I understand where you're coming from, but it's yaoi manga, not a 300 page period novel where the author goes and researches everything. It's not always going to be accurate, and when it comes to quick, short yaoi (and a lot of other genres) there's some totally out-there plots that are nothing at like real-life, not always believable, and don't always follow the rules of "lore." Twilight with it's sparkling vampires certainly didn't follow traditional vampire lore, and no one threw up a fuss about that. ;)
OK- I can understand a certain amount of license given it's fiction and a manga, nor do I expect historical exactitude. But when an author chooses a setting even for a manga, I do expect a bare minimum to be right or why choose that setting? If a western author had written a cartoon set in 1600 Japan, but, except for clothing and an odd samurai here and there, all the social customs depicted were those of Europe, don't you think readers would be critical, especially a Japanese reader? I know it would bother me just as much as this story did for the same reason.
And BTW I do believe Twillight was ridiculed by many. I certainly didn't take it seriously and have always considered it "fluff".
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The 1st story was fine. The 2nd, set in 19th cen. England was ok but showed a distinct lack of knowledge of the ways and mores of the period, not to say the British. Marriage interviews?!? It's like trying to write about vampires but somehow all the details being off. For anyone who knows the lore it ruins what would be a good story.