if I had a nickel for every time I thought a male anime character was a tall, wide-shouldered and flat-chested woman I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

6/26

Originally posted on Spacehey on 2/26

First it was my babygirl Fujiwara no Sai. It only took me five episodes to realise that he wasn't a gorgeous woman but a gorgeous man 〒▽〒. Well, the English translator for Hikaru no go thought he was a woman at first too.

Now Pinterest is trying like really hard to sell me this figurine of a character I don't know. Yesterday I found out that he's also a male :DD... On a different pin about the same character someone commented "CAN THIS RUGBY TWINK LEAVE ME ALONE" so I'm not the only one who's being harassed by pictures of this guy lmao

But where is my tall, wide-shouldered and flat-chested woman representation !?

Friend Rewind exclusive update! There has been a third case!!!1!

I found the first volume of Wolf's Rain from a thrift store and while reading it I thought to myself: "Wow, Toboe is a female character in a group of guys and they don't treat her any differently because she is a woman. How refreshing!"

Then I get to the ending pages where the illustrator, Toshitsugu Iida, tells about how he translated the character design from the TV show to manga artstyle. Then he mentions how he thought Toboe was a woman at first and I was like NOT AGAIN!!