Nana to Kaoru (Nana and Kaoru's SM diary)

[CygnusX]

http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=22343

Another manga of Amazume Ryuta, the same author as Toshiue no Hito (An older woman)

Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Mature, Romance, School Life

Kaoru is a 17-year old virgin who has a SM fetish. He always dreams about a SM relationship with his childhood friend Nana. One day Kaoru's mom decides to hide all his SM toys so he'll study for a change, by asking Nana to hide his toys. Nana finds the leather one-piece that Kaoru bought and tries it on but she accidentally locks it and doesn't have the key!

After reading "Toshiue no Hito" and wanting more, I looked for mangas from the same author. This one piqued my interest. A manga about SM without being hentai?

I was very pleasantly surprised. Every chapter is funny, lets me tremble from excitement and makes me want to know more about what will happen, since the end of each chapter usually is a major cliffhanger.

It's a pity that only 8 chapters are out so far, but chapters release on a pretty regular basis, about twice a month. I hope it will stay like this and keeps on getting translated.

For sure, this one scores very high on my reading-list and I recommend this to anyone who likes romance manga's but wants something different than the often too-much-stretched struggle for a couple to get together, instead skip to the exciting part of a relationship and at the same time stay within the boundaries of ecchi manga, not hentai.

[ZODDGUTS]

Yeah been enjoying reading this manga love how the romance is being handle in this series quite different with the whole S&M having a major part of it.

I wonder if they'll introduce another character so that they'll be a love triangle. Wouldn't be suprise if the class president actually likes Nana and will ask her out. Maybe this will cause Kaoru to be a bit more extreme maybe they'll be whipping involve during one of the "breather's".

[Ultenth]

Ch 9 just came out. Been following this one for a bit. Never been much into S&M, but I love the way the mangaka presents it, does a really amazing job of building tension and a proper mood. I'd love to see more of this and Toshiue no Hito scanned, I really like Amazume Ryuta's work.

[Falkor]

chapters 11-12 have been scanlated....

they are continuing with the bondage "exercises" ... oh my... "not safe for work"

[Sin Ansem]

;_; 4-10 are unreachable. NCIS has no DDLs anywhere...

[Ultenth]

try mangafox or mangatraders

[Anh_Minh]

Originally Posted by CygnusX

For sure, this one scores very high on my reading-list and I recommend this to anyone who likes romance manga's but wants something different than the often too-much-stretched struggle for a couple to get together, instead skip to the exciting part of a relationship and at the same time stay within the boundaries of ecchi manga, not hentai.

To be fair, the "will they or won't they" is still there. They're not officially a couple.

[KiNA]

How come the usual ecchi flockers dont swamped this thread yet?

Westlo, Bonta, Tempest ... where the hell are you guys

[ellifeedn]

^ Maybe they're not into BDSM stuff. I know I'm not, but this series has it done in a "softer" fashion than what I've seen. And this is tolerable enough for me to enjoy the characters and their interactions.

[ritalman]

Same here. BDSM usually scares me away, but it's ok in this one (I'll even hazard a "cute" quantifier for some scenes). I hope it'll remain this way

[Anh_Minh]

Probably due to the characters. Nana isn't an irrational sex-starved nympho whose switch was flipped by rape. Kaoru, while drawn to the trappings of SM, actually cares for Nana.

[ellifeedn]

I wonder what sort of things Kaoru has planned for Nana.

[germanturkey]

so i read this because i saw it was featured on MT... it has the exact same feel as h-mangas, but without the h. it boggled my mind..

[frubam]

Just got through reading this. This is pretty good. I usually hate guys like Kaoru, but when they actually have feelings for the girl char, I like them. And there's something really sexy about Nana sticking out her tongue. I like to see the lust in their expressions, but it's even better here, since Nana isn't some kind of slut. Still,

Spoiler for chp 14:

seeing how depraved and lustful she looked after that photo shoot, maybe she'll have a different outlook on the whole bdsm thing.

[Ultenth]

The most recent chapter finally shows some decent progress between the two, as well as probably the sexiest non-hentai scenes ever in a manga (and probably hotter than 90+% of hentai scenes as well).

[CygnusX]

Yeah chapter 15 was pretty nice and surprising to me. The chapter consists of different phases too... which makes the pace go faster it seems ....

Spoiler:

- When Nana sayd "stop" in previous chapter I actually thought Kaoru'd give up almost immediately, since he promised Nana and if he breaks his promise, he'll lose Nana's thrust ... that's what I thought...

Instead of that, Kaoru responds by smooth talking Nana in a pretty nice way and it seemed to work, I could almost feel Nana giving in.

- When he took the lotion I expected him to start at her legs and work up ... instead he does her feet ... .. I guess feet fetishists would love that scene .... but unfortunately in my case that's kind of a turn off... so I tried to focus on her reactions and not the drawings...

- Then she says "stop" again ... O_o game over Kaoru ... but I guess he did the best thing he could do after that: washing Nana's feet, leaving his camera, putting a "I'm sorry" note on it. By doing this, he's showing Nana clearly he cares for her and at the same time allows her to view her own pictures and give her the chance to delete them, though I'm sure she saved them on a pc .... the little pervert she is ...

- When Kaoru's friend gives him the camera, I was sure one picture would be on it Nana in her bathing suit, but in a way which shows her still in a pretty normal way. That would show Kaoru that Nana really sees him as her "master"... but I guess it's still a bit too soon for that ... and the real picture on it was pretty funny as well.

So nice chapter and really curious about the next "breather"

Nana to Kaoru still is one of my running favourites next to Girlfriends and Umi no misaki ... oh and ofcourse don't forget Unbalance x2 which stands at the top!

[fict_ticious]

Lol'd at the end of ch 15. Though I have a gut feeling this series due for some of the usual "shenanigans" these high school stories have...

Also, is the mangaka still making doujin/h-manga? It'd be nice to have another Inazuma out there.

[ZODDGUTS]

Wow things will get really interesting next chapter. Wonder if the new girl will join in the breathers as well. Don't think she'll use what she knows now to blackmail both the Nana and Kaoru as she is the type to want to win fair in a match with Nana. If she does join in this could develop jealousy from Nana...

[ellifeedn]

New girl? Wow, I haven't check on this series for a while.

[ZODDGUTS]

New girl:

Spoiler for Ch 19:

Things are going the way I expected with this chapter.