I read this chapter next to my friend while she was on call with her boyfriend talking about PINPONPANPON and I kept going "OHOHOHO" and giggling with my eyebrows raised. Like this was not even remotely scandalous but the sheer "damn Asumi is GOIN THRU Mai" was nuts

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Asumi: plankton voice I don’t know I didn’t think I’d get this far.

life could be dream.
you can top and bottom.
flowers are blooming in the meadow.

Asumi: plankton voice I don’t know I didn’t think I’d get this far.

In both triumph and tragedy, dog catches car.

I think the comments are conflating romantic attraction and sex too much for this story. It's very unlikely Asumi would stop seeing the others, just like Mai isn't going to drop her job for her.

But romantically, Mai has always been the one Asumi was searching for.

It's unfortunate that multiple girls seem to have developed feelings for Asumi specifically, while there's been no indication of them developing similar feelings for anyone else. That makes it uncomfortably and disappointingly harem-like, since the story treats these girls as "romantically available to Asumi" without giving them romantic stories of their own. In that respect, Nanao got the better end of the deal : she moved on romantically and seems pretty happy being FWB.

What saved the story from that dynamic so far was Asumi's focus on Mai. It doesn't change the fact that the other characters were done dirty, but having a clear romantic objective made it easier to look past.

And I still think that's how it should, and hopefully will, end. If the story ends with multiple girls whose romantic lives revolve exclusively around Asumi, they're being treated less as independent characters and more as props for her romantic harem.

That's what makes Asumi's reaction to Mai's confession worrying.

well in my opinion, I kinda feel like she would be better off with either serina or sayaka since nanao and her seem to be fine with fwb.

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For me then end would be Asumi working at the lesbian brothels with Mai, and having Serina and Nanao as regular clients.

Asumi working at the lesbian brothel

At last, Senpai would be able to bag her!

Mai U-Hauling it for someone she's met 2 or 3 times as an adult.

in real life both of these would be such red flags for each other

"we haven't seen each other but I've been obsessed since that one kiss in middle school"

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HUH

Looks like it could end soon. She has found Mai, and if they become a couple now it will probably end soon

Looks like it could end soon. She has found Mai, and if they become a couple now it will probably end soon

Definitely could be, although with that ending and the way things were left with Nanao and some of the other girls, I wouldn’t be surprised if we get a few more chapters of Asumi trying to sort out her own feelings.

I thought I didn't care at all about the whole finding Mai plotline. I always looked at it as simply the plot device that allows brothel shenanigans to ensue. However, even for me that chapter was oddly gratifying. I am a bit surprised however that this coupling didn't last longer! Nanao's first time went for multiple chapters so I definitely thought we'd see a bit more back and forth for this one and not just Mai utterly bottoming out after all this time.

I am a bit surprised however that this coupling didn't last longer!

Mai needs a stamina-building training arc.

don't lose hope Nanaochads, true love will prevail.

The training arc sure paid off!

don't lose hope Nanaochads, true love will prevail.

Asumi has two hands, and she knows how to use them...

Sorry, I know this is old but... (about the absence of scissoring)

Tribadism has appeared a few times, there were a few pages during Asumi's first time with Nanao and prior to that with Rita [including the only panel in scissoring position, I believe], the latter instance likely inspiring Asumi to recommend it to Nanao.

Mai's "online-profile" actually lists her as a (top-leaning) switch already. Considering how much 'being cool' matters to her, I can see how being absolutely demolished by Asumi might hurt her self-image, I mean girlypop came from making out (even if she was kissing girl-kisser extrordinaire Asumi).

A thing I've been meaning to post about for a while, is some instances of Asumi's growth/her reacting to similar situations differently. I think I had more, but these are the ones I remember.

• The way Asumi greets Serina in chapter 33 shows how Sayaka's behaviour has rubbed off on her.
• Ouka's dramatic energy might also be rubbing off on Asumi [at least I cannot remember her being quite this dramatic earlier on, even when clenching her fist].
• Asumi predicting sexy-time, after Sayaka decides on a change in scenery, actually had some precedent from her date with Serina, who genuinely continued teaching her things in bed.
• Just Asumi having grown so comfortable with sex, that she is willing to "break protocol" and skip the shower [I'd argue, calling Mai's bluff counts].

Also something I like is that each of the girls in love with Asumi have different "love-stories".

• Mai's is a childhood crush, that simply never left [this probably also plays into her need to appear cool and reliable, since that was their dynamic. There is a childhood-panel somewhere, where Mai steps in as Asumi plays with a snake.]
• Serina fell in love, not quite at-first-sight, but in less than 3 hours upon meeting Asumi [120min session + walk to and leaving the hotel].
• Nanao, whilst initially somewhat put off by some of Asumi's habits, fell in love through hanging out with her.

The latter two have both shown a certain posessiveness of Asumi, so that should be fun in the future. [The most obvious cases for Serina are her response to learning that Asumi visits other hookers, in an audio only section of ASMR 2 and in the, yet to be translated, first volume 8 bonus chapter. Thus, no links.]

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The whole point of the story is Asumi trying to look for Mai based on her crush. Now Mai confesses to Asumi, Asumi seemed to be confused?

The whole point of the story is Asumi trying to look for Mai based on her crush. Now Mai confesses to Asumi, Asumi seemed to be confused?

It's called dramatic irony: Protagonist sets out to achieve a goal, but in the process changes to much that by the time they actually reach said goal, it no longer motivates them. The confusion is the part where their past understanding of what they wanted clashes in their mind with their new understanding of what they need now.

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Okay, I feel like a lot of you would do well to re-read chapter 1. Asumi's surprise at Mai's confession is entirely understandable.

• Mai used some TV-show -that featured a kissing scene- as an excuse to ask Asumi, if she'd want to try kissing her.

• She probably started questioning Mai's motives somewhat earlier, but we explicitly see her voice it when she's just under 13 years old¹. This is when Asumi decides, that she wants to meet up, so she might apologise for calling it bland, ask whether it was actually romantic and learns that she cannot contact her.

• The kiss happened when Mai was 12 and Asumi 9 about to turn 10. The story begins on Asumi's 20th birthday [April], chapter 33 tells us it is Autumn now. Thus, it has been about 10.5 years since that kiss.

• Mai has been a professional hooker for 3-ish years², by now. A profession somewhat ill-suited for romance, but which might appeal to people who enjoy kissing and sex "no strings attached".

¹The kiss happened shortly prior to Mai moving to the city, to enter junior-high school [Asumi says high school, but agewise this doesnt make sense]. In Japan junior-high starts with the 7th grade, when you're 12. The school year begins in mid-April, Asumi's birthday is April 20th so she turns 13 right after entering junior-high.

²Ouka was 18 when she was working at the brothel and saw Mai apply, she should be a college senior, but took a year off/failed thus still being a junior at 21 yesrs old. Thus about 3 years.

TLDR: Asumi was never sure whether that kiss meant something or was just a12 year-old being curious, it has been 10.5 years since that kiss and Mai has made kissing random women her profession since then. Cut our girl some slack.

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