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luimagines · 1 year

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How would a female hero of courage interact with the chain?

Well- this is certainly a new type of Reader! I know I try to keep Reader as gender neutral as possible so this kinda defeats the purpose... but just once won’t hurt anyone. Consider it done anon!

It'll be in headcanon form. I hope that's ok.

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Twilight

Weak

Drinks his respect women juice every morning like Uli taught him

And Ilia wouldn’t hear any complaints of it as they grew up

Midna made sure he kept up with his routine

And Zelda was the final nail on the coffin

Can’t say no to whatever she requests

Wild teases him a lot

And by teases, I mean secretly complains

“You let her get away it!”

“Yeah Cub, because I know she wouldn’t hesitate to throw me over her shoulder and call it a day. I’m not getting in her way.”

Doesn’t pay too much attention to it

Frankly, care less about that and more about her age

If she’s younger, she’s getting the same treatment as the rest of the youngins

If she’s older, then the more power to her

She can get away with much more

He’s soft

While others may forget, he tries to keep in mind her need for privacy and space from the boys

Especially since she’s the only girl

On her team, 98% of the time

Warrior

Oh no another one

It’s Linkle all over again

Or so he thinks

Protective to a fault, poor guy

But he’s just Like That TM

Reader would gather really quickly it’s because he cares and not because of anything else

He does the same to Wind and Twilight and Legend and even Time

Warrior is used to female fighters so this isn’t anything for him to blink at

Have you seen his game? It’s like three males total- him included, villains not included

How much do you want to bet that Warrior also knows someone from Reader’s adventure?

You know.... for flavor :D

Warrior is quick to make them feel a part of the team and respected

Warrior is the first one to ask for their opinion on matters and Reader always comes up with a point he (and others) were missing

“Thanks Girlie. I knew you were brought with us for a reason. Glad to know that you’re on our side.”

Big Brother Warrior adopts another one. A Saga

Legend

Is not above sacrificing her to do the work so that he can get out of it

Challenges her at nearly every turn

Even more so than Warrior

And it’s not because she’s female

It’s just that it’s activating his sibling behavior with a vengeance and he’s going to make it her problem

Reader found him annoying, pessimistic, dramatic and hard to get along with

It was like cats and dogs

Even if Legend actually likes her

However Reader gets talked down to in public and Legend goes off

Completely tearing the offender to shreds with his words alone- although he’s tempted to do so physically as well

Reader doesn’t think he’s so bad after that

They judge people outfits together, you honor

They are each other’s ride or die

Legend gets to the point where she’s the only one he listens to without question

The Chain try and get her to talk to Legend when they’re trying to prank him

Reader agrees more than half of the time

Hyrule

A bit of a lost cause...

Has no idea how to approach this

Hella awkward- poor guy

Ignores it on principle

Treats her like one of the guys, only be reminded that she’s not a guy

It’s like a slap in the face every time- he tries so hard to just be normal

Give him a break he’s not used to people as it is

At least the people he’s met so far are nice and she’s nice and different from any of them

Doesn’t want to treat her like glass

Doesn’t want to be too overbearing in a group full of guys

Doesn’t want to treat her as an outcast

Doesn’t want to intrude on her personal space

Is he over thinking it? Oh yeah defiantly

Another hero that means well but is in uncharted territory

However, he’s never been afraid of uncharted territory before and this is no different

He’ll figure it out

Just give him some time

Wind

Big sister?

Someone as cool and kick butt as Tetra?

But like him? With the courage and the whole... not being like the others for whatever reason?

Admiration and following like a puppy

He looks up to the older heroes and obviously tries to emulate them

But something about her hits different

And he wants to do the same

It’s a shame he doesn’t know what it is

Wind is going to talk her ear off

(I hope she has the patients for him XD)

As he can see that Reader is older, he wants to ask questions about his sister, like why girls do x? Or y? Or z?

You know, things that they have in common but for the life of him, he doesn’t know why

So he might as well ask right?

Besides, if he asked Aryll, she might give him a half answer or not even know herself

But Reader should know, he trusts Reader’s judgment

Tries to wrestle her

A lot

Loses

Wild

Younger sister?

Hello? My old heart? How have you been?

He’s going to project so much

He means well by the end of the day and frankly it doesn’t matter if this hero is older than him

He has vague memories of a younger sister and it’s going to eat him alliiivvee

Gives her the best portions of food obviously and naturally serves her first

Will want to go horse back riding with her whether she knows how to or not

He can teach her! He can do archery with her! And sword fighting and shield surfing and cooking and and and and-

So long as his weapons and equipment don’t break on him anyway

He’s going to badger her about keeping her hair in decent condition and offering to braid it or brush it or just put it up for her

Who cares if he still has twigs and junk in his hair? That’s not his point

Is he a hypocrite? ... Just a bit

Might show off from time to time by taking wild animals momentarily just so she can pet them

Cut to Wild riding into camp on a bear

“Sissy! Look what I found!”

“Cub! Put him back!” Said literally everyone in the group.

“He’ll go back home on his own soon enough. I gave him honey glazed salmon as a treat. He’s so soft. Come see!”

Four

Well he just found his new best friend

Second to Zelda, of course

Is the one to ask for help with pranking people (mostly Legend)

Together, they nearly get away with it every time

Does she know blacksmithing? Is that a thing they teach the girls where she’s from?

It’s likely that she doesn’t

Oh well! Four is just going to have to make sure she’s taken care of

Very protective of her

Is going to get in her way multiple times

But in an accidentally on purpose sort of way

He gets stomped on, trampled and run over more times than he wishes to admit

He knows she can take care of herself, she’s just as much of a hero as all of them are

But Four sees her and sees Zelda and he gets this urge to keep her away from danger at all costs

It’s annoying

But they laugh and poke fun and he tries to tackle her for the hell of it and never succeeds

He means well, but that’s a conversation about to happen

It’s somewhere on the horizon

Time

Oh thank god, someone who knows what they’re doing

Do they?

Who knows. But Time is going to use their ability to wrangle the boys to his advantage because honestly?

It’s like herding cats otherwise

Or cuccos- at least he has experience with that

Doesn’t think too much of it

Also takes to her on the spot

The change of energy is nice but he’s to reassure her when the case may be

Like when the boys are a bit much or when they’re teasing her

Time says near the beginning of the trip that if they bug her too much to tell him and he’ll set them straight

Not to say that she can’t do it herself but honestly- why should she have to?

