This is not to argue with the main point, but just to discuss the list of excluded manga and some issues that brings up.
I'm personally a little uncomfortable with excluding works by chromatic creators set in non-chromatic locales IF the intent of the comm is partly to promote works by chromatic creators, as the user info suggests. (Wow is that a horrible sentence.) The author is the same author regardless of the setting.
If the intent is to promote chromatic authors only when they write chromatic characters, I think that should be explicit in the user info.
I've read some of the excluded manga. It's a little more complicated than "WTF Cesare Borgia." In that manga alone (Cantarella) there are deliberately anachronistic/fourth wall breaking references to Japanese culture, which I doubt would appear in works by Western authors on the same subject. There's also a lot of tropes that can be seen in fantasy shoujo manga in general which would probably not appear in a Western story about Cesare Borgia unless that author had also been influenced by shoujo manga.
Again, if we're just trying to focus on chromatic characters, that's irrelevant. But I do think that regardless of Western fans' perceptions, works written in (in this case) Japanese by Japanese creators for a Japanese audience are still Japanese, even if they are set in Italy with Italian characters. I'm not trying to make any sort of cultural essentialist argument here, but just to say that things are complicated and that a European setting doesn't mean that the work itself is identical to something written by a European author.
Innocent Bird, which I've also read, does use Christian mythology, but the character names are Japanese and I did read the characters as being Japanese, though maybe I misunderstood the creator's intent. I think it can get very complicated and dicey when trying to exclude certain works on the basis of being insufficiently chromatic.
That being said, obviously if the purpose is to get more fic about chromatic characters Cantarella is not the way to go.
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I'm personally a little uncomfortable with excluding works by chromatic creators set in non-chromatic locales IF the intent of the comm is partly to promote works by chromatic creators, as the user info suggests. (Wow is that a horrible sentence.) The author is the same author regardless of the setting.
If the intent is to promote chromatic authors only when they write chromatic characters, I think that should be explicit in the user info.
I've read some of the excluded manga. It's a little more complicated than "WTF Cesare Borgia." In that manga alone (Cantarella) there are deliberately anachronistic/fourth wall breaking references to Japanese culture, which I doubt would appear in works by Western authors on the same subject. There's also a lot of tropes that can be seen in fantasy shoujo manga in general which would probably not appear in a Western story about Cesare Borgia unless that author had also been influenced by shoujo manga.
Again, if we're just trying to focus on chromatic characters, that's irrelevant. But I do think that regardless of Western fans' perceptions, works written in (in this case) Japanese by Japanese creators for a Japanese audience are still Japanese, even if they are set in Italy with Italian characters. I'm not trying to make any sort of cultural essentialist argument here, but just to say that things are complicated and that a European setting doesn't mean that the work itself is identical to something written by a European author.
Innocent Bird, which I've also read, does use Christian mythology, but the character names are Japanese and I did read the characters as being Japanese, though maybe I misunderstood the creator's intent. I think it can get very complicated and dicey when trying to exclude certain works on the basis of being insufficiently chromatic.
That being said, obviously if the purpose is to get more fic about chromatic characters Cantarella is not the way to go.