A master assassin’s toughest job isn’t a kill order. It’s finding a wife.
That approach has extended to how the series treats gender presentation, an element fans and critics have singled out as unusually progressive for the genre. Joumyaku describes the subversive elements as something that emerged naturally rather than as a plan set from the outset, with the protagonist caught between family expectations and the pull to live authentically. “I have a rough picture of where things go through the final chapter, but it feels like we are building the story while working out together how the protagonist comes to terms with it all,” Joumyaku says.