Clearly she’s been through enough as it is

They both spend quiet time together

May have fallen asleep on each other at some point

Denies it but also has a picture hidden somewhere in his belongs

No one knows who he stole it from because at least three of them have a copy

And yet he never approached them for it

The mysteries add on with The Old Man

Sky

Literally no different

This guy could not care less

Forgets half of the time

It’s not something he would pay attention to

Has to be genuinely reminded at least once

He’s used to being the “mom friend” so if they help out in that regard Sky is going to give them brownie points

Because these boys don’t care about those things and Sky is tired of having to remind people to chew with their mouth closed-

Help him

He can’t do this alone

Has to be prepared for all things all the time

If Reader could just lighten the load a little bit he would be eternally grateful

He would tell her story for years to come

Granted, he was going to talk about his friends anyway but this one takes special precedence

Is the one she vents to without a second thought

If she can help carry his role in the group than he can be there as her support as well

There’s no difference between the lives of heroes

It’s hard on everyone

#linked universe #linkedunivese #linked universe x reader #it's Mulan! Link all over again #I'll pay homage to her but I won't make it all about her I promise #I'll just sprinkle it around #those who get the joke will understand that is an *old* reference

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j-ellyfish · 9 months

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I was today years old when I discovered that, apparently, Shounen Jump doesn't allow women to be editors/helpers 🙃 now it may be false information, but that would help explain why WS is the way it is now... To this day I am baffled that Hetalia is considered shounen/seinen... I understand that unfortunately shoujo/josei isn't as popular, but I very seldom see men, even jp men (which are apparently the supposed main audience) be fans of Hetalia or supporting its merch. Most of the money Hetalia gets seems to come from jp women. Hell, it doesn't even seem to be a Bungou Stray Dogs case where they make the series appealing for both genders. With it's lack of shounen-esque battles, latent homoerotic content (especially in the ye old days), fanservice which even to this day is 90% of the time focused on the male characters... I have to wonder, what does this series have going on for a male cishet audience? The very ocasional boob joke? The (now practically nonexistent) historical content? I'm confused...

Sorry for the rant, I hope it isn't too much 😅

[Sorry this post became pretty long because I can't shut the hell up!]

I looked a bit into it and, unfortunately, it seems to be true. Apparently they use "you need to understand what's in a young boy's heart" as an excuse to sort of gatekeep women from having a career as an editor with them.

I have read a couple articles about this, and the way Shueisha seems to dismiss the issue is pretty disturbing. The later deleted tweets from the (female) author of Rocking You!!! really speaks volume of the situation beyond any corporate clarification Shueisha released on the matter:

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Sadly, the manga&anime mainstream/dominant scene is still pretty sexist and it's no wonder that many female and/or queer artists prefer to engage in more niche, somewhat still frowned upon genres like BL or Josei, at least they probably have more freedom there when it comes to sharing stories since they don't need to appeal to what a narrow-minded, sexist and conservative mindset still deems as manga's main demography - cishet male teens and young men ... Which is, well, the reason why most shows are required to have cute lil' objectified girlies as fanservice (I'm not against fanservice per se but you know what I mean, it's how unbalanced it is between genders in "romance/sexual-neutral" stories - like Shounen are supposed to be! - what makes it overwhelming and insulting) even if they don't even need it as a crutch for engagement.

Personally, I believe Hetalia's og target as a Seinen wasn't wrong. I think that Himaruya being a man did have an impact in how Hetalia came to be and how its comedy and characters, and even art style developed. It wouldn't feel right to me to call it a Shoujo or a Josei. The problem with this traditional classification is that what's a Shoujo/Josei wasn't quite established as "what girls want to see", but rather "what boys typically aren't interested in." And obviously, this soon led to the over-simplified and kinda sexist idea that Shounen=Action-packed battles; Shoujo=Romance. Many Shounen and Seinen have quite a large female presence in their fandoms despite being traditionally seen as the "boys/men's manga", whereas it is less likely for a boy or a man to be very into a Shoujo, and even less into a Josei (or, rather, it is less likely for a male to share this interest because of good ol' toxic masculinity).

In any case, while searching some stuff to form my own opinion and answer, i came across this page where they said "if a series does not fit into any other category such as Shonen or Shojo, then it will be put under Seinen", and honestly I think it makes the most sense for Hetalia.

For how I see it, the "problem" with targetizing Hetalia is that Himaruya never thought about it becoming popular when he started it. His mindset was "let's post this random silly one-time thing I came up with after engaging in a thread on 2Chan while passing time as a student in New York". There wasn't any intended 'commercial use', there was no business planning beforehand. It'd be like trying to put a target on, I dunno, some everyday life meme-y comics you find daily on social media. They have no inherent target, though they might end up resonating with one group of people more than others. But you cannot know until the thing actually starts resonating with an audience.

The 2Chan threads in question, according to the informations I gathered, actually dealt with topics that tend to resonate with a male audience more: a debate about military weapons and strategies used in WW2 that culminated with talking about Italy's military failures of the time; and how Japan will literally make moe girlies as personifications for anything. Himaruya just had this idea, definitely influenced by his time spent in a multiethnic background while he was in the US, to fundamentally make a comic inspired by those moe female personifications but have them be moe guys instead.

It would've been very hard for Himaruya to foresee the attention his work would've gotten, let alone the kind of audience that would actually be interested in it. Sure, Himaruya apparently called himself a Fudanshi once (I have no source for this though so take it with a grain of salt!) and it's not hard to believe, but Hetalia is very atypical even for a BL-leaning series.

Let's not forget that the first one-shot Hetalia strip was posted on Hima's blog in 2006. And, let's say, things back then were quite different. Yaoi/BL wasn't nearly as popular as it became later, and mainstream media didn't really discover the power of fanservice aimed at a female audience yet (that would come much, much later and kind of peaked with Free!, which I believe really made a difference in how anime business would perceive the true power of this kind of fanservice from then on). In 2006, not even Junjou Romantica had gotten an anime yet, and as much as I honestly dislike JR, it played a big role in making BL more popular because prior to that BLs could barely aspire to get anything more than a couple OVAs. The few that did get a proper anime season (like Gravitation, Loveless and Sukisho) still didn't get as much of a hype to make the "male-dominated mainstream community" notice their existence like JR somehow did.

