The People Who Misgender Grell And Call Her A "he" Are Women Who Both Simped For Her And Thought She

The people who misgender Grell and call her a "he" are women who both simped for her and thought she was a man for years, and just still refuse to admit their homo/bisexuality.

Princess Tutu~

Honestly I am so happy with how this turned out, especially after I printed it! I"ll have the prints available in my shop soon <3

Do not repost/edit/etc without my permission. Thanks!

I read chapter 210 last night and I'm still on the edge of my seat. In both a good and bad way.

Like seriously Yana are you gonna kill off Finny or not don't just leave us hanging for another mooooooooooooooonth—

Seriously no wonder it's titled That Butler: Meandering

This might just be me when it comes to Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler as a whole

But it really, really confuses me whenever I see someone say that Black Butler is marketed towards women. (Some even go as far as to straight up call it "shoujo")

Like, I'm not saying women can't or should not be allowed to read this manga, (cause that's bullshit obviously, speaking as a female myself)

But like 80% of the time Black Butler is actually classified as a "Shounen" manga. (In case you aren't familiar with Japanese terms, "Shounen" basically means "manga targeted towards a male audience of about 12-18 years of age." Its female equivalent is "Shoujo")

Again, this is most likely just me, but I can honestly stand a bit more behind the shounen term than the shoujo term in regards to which category Kuroshitsuji belongs in. Sure, there's clearly a lot of (mostly squicky) fanservice with the protagonist, but there's also a lot of fanservicey shots regarding its female characters (examples being Beast, Ran-Mao, etc.) which is, y'know, typical shounen stuff.

But also more importantly the magazine the manga was originally serialized in (known as MonthlyGFantasy) is a Shounen manga magazine.

So if Black Butler is classified as a shounen manga, how would one explain its very obviously shoujo qualities?

My personal theory is that it's a way of branching out and getting more people to read this manga.

Here's an example; remember how big My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was back in the day? Long story short, it was a show that was originally targeted towards a very young female audience, but thanks to its storytelling and characters, it grew a fanbase that was very far beyond that target demographic (an entire fandom mostly consisting of young adult men who liked cute and colorful ponies). As the show continued airing, it even started pandering to that fanbase.

TV Tropes calls this "Periphery Demographic": "Fans of a work that are outside its primary target demographic. Perhaps much more than within."

To me, it looks like a very similar thing is happening (or rather, has been happening) with Black Butler here. Originally had a shounen audience in mind, gained a strong female fanbase for its... certain qualities.

Of course, this is all coming from someone who is not Japanese and knows very little about manga demographics and stuff. So if I'm wrong about anything I've said (which I most likely am), please do correct me.

Yeah uh about that-

Sebastian can get heartburn apparently. I know it's not gag reflex but idk lmao-

Random but remember Seb swallowing the key to his own bedroom or something to keep it safe.. I wonder what else he's done that to to keep it safe...

"Anyone can write their own ending of their story. But one cannot erase ink from a page once it is dried. They can only keep writing forward, whether they like what they've already written or not."

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So yeah it's really hard to find some good Mytho-centric angst in this fandom. Seriously it's like finding a needle in a haystack.

So I said "fuck it, I'll do it myself" and created this monstrosity.

I always wondered how (post-canon) Mytho would deal with the fact that he was essentially corrupted and did some pretty bad things throughout the second half of the series. After all, he was supposed to be a hero, wasn't he?

But while the other three characters of the main cast had a written story role that they went against for the greater good, Mytho had gone against his role as a heroic fairytale prince in one of the worse ways possible.

He knows it wasn't his fault that he tried to sacrifice the hearts of poor innocent girls. He was under the effects of raven's blood.

But it wasn't the Raven who did those things. It wasn't the main antagonist of the story who committed those crimes.

It was him.

And now he has to live with that fact, because that's how the finalized story of The Prince and the Raven was written.

TL;DR: someone please give this poor boy a hug.