Talk:Arashi Narukami/@comment-26991088-20160322111836/@comment-26322848-20160331032023

For the above comment, before people make any more of a huge mess of the page like this, I think it best to explain what I can of it. With a game like this, always, ALWAYS consider the real Japanese text before English ;o;  In Japanese, we don't use pronouns gendered like in English, so maybe that's confusing to English readers, but Naru doesn't have what is 'dysphoria' (if I spelled that right?) where he is uncomfortable with his body. Regardless of his feminine speech pattern, he views himself physically as male and far from having problems with his body, is actually very confident with it! Even his personal clothes unrelated to unit activities, he chooses menswear. As far as I understand, being trans means to not only see oneself as another sex, but to physically wish to be the desired sex, so it stands to reason that Arashi is not trans, but perhaps something more like gender fluid. I think it is best not to jump to conclusions without reading the real game?

As one example, if you read his recent Girls Talk stories with Mika in Japanese, there is a line where Mika says 最初に会ったときはもっと男らしかったし……おれ、ちょっと怖かったんやけどなぁ？  In English, there isn't a word similar to らしい so I think it was probably translated to something like "you were manlier (more like a man) when I first met you," but there are different ways of saying 'like a' such as used here らしい (is a thing and is suitably like the thing) or not used here みたい  (not the thing, but still like the thing). So basically Mika says, "you, a man, were manlier" and in Naru's response, he doesn't like being thought of as manly and wants Mika to forget that, but doesn't contest the use of らしい (which explicitly refers to him as a man). Especially considering how Mika addresses Mado-nee as female (or that he talks to her at all), he doesn't seem like the type of friend to say らしい instead of みたい if it would bother Naru (which it doesn't). Even if it had bothered him, I'm sure that he would have corrected Mika on that point without letting it slide. If you read through other stories, there are more examples like this ^o^  I hope this can help to clarify a little for users who are confused!