I'm not even sure the kind of "fanservice" Hetalia made/makes use of was a thing in 2006. Like, you know, all those anime we have now that have tons of homoerotic subtext, a predominantly or exclusively male cast, are targeted at least partially at a female audience but never actually dip into romance or make anything really canon? I'm no expert, but I don't think they were a thing back then, and if they did they were quite niche. Perhaps Hetalia also changed the male perception of female audience in manga/anime spaces. Hetalia fans back then were quite ostracized and shamed merely for being girls enjoying a show with a kind of content that most cishet males - used to their shows with everything geared towards them (and girls confined to the "Romance Shoujo enclosure") - couldn't quite comprehend. I've seen so many male anime fans, back in the day, making fun of us simply for being girls and enjoying a comedy that features hot guys with all the homoerotic subtext they wouldn't bat an eye at if it was between female characters.

However it is worth noting that, while most Hetalia fans are girls or women, it has a minority of male fans as well. One of the two friends that actually introduced me to Hetalia was a boy, and I was introduced to it together with three other friends, one of which was a boy too - we all loved it at first sight! An Italian Youtuber I occasionally follow revealed that his very first manga was Hetalia and although he only picked it up to get closer to the girl he liked, I guess he didn't hate it enough to just drop it and "unlike" that girl lol I saw reactions of a few other guys to Hetalia episodes and none of them hated it, they even laughed at some jokes! I believe that many men are simply prejudiced against Hetalia because of internalized sexism or toxic masculinity, especially if they're aware of the fandom's main activity being shipping (lol).

I don't think Himaruya made any of his """fanservice""" with an actual fanservice-y intent, he simply, genuinely drew what he, before anyone else, enjoyed drawing. Unlike a lot of fanservice out there, Hetalia's never feels forced, it is very genuine.

[Conclusion; if you wanna skip what's above lol]

I don't think it's fair to say that Hetalia willingly attempts to appeal to women. I feel like Hetalia, at least pre-HWS Hetalia, appealed to Himaruya before and foremost. It just so happened that Himaruya's taste aligned more with a female audience, despite being actually funny in a gender-neutral way that way too many cishet guys dismiss because of (I guess?) fragile masculinity and fandom prejudice.

So, keeping that into account, I really do not think it'd be fair to call Hetalia a Shoujo or a Josei. And it isn't fair to call it a Shounen either, because we see how Hetalia's essence and humor was undoubtedly butchered by Shounen Jump+'s editing and rules, that simply do not align with either Hetalia's spirit nor its main audience's expectations.

As a Seinen, Hetalia had freedom to be whatever it wanted because Seinen tends to have more loose rules for what is or isn't allowed in one. Because its target of "adult men" is basically, de facto, a neutral catch-all label. Josei tends to be too involved in classic Shoujo dynamics and themes, albeit in a more mature sauce, and while there are exceptions I feel, in all the (few) Josei I crossed path with, there is a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that makes it undoubtedly more inherently feminine than Hetalia is.

It's funny because this whole debate over Hetalia's target kind of reminds me of how the very first BL, Kaze To Ki No Uta, is classified as a Shoujo because back then Yaoi didn't exist as an official genre. When you make something revolutionary that defies pre-existing rules and boxes, it's hard to slap a specific label on it that feels right.

#hetalia #this is long but I hope it wasn't too boring lol #actually I'm curious so I'm going to make a poll about this #what genre is Hetalia?? HETALIA IS HETALIA lol #ary spoke #ask

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innovativestruggles · 3 years

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What the Free! anime can teach us about male heterosexuality and toxic masculinity

I’m going to start off by saying this. I am a feminist. And as a feminist who is also a self-professed otaku, the two cannot be anymore incongruent. Despite the large amount of misogyny seen in a still conservative country like Japan, and the unfortunate toxicity seen in some fandoms, I am still able to find joy in watching and reading my fair share of anime/manga.

I am relatively late to the party with the Free! anime, nevertheless I am still glad I gave it a chance. I was initially skeptical, because though it is not a BL genre, I would say from my experience being in numerous anime fandoms, I can already predict what a fanservice anime full of gorgeous half naked men would entail amongst fans. Needless to say, I was correct. However, that isn’t the point of this post. This post came about because I was so pleasantly surprised with the characters, their development and their interactions with each other.

Free! is more than just fanservice. It is about friendship and the freedom to express emotions without repercussion. I absolutely love love how every male character have their own way of expressing their feelings. I love the friendship between them and how they can be vulnerable in front of each other and about each other. It gives that incredible perspective into men and emotions - that they are also human, that it is okay for them to experience vulnerabilities, to be in touch with their emotions, to talk about their feelings with their male friends and to touch each other - all without the idea that they would be perceived as gay.

Character sexuality

I am going to disregard that there are some people out there who fish for a romantic interaction between the characters as soon as one or the other show some sort of vulnerable emotion or experience physical touch. Don’t get me wrong, I ship a lot of the male characters with each other, but this post is not about shipping.

Although the anime does not explicitly state the characters’ sexuality I am going to presume that the majority of them are most likely heterosexual. My reasoning for this is the canonical evidence I see and my interpretation based on these canonical scenes. See below.

When the boys played a game and asked Haru what his first romantic encounter was like, they all assumed it was a beautiful woman...

Makoto’s comment on the girls being cute and correcting Chigusa’s question that it’s not just their yukatas... so to me it genuinely sounds like he thinks the girls are cute

The assumption that Rei has a girlfriend

Gou (being a girl that she is) insists on wanting to know more about Rei’s “love” situation

Gou obviously explained she thought he has a girlfriend but he does not believe in love. So he doesn’t explicitly deny that he doesn’t like girls.

And Rin’s host family asking whether he has a girlfriend, to which Rin has a lot of hesitation because he is in love with Haru and the only person he would think of in that way is Haru

So because of the impression that these guys are most likely heterosexual, it just makes the basis of their interactions with each other so much more important in the sphere of toxic masculinity.

Men are taught to never show their emotions, their vulnerabilities - especially towards each other. Any form of emotions between male friends, and physical touch would automatically earn them their sexuality - being gay. So when men hold onto these rigid gender stereotypes, it perpetuates and dictates how men should be, how women should be, and therefore, it disadvantages women and reinforces gender inequality.

As much as anime and manga are fictitious, it is still based on how society portrays men and women. it comes from somewhere, and because the fandom is always in discussion about their thoughts and feelings of the anime, and how the fandom treats other fans within the fandom, there are repercussions that comes from watching/reading fiction.

Character names

One of the first things Free! emphasised on were the “girly” names each of the male protagonists have. What I really like about this, is that just because you have a girly name, just because you show emotions and just because you genuinely love and care for your male friends, as a male character, this does not necessarily mean that you are gay.

