#merupuri

Sorry for answering late...I just noticed your ask! 💖

About the first part even though those bites were without asking and like I established that it was some kind of harassment but you can reason behind them...(and I just remembered that Kaname asked Yuuki if she wanted to become a vampire and she answered yes so there was consent maybe... I mean Yuuki agreed just the timing was later... I don't know if this counts as consent or not)

So actually I read all of Hino's manga which is available in English...sadly I couldn't find her debut manga, but I will tell about the other stories shortly and what I didn't liked in them...

I don't know the chronological order of her stories so I go from one-shots to longer series:

Overall I think her one-shots are relatively good - but you can't do anything bad in ca. 30 pages

Haru wa Sakura - historical Japanese setting, a young woman wants to be a female doctor which was impossible in that time and meets a rude man at the bookstore...I think if I tell you more I will tell the entire story I think it was okay like 3.5/5

Yoshihime to Ushio - it's about a princess who gets saved by a rough looking but kind man... I think it was really heartfelt 4/5

Watashi no Fukigen no Panya-san - it's about a young woman remembers her childhood and the bakery she often visited ... This is also a really sweet story 4/5

Now come the longer stories

Wanted - Medieval settings - a young girls' young male friend gets kidnapped by pirates. Years later she cross-dresses to get on that pirate ship to find out her friend (love) become the pirate Captain and their adventures...I find this story cute but I think it has an open ending and its usual Hino style rom-com 3.9/4

Toraware no Minoue - a butler and his son become new rich because the family they were working to disappear - one day the family's young daughter found her way to home and then cames the twist. The young boy - the butler's son - falls in love with her because of the curse. So usual asking your own feelings and adventures together in Hino-style...I think this was okayish but I read only once 3/5

MeruPuri (Märchen Prince) - this is in my opinion Hino's 2nd well-known work (she wrote this before VK) - there's a typical girl - going high school, lives alone and wishing to get married, but one time she losts her mirror and that afternoon a young child brings it to her - the boy tells her he's a prince and he came out of the mirror - as any reasonable person she didn't believe in him - but still gives him a place to stay - but when she wakes up he finds a 16 boy instead of the young child of yesterday - then curses, prophecies, magic, adventures and a usual rom-com with an forgettable 2nd or 3rd male lead... It was once readable I think I started a 2nd time but didn't finish 3.8/5

Shuriken to Pleats - this is what she wrote in-between VK and VKM - the story about a young female ninja whose master got killed and to his last wish she starts a normal highschool life in Japan but she can't really escape her past so she also starts working as a ninja part time - even though she doesn't wants to - so it's about her trying to fit in the new situation, her job with a new employer, and she's finding out secrets ... Some people thinks this is AU YuMe ... I'm not sure it looks like the main girl is a little bit different than Yuuki but they look similar 4.8/5

Conclusion: Hino likes their male lead possessive, leading the relationship and sometimes wild and she likes her female leads innocent (especially in love), naïve (about the world), ignorant (to the fact that one or more people in love with them). Honestly you can see a switch in her style before and after VK just compare MeruPuri to Shuriken to Pleats not just the art style but the emotional side of the story all those before VK were rom-coms now there are emotional scars, struggles and pain, sadness - and a man who thinks it's better if he leaves the female leads life.

About your question that other works are badly written they were okay if you go that deep with the works as the fandom did with VK you would find problems but overall they're okayish except Shuriken to Pleats it also had some problems but overall I liked that one.

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🛑I don't want these interacting with me: people who harass others for any reason, people who want to bully me over my emotional support kin, racists, LGBT exclusionists, MAPS/NOMAPS and whatever else you're calling yourselves these days. I just don't want harmful people following me. Very specifically, I don't want you to follow if you don't believe in aro or ace people because I'm on the aroace spectrum myself.

🌸Call me Ayu! I have been hoping to change my name to hers for a couple years now because it fits right! Not changing my hair or eye color though. I think black hair looked nicer on her on the manga pages anyway, and black is my natural hair color.

🌸The two people I will mention the most are my cousin Hyacinth, and my childhood friend Chocolat! Chocolat named herself after Chocolat Meilleure, and kins her like I do Ayu! Hya is a cosplayer and goes by She/he/they pronouns. All three of us plan to make these our real names one day because it makes us happy 🥰 neither of them want a Tumblr, so I guess you could say they both "have lives". I'm a little happy Chocolat doesn't want one because she's 16, so....

🌸April 19th is my birthday and I'm 19, but I'm not really into the signs and stuff. But I respect you if you're into that sort of thing!!

🌸Experimenting with my gender right now! They, maybe she... I'm not so sure anymore.

🌸I'm pro ship! If your fave isn't problematic, it will be by the time I'm done with it!! Anything could be posted to this blog. Anything. So block tags or block me if things trouble you!!

🌸All fandoms go here. All of them. There will be NO side blogs. It will start off with Ultra Maniac, MeruPuri, and Ouran likely, but it's gonna get chaotic SUPER FAST.

🌸List of tags to block if you have trouble with these things: (will upload in a bit!)

🌸My fanfics (will add AO3 when I can!!) I like to write and draw, but I usually don't actually sit down and do either 😅