Down Euphie! Anis is still tired after last night so give her a little break ;)

Ganbare Shamiko! Become a demon that snuggles your magical girl until she smiles at you!

^And the Goddess of Yuri is protecting her! Madoka will save her one way or another. And we probably shouldn't operate under the assumption Nina is definitely gonna crash lol

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Could've been great if it had another couple of episodes to better develop this relationship and the plot in general

Gotcha. So basically nothing like A Room for Two.

Well if we're going with silly comparisons, it's pretty much Attack On Titan but with no titans, fighting, or genocide.

Or...hear me out...they could've expected pornhwa and the "bare bones, only there as an way to facilitate the sex scenes" plot we can expect from porn.

No desire to check this out but I've seen several people get bent out of shape over it, which confuses me because I thought this was a pornhwa.

Why would anyone expect a decent story from porn and then get upset when it doesn't deliver one?

Off topic, but I'm happy to see Shuukura pop the posting cherry of an 11 year old account.

^I'll be waiting with bated breath. Love the Shuukura girls!

As someone who only started playing Star Rail last week, I ship them so hard. Second only to BronSeele.
Seems toxic tho.

Also that tag has me scratching my head. Is there anybody that calls her Yuuko other than her mother?

Does her mother even call her that?

Ganbare Shamiko! Become a demon who can beat your beloved magical girl in BJJ!

Oh gosh this is too cute.

DV is bad, mmkay? With that out of the way, my headcanon is Momoka likes riling Nina up so that she pushes Momoka down and gets rough with her.

I saw someone compare Shuukura with Adashima in the manga thread and I can probably only agree with maybe half of it. They might both be slow burns and the both switch POVs but their styles and focus are completely different.

I'm the one who made the comparison, and it was at the request of someone looking to be sold on Shuukura and was not intended to be literary analysis.
My point was they are alike insofar as they both focus on the somewhat dysfunctional relationship of two seemingly neurodivergent leads.
AdaShima has more SoL with emotional/dramatic moments here and there. Shuukura pretty much reverses that equation with less SoL and a focus on more emotional/dramatic content. (I called this angst in my comment).

Yes if you want to get in the weeds, our Shuukura leads have deeply seeded issues that are the driving force for much of their behavior. Adachi from AdaShima also shares this trait, but the story puts Adachi on the road to recovery much faster than Miyagi and Sendai. The Shuukura girls hide their trauma and avoid prying into each other's so it continues to fester and cause issues between them. I didn't touch on this because it was requested I avoid spoilers.

For why I chose AdaShima as a point of comparison instead of Arioto:

1. AdaShima and Shuukura are both much better written than Arioto (Watanare is the superior Teren Mikami work). As someone trying to "sell" Shuukura, it's better to compare it with the superior work.

2. Arioto is primarily a comedy, which is even further removed from Shuukura's drama focus than the SoL of AdaShima. I do recall Sexual Assault-chan from Arioto having some issues in her past, but they weren't too severe and didn't guide her behavior like what we see with Miyagi, Sendai, and Adachi.

2b. I recall the MC and SA-chan from Arioto both being relatively neurotypical, unlike the leads from Shuukura or AdaShima.

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I wouldn't be so optimistic as to think this manga will adapt the whole LN.

Case in point, Arioto adapted only volume 1 of the LN

A complete manga adaptation would be great (though unlikely) and it's fourth on my Shuukura wishlist after:

1. The author finishing the WN and not abandoning it.

2. A complete LN adaptation.

3. An anime adaptation (I can dream!)

I'm always worried about WNs being abandoned but hopefully that won't happen with it seemingly doing pretty well. I can't link sales numbers but have seen it place well in some Japanese polls.

except one's extremely shallow reading of the other as a generic popular girl.

This will be a plot point for both POV characters

Is there a way to explain what's so appealing about it without spoiling?

I think a lot of what makes this great comes from the internal monologue, which I do fear won't translate well to manga.
We alternate POV between Miyagi and Sendai every few chapters and both have emotional hangups about deepening their relationship. Reading them work through them and slowly progress the relationship is both rewarding and frustrating at times.

I'd say it's similar to Adachi to Shimamura by having 2 seemingly neurodivergent protagonists kind of bumble about their relationship with each other. But Shuukura is spicier and does a fantastic job of writing emotionally intimate and (slight spoiler) sexually intimate scenes.

I also prefer the laser focus on Sendai and Miyagi's relationship over the detours we get with the side couple and alien in Adachi to Shimamura.

In short, if you like Adachi to Shimamura but wish it had a bit more spice, angst, and focus on the main couple's progress, this is exactly what you're looking for.

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Since nobody else has linked it, here's the novelupdates page:
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/story-about-buying-my-classmate-once-a-week/

Read Amawashi group until 61 which is their latest chapter. It's a solid human TL.
After that you have the option of jumping over to Story Seedling, but it's barely edited MTL.

So glad this has gotten a manga and a translator picked it up. It's been possibly my favorite yuri for quite awhile now.

I'll be shocked if this goes into kinky territory. But it will increase the antics that both couples get up to and cause us to lose even further interest in the other 2 couples because these 4 are so much more interesting.

the romance is Sorawo and Toriko being weird in ways that make them seem unsuitable for most 'normal' people but make them ideal for each other and for the Otherside

Totally agree and I'm a sucker for these types of romances. When there's at least one girl in the couple that's a disaster it makes me smile and think "Thank god she loves her because ain't no way anyone else is putting up with her shit".

Though in this story, Sorawo could totally pull Akari if she felt so inclined. But I think just about every reader would agree that Sorawo and Toriko are so much better together (and not just because of Otherside).

Falin with the extra thicness and the extra leg

^So many things are great about the ship. The height gap + Momoka having a bit of a top personality that folds under Nina's relentless aggression. Also that Momoka likes getting Nina riled up. Ahhh I love them to pieces

Nina's found that the choker is a height equalizer

^"Momoka-san, isn't it amazing how strong my hand got from learning barre chords?"

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