Society dictates that as soon as a man falls outside the male norm - i.e. if he doesn’t have a masculine name, if he has feminine features, if he show emotions, if he hugs his male friends, if he cries - then he must be gay. And this is the disconcerting thing I find with some fandoms - the need to categorise males and females into one box. It seems to me that men tend to have less of a leeway with these kinds of things. If you look at Gou for example, she does not have a feminine name. Her name gears toward more masculine or gender neutral, yet the anime clearly depicts her as having an interest in men. No one bats an eye. But this is different for the male characters, because when you feminise a man in any way, you have this misconception that he must be gay. Such perception reinforces toxic masculinity and ultimately increases the gender inequality gap. This is why women continue to be subjected to gender based violence, because people believe that men should not express their emotions, that they should express them in more unhealthy, aggressive ways or “manly ways”. And so violence towards women is condoned.

Free! is such a breath of fresh air. Not once throughout the entire show when I watched all three seasons did I say “oh, he cried in front of his friends, therefore he must be gay” or “he hugged his friend, therefore he must be gay.” Because heterosexual men should be able to do all this. They should be free to be what we call “being feminine” without being afraid that they would be labelled as gay.

Heterosexual men can have close loving friendships with their male friends. They can tell their male friends that they love them, they care about them, that they can kiss them, without being labelled as gay. Because women do this to each other all the time and no one makes the assumption that she is a lesbian.

Heterosexual men can cry and be vulnerable to each other without the assumption of being labelled as gay

It’s okay for men to cry in front of their mates

Heterosexual men can hug each other and show physical affection without being labelled as gay

They should be able to express their feelings to each other and how much they care about each other.

And most importantly for the above scenes, heterosexual men should be able to say this to each other. There is nothing wrong with men being vulnerable and emotional, and telling each other that they care and love their friends.

Emotions, vulnerabilities and expressing feelings should be normalised amongst heterosexual men without them being labelled as gay. This is the only way to dismantle the patriarchy and the toxic masculinity that continuously plays in society, amongst film and fiction, and reality.

The characters spoke of their fears, their dreams, their friendships, their future, their past, and their struggles. This is not often something men talk about (let alone to each other) because they view discussions like this as weak and it makes them feel less of a man. But the Free! characters broke through these barriers and really put it all into perspective. And as young men, they portrayed this so well.

So thank you Free! for showing viewers (especially heterosexual male fans) that they can be vulnerable and that it is okay to be affectionate towards your mates.

Feel free to share your thoughts! And please be respectful! 💞

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learnjapanesebod · 7 years

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Difference Between Male and Female Japanese Speech ("How-to avoid sounding too girly or boyish in Japanese?")

PREFACE:

"How do I avoid sounding too girly/boyish when speaking Japanese?" is one of the most common questions we get; and to be completely honest, it is usually asked by learners of the Japanese language who are at a fairly beginner level. Our guess is that most people asking this question have started learning Japanese by somewhat unconventional means (e.g. befriending a native Japanese speaker and starting to learn from them as opposed to beginning from a textbook). In these cases, probably the best general response to this concern is:

Inadvertently sounding too masculine or feminine in Japanese isn't a big deal at all, so there's no need to fret over it.

One, because native Japanese speakers-and even non-native Japanese speakers will surely understand if you don't have a mastery of gender-based speech when just starting out. You can stick to gender-neutral speech instead of having to worry about mastering female and male speech too when you already have so much vocabulary, grammar, kanji, etc. on your plate to learn.

Two, because a fully fleshed out answer to the question "How do I avoid sounding too girly/boyish when speaking Japanese?" involves referring to a lot of Japanese language topics, including some that are relatively intermediate level and thereby some that you might have trouble following if you're still fairly new to the language.

Nonetheless, we are still indeed going to go into said fully fleshed out answer in this lesson below; and having said that, now is perhaps the best time to provide a list of prerequisite lessons before we begin.

Prerequisite(s):

First Person Pronouns, or, Ways to Say “I” in Japanese (Post | Video)

Second-Person Pronouns, or, Ways to Say “You” in Japanese (Post | Video)

ね and よ as Final Particles (Post | Video)

Conjugations of Desu (です) (Post | Video)

Introduction to Adjectives (い-Adjectives and な-Adjectives) (Post | Video)

Conjugating い-Adjectives (Post | Video)

Conjugating な-Adjectives (Post | Video)

Japanese Word Beautifiers お and ご (Post | Video)

Prerequisite(s):

*specifically for the examples incidentally provided below, not necessarily required to understand the key concepts of this lesson

Desiderative たい-Form (Pre-ます-Form VERB + たい as “want to VERB”) (Post | Video)

Negative ない Form (Verb Conjugation) (Post | Video)

In many languages across the world, there is a clear distinction between masculinity and femininity.

For example, the Spanish language assigns a "grammatical" gender to every single noun word, even nouns words that represent inanimate objects with no physical gender.

The Japanese language employs a difference based upon gender in a much lighter sense, in that male speakers and female speakers tend to speak in a slightly different way in certain points in their speech; but even if a male speaker chooses (inadvertently or not) to sound like-or come off as, a female speaker with more feminine speech (or vice-versa) their language will still be one-hundred percent grammatically correct.

In this sense, gender-based Japanese speech is quite stylistic, which is to say it only appears in casual Japanese speech. Due to this, beginner-level learners of the Japanese language are likely not to come across this topic if their curriculum is textbook-heavy, as textbooks use formal and written language, which is both considered the more standardized Japanese and essentially gender-neutral.

All in all, the differences between male and female speech in the Japanese language are not prominently observable until first, what is being observed is an actual conversation and not just textbook content; and two, the participants of said conversation have transitioned from polite speech to casual speech and have become comfortable enough with their addressees to convey their personality more by speaking in a more masculine or feminine manner.

We separate the differences between male and female Japanese speech into three categories, in order of most distinguishing of gender:

Usage of Pronouns (First and Second Person)

Sentence Enders (Particles)

Select Vocabulary and Phrases

We also make a general distinction between male and female Japanese speech that these categories will follow:

Female-to-male speech can also be interpreted (perhaps more reliably so, in terms of a mnemonic device) as polite-to-rough speech. As unfair as it may seem, female speech in Japan is often associated with being more polite, reserved, and respectful, while male speech is considered more forward, rough, and crude.

#01. Usage of Pronouns (First and Second Person)

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Female:

あたし (atashi) - First-person pronoun derived from the gender neutral 私 (watashi), considered more cute

*The use of one's own name to address oneself (i.e. referring to oneself in the third person) is also considered more habitually done by female speakers, as it can come off as cute.

