Comment sections like this are always so disappointing to see imo. You get a drama story and when drama is shown, readers are baffled. It really just proves my belief that specific shoujo readers cannot stomach flawed male love interests. I mean see how they’re so quick to disregard any internal struggles the male lead has? And yet their priority is love and wanting the FL to be in a relationship lmfao. They’re really like, “srsly? Mommy issues? Who cares, anyways can we get to the FL dating who I want already?!” Where is the ao haru ride fans that actually can handle flawed male leads? It’s more sad to see how rare it is when audiences know the content they’re reading and try to understand the characters.
These are the kind of readers who only like perfect men who’s entire being must be focused on the FL and worship the ground she walks on, never to make her (or the reader) sad/upset. It’s these readers that are the reason why majority of the romance genre is flooded with one-dimensional Male Leads who have no flaws at all, and are bland. Why do you think writers see this and the top types of male leads in the genre are:
-quiet and cold guy that only has eyes/is nice to the fl -puppy type -gentleman type
And these male leads all have their world revolving around the FL. It makes these huge fan bases soo happy to see the FL be the center of the ML’s entire life. The ML’s thoughts are actually being shown, his inner conflict and contradictory thoughts/actions, which are so realistic. When the author actually writes about a flawed ML and his struggles, no one cares. To these shoujo readers, they only allow female mc’s to be flawed and have struggles and will only show understanding in that case. I never understand readers like this who know they can’t handle flawed love interests yet still choose to read the story and just yap about how much they hate the other main character while dreaming about the man they want and how they think they know better than the FL. Like bffr, if you were in her shoes, you’d crash out and have your dream shattered the one moment the 2nd lead does something you don’t like.
Comment sections like this are always so disappointing to see imo. You get a drama story and when drama is shown, readers are baffled. It really just proves my belief that specific shoujo readers cannot stomach flawed male love interests. I mean see how they’re so quick to disregard any internal struggles the male lead has? And yet their priority is love and wanting the FL to be in a relationship lmfao. They’re really like, “srsly? Mommy issues? Who cares, anyways can we get to the FL dating who I want already?!” Where is the ao haru ride fans that actually can handle flawed male leads? It’s more sad to see how rare it is when audiences know the content they’re reading and try to understand the characters.
These are the kind of readers who only like perfect men who’s entire being must be focused on the FL and worship the ground she walks on, never to make her (or the reader) sad/upset. It’s these readers that are the reason why majority of the romance genre is flooded with one-dimensional Male Leads who have no flaws at all, and are bland. Why do you think writers see this and the top types of male leads in the genre are:
-quiet and cold guy that only has eyes/is nice to the fl
-puppy type
-gentleman type
And these male leads all have their world revolving around the FL. It makes these huge fan bases soo happy to see the FL be the center of the ML’s entire life. The ML’s thoughts are actually being shown, his inner conflict and contradictory thoughts/actions, which are so realistic. When the author actually writes about a flawed ML and his struggles, no one cares. To these shoujo readers, they only allow female mc’s to be flawed and have struggles and will only show understanding in that case. I never understand readers like this who know they can’t handle flawed love interests yet still choose to read the story and just yap about how much they hate the other main character while dreaming about the man they want and how they think they know better than the FL. Like bffr, if you were in her shoes, you’d crash out and have your dream shattered the one moment the 2nd lead does something you don’t like.