Doesn't have anything to do with japan, yes they could have changed the age but in historical times, that age gap was common and many girls were married off at a young age even to middle aged men. Seeing how they have a lot of real historcal facts in the manga, I guess they wanted to keep it "realictic" on how it actually was at that time so hence the age gap
yeah but still its fiction pretty deliberate choice to include that huge age gap along with mary and mcs father... love the art and the plot is decent but omg the romanticization between the queen and king when she was literally a child is like unreal.
I 100 % get what u mean, it leaves a very uncomfortable feeling seeing it like that but seeing it has borderline "healthy" how they tried to make it helps a bit when u gaslight urself into thinking that she was married off and they developed a "friendship" first and mybe hope that they didn't do anything until she was an adult XD
A 9 year old and a 20 year old! Why japan why????