Male:

僕 (boku) - The most commonly used first person for male speakers

俺 (ore) - Considered even more masculine than 僕 (boku) and more present in especially casual conversations amongst male friends as opposed to formal situations

*Female speakers may be heard using both male pronouns above for whatever reason.

Second Person Pronouns:

While first person pronouns are more indicative of one's self identity, second person pronouns are more dependent on the addressee of the speaker and what relationship the speaker has with them. As such, second person pronouns can vary heavily even when focusing on the topic of gender. Refer to Second-Person Pronouns, or, Ways to Say “You” in Japanese (Post | Video) for more information.

#02. Sentence Enders (Particles)

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Female:

Using わ (wa) in place of よ (yo) - Naturally has a softer sound. わよ (wayo) is also a possibility.

*One of the female points of speech representative of an older female generation and may become rare when transitioning from fictional Japanese media (anime, movies, drama, etc.) to real life conversation

*This should also not to be confused with the common Kansai dialect usage of わ (wa), which is not female-specific

Sentence-ending particle の (no) used for statements - While the sentence-ending particle の (no) is commonly used by both genders when asking questions, it is more habitually used by female speakers when making statements. のよ (noyo) is also a possibility.

Using かしら (kashira) in place of かな (kana) - Expresses more wonderment, more feminine

Example(s):

これが本当かしら Kore ga hontou kashira "Could this be true?"

Male:

だ (da) - The copula with loads of grammatical context. When viewed specifically through the lens of female-male speech, だ (da) is considered to add masculinity to speech because it is emphatic and declarative. So, while in a lot of cases the presence of だ (da) is grammatically required, it can be construed as masculine when it is used in a case wherein it is optional (e.g. after a NOUN or な-Adjective word). Since だ (da) has such an integral grammatical function that transcends gender-based speech and thereby female speakers are naturally bound to use this effect as well, there are select cases wherein male speakers will use an emphatic and declarative だ (da) to avoid sounding too feminine (e.g. before the sentence-ending particles ね, な and よ).

Example(s):

素敵だね Suteki da ne "Isn't It Wonderful?" [masculine]

素敵ね Suteki ne "Isn't It Wonderful?" [feminine]

*Of course, let's take note here that the Final Fantasy X video game ballad entitled 素敵だね does in fact exist and is quite probably written from the prospective of a female character to remind us this isn't a one-hundred percent reliable indicator of gender.

素晴らしいね Subarashii ne "Wonderful, huh?" [gender neutral] *Considered gender-neutral because it is grammatically incorrect to include the copula だ (da) after an い-Adjective at all, so there's no way to deem this sentence as either more feminine or masculine.

Changing the あい sounds into えぇ - Most commonly done for the Negative-ない Form of words and い-Adjectives, e.g. のまない (nomanai) into のまねぇ (nomanee) and たかい (takai) into たけぇ (takee) into "do not drink" and "tall" respectively (notice how the definition does not change whatsoever).

*May branch out to other adjective words with slightly different sound endings as well, e.g. すごい (sugoi) into すげぇ (sugee).

Adding い to the end of certain sentence-ending particles - Most apparently done with the sentence-ending particle for marking questions, か (ka), and the copula だ (da), to form かい and だい respectively. Meaning does not change.

Example(s):

いいかい! Ii kai! "Listen, you!"

そうかい！ Sou kai! "Is that so!"

一緒に行くかい？ Issho ni ikukai? "Shall we go together?"

調子はどうだい？ Choushi wa doudai? "How are you?"

Sentence-ending particles ぞ and ぜ - Considered very masculine, commonly used in imperative statements. While heavily used in fictional Japanese media (anime, movies, drama, etc.) to emphasize boyish and masculine characters, also considerably present in real life conversations.

*ぜ is considered to be used more by children as opposed to adults-and further, is said to have greatly dwindled in usage in real life conversation.

Example(s):

やっぱ　あんた　すげぇぜ。 Yappa anta sugee ze. "You really are amazing."

修業の成果だぜ！ Shuugyou no seika da ze! "This is the fruits of my training!"

わくわくしてきたぞー！ Waku waku shite kita zo-! "I'm getting more and more fired up!"

一緒に帰るぞー！ Issho ni kaeru zo-! "Let's head back together!"

Changing the sentence-ending particle ね to な - The affirmation seeking sentence-ending particle ね is changed to な, invoking a rougher sound. The multi-faceted ね here, while commonly considered to express seeking affirmation to your statement, changes more into affirming your own statement or desire as な. The same tone of kind of throwing a thought out into the air is still present.

Example(s):

いいな Ii na "That sure sounds nice (I'm envious)!"

旅行したいな Ryokou shitai na "I sure would love to go on a trip."

#03. Select Vocabulary and Phrases

Beautifiers

Phrases

Words

Beautifiers:

Female speakers are considered to much more habitually use what are called word beautifiers (美化語), which entails adding the character お (o) or ご (go) before certain noun words in order to express a politeness.

Example(s):

お買い物 ('okaimono/shopping')

お花 ('ohana/flower')

お部屋 ('oheya/room')

お友達 ('otomodachi/friends')

お料理 ('oryouri/cooking')

*Note that you cannot simply do this for any given noun word, there are select ones in which this can apply. Also, you can not freely choose between using お (o) or ご (go); depending on the noun word being "beautified," you must use the appropriate character.

*Also note again that this method is not completely restricted to female speakers. Male speakers may apply this method when in formal situations, it is just that female speakers are more inclined to even in everyday conversations.

Phrases:

Some phrases that exist purely in the realm of spoken Japanese (utterances similar to "um," "like," "well," etc. in the English language) are also considered gender-indicative.

Example(s):

あら - "Oh my" [feminine]

Words:

Perhaps as it is with any other language, some words in the Japanese language have multiple versions-or rather, synonyms that are considered either more polite or impolite. In line with the aforementioned construct of Japanese female speech being focused upon politeness, female speakers are much more inclined to use the polite synonyms of words.

*This may apply even when said female speakers are speaking amongst close friends and family.

Example(s):

"rice, food" - 飯 ('meshi') [masculine] | ご飯 ('gohan') [feminine] "to eat" - 食う ('kuu') [masculine] | 食べる ('taberu') [feminine] "stomach, belly" - 腹 ('hara') [masculine] | お腹 ('onaka') [feminine] *common in the expressions はらへった [masculine] and おなかすいた [common, feminine] to express "I'm hungry" "butt, ass, hips" - けつ ('ketsu') [masculine] | お尻 ('oshiri') [feminine]

Example Sentence(s):

"I don't want to eat sushi."

