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.
She's a woman, it's clear in both mediums she's a woman, there's no they/them crap in the series despite body changers in the form of Titan shifters.
If anything she's kind of autistic in her desire to know EVERYTHING about the titans where to the outside of her personal circle of colleagues it looks like she has a twisted fetish about them.
Spoiler: this obsession moves onto learning more about the outside world when they learn THERE IS an outside world but after Eren's actions and the return to the island it shifts to trying to convince Eren not to genocide the world then stopping him which ends in her sacrifice so that her colleagues could escape. Nowhere in the series is she referred to as non-binary as there's no such character in the series, you just have some people so obsessed with their personal goals they ignore relationships but they still recognise they are male/female.
Oh boy does this remind me how the show went downhill fast after season 1.
i dont think it went downhill after season 1 i think it went down hill after the certain big event halfway in season 4
Yeah, this is probably a better take. But wow! Up until about that point, the Manga was fantastic.