Sun-ouji wa Tsuma ni Naritai

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Genuine question and not at all a complaint. Why is it that so many of these BL mangas depict a love interest that looks like the author started out making a female character, and only decided to make them male at the last second? Again, this a genuine question as I see it happen quite a bit, not a complaint in the slightest.
 
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I like this kind of mangas just because they looks like female. For example "Raul and the vampire". Therefore i like "Sun-ouji wa Tsuma ni Naritai" too.
 
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Nah something about this feels really icky; like the clothing is north african inspired, but like the slutty cosplay version. It screams more prostitute than royalty. There's this weird thing where he isn't familiar with modern technology, which anybody living in the modern age would know, especially with the resources of royalty. It paints this almost noble savage adjacent picture of Sun, as he lives this life of antiquity and ignorance despite literally engaging in a large extent with modern society and technology--enough to have a helicopter.

It's incongruent in a way that, to me, is the same as like the fetishization of non-european cultures that appears throughout media. Stuff that's a direct product of racism, though in more positive depictions more internalized than externalized racism. Stuff you'd see in like The Road to El Dorado or Pocahontas.

IDK it just irks me the wrong way: the overly slutty clothing, the weird ignorance, the femboy fetishization. Give my mans some proper clothes, keep him pretty and cute but more realistically mannish, and have him have the same reaction to the objects but at least have heard of them before and you have the makings of an actual story. Something more along the lines of a classic romance novel, something you can work with. Something more than generic romance wish fulfillment slop. I want to see this evolve into a romance-centered political drama but I know in my heart of hearts it's not going to try anything outside of what's presented.
 
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Nah something about this feels really icky; like the clothing is north african inspired, but like the slutty cosplay version. It screams more prostitute than royalty. There's this weird thing where he isn't familiar with modern technology, which anybody living in the modern age would know, especially with the resources of royalty. It paints this almost noble savage adjacent picture of Sun, as he lives this life of antiquity and ignorance despite literally engaging in a large extent with modern society and technology--enough to have a helicopter.

It's incongruent in a way that, to me, is the same as like the fetishization of non-european cultures that appears throughout media. Stuff that's a direct product of racism, though in more positive depictions more internalized than externalized racism. Stuff you'd see in like The Road to El Dorado or Pocahontas.

IDK it just irks me the wrong way: the overly slutty clothing, the weird ignorance, the femboy fetishization. Give my mans some proper clothes, keep him pretty and cute but more realistically mannish, and have him have the same reaction to the objects but at least have heard of them before and you have the makings of an actual story. Something more along the lines of a classic romance novel, something you can work with. Something more than generic romance wish fulfillment slop. I want to see this evolve into a romance-centered political drama but I know in my heart of hearts it's not going to try anything outside of what's presented.
And you clearly have a racism fetish, so I guess we all are flawed in our own ways.

Fiction will always be there to entertain, some works more close to reality and some more "creative".
As long as the author/artist doesn't claim that this is a historic (or similar) work, then you sadly will have to take your personal bias in pain and enjoy other work.

I have no interest in this story, but I wish all the readers that do enjoy this, lots of happy hormones! :smugnako:

P.S. I do wonder what your take is on the products of modern BBC(and co.) that do claim historical accuracy, while actually just fetishizing their own agenda.
 

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