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asterlae · 2 days

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my dear dragon OC uwu

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asterlae · 2 days

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I'm looking forward to that post :)

I also have my own ideas but since I'm busy with college finals I haven't been able to organize them properly hehe

Some thoughts post ch 23 and bringing back an old tweet from Harusono as a lighthouse

Kagi setting the record straight, saying that "he's not a good little boy" I think is a way to get Hirano to get rid of the idea he has of him: that he is his “little brother” in the dorm. It's a good way to separate herself from the image of a child to be taken care of, letting him see that he wants to be his potential partner and that he's actually horny for him and isn't just looking for filial affection. All in all, this is the pass for Hirano to really understand what a romantic love implies (so far Kagi's advances have been very innocent, between holding hands and patting each other's hair... Dude realize that Kagi is a boy with urges).

Kagi has been struggling too with his internalized view of romantic love which we have been shown much more of in the story) going from idealizing romantic love as his parents (a relationship like friends), to actually feeling a romantic love that at first does not let him sleep, and now only allows him to long for physical contact with his partner. This has also been hard and he has had to understand little by little how that love feels like and that it is very different from what he felt with his old girlfriend (I'll give myself a license, I think at most he reach 1st base with her).

During the last chapters we have had more panels of Kagi looking bigger/manlier and I don't think it is only because of the improvement in Harusono's drawing skills, it is also the approach she has been giving, for example, highlighting more the physical difference between them, mentioning much more that he is popular among girls in addition to the fact that explicitly in the novel they mention that for Kagi's 2nd year, he looks much more masculine through Kuresawa's eyes

I think sensei has been showing us little by little this less childish Kagi, as if we were discovering him at the same time as Hirano, and the truth is that I love to see that we finally have some more development for this character.

And this is where I remember an old tweet from Harusono (sadists v/s masochists which tells us who like to tease and who like to being teased)

Ok, in the chart we see that Kagi is the most inclined to the S (excluding the dorm manager), but Hirano is still inclined to that side, and sensei even mentions that he might be even more to the left in this graph.

I don't know what to expect anymore (I have too many ideas going around), but my hopes for the next chapters are: that they start "trying to date”, drop the 10 second rule (Kagi had already used it in the morning and then in the afternoon again insisted on it, so this rule has slowly been ignored) and finally Hirano was the one who took the initiative, without waiting for Kagi to ask for his touches.

Could this trigger Hirano's curiosity about Kagi's past love?

Inevitably I make the comparison with SSMY. In chapter 23/24 they are at the school festival, and Sasaki locks Miyano in the classroom to talk to him, where they chat and he only comes over to hug him.

But in HRKG they put more emphasis on the physical side of the relationship (at this point, it seems to me that it portrays quite well the effervescence of adolescence where things are experienced more intensely), so the hugs and shy approaches already happened, So I think that to allow this story to move forward, slow burn must take a step aside.

But...

To what extent can Harusono develop a story where the sexual awakening of its characters is treated? (don't get me wrong, I don't mean something explicit, but considering they are love stories, I think it's a natural part of relationships, and I personally believe that she’s given us several clues that she wants to take the stories to that development), then, what are the creative freedom that can be taken in this regard considering the demographics of the magazine where they are published?? Since she mentioned the +18 fanbox, which then unfortunately was canceled, I have the doubt of what both the publisher and his editors allow her to do, because I see that although the stories of SSMY and HRKG are by the same author, same school and characters, the stories develop at a very different pace, and I think that in the case of HRKG the physical component is something that has been from the beginning as a natural part of its dynamics.

So what can we expect for the future?

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asterlae · 2 days

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Op I love this so much, I just love reading this kind of post, it helps me a lot to organize better my own thoughts

I do thing that the next chapters are going to start exploring more of that sexual aspect of a relationship(? But I hope that we are going to start seeing more of hirano's perspective on that since in the latest chapters we have been seeing him become more like, aware of kagiura(? Like, for example that part in chapter 20 where kagi positions himself over hirano when he's laying on the floor, and then when kagiura goes out of the room hirano is thinking about how he thought that kagi was going to touch him and immediately he blushes a lot.

My perspective is that hirano is in a similar stage to when kagiura was just starting to understand the kind of affection that niibashi was talking about, definitely not the same as after they did the lap pillow thing but in the begining of all that think.