Talk:Nanaba

Gender
Looks like we will have to take the same route as with Hanji. Since the anime has made Nanaba a woman, we will leave her gender as Female, since the anime is also official material. As with Hanji, this will stay this way until the manga proves otherwise (and likely won't, since Nanaba died).  h fc 2 X  18:45, August 24, 2013 (UTC)

Seems fine ;o By the way, is her appearance there anime-only? I can't quite recall it in manga and the article doesn't mention it either. 18:48, August 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, Nanaba first appears at the same time that she does in the anime . Her first appearance is on Chapter 27, not 34, but I will change this in a moment when I add anime details to the template.  h fc 2 X  18:58, August 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * Ooooh, I see. I thought it was Armin LOL. But now that I think of it, Armin has bandage on his head at that time. 19:04, August 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * I dont see why everyone thinks Nanaba is a female? A lot of male characters have had female voice actresses in the past -.-  D. Gray-Man's  Allen walker, Full Metal Alchemist's Edward Elric, Free! 's Nagisa
 * HE is male -.- done 217.120.165.61 19:47, August 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * Oh wow this whole gender issue.. why can't we just accept he's male. Bishonen? Anyone?19:47, August 24, 2013 (UTC)19:47, August 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * Not because you got used to male fanart of Nanaba means it will automatically be male. Only Armin has been given a female voice actor in this anime because he's a kid, so it wouldn't really matter. Don't make assumptions based on other animes, much less on fanart.
 * Also, vandalizing other people's comments will get you permantently blocked from this site.  h fc 2 X  19:55, August 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * Except we see when Nanaba is torn apart that there is bust.Female, unless you wanna explain why there was a clear bulge in "it's" shirt.
 * As for voice Actors, if a Female voice actor voices a male character they at least tend to sound male.Nanaba however clearly is far more feminine.


 * Fyerbrand (talk) 22:00, August 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, she's totally male lol.  h fc 2 X  22:24, August 24, 2013 (UTC)

Double-checked to be certain, but Nanaba uses feminine pronouns in the anime. She uses the feminine "Watashi", which I don't think I've seen a single male character use in an anime. Therefore, we can assume safely that the character is female.

--Harostar (talk) 11:08, August 25, 2013 (UTC)

Cool, thanks! 11:23, August 25, 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, Irvin actually uses watashi when he introduces himself to the recruits: 「私は調査兵団団長、エルヴィン・スミス」.  h fc  2 X  19:48, August 28, 2013 (UTC)

So according to wikipedia: "In formal or polite contexts, watashi is gender neutral, but, when used in informal or casual contexts, it is usually perceived as feminine." Regardless, I don't see a single reason not to keep her as female. 22:02, August 28, 2013 (UTC)

The formal/informal usage is the question. Other than Irvin's speech to the recruits, it seems that everyone uses informal speech with one another. That's the reason I pegged it as the feminine, since Nanaba never struck me in the manga as being super-formal.

--Harostar (talk) 04:45, August 29, 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, I was just pointing it out lol. And yeah, besides that, all males seem to only use ore.  h fc 2 X  08:10, August 30, 2013 (UTC)

No, you're absolutely right. I notice that almost everyone uses "ore", with the exceptions of SUPER FORMAL Irvin and the Boku Trio (Marco, Bertl, and Armin). Mikasa, if I remember correctly, uses "watashi".

--Harostar (talk) 08:14, August 30, 2013 (UTC)


 * Just for the record, I wanted to put this link here, because I'm too lazy to reupload the image to the wiki.  h fc 2 X  07:04, October 4, 2013 (UTC)
 * The manga actually says that Nanaba is male. In volume 9, chapter 35, Krista says "Mr. Nanaba" and this is in the official translation.TitanJuice (talk)
 * We're all aware of this, and Kodansha themselves don't know what Nanaba's gender is. That's why they went with the default "Mister Nanaba".  h fc 2 X  04:54, January 13, 2014 (UTC)

Just going to toss this here, in case it comes up again.

''I’ve said everything I intend to say on Hange (the short version: Hange’s gender is open to whatever interpretation you care to have), but editorial in Japan recently told us that Nanaba is female. Our upcoming reprint of Vol. 9 will remove a reference to her as “Mr. Nanaba.” (Krista must have just been mistaken. Embarrassing for her, but I think Nanaba handled it with grace.)'' (Source: http://kodanshacomics.tumblr.com/post/79565073216/you-publish-attack-on-titan-right-a-friend-told-me)

So the official statement, from Kodansha and Isayama's editors is that Nanaba is a woman and the "Mr. Nanaba" thing was a mistake on their part.

--Harostar (talk) 21:48, March 14, 2014 (UTC)
 * Seriously, 「ナナバさん」 translated as "Mister Nanaba" was stupid. Having no pronouns at all for Nanaba from the start would have been nice. They didn't have to go that bad on an ambiguosly androginous character, specially when Eren also calls Petra 「ペトラさん」, and they didn't name her "Mister Petra".  h fc 2 X  00:54, March 15, 2014 (UTC)