• alapakala@quokk.au
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    This is one of those times the 日本語 makes more sense than a translation.
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    3 different first person pronouns were used, one popularly expressed by a demographic, thus considered gendered.

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      Thank you for the context. At this point I’ve read so much genderswap manga that the gendered first person pronouns don’t even register as something that people won’t understand

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        I similarly got confused reading the second panel in English, so I decided to investigate. Thus found it more perplexing why ExiledDestiny choose to gender「私」 at all.