As someone who's already pretty desensitized to shota looking characters from having started out with jp bls, the bottom's character design here is still a bit jarring to me. He genuinely looks like the baby from How to Snag an Alpha, just in a different color scheme. I don't know why the author decided to go with this specific art direction??? That said, I do get why this specific discourse is blowing up in social media. While many of us BL readers would have more tolerance with this kind of character design, for casuals it does look borderline pedophilic.
As someone who's already pretty desensitized to shota looking characters from having started out with jp bls, the bottom's character design here is still a bit jarring to me. He genuinely looks like the baby from How to Snag an Alpha, just in a different color scheme. I don't know why the author decided to go with this specific art direction??? That said, I do get why this specific discourse is blowing up in social media. While many of us BL readers would have more tolerance with this kind of character design, for casuals it does look borderline pedophilic.