Got into an argument with someone over whether a character is "non-binary."
The character's name is Zoe Hange, from Attack On Titan.
According to this other guy, in the manga in Japanese, for some reason Zoe's sex is apparently never specified, thus this guy insists on referring to her with they/them crap--he also uses this as justification for that whole Yamato thing. "See? Other series do this. Get educated."
The anime, however, explicitly makes Zoe female, and voiced by women in both Japanese and English--were she non-binary, she likely would have been voiced in English by someone who claims to be such, like Michelle Rojas or Marianne Miller (now calling herself Marin Miller), but instead she is dubbed by Jessica Calvello, who is a normal woman.
Yet this guy only refers to Zoe Hange as "they" and crap like that.
I am not into Attack On Titan. Not my thing. But unlike One Piece's Yamato, I can't find word from the original creator on this, and I don't trust sites like TV Tropes to tell me the truth here. Thus, I turn to you.
If the mods feel the need to remove this, I will understand. I'm just not sure who else I could ask this.
It blowing up so quickly made it suspicious. The first few chapters/ anime episode looked promising of a concept, but couldn't see how it was going to be a sort of long-runner. Still surprised it lasted so long.
Probably because at the time zombie apocalypse stories were all the rage and titans are basically giant zombies. The story telling is good. The good thing about it is that its not a never ending story about fighting titans, it eventually does move on as a story in to why the titans exist, what they are , and they actually do defeat all the titans and find out the truth about where they come from, who the real enemies are and the story gets more interesting from there.
I couldn't understand how since the series never interested me beyond the surface, but with these points it makes a lot more sense now. Thank you!