going normally..


But at last, we can only talk about how Grapara could've had a decent ending.. the work was doomed a lot earlier than this when Airi started to hyper focus on the NTR to make it in her vision. What she sees her characters as will remain a mystery. She's.. truly a special specimen.

In the end, it's just a bad ending to a manga. Correction, a trainwreck at the end of a manga. We got these threads out of it, with 134 crossing 5500 comments, so.. atleast everything that came from this wasn't bad.. right?

I can't believe this needs to be said in 2026. The world has gone mad to not be able to distinguish fiction from reality back in 2000 people understood fiction is fictionand that's that what went wrong

 

[ZeroBADartS]

honestly glad its ending. turned to shit.

 

[Des0]

To be honest, I can think of the way to salvage Chapter 135. Chapter 136 could open with Shinobu suddenly waking up in Fumi's room, revealing that the events at the end of Chapter 135 were nothing more than Shinobu's nightmare —similar to the scene where the bald guy suddenly wakes up in Karami Zakari. After that, Shinobu and Fumi could immediately sit down and clear up their misunderstanding.

But I don't believe Katsura Airi would write it that way. At this point, I'm convinced she'll choose the path that leads to the most disastrous outcome for Grapara.

Or it could be that Shinobu wakes up after a time skip, having become a film director who manipulates actresses that resemble Sakura and Fumi into having sex with him.

 

[master-34]

Yuma said that he forced Himalayan on Sakura that would give the implacation that Sakura was raped witch goes against the story that has her do it out of her own free will, also in pretty much the majority of mangas would treat Yuma as a rapist and the characters he said that to would hate him

 

[master-34]

The characters are like completely different characters and act like they are from completely different story's

 

[Loliconi]

I think it is time for Airi to move onto other hobbies, writing ain‘t it after yet another massive disappointment.

There were quite some very weak points in this series but the final 10 chapters have read like the worst random hentai trash. What a let down.

 

[ZeroBADartS]

yeah they should stick to porn.
do they even have a editor? legit question.

 

[diphuc1]

Alright, all things considered here's how next chapter can go:

1. Fumi goes all out to spite Shinobu/to let Shinobu see her, this backfires and Shinobu leaves her, at the same time, playboy fails to reach out and connect with Sakura, the conversation this chapter between playboy and blonde bitch was admitting defeat, Sakura and Shinobu somehow bump into each other after a timeskip, open ending where they smile at one another.

2. Shinobu doesn't get shocked and stops it, he's still the director, he pulls Fumi to one side and they talk it out, happy ending, playboy and Sakura staying together is irrelevant here but to satfisty me, playboy stays with Sakura and cucks himself watching her "act" with another man.

3. Fumi goes all out, Shinobu doesn't stop her and at the same time playboy is unable to stop Sakura, timeskip, Shinobu is alone, cuck ending where he watches porn of Sakura.

4. Same as one but instead of a timeskip, after Sakura leaves playboy she ends up running into Shinobu, timeskip and magically they are a couple again.

I like most of this

 

[bovtvip123]

Guys stop coping and believing that the story is gonna end what you want, Airi Katsura is a terrible writer she can’t write for shit, if she was a good writer this story would have received many good feed back but instead is getting dunked on by everyone

 

[diphuc1]

Fumi will leave Shinobu because she knows he will never love her. In opposite, don't you think fucboy can be ignored by Sakura and know he will never win her heart? For how long?

There is no relationship to keep? I do believe both Sakura x fucboy and Shinobu x Fumi are one-time sex as the story portrayed that they didn't live together. (Mio gave Sakura a ride) They didn't stay close to each other or contact each other every day like lovers. If Sakura is fucboy's lover, she can call him to ask on the day she received the offer, not visited him at his place with a different dress (seem to be the other day). So, fucboy's priority is low. If you're lover, you'll call your partner to ask immediately, not to wait for a few day and visit him to ask.

With a gap of relationship like this, it won't last long. No regular meeting. Still call each other with respect (Sakura changed from Yuma-kun to Yuma-san). Though Sakura won't leave him, she won't contact him daily as lovers. How long the fucboy stand being nobody to Sakura?

For sex, with the relationship like this, do you think Fumi or fucboy can call Shinobu or Sakura and say "hey, come to my room tonight after work and let's have sex."? Both Sakura and Shinobu won't accept that invitation because they're not a prostitute. LOL

So, both Sakura and Shinobu had one-time sex (implied by the meeting of Nagi and Mio) and never said "I love you" to fucboy or Fumi. Both Sakura x fucboy and Shinobu x Fumi relationship are easy to break at any time. It's not a relationship of lovers, not at all.

