The anime adaptation of the Emerald Witch arc was pretty solid, but the Sebastian and Wolfram sex scene honestly could've been a lot longer.

I normally don't do this but I've exhausted most of my options. My cat is sick, very sick. I'm struggling to afford treatment and I'm doing everything I can to keep him alive, but it's... I can't afford it for much longer. I've had him since he was a baby, he's not even 2 years old. Anything would help, even just sharing or boosting or anything. I'm desperate at this point. If it means writing fics for people I can try, so that people get something out of this too. And I'd share photos of progress.

any donation made will come with a personalized fic no matter how much it is, all you have to do is dm me a screenshot of the receipt and what you would like

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They didn’t even wait until the 19th to ban TikTok. Honestly I hope people realize how big this situation is. TikTok was a news outlet for a lot of Americans who couldn’t get proper news and information (especially when their own news stations are just propaganda and fake news we don’t need to hear), it was also a home to many small businesses and people just trying to make a living. The US government is NOT banning it because of “data” or whatever shit they made up—they are banning it to control the masses and more than just that. This is bullshit.

Black Butler: Book of Spiders - Lake Scene (Part 1) 🕷

Here’s part one, finally. This scene was co-written by @bezierballad many months ago and I finally adapted it in comic/manga form.

More pages will be coming soon so I hope you enjoy the first two for now :)

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.

The secret is that “shounen” and “shoujo” categorization are all misogynistic bullshit. It’s all fake. General mangas are all “shounen”, except for things that are especially marketed towards girls; mangas with female main character or mangas about romance, those are “shoujo”. Male readers are taken as the default.

Black Butler and lots of other “shounen” mangas ARE marketed towards women. Just look at the amount of BL fanservice in Bluelock for example. Anyone with two eyes can see it’s blatantly targeting female audience.

Anything with a “serious” plot is categorized as “shounen” even if both the authors and publishers know the majority of fans are women. This is because they don’t want to give up on the prospect of more male readers: most women will read things marketed towards men, but most men will NOT read things marketed towards girls, because of misogyny. In that case, it is safer for the publisher to market mangas that are not blatantly marketed towards girls as “shounen” i.e., the “general audience”. It gives them a wider reach.

Very interesting information!