Show is Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai - Jellyfish can’t swim in the night

Probably spoilers. Last warning.

spoiler

Here: https://yorukura.fandom.com/wiki/Kiui_Watase

I did this based on this scene from episode 11: https://streamable.com/oq226r

Comrade Kiui is FtM.

Not only that but his name “Watase” splits into “Wata” which means “crossing” or “ferry,” often used in Japanese names to imply traversing a river or similar feature, hinting at transitions or change. While “se” meaning “rapids” or “change” is also another blatantly huge clue.

I haven’t worked out what Kiui might reference, it’s written in Katakana and some think it’s the Kiwi bird. I don’t know if this is related or not, someone else might.

QED

EDIT: Edit war has begun.

  • milistanaccount09 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    Based on the fact that the Nox vtuber character still wears a skirt and stuff I think it’s pretty reasonable to just go with ‘non binary’ for now but yeah o7

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      Maybe! I get the impression that they’re in some sort of stage of figuring themselves out. The thing is that as Kiui they clearly hate themselves to the point of literally hiding their face from other people on the street, they don’t want other people to even perceive them, they don’t feel right in their own skin and the “your body just keeps growing on its own” is obviously referring to boobs growing. So if it does end up being non-binary the obvious take is that they would present as masc.

      • milistanaccount09 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        5 months ago

        yeah the gender dysphoria thing is very clear! i dont exactly wanna go back & look at the episode rn but I’m pretty sure they do also say during the confrontation at the arcade that they were basically building their vtuber avatar as an idealised self. ofc it’s left ambiguous exactly how kiui wishes to be referred to so i’m sure they’ll clarify it a bit more later (or maybe not since queer shit tends to just get twelve episodes :P)