>>279887608nta but no, having the southern court be the heroes and takauji the cartoonishly evil villain was the intended reading back in the meiji era
having takauji be the protagonist and a complex human being was a subversion of that done by the eiji yoshikawa novel and the taiga based on it
and of course pre meiji, takauji and the northern court were cool and the historical winners but in the modern era the taiga was the one rediscovering the ashikaga perspective and this manga is going back to meiji era, just making tokiyuki also the hero when no one on either side usually cared about tokiyuki for obvious reasons