She gets a better deal in the TV series She... WHAT. How. Just ... how. Does she only get the "oh noes I am passionately in love with Zhao Yunlan" bit, without all the other, snappy interactions?
MDZS did have some decent female characters, but they all were present for only short amounts of time, and died in the flashbacks. (Yu Ziyuan, and I also ended up liking Wang Lingjiao.) The closest thing to a main female character, on the other hand, was Jiang Yanli, who was very blandly inoffensively feminine. While it's understandable that she grew up like that in the Lotus Pier, I really just wish that she'd resembled her mother more in personality. Or make Lan Qiren the scary maiden aunt.
The porn is very early 2000s anime fandom in its lack of both lube and consent. Nevertheless, a large chunk of the yaoi-seeking children think it's the best smut ever, and that the ship is Important Representation for queer people and thus the smut is sacrosanct. See icon for my opinion.
I get not wanting to shiptease het, even by accident, but it's possible to still have women present. Give the main characters sisters, for one! Or add lesbians, but I don't know where Chinese fandom stands on queer people as people, or is it still at 90s levels of "slash is okay, but actual gayness is morally wrong".
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She... WHAT. How. Just ... how. Does she only get the "oh noes I am passionately in love with Zhao Yunlan" bit, without all the other, snappy interactions?
MDZS did have some decent female characters, but they all were present for only short amounts of time, and died in the flashbacks. (Yu Ziyuan, and I also ended up liking Wang Lingjiao.) The closest thing to a main female character, on the other hand, was Jiang Yanli, who was very blandly inoffensively feminine. While it's understandable that she grew up like that in the Lotus Pier, I really just wish that she'd resembled her mother more in personality. Or make Lan Qiren the scary maiden aunt.
The porn is very early 2000s anime fandom in its lack of both lube and consent. Nevertheless, a large chunk of the yaoi-seeking children think it's the best smut ever, and that the ship is Important Representation for queer people and thus the smut is sacrosanct. See icon for my opinion.
I get not wanting to shiptease het, even by accident, but it's possible to still have women present. Give the main characters sisters, for one! Or add lesbians, but I don't know where Chinese fandom stands on queer people as people, or is it still at 90s levels of "slash is okay, but actual gayness is morally wrong".