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The edit you made runs afoul of Administrivia.Examples Are Not General. From that page:
- Good Examples Are Not General: While you don't necessarily have to cite the exact chapter or episode, examples do have to point to at least one specific instance of a trope occurring within a work to be considered valid. Broad statements and generalizations, like "Early anime dubs often had pointless cursing added to the script" may or may not be true, but without at least one specific example, they're considered unsubstantiated claims.
You can point out a specific instance of the trope occurring, but just saying that Japanese media does this alot is a statement that conveys zero information.
I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose meEiryu: You're right, I know he protests the popular perception of him as the untouchable, impeccable Ice Prince - but that is, in and of itself, a fictional creation/flat character/caricature/PR image enthusiastically endorsed by the media and not the real Yuzuru Hanyu as a person. I'm not saying he is a Princely Young Man, I'm saying the media paints him as a Princely Young Man.

I recently made an edit on Princely Young Man about Japanese media's tendency to dub young, handsome men with some achievements (especially in sports) "ouji" or "oujisama", essentially applying this trope to them. I stopped the edit there without elaborating on why one such example (figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu) fits the Princely Young Man model. Am I allowed to elaborate why Hanyu is considered The Ouji, because his public reputation (in and of itself a PR creation/curated image) fits the trope description to a tee? Would that fall under troping real people (or worse, one-handed troping if not just merely gushing)?
Source for this claim
(in addition to other media coverage I've seen scattered around the internet, including at least one Japanese TV channel putting "Some Day My Prince Will Come" over footage of Hanyu).
If that is an absolute no-no, should the trope be made NRLEP lest it invites gushing?
Edited by annieholmes