GraPara! - Vol. 14 Ch. 136 - Grapara!

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I assume comment talking about the going from Fumi back to Sakura...oomf. "Things got too awkward" line from Fumi was something, and probably the same thing happened between Sakura and Fucboi offscreen after she took that first offer. The writing is bad but the "parallels" are still there, Shinobu with that FAWKING PEN, and Sakura putting on the necklace Shinobu got for her.

Honestly though, even if they didn't force a ShiKura ending, having only seven chapters to follow up on something like that is tough. Some of the chapters went ok'ish but the last two ended up being the worst, and throughout all of it still not a single conversation between the two MC's on panel (they probably met up a few times for planning before the ending shoot we see).
Or it was about it going to full netorare at least that what I thought he was saying that really ruined the whole flow of the story.
 
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Security flaw required chunks of internet to go into maint for a bit is the loose summary.

On a side note, I swear some of these NTR only artists must've read GraPara and gotten purified or something. Mikage's latest works being a wholesome ahh doujins.

Also also, "Hounta Wa Watashi ga Ii Desho" didn't full commit, MC stays winning since both girls want him and the other guy gets left hanging apparently, it's a bit weird now.
Do you think the other ntr author's might of gotten so purified that they will start making good ending version of their work were the rapist ntr guy lose's?
 
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I assume comment talking about the going from Fumi back to Sakura...oomf. "Things got too awkward" line from Fumi was something, and probably the same thing happened between Sakura and Fucboi offscreen after she took that first offer. The writing is bad but the "parallels" are still there, Shinobu with that FAWKING PEN, and Sakura putting on the necklace Shinobu got for her.

Honestly though, even if they didn't force a ShiKura ending, having only seven chapters to follow up on something like that is tough. Some of the chapters went ok'ish but the last two ended up being the worst, and throughout all of it still not a single conversation between the two MC's on panel (they probably met up a few times for planning before the ending shoot we see).
Fumi was most likely meant the be the female version of the fucboi, but their personality's ended up so different that they do not come off as being male and female version of each other
 
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On a side note, I swear some of these NTR only artists must've read GraPara and gotten purified or something. Mikage's latest works being a wholesome ahh doujins.
The Mikage one is really good, i saw part 2 a few days ago... It's probably selling way better than his NTR work, since it will obviously continue, judging by the ending.
I think i also saw like 2-3 more NTR artists going vanilla recently. My only real guess is people got sick of the stale over used plot all of them constantly use, so the sales are not on the level the artists want. It's hard to be unique in that genre to satisfy their fans, while in vanilla it's really easy. Slap a cute or cool sexy girl, do a wholesome setup, profit. Then add another girl for a threesome in the next few parts and profit even more lol

But one thing is funny, all of them reassure the fans on the last page/twitter that these works will stay NTR free... Maybe this is the real "Grapara effect" :lul:
 
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Fumi was most likely meant the be the female version of the fucboi, but their personality's ended up so different that they do not come off as being male and female version of each other
This is an interesting thought, and it maintains Airi's parallels agenda, but Fumi and Fucboi really did not mirror one another well lmao. It'd be a stretch but you could say Fumi throwing herself as Shinobu when he was still a bit hung up on Sakura sort of tracks with what Fucboi did, but the difference here is that Shinobu's mental state wasn't exactly 1 to 1 with Sakura's since he's had more time to reflect, so the setup wasn't perfect. Even if it was, fan reception wouldn't change.
The Mikage one is really good, i saw part 2 a few days ago... It's probably selling way better than his NTR work, since it will obviously continue, judging by the ending.
I think i also saw like 2-3 more NTR artists going vanilla recently. My only real guess is people got sick of the stale over used plot all of them constantly use, so the sales are not on the level the artists want. It's hard to be unique in that genre to satisfy their fans, while in vanilla it's really easy. Slap a cute or cool sexy girl, do a wholesome setup, profit. Then add another girl for a threesome in the next few parts and profit even more lol

But one thing is funny, all of them reassure the fans on the last page/twitter that these works will stay NTR free... Maybe this is the real "Grapara effect" :lul:
Mikage is growing on me, pretty sure part 3 will happen. The note at the end to assure fans there will be absolutely no NTR was hilarious.
Do you think the other ntr author's might of gotten so purified that they will start making good ending version of their work were the rapist ntr guy lose's?
Very few do, if any. Mikage for example won't go back to his NTR works and change anything. The one's that do either had a plan in mind from or wanted to appease vanilla enjoyers that got somehow baited by tags. Off the top of my head I think only Ichinomiya Yuu, and Syuukurin have done someting to that effect, although the "true end" for Syuukurin's Kimi na wa doujin ended up being NTR anyway lmfao.
Or it was about it going to full netorare at least that what I thought he was saying that really ruined the whole flow of the story.
Yea I probably overthought it a bit. It's all fun and games playing with NTR bait in a manga till the creator ends up eating their own bait I guess. If it must happen, it needed to be way earlier to leave more room for the after effects because there were way too many holes even if Airi tried her best after...
 
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Same. It's also interesting that in his main NTR story he gave a happy ending to the cucked husband, and punished the wife and the bastard. That already proved he was switching it up... Then this vanilla work happened and was a straight up win!
Maybe I got the wrong work but didn't the "One week of Love Over 10 Years" have that bad ending where the wife leaves him completely in the end by part 3.
 
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Maybe I got the wrong work but didn't the "One week of Love Over 10 Years" have that bad ending where the wife leaves him completely in the end by part 3.
If I remember correctly, there's a time jump at the end where we learn that the MC separated from the FMC because he suspected the daughter wasn't his (wise decision). I think the MC ended up alone, and that FMC bitch remarried and lived happily ever after with her daughter. I don't remember much, but I think that's how it ended.
 
