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I\'m inclined to feel the same way, especially since that \
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I\\\'m inclined to feel the same way, especially since that \\\"Word of God\\\" is often in the context of how the series was pitched and there was a clear evolution in how Hibari sees herself over the run of the series. Not to mention introducing one of the most explicit depictions of transgender themes in any manga in literally the last chapter before an abrupt cancellation in a scene that took almost two decades to surface.
The tone of the article right now is as one sided as unilaterally stating Hibari fits perfectly into modern Western transgender conventions would be honestly. My vote is go on ahead with the pronoun change and a couple of things that would need to be cleaned up as a result, and let\\\'s preface it with a blurb putting it into its appropriate historical context. Hibari, by how we characterize things now both here and in Japan, says many things that clearly mark a consistent feminine gender identity. But she is a relic of a time where law and censorship standards in Japan were impeding fair representation of a concept the society was actually grappling with behind the scenes.
In essence, the \\\"debatable\\\" aspect all comes from external factors. But we\\\'re talking about a character that is in universe as consistently explicit as she is allowed to be using linguistic conventions at the time.
The tone of the article right now is as one sided as unilaterally stating Hibari fits perfectly into modern Western transgender conventions would be honestly. My vote is go on ahead with the pronoun change and a couple of things that would need to be cleaned up as a result, and let\\\'s preface it with a blurb putting it into its appropriate historical context. Hibari, by how we characterize things now both here and in Japan, says many things that clearly mark a consistent feminine gender identity. But she is a relic of a time where law and censorship standards in Japan were impeding fair representation of a concept the society was actually grappling with behind the scenes.
In essence, the \\\"debatable\\\" aspect all comes from external factors. But we\\\'re talking about a character that is in universe as consistently explicit as she is allowed to be using linguistic conventions at the time.
