Well, it's half and half.
Fran is also a protagonist on this manga and she's have few shounen protagonist traits.
Gluttonous, battle maniac, simple minded, death parents, etc.
The twins and the hundred sword forlund were not supposed to be there, nor were Fran's friend and her maid. a few extra dialogues mentioning Lightning Princess, Murelia Khrisna and the Path of Evolution.
i'm 35, and i only saw albino in person once when i was still in middle school. we live in modern time and we know what albino are, but what if they don't know what it is in their world ? from her father's reaction it's clearly something he don't knows, neither frost or her mother.
and in their...
there's one with whole head iirc, i guess it's for immersion
you know like a game that insist "it's ultra realistic, immersive gameplay, if you died in game might said you died in real life too", it's on the same ballpark