- Base-Breaking Character:
- Kirishima. Depending on who you talk to he's either manwhore trash or a sweet boy who was abused and is misunderstood. It's also not yet been made clear whether he's an actual stalker or if he's truly in love with Yoshino, although signs point to the latter. The character got a lot of hate from fans over some mentions of NTR, which has been alluded to but not actually shown in canon but for a lot of readers the mere mention of it is a line in the sand.
- Kirishima is particularly infuriating to fans looking for a fluffy high school romance, which Raise Wa Tanin Ga Ii definitely is not. The marketing team is to blame for going hard on a reverse harem concept to capture female viewers for the anime, even going so far as to release less merch featuring Yoshino, which deviates a bit from the manga.
- Yoshino. In canon, Yoshino is a strong, brash, independent teen girl in a very adult world. However, because the work crosses over demographics, shojo female leads tend to serve as self-inserts, and Yoshino is the Protectorate, readers looking at the animanga as a conventional romance tend to erase her by framing her motivations and interests by her perceived love interests (Shouma, Kirishima, and Azami).
- The strongest example is reception to the infamous ‘kidney bluff’ for which fans either applaud her for earning the money with Exact Words and throwing Kirishima's insult in his face, or deem her stupid for seemingly getting a kidney removed to spite Kirishima.
- Kirishima. Depending on who you talk to he's either manwhore trash or a sweet boy who was abused and is misunderstood. It's also not yet been made clear whether he's an actual stalker or if he's truly in love with Yoshino, although signs point to the latter. The character got a lot of hate from fans over some mentions of NTR, which has been alluded to but not actually shown in canon but for a lot of readers the mere mention of it is a line in the sand.
- Broken Base: Yoshino is well aware all the men in her life are utter trash. Fans either want her to end up in a relationship with Kirishima, her foster relative Shouma, or alone.
- Periphery Demographic: Shojo and josei demographic indicators have become so closely conflated with the romance genre that to most readers they are seemingly interchangeable. As such, Raise Wa Tanin Ga Ii, which has mature themes and was intentionally placed in a seinen magazine and in English is described by the publisher as a 'romantic crime drama', has crossed boundaries and fanbases.
- Shojo readers are drawn to the attractive male lead, and 'romantic' tags in the manga.
- The English title Yakuza Fiancé is easily interpreted as a 'romance' or typical shojo title, and is in line with similar titles and situations—among them Nisekoi which translates directly as ‘false love’ and is a high school, arranged marriage, harem story nominally set in the yakuza world but with a much lighter touch. A more accurate translation title would be “I'd Rather We Were Strangers in the Next Life" which evokes themes of death, revenge, and reincarnation, or at least distancing oneself from an unpleasant situation. Konishi Asuka tweeted that the translated title was laughable when it was revealed, implying it does not align with the author's intentions or how it's being marketed.
- There is an element of romance but the story would actually stand on its own without it, and includes mature themes such as political intrigue, implied paid dating/prostitution, underage sex and possible grooming or abuse, murder, torture, extreme violence, and sexual assault that push this work into the 'seinen' category—a genre which has become a catch all for content that pushes the boundaries of demographics.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls? Precisely because of the above, including the more delicate art style and fashionable and handsome male leads, people often lump this title under the joseimuke umbrella. It doesn't help that Konishi's first work, Haru No Noroi (Haru's Curse) appeared in a josei publication and the mangaka has written strong characters of both genders, using premises and settings that generally to appeal to older female audiences.
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