僕寿司食いたくねぇよ Boku sushi kuitakuneeyo. "I don't want to eat sushi." [masculine]

あたしお寿司食べたくないわ Atashi osushi tabetakunaiwa. "I don't want to eat sushi." [feminine]

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Do you think it's sexism that keeps the Kamen Rider franchise from having main female heroes? Because in the entire franchise, I can only think of Tackle as being a good example. And they won't even give her the title!

That’s probably a good part of it. I also think it has to do with gendered marketing. You can see gendered marketing a lot, especially in the USA, if you go to a toy store. Take Toys R’ Us for example. The one I go to has all of the “boys” toys to the right hand side of the store while all of the “girls” toys are to the left (though it is reversed in the picture below and probably actually from a Wal-Mart).

As you can see above, they have also put a blue background behind the “boys” section and a pink background behind the “girls” section.

As Kamen Rider is a series primarily aimed at selling merchandise to little boys, it falls into the “boys toys” category. (And before anyone can say ‘but that’s just US marketing’ here’s a picture of a Toys R’ Us aisle from Japan).

They want to focus on the boys’ market with Kamen Rider almost exclusively. Part of this may be because Kamen Rider (unlike Super Sentai) is aimed at a slightly older demographic, a point at which boys are aggressively trying to be ‘manly’ and ‘masculine’ and (according to marketing) would not buy merchandise that’s used in the show by a woman or represents something “girly”. Of course, they may be actively discouraged from such by family members trying to enforce ‘socially acceptable’ gender roles.

Bandai pretty much controls the purse strings when it comes to the Kamen Rider franchise. The produce the merchandise, they market the show to sell their toys and they have a degree of creative control over what happens in the show itself. You can see this in how they have a new device or gimmick item show up to promote a toy and then either never or very rarely be used again or even supplanted by a new Gimmick item. Just look at Kamen Rider Ghost for an example of this. He had the combo form with all of the Luminary Eyecons joining together and ten episodes later, that’s been replaced by his Infinite Eyecon gimmick toy that gives him an even more super-duper form.

This is not a complaint about that (I’ve complained about that elsewhere before) but it is an example of how the shows are market driven to push merchandise.

There is a belief in toy marketing that seems to be oddly universal that girls are not interested in action heroes and that boys won’t buy anything girls are interested in. This is a false belief as you can see gender neutral toys like LEGOs (though they are trying to gender even those) or Play-Doh being universally popular. Heck, when it comes to superhero stuff I know more girls and women excited about things like the Marvel movies than men. This false belief is used to exclude women from things like advertisement for films and TV shows even if they have a prominent role or making them just supporting characters like Akari in the previously mentioned Kamen Rider Ghost.

Even when they are given a Rider role, they either don’t get to have much of an impact, are relegated to a movie only or don’t stay a Rider for long. I entirely blame gendered marketing (which is a form of institutional sexism) for this. Unless the people in charge of marketing wake up to the reality that girls like superheroes just as much as boys this isn’t likely to change anytime soon no matter what the writers or producers at Toei want (though I hold no illusions that they want this either).

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My Kingdom Hearts OCs Bios List.

These are all of my Ocs that created for my Kingdom Hearts AU: Fated Stars. The list contain main, sides, and futures Ocs infos.

Kingdom Heart:Fated Star OCs Bio(updated version) by SpiritDreamWariors on DeviantArt

Main Ocs( Features in story and play a big role).

Name: Akira Knightfall Age: 15 Gender: Female Family: Terra(KH/Older Brother:Unknown), Gemma( Mother: Deceased), Raven(Father: Deceased), Alan Royal(Surrogate Uncle: Active), and Sorin Royal(surrogate cousin/brother: active) Looks: Fair skin, dark blue eyes, and waist-length choppy, brilliant brown hair with messing bangs frame her forehead and sides of her face. Also have a scar on her right palm. Personality: Loyal, caring, foul-mouthed, tomboyish, adventurous, neutral, adamant, introvert, bright, aggressive, protective, spirited(sometime), unyielding, blunt, free-willed, and reliable. Like: constellations, grim fairytales, old legends, archeology, swordsmanship, hiking through the woods, exploring the unknown, going to the museum, pastries, candy, music, her family and her closet friends. Dislike: choosing sides, anything girly, failing, losing people she grew attached, abandonment, deep water, and her brother spending too much with his friends. Weapon: Double-edge sword Magic Elements: Dark, Light(weak), Thunder, Ice, Fire, Earth and Water(weak) Weakness: Light magic(sometime), melee attacks, at times her emotions get the best of her, and losing control of her magic Anything Else: Akira had been raised by her older brother, Terra, in her early childhood. Once she was old enough, Terra made the best decision to let her lived with a close family friend, Alan Royal, just for a while so he could focused on fulfilling his dream. While she could lived a normal life with her uncle and his son, Sorin. She managed to live a good life since Alan raised her like his own daughter, and Sorin is like a little brother to her. However, Terra haven't come back for her for the past ten years, and nover gotten any messages of his whereabouts. Also she does has difficulties socializing with other since she was raised somewhere far away, and she doesn't know how to interact. Trivia: Both Akira and Terra are consider to be second generation of fighters of their father side. Akira have a fear of deep water starting at age of five. Lastly, Akira have many fails friendships in her childhood.

Name: Kitigin the Kitten Relatives: Unknown Age: 14 Appearance: First-version-Silver-furred anthropomorphic cat, peach-skinned face, bright pink nose, unusual blues eyes, and black ears. Short hair with bangs split into three, and a fluffy tail. Second version- a small kitten with silver fur, bright blue eyes, tiny sharp claws, and sleek-pelt styled. Personality: Selfless, supported, promise keeper, moral compass, naive, innocents, merciful, courageous, childish, and a dreamer. Likes: Her group of friends, learning magic, helping other, seeing new places, natures, sweet treats, tea, herbal bath, aroma thereby, and having fun. Dislikes: Deaths, failing, Akira's anger issues, seeing her friend fighting, lying, thunderstorm, and fire. Weapon: Magic Staff Magic Elements: White, Water, Aero, Nature, and Light Weakness: Physical Attack, dark magic, Fire spells, and Snipers Background: Nothing much know about past, but her training to become a healers at very young age. Also given a task to search for someone important. Trivia: Kitigin is based on Hummy from Suite Prettycure. Originally she was supposed to be a wolf to matched with Akira's personality, but then changed into feline for character development between her and Akira since they are total opposite.The idea of her becoming healer was from Warriors by Erin Hunters: a book series that focuses on cats living in the wild, and also have healers that have special connection to the stars.

