[ SECRET POST #6438 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6438 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Takehito Koyasu (voice actor)]



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[sailor moon, ouran high-school club]



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Comments

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[ariakas]

Eh, kind of? This wasn't Word of God, or even Haruka herself saying this, this was Michiru, and the actual manga line could be translated as "both masculine and feminine (qualities)," has "both the strengths of male and female," or if you read it the most literally, Haruka is intersex, because gender terms aren't used, sex terms are.

On the other hand, Takeuchi is on the record saying "only women can be Sailor Guardians". Which means that at the very least for the above line to be interpreted as Haruka being on the gender spectrum outside womanhood in some way, she or he is definitely bigender and not nonbinary.

Also this line doesn't exist in the anime canon at all (plus the whole Sailor Stars thing breaking "only women can be Sailor Guardians" which Takeuchi was super pissed about, so it's clearly a different universe).

I have no issues with interpretations of Haruka as gender diverse and I'm glad that rep is out there, but it's an equally valid interpretation to say the character is a butch lesbian with "both masculine and feminine qualities" or even an intersex woman as it is to say they're nonbinary/bigender. (I'd argue that the former is a more accurate interpretation of anime canon and the latter manga canon, but that's a whole other essay - the character is drawn differently depending on boy mode/girl mode in the manga - as you can see above (they literally have different face lengths and nose shapes) - but not in the anime has completely different patterns of dress and speech, including self-referential pronouns, in the 90s anime vs the manga.)