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If I remember correctly, there's a time jump at the end where we learn that the MC separated from the FMC because he suspected the daughter wasn't his (wise decision). I think the MC ended up alone, and that FMC bitch remarried and lived happily ever after with her daughter. I don't remember much, but I think that's how it ended.
I see! I did some more digging and found the epilogue+ bit which I missed. MC found his own happy family with an unnamed new girl and it looks like at some point we'll be getting a part 4 centered around FMC and her daughter because Mikage really likes Mizuki.

The bull got the worst ending, will be interesting where the story decides to go for part 4 though, I predict FMC will find a nice new man that'll support her and her daughter. Reconnecting with both MC or the bull seems like an odd decision, would have to be some really weird plot points for that to happen.
 
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I see! I did some more digging and found the epilogue+ bit which I missed. MC found his own happy family with an unnamed new girl and it looks like at some point we'll be getting a part 4 centered around FMC and her daughter because Mikage really likes Mizuki.

The bull got the worst ending, will be interesting where the story decides to go for part 4 though, I predict FMC will find a nice new man that'll support her and her daughter. Reconnecting with both MC or the bull seems like an odd decision, would have to be some really weird plot points for that to happen.
I think our best guess is it will be reverse NTR, where FMC sleeps with her daughters boyfriend... And they just end up sharing the guy lol


Btw. isn't it about time we get the cover for the last Grapara vol? If i remember correctly the last one also came out some time before the release. I wonder who will have the balls to post it first :lul:
 
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I think our best guess is it will be reverse NTR, where FMC sleeps with her daughters boyfriend... And they just end up sharing the guy lol


Btw. isn't it about time we get the cover for the last Grapara vol? If i remember correctly the last one also came out some time before the release. I wonder who will have the balls to post it first :lul:
Well I googled it and holy shit the ntr was controversial apparently there are some issues between the writer Arir and the artist.

Which may be why it seemed like vol. 13 cover was AI generated so now I wonder if it was? Has no cover yet.
 
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Well I googled it and holy shit the ntr was controversial apparently there are some issues between the writer Arir and the artist.

Which may be why it seemed like vol. 13 cover was AI generated so now I wonder if it was? Has no cover yet.
Damn, looks like it actually did burn some bridges. No wonder Airi is pretty much silent...

I also thought that cover was AI at first! Like the black hair on Sakura out of nowhere was a dead giveaway that something wasn't right. I still remember the discussions about it, how it was meant to be a the contrast of those two... But that all fell apart when Fumi was thrown under the bus.

Also, i checked Grapara's official X... IT'S DEAD!
Nothing was posted for 2 months, it didn't promote vol 13 at all, even though it did all the other vol before it lol
 
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Damn, looks like it actually did burn some bridges. No wonder Airi is pretty much silent...

I also thought that cover was AI at first! Like the black hair on Sakura out of nowhere was a dead giveaway that something wasn't right. I still remember the discussions about it, how it was meant to be a the contrast of those two... But that all fell apart when Fumi was thrown under the bus.

Also, i checked Grapara's official X... IT'S DEAD!
Nothing was posted for 2 months, it didn't promote vol 13 at all, even though it did all the other vol before it lol
That's crazy because the artist before all this felt lke an Airi super fan. Wonder how it felt getting the idea from Airi + Editor and then having to work on it even if they didn't like the idea. It's all done and dusted now but I wonder if they're both working on the bonus or if it's just one of them.
 
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That's crazy because the artist before all this felt lke an Airi super fan. Wonder how it felt getting the idea from Airi + Editor and then having to work on it even if they didn't like the idea. It's all done and dusted now but I wonder if they're both working on the bonus or if it's just one of them.
Well it could have been wrong sense it was pulling information from reddit and I don't consider them to be a form of accurate information on grapara.
 
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Damn, looks like it actually did burn some bridges. No wonder Airi is pretty much silent...

I also thought that cover was AI at first! Like the black hair on Sakura out of nowhere was a dead giveaway that something wasn't right. I still remember the discussions about it, how it was meant to be a the contrast of those two... But that all fell apart when Fumi was thrown under the bus.

Also, i checked Grapara's official X... IT'S DEAD!
Nothing was posted for 2 months, it didn't promote vol 13 at all, even though it did all the other vol before it lol
I have the belief that the covers of volumes 12 and 13 are very different from the previous ones, as if they had changed the design too much idk.
 
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Well it could have been wrong sense it was pulling information from reddit and I don't consider them to be a form of accurate information on grapara.
Fair to take it with a grain of salt. I think if there was any sort of real fall-out there would've been a much longer break, but who knows since they decided to drop the axe anyway. The ending still felt like it was Airi writing (never read any of the Artist's originals) enough even though the last two chapters were a bit on the deeper end weird/incoherent writing.
 
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Fair to take it with a grain of salt. I think if there was any sort of real fall-out there would've been a much longer break, but who knows since they decided to drop the axe anyway. The ending still felt like it was Airi writing (never read any of the Artist's originals) enough even though the last two chapters were a bit on the deeper end weird/incoherent writing.
I agree that it's by Airi, the ending felt similar to Megami to Ichinen (this one much better developed).
 
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Kodansha website has pushed back the release date for volume 14 to December 4th. https://www.kodansha.co.jp/comic/products/0000435237
The fact that they've postponed the release of the final volume by another month only means that Kodansha didn't like the final version at all, and perhaps forced Katsura to rewrite some scenes.

There are many creative differences between Kodansha and Katsura. I think the extra scenes were originally intended for chapter 129, but Kodansha flatly refused and forced her to rewrite it.
 
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Kodansha website has pushed back the release date for volume 14 to December 4th. https://www.kodansha.co.jp/comic/products/0000435237
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There's no way they will change shit... :lul:
 

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