Name: Sorin Royal Relatives: Alan Royal(Father: Active), Unnamed Mother(Deceased), and Akira Knightfall(Surrogate Sister/Cousin: Active) Age: 10 Appearance: Peach-skinned, leaf-green eyes, and golden brown hair. Personality: Open-minded, knowledgeable, spunky, friendly, helpful, rash, sophisticated, sociable, bold, and outspoken Likes: Wildlife, exploration, going to museum, being with his big sister, video games, vegan food, bike riding, playing the drums, taking care of the environment, taking pictures, and doing animal research. Dislikes: His father being too protective, Akira's stubbornness, inaccurate facts, treating as a underling, not being useful, meat, and pollutions. Weapon: Beast Stone and Small Sword(only for emergency) Magic Elements: Fire, Aero, Earth, Water, and Light Weakness: Status effect spells, bigger foes, unable control instinct, and Beast Slayer. Background: Sorin was raised by his single father, Alan Royal, and was able to live a normal childhood. Along with his sister, Akira; however, he does question if she really is his sister since they are nothing alike by traits. But he keep to himself and happy to have her as his big sister. Trivia: Sorin is vegan ever since he was seven. He unaware that Akira and Alan are keeping secrets from him. Sorin is based on a Grim Fairytale called Brother and Sister.

Name: Lucy Quartz Relatives: Unnamed mother and father(unknown) Age: 14 Appearance: Creamy pale skin, light orange hair, that is perfectly straight. When left alone it will hang just below her shoulders, Lucy ties them up with yellow hair ribbons pigtails high on each side of her head: the only part that is left alone is the bangs that fall just above her eyes and shorter hair on the side of her face. And blueish green eyes Personality: Artistic, kind-hearted, short-tember, protective, strong-willed, sociable, strong, stubborn, feisty, and dependable Likes: Drawing a lot, singing her favorite music, being with friends, cute stuff, training, going places, and martial arts. Dislikes: Her friends fighting, artistic works not turning out rights, being spoil by her parents, selfish people, snobs, and injustice. Weapon: Scythe Magic Elements:White, Thunder, Fire, Ice, and Earth Weakness:Underground attack and status affect spells Background:Lucy is not originated from Seikastu Valley, but she came from one of the four major towns: Hippocampus Coast. She used to lived with her parents who are wealthy, but one day she encountered a mysterious creature and vanished. She now lived with a group of kids who went missing like her. Trivia: Lucy is capable to punch through steel. She and along with another Oc are supposed to be Akira's childhood friends, but the idea dropped due to new story purpose. Also the idea of being one of Akira's childhood friend is too clinched and overused in the KH Fandom.

Name: Ren Tomcat Relatives: None Age: 15 or 16 Appearance: First Version- A small (like Kitigin) human that carries a strong resemblance to a cat - with cat ears, paws(for hands), and a tail. He has golden eyes and dark blue hair. Second Version- Tall, tidy dark blue hair, two blues marks on both cheeks, and human hands(ability shift into paws). Personality: Mischievous, laid back, nosy, brave, caring, friendly, wanderer, loyal, creative, devoted, and mysterious. Likes: Sleeping, catnips, listening to soft music, exploring, his human companion(Lucy), gazing at the night sky, seafood, and climbing. Dislikes: Water, Robin's cocky attitude, anybody who want to hurt Lucy, mad scientist, and dogs. Weapon: Claws Magic Elements: Dark, Fire, Ice, and Thunder Weakness: Water, Easily Get Distraction, Attacks from underground. Background: Ren met Lucy when Lucy found him injured and alone, she took care of him and stayed by him and because of that Ren sticks to Lucy like glue, he doesn't like being separated from her for long periods of time. Also he doesn't know his own past. Also suffer identify issued since he's mixed between human and feline. Trivia: Both Ren and Lucy are created by same fanfic writer, CatLoverX33. Ren also based on Yoru from Shugo Chara(the creator favorite anime). Also he like to say "Nya" at end of his sentence when he in his first form. Also his second form is based Final Fantasy's Miqo'te race.

Name:Robin Tormenta Relatives: Unamed parents(status: unknown) & Unnamed multiples brothers(status: unknown). Age: 15 Appearance: Slightly tan skin, brown eyes, inky black hair, and messing hair-styled. Also a permanent bruise on his right leg. Personality: Cool, cocky, easy-going, compassion, athletic,funny, show-off, quick to anger, loyal, strong-willed, sometime jealous, brave, courageous, humorous, impatient, and quick-thinker. Likes:Video games, being with his friends, spicy food, trying something new, running, soccer, parkour, playing guitar, break dancing, hang outs places, break dancing, and Rock n' Roll. Dislikes: Losing, Ren(ocasusily), someone make fun of his friends,heartless, doing nothing, feeling useless, his nasty bruise, and cheaters. Weapon: Dagger Magic Elements: Wind, Thunders, Water, and Ice Weakness: Paralysis effect, unable to be patient most of the time, Earth and Nature based spells. Background: He originally came from the city until he got into a car accident. Ever since then he lived at home until he suddenly disappear. Leaving his family behind, and now lived group of kids who left their family. Trivia: He based on Sonic the Hedgehog because he and Robin are the best runner and loyal to their friends. There are some hints that he's Mexican descendant; however, nationally doesn't exist in Seikastu Valley. Instead they are describe as "Bronze" folks.

Name:Froze Nimbus Relatives: Unnamed parents( status: unknown) Age: 16 Appearance: Neck-length platinum-blonde hair, icy blue eyes, well-muscle, and pale skin. Personality: Calm, good-hearted, easy-going, serious, patient, intelligent, careful, resourceful, useful, loyal, well-organized, unconventional, bibliophilic, caring, uptight sometime, sociable, logical, and mature. Likes: Swimming, going to the library, reading, archery, darts games, snow-covered field, fighting tactics, keeping stuff organize, his closet friends, reading novels, mediating, hacking and tinkering devices. Dislikes: Disorganization, hate getting interrupted, Akira's temperament, Robin being too cocky, not doing anything useful, hearing his comrades argue, and judgmental people. Weapon: Bow n' Arrow Magic Elements: Ice, Wind, Thunder, and Fire Weakness: Close range enemies, shield and armor that the protect opponents, and blinding spells. Background: Froze's family own a tailor shops, and worked their for almost his entire childhood. His family home schooled him, but Froze feel he is not getting a good enough education. One day he disappeared with no trace or motive. His old home town declare him dead, but he's not really. Trivia: Froze's hometown thrived in mountains and harsh cold weather, and people who come from the cold land are label as "Cold" folks. Froze's glasses are just accessories for him since his eyesight are more enhanced thanks to a certain ability.

