You literally wrote my review for me XD! Completely agree with your points and yeah, I def noticed the difference in how the hair was drawn, sucks it changed but hopefully we'll get more peeps who draw em and eventually learn how to get the consistency. Aside from that, I loveddd this story and I really want a second volume!
In my Review, would it be okay if I mentioned your critique on the hair and skin tone points? I think it's really important!
Yeah!!! Go ahead!! Glad you could resonate with my review!!!
My thoughts exactly as another black person. Maybe it wasn’t even the author giving up but the publishing company/editor requesting they change it to make the manga more “marketable.” A shame it was changed at all though.
I think it's probably that, you can also see on ch 7 the book cover, luca is like, completely white
The references are definitely respectful and accurate! (I’m not from the Maasai tribe but I’m Kenyan). Down to the details like the inside of Luca’s hut.
Good to know!
The characters are so cute and I love their personalities and chemistry! As a someone who is black myself I really applaud the author for depicting black representation in bl. I think we often get male leads that are white/mixed with white but never any blk rep. I don't know much about the Maasai tribe so I hope all the references to the culture are respectful and accurate the only thing I think they should have portrayed more accurately is the skin tone. Since Luka is from the savannah his skin tone should be a lot darker from the sun exposure (its very evident in pictures of the tribe) and i think the author tried to give him locks in chapter one and gave up and just gave him straight hair for the rest of the series. But overall I really like the story im not intending to bash it! But this is my honest opinion/perspective!