I can't help myself but feel that this game is quite problematic. Not in just the game itself, but when you see it in the context of its creators. If you see Andrea Ritsu's rants about male characters in "Lesbian" stories or stories aimed at "girls/women", you know that she really doesn't like that. But then she adds a male character in her own "Yurijam" game. Why is it okay in your game? Because he is trans? I am not asking this with any malicious intents, I'm genuinely curious about it.
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First off. Emil is in the game because one of the team members is a trans man and I wanted to have more than one single kind of rep in the game. It also allowed me to reference the FTM Bois Bar in Shinjuku, a real life event
Second, I don't mind male characters in lesbian stories or stories aimed at girls, I mind men taking over the narrative in a heteronormative fashion. Whatever you're suggesting here is projection. Hell, most of the GL manga I recommend have men in them to some extent, they're just not the main focus.
I'm guessing my "rants" reference things like me complaining about Pripara having a male unit now, which I've pointed out several times is a problem to me because of how they've been used to steer the narrative towards "girls like boys", not because boys exist. Hell, the series had men before that and I never had a problem with that aspect for a good three years of the series.
I've said it plenty of times, I don't much care for stories revolving around men or heterosexual romance stories. It's not hypocritical of me to have a male supporting character regardless if he's cis or straight, which in this case, Emil isn't.
So no, to close this out. I don't believe you can't have men in a Girls Love story. I'm just not interested in anything focusing on them. If I couldn't like GL with boys in it I would never be able to like Their Story or After Hours, for example. Both of which I love.