This story is pretty good but I really have a hard time suspending my disbelief about why everyone constantly hates Louie. I think the mangaka really wanted him to seem totally isolated and pitiable but in the process made him a character thats kind of all pure with no faults and everyone else is just stupid or senselessly horrible if they oppose him. They tried to combat that by putting in the scene showing the soldiers that were injured because of the drama caused by Louie and his brother but its just hard to believe that no one can put their two braincells together to see that hes practically a shivering fawn who was never written to have a bad thought in his life. A bad actor from a foreign country came and instigated a war out of nowhere and everyone just goes with his narrative? Okay I guess...
The other thing I find a little strange is that Louie is referred to as a man. I dont think it was ever up to him to decide what he was, and he has fully functional female organs and even menstruation. Intersex people can not have full functionality in both organs, its impossible, so it makes more sense to have raised him as a girl even if his breasts never developed. Its just kind of odd to me, but after all, this is technically a BL and the author just wanted him to be able to give birth i guess. Ultimately I just feel like there were a lot of things I found unsatisfying. Regardless the art is very very beautiful and im its got a lot more plot then half of the stuff out there so all power to the mangaka if people liked it.
This story is pretty good but I really have a hard time suspending my disbelief about why everyone constantly hates Louie. I think the mangaka really wanted him to seem totally isolated and pitiable but in the process made him a character thats kind of all pure with no faults and everyone else is just stupid or senselessly horrible if they oppose him. They tried to combat that by putting in the scene showing the soldiers that were injured because of the drama caused by Louie and his brother but its just hard to believe that no one can put their two braincells together to see that hes practically a shivering fawn who was never written to have a bad thought in his life. A bad actor from a foreign country came and instigated a war out of nowhere and everyone just goes with his narrative? Okay I guess...
The other thing I find a little strange is that Louie is referred to as a man. I dont think it was ever up to him to decide what he was, and he has fully functional female organs and even menstruation. Intersex people can not have full functionality in both organs, its impossible, so it makes more sense to have raised him as a girl even if his breasts never developed. Its just kind of odd to me, but after all, this is technically a BL and the author just wanted him to be able to give birth i guess. Ultimately I just feel like there were a lot of things I found unsatisfying. Regardless the art is very very beautiful and im its got a lot more plot then half of the stuff out there so all power to the mangaka if people liked it.