@Glomoro thanks! Man, I totally forgot about Otome Youkai Zakuro since it went into hiatus. It feels weirdly like a shoujo nevertheless. Thanks for the insights!
sees 9+ rating
sees Seinen demographic
*gets excited*
clicks chapter 1
reads author's note
facepalms
silently curses whoever decided to set demographic by magazine/publication instead of actual series content once again
@jonsmth According to the author, it is a shoujo manga. https://mangadex.org/chapter/431639/2
The "demographic" used on various sites (including MangaDex) is based on the magazine it's printed in (Comic Alive). So, most sites list it as seinen; with one site listing it as shounen.
Er... I still can't tell just from those panels whether the author isn't just razzing us, personally XD
But if I do take them seriously, your complaint checks out—she's (at least initially) drawn a shoujo manga for publication in a seinen magazine, full stop (well, okay—there may be some real difference in effect because of who her editor is and/or her own perceptions of her immediate audience or some such, but we can safely ignore that).
Yet the rules about using publications for demographic on mangadex and other sites stand, so, then, it's exactly like you said in the first place. Sorry =.=;
Thank you for the chapter but having a sick mom is certainly not a lame excuse.
It makes me feel bad for the translator that delivers a lot of chapters and asks for some help with expenses to readers.
That credit page was good for everything but the "lame" word.