Sooner or later, fucboy will break up with Sakura and Fumi will fade off Shinobu also. Maybe, we'll see it in chapter 136 after the timeskip. If they're not going to break up, why chapter 135 spent many priceless panels to show the weak relationship thru the immoral conversation of fucboy and the blond ?

The author (may be Keishi Nishikida sensei now) wants to show us fucboy relationship is callapsing, right? Maybe after time skip, both Shinobu and Sakura will become single. I believe KN sensei took care of the ending now because Airi Katsura (sensei) concentrates to her Comiket participation. I mean they already reached an agreement on the ending. However, the power is in the hand of the artist because manga is the drawings, not just the story like novels.

@diphuc1 I don't know Sakura and Shinobu will meet but I'm sure they'll become single. To be reminded, Shinobu and Sakura haven't met or contacted each other since chapter 127 (the last chapter in volume 13). It's 9 chapters now! If they didn't meet in chapter 136, they won't meet in whole volume 14.

Is it a rom-com manga? LOL

Them not meeting in 136 would make it pretty original in the end is the angle I guess.

 

[Orpheus7]

Yeah I definitely notice the vague posting from comments that say "story stunk and author bad" but provides no reason or explanation

While I'm here throwing chapters and examples and explanations
I will say that the story could've been better yes but the hate is so insane it's not even that bad .
It's like a 6~7 but everyone is acting like it's a 1 - 4 only based off the only 5 chapters everyone read .

 

[diphuc1]

Yeah I definitely notice the vague posting from comments that say "story stunk and author bad" but provides no reason or explanation

While I'm here throwing chapters and examples and explanations
I will say that the story could've been better yes but the hate is so insane it's not even that bad .
It's like a 6~7 but everyone is acting like it's a 1 - 4 only based off the only 5 chapters everyone read .

Well the way I see it, story is still storying for 1 more chapter, and overall it has been good if we take the sum of it all (to me). So I'll still cope along in my own way. I find the way KA writes to be sometimes interesting and different from the usual NTR creators and I'm still curious to see what KA believes qualifies as an ending to this one. Ending feels like it should be straightforward with 1 more chapter but I have more fun here believing in the more unlikely (ShiKura) until reality comes knocking.

 

[DriaReader]

UH OH... we need a new heroine, better luck next time soldiers

 

[Apollo_Ibis]

People are starting to become a little unhinged.

Fumi and Sakura are both in mainstream films. They're not doing JAV or explicit scenes. This is standard drama in stories involving actors. This is standard comedy in high-school rom-coms (ex. school play arcs).

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.
Her boyfriend doesn't because he doesn't want her to be typecast as that sort of actor.

The conflict in Shinobu's plotline is whether Fumi should have her nude debut. She wants to because she wants him to look at her and for his project to succeed. He doesn't because he doesn't want his girlfriend acting out scenes like that nor does he think her sacrificing herself is right.

Next chapter, the final one, is easy enough to wrap up when you calm down a little and remember what is actually happening.

I wish it was that easy, but no one knows what’s real or not once they’re under the sheets.

 

[Alsatia]

Yeah I definitely notice the vague posting from comments that say "story stunk and author bad" but provides no reason or explanation

While I'm here throwing chapters and examples and explanations
I will say that the story could've been better yes but the hate is so insane it's not even that bad .
It's like a 6~7 but everyone is acting like it's a 1 - 4 only based off the only 5 chapters everyone read .

Yea I agree! The ranking of this shouldn't be that low. It has its moments but I don't think it deserved the hate. Well kinda... I do see where people are coming from with it and I even have my own gripes about it but still.

Honestly, in my opinion, what could have saved this manga was if we get that cut off from chapter 128 and open up with the events of 130. Leave 129 ambiguous and as a "did she? did she not?" moment of tension. I think we can agree that it was that chapter that broke most readers. I wasn't a fan of it myself but, like other media, I got over it. Now I'm numb to seeing it when it comes to the emotions.

I would have liked to see the story keep going. The art to get better. The sex scenes to be spicier, the characters to be more developed and go through more situations. Everyone is confident all the backlash got the story axed but, while likely, I wouldn't be surprised if this was intended.

Thinking on it, I think I'll keep up with what KA does, even if she can't get this artist again, it's not like her own drawing is terrible. The art is good in the doujin is really good in her "Entanglement" story (I can't memorize the JP name for some reason lol) as I've read the uncensored versions. So I won't be disappointed if she's drawing her next story.

It's sad to see GraPara ending but if it gets an anime or a sequel I won't push it away honestly.

 

[kohakusan]

Wait what? LAST CHAPTER? This manga is so shit it doesn't even setup an actual ending wtf

 

[FillerKiller420]

That time I was trapped in a manga where I have to kiss random dudes because I am angry