Spoiler: Ajisai is an angel and best girl
(actually not a spoiler because it's obvious)

Amawashi Part 87: https://amawashigroup.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/part-87-the-routine-of-being-with-sendai-san-i/

Part 88: https://amawashigroup.wordpress.com/2024/10/11/part-88-the-routine-of-being-with-sendai-san-ii/

Part 89: https://amawashigroup.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/part-89-the-routine-of-being-with-sendai-san-iii/

We're getting into the thick of the WN chapters where Miyagi is struggling with her growing feelings for Sendai but she feels that will soon be coming to an end, so she should no longer indulge in those feelings.
The biggest example of this is how she's actively avoiding kissing Sendai. She can feel them grow closer with every kiss so she tries to stop. The kissing and other intimacy feels "wrong" because they shouldn't keep getting closer when they'll soon be forever parted.
Although in Part 87 it feels "wrong" because the arousal she's feeling is so new and scary.

I keep thinking about the line in Part 88:

Besides, being in her arms like that had felt just like――

With how Miyagi's abandonment issues are in focus right now, that's almost certainly Miyagi thinking back to when her mother held her. Just terribly sad. That poor girl needs all the love and affection in the world. Luckily Sendai is ready and willing to give it to her!

in 89 we saw how her thoughts are warped by abandonment issues. Part of her was wishing Sendai had already left instead of waiting for her when Miyagi stopped to buy ingredients. Miyagi probably thinks it'd be easier if Sendai pulled away first.
And of course Miyagi just cannot imagine a happy future with Sendai right now. Even though she's taking steps toward being near Sendai with her college exam application, she refuses to give voice to such thoughts. The brain can be cruel when it warps the way you think so you can't accurately perceive the reality around you.

I think this is the saddest stretch of Shuukura chapters. I can't remember how long it is until Sendai makes her move by getting them an apartment, but that marks the end of those sad times and it can't come soon enough.

JP WN Part 357: https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054894027232/episodes/16818093086973140577

I can't remember the last time Shuukura made me laugh out loud. Miyagi was all certain she was going to turn down Sendai about wearing yukata and then marches over to her room with that determination. Sendai gives her a soft smile and Miyagi immediately caves. Cute! :D

She’s smiling brightly, and it’s clear she’s really looking forward to the festival today. Though I don’t intend to say it’s for her sake, today’s festival is part of her birthday present, so I can overlook a few things.

I hope Miyagi's just being a bit tsundere. Please keep "overlooking" things when it makes Sendai happy!

So even if I have her help me put on the yukata, there’s no need for me to take off my clothes right here and now. Everything starts after I put on the hadajuban and susoyoke.

“Why? I’ll help you put those on too.”

Sendai-san says with a bright smile.

“I can do that myself. I researched it properly.”

“...Isn’t that unfair?”

She sounds displeased, but when I reply, “It’s not unfair. Just lend them to me,” she sighs as if resigned, pulling out a bag with white clothing from under the yukata.

Haha! Poor Sendai was really looking forward to Miyagi stripping down for her! Looks like Sendai needs to be bonked and sent to horny jail!

“You’re such a miser, Miyagi.”

Literally unreadable. ChatGPT has failed me.

But I’ve already had enough.

She’s too close, she’s touching me all over, and I can’t relax.

I breathe in and out. I kick her leg or pull her hair.

I keep doing trivial things to distract myself from the fluttering, restless feeling, and before I know it, she ties the obi and says, “Done,” in a satisfied voice.

The sexual tension is running high. I'll be surprised if they don't act on it after the festival date.

I'm really liking how the author is having them slowly share with their family trauma with each other. This is such a great way to show how they care for each other and are growing closer.

Festival date finally starts next chapter!

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JP WN Part 356: https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054894027232/episodes/16818093086542111607

Been a bit since I updated my blog this thread. I didn't even notice until now that Cataton had replied. Thanks for making it a bit less lonely in here! Also saw you made it over to Angela's discord server too! Yay!