Name:Makayla Belladonna Relatives: Nyra(older sister: active), and unnamed parents( status: unknown). Age: 16 Appearance: A bit tall, short, black hair, and tanned skin. On her left ear and a bit on her left cheek she has a port wine stain birth mark. Personality: low self-esteem, cold-hearted, quiet, over-protective, sharp-minded, sometime manipulated, empathy, good-listener, useful, good-hearted at times, friendly sometime, middle ground, and a bit childish. Likes: Fighting, anime, rabbits, making accessories, writing dark stories, playing rpg makers games, being with her sister, the color white, and friends. Dislikes: Bullies, bad people, someone tried to hurt her sister, being around a lot of people, getting caught, failing, losing her precious creations, and unable to get things right. Weapon: Sai Magic Elements: Ice, Fire, Poison, and Wind Weakness: Relying too much on her manipulation ability, larger enemies, low defense, and light spells. Background: She and her older sister, Nyra, came from a long line of fighters. Their family are in charged of oldest guild in Seikastu Valley. One day, Makayla was given a gift and later disappeared along with her older sister. No one know what happened to the two sister, but many consider the two dead. Even though their bodies were never found. Trivia: She's the second Oc to be contributed by none other than my supporter called RequimeofKingdomHearts. Her last named "Belladonna" was based on the deadly plant, fitting because she delicate and also dangerous in a fight. ******************************************************************* Sides Ocs( already features in story, but play a small role). Name:Alan Royal Age: late 40th Gender: male Looks: Neatly comb black hair and stubbled beard. Well-muscle for his age, and has bright green eyes. Personality: Level-headed, calm, intelligent, wise, fatherly,kind,and brave. Alan have dry sense humor and sarcastic wits. Like: Studies, reading, going places that he never been too, meeting new people, and cooking Dislike: Akira's stubbornness and reckless, People who are quick to judge, war, annoyance, and anything that creeps or crawl(ex: Snakes, rats, and scorpions) Occupation: Professor

Name:Nyra Belledonna Age: mid-twenties Gender: female Looks: Dark brown eyes, tall-figure, pale skins, neck-length ebony hair, and slender. Nice curved body and modest-sized chest. Personality: intelligent, cunning, caring, protective, good-leaderships, and flirtatious. Likes: Makayla(baby sister), Froze(assistant), Mocktails, everything going as plan, organizing, tactical games, yoga, and practicing fighting. Dislikes: Anybody who hurt her sister and Assistant, being tricked, keeping secret, and judgmental people. Occupation: Headmistress(formerly)

Name:Hana Sakuragi Age: 10 Gender: female Looks: Bright red hair, brown eyes, and pale skin Personality: gentle, shy, strong-willed, weak, and soft-spoken Likes: Cartoon, coloring, flowers, going places, Sorin and Akira Dislikes: bullies, being weak, her illness, seeing Akira and Sorin arguing. Occupation:Student ******************************************************************* Future OCs(feature in future stories and one-shots).

Name: Harmonia Age: 15 or 16 Gender: Female Looks: Shoulder-lengths blonde hair, peach-skinned, and lavender eyes Personality:Serious, brave, complex, caring, and cold-hearted Likes: Music, theater, fairytales, and swordsmanships. Dislikes: People getting in her ways, her mother, and monsters

Name:Magia Age:16 or 17 Gender: Male Looks: Black hair with slight curls, dark brown eyes, and Personality: Wise, determined, stern,good-hearted, and logical Likes: Magic, books, owls, astronomy, helping other, and leaning something new. Dislikes: Monsters, distraction, friends being mischievous, and disorganization.

Name: Shade Shinozaki Age: 14 Gender: Male Look: messing silver neck-length hair, golden-colored ears, tanned skin, slightly pointing ears, and a large bite marked on his right shoulder. Personality: Friendly, out-spoken, loyals, spunky, courageous, dreamer, and rash. Likes: ghost story, his girlfriend, going swimming, surfing, Dislikes: Secrets, being compare to somebody else, and killers.

Name: Euphemia Albinoni Age: 13 or 14 Gender: Female Look: curly, black shoulder-length hair, dark skinned-colored, dark brown eyes, and slight-curved body

#kingdom hearts #an AU where Terra have a baby sister and other characters defendant as well that aidthe main heroes

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Difference Between Male and Female Japanese Speech ("How-to avoid sounding too girly or boyish in Japanese?"): Pronoun Usage (part 1 of 3)

PREFACE:

Inadvertently sounding too masculine or feminine in Japanese isn't a big deal at all, so there's no need to fret over it.

Prerequisite(s):

First Person Pronouns, or, Ways to Say “I” in Japanese (Post | Video)

Second-Person Pronouns, or, Ways to Say “You” in Japanese (Post | Video)

ね and よ as Final Particles (Post | Video)

Conjugations of Desu (です) (Post | Video)

Introduction to Adjectives (い-Adjectives and な-Adjectives) (Post | Video)

Conjugating い-Adjectives (Post | Video)

Conjugating な-Adjectives (Post | Video)

Japanese Word Beautifiers お and ご (Post | Video)

Prerequisite(s):

*specifically for the examples incidentally provided below, not necessarily required to understand the key concepts of this lesson

Desiderative たい-Form (Pre-ます-Form VERB + たい as “want to VERB”) (Post | Video)

Negative ない Form (Verb Conjugation) (Post | Video)

In many languages across the world, there is a clear distinction between masculinity and femininity.

For example, the Spanish language assigns a "grammatical" gender to every single noun word, even nouns words that represent inanimate objects with no physical gender.

We separate the differences between male and female Japanese speech into three categories, in order of most distinguishing of gender:

Usage of Pronouns (First and Second Person)

Sentence Enders (Particles)

Select Vocabulary and Phrases

We also make a general distinction between male and female Japanese speech that these categories will follow:

#01. Usage of Pronouns (First and Second Person)

Female:

あたし (atashi) - First-person pronoun derived from the gender neutral 私 (watashi), considered more cute

*The use of one's own name to address oneself (i.e. referring to oneself in the third person) is also considered more habitually done by female speakers, as it can come off as cute.

Male:

僕 (boku) - The most commonly used first person for male speakers

俺 (ore) - Considered even more masculine than 僕 (boku) and more present in especially casual conversations amongst male friends as opposed to formal situations

*Female speakers may be heard using both male pronouns above for whatever reason.

Second Person Pronouns:

TO BE CONTINUED IN...

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