The yukata prediction was an easy call to make. Though I didn't expect her to pull it from the 5000 yen fund. Sendai putting that big gay brain to use with the scheming to get Miyagi to wear yukata with her.

"I could keep moving my hand and take off her underwear, or I could press my lips to her body.

Sendai belongs to me entirely, so I can do whatever I want. She even said she’d do anything."

Miyagi sure made a quick transition from grumpy to horny. But she put on the brakes again.

“For the memory. We’re going to a festival together, so I want to do something different for a change. That kind of thing stays with you.”

Her words, which I don’t want to hear, reach my ears, and I squeeze my eyes shut.

The memories with Sendai pile up, remaining with me.

It’s not that I want to reject all of it, but I can’t catch up with my feelings. I can’t process the memories that Sendai keeps building.

Sendai always walks too fast, leaving me behind.

As I was reading Angela's recent chapters, which are putting Miyagi's abandonment issues front and center, I thought about how we haven't been touching on that subject as often in the recent JP chapters. I'm not sure if these thoughts of Miyagi's where's she can't "catch up with her feelings" are borne from those issues. I feel like this is more Miyagi coming to terms with being in love with Sendai and feeling overwhelmed by it.

Sendai leans against the bed with a resigned voice, muttering to herself, “So it’s no good, huh? What should I do with the yukata...”

She’s never forced me to do something I truly hated.

She’s always been that way.

And today is no different.

So, I won’t have to wear the yukata after all.

Relief washes over me, and I relax.

But at the same time, I feel a heaviness in my chest, as if the yukata on the bed has disappeared with her words.

I often feel like Miyagi doesn't prioritize Sendai's happiness enough, so it's nice to get a clear look into her thoughts where she's feeling guilt over disappointing Sendai. Sendai also isn't assertive enough and rarely pushes for things she wants when it's something Miyagi doesn't like. Hopefully this will be one of many examples of them improving on this going forward.

This felt like a return to form after a few kind of lackluster and short chapters recently. Hope this continues.

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Can't go wrong with a grumpy x sunshine pairing. Hope it stays relatively light-hearted.

Manatsu is a ray of sunshine that will TURN THAT FROWN UPSIDE DOWN for Sumie! :D

I relate more to the grumpy one, but we need happy positive people in our lives to raise our spirits.

There are so many will-they/won't-they stories on the site but so many of them get things wrong by taking the concept seriously, as drama. They can be infuriating to read because the stakes never escalate or change, and thus quickly become exhausting. This series understands the concept is fundamentally a comedic one and is all the richer for it.

bullshit. school zone>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>this

Well school zone is a comedy and this has recently become horror. :P

That first part with the animal ears felt like a bit of a fever dream. Second part was fun and cute.

The joke is she sniffs her.

I am thoroughly whelmed by this. Just whelmed. I'll still keep reading though.

^Yuck no thanks. Sorry for derailing this comment section because I wasn't seeing images I didn't want to see in the first place. Please ignore me and carry on.

^I didn't even bother signing in. I think R-18 content is hidden unless you're signed in? I rarely use Pixiv except for looking at fanart that links there, so I basically never sign in.
But I wasn't signed in when I looked earlier and there were 271 images instead of the 129 there now. So the conspiracy is still going strong :P

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My reaction after stalling on this manga a dozenish chapters ago but still checking the comments to see how it's progressing.
Don't think I'll be picking it back up anytime soon but the reaction sure is entertaining! Thanks y'all!

We've had a couple of flashbacks to Sumie's initial crush that will of course be a source of conflict, but I seriously doubt there will be much drama. From what we've seen, it was just a normal, unrequited crush that pretty much everyone has experienced at some time.
You start liking someone > sometimes it doesn't work out > you move on and then find someone else. Nothing out of the ordinary but Sumie will have to figure out that's just how love works.

Unless the manga decides to make an abrupt shift in its tone and make Sumie's relationship with that girl much more sketchy. Like she was an adult tutoring her when she was studying for HS exams and took advantage of her. I hope it doesn't go in that type of direction and seriously doubt it will.

^Something strange is going on. There were 271 images when I posted that link. There was 1 het pic on the first page and not another until like page 5.
Now when I click the link there are 129 images and several other het pics that I don't remember seeing. Still only a handful total and no male nudity though.

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Look man I fw you heavy, but there's no actual difference between nsfw/moderate amounts of sex and hentai, it all involves sexual situations, in fact, I see many if not all of the stuff that is tagged moderate... in here in Nhentai, with the rest of the hentai works like any other. just being on dynasty doesn't really means you won't ever read a hentai work here or the stuff tagged as "light" is not hentai because some moderator or uploader tagged it as such, it's up to consideration 100%, but yeah, I agree the tagging was the begining of this whole mess

Sure, I've seen plenty of what I'd call "hentai" on here, but I'd say most of what I see with NSFW and Moderate amounts of sex are just normal sex scenes in a manga and not what I'd call "hentai". I tend to stay away from the Lots of sex tag since that seems to be more along the lines of hentai and is not the type of content I'm here for.
I'm not one of the ones who initially complained (other than saying the dubious consent tag was just sexual assault), but I do sympathize with people who were surprised by content they weren't expecting and didn't want to see.

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I think it should be pointed out for anyone arguing "no need to get upset; it's just porn", that we didn't realize we were signing up to read porn when we read this. We're on Dynasty, not nhentai. Only difference between this and something you might find on there is it focuses on the naughty bits a bit less.
Neither NSFW or moderate amounts of sex indicate that this is clearly just a hentai plot. Also this was initially tagged dubious consent instead of rape.

I'm not saying this shouldn't be on here. Just that it should be taken under consideration that people didn't understand what they were getting into when they read this.

Perhaps a pretty much just porn tag would've tipped people off a bit better?

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^Maybe I'm looking at something different from y'all? I'm on desktop, no premium and not signed in, so no block on tags. 271 images and maybe 5 have a male in them, and none of them show the male's body: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/6210083/illustrations

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^??? I went through 5 pages of their illustrations and it's almost entirely solo shots of various MHA girls. No male genitalia in sight.

Sometimes the dubious consent tag is as advertised, and sometimes it's just outright sexual assault like in this one.

Now I’m racking my brain trying to remember which romance manga had a major “guy looks for lost hairpin in the snow” sequence.

And then trying to remember if those are the only two “lost hairpin” scenes I’ve read, or is it an actual trope I’ve seen other times?

Guy? Could you be thinking of BokuYaba? Ichikawa looks through the snow for a charm(?) that Yamada loses and they eventually find it hanging from a tree branch IIRC.

For yuri, I feel like that happened in a longer running series. A Room For Two or Hana ni Arashi? I may be way off the mark though.

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Makino literally flipping tables this chapter.

Do we know that girl that Hotaru is booking? She looks familiar but I know this manga suffers from a bit of same-face syndrome.

Manatsu is such a silly little goober. I'm loving all her cute little faces through the first 2 chapters.

There was another quick flashback of Sumie's old tutor(?) when she hugged Manatsu. She was definitely an old, likely unrequited, crush of Sumie's.
Sumie reminds me a bit of Mizusu from Tomo-chan. The same hairstyle and similar cold attitude.

Love this artist. Asta in a cute dress x Stelle in a suit is just chef's kiss.

Awww I love them. Such a great power couple.

A rare smiling Momoka is a treat. That gremlin probably has her grinning all the time.

Pretty damn funny but this feels more like a prank that Stelle would pull on someone. Kafka's always acting too cool for me to imagine her doing something goofy like this.

last edited at Oct 12, 2024 10:00AM