| i only started watching hunter x hunter because i thought kurapika was a independent, strong, female that I could relate to, because since i am new to watching anime it seems that most females are sideline characters or used for entertainment. since finding out kurapika is a guy..i guess it isn't so bad anymore : / but because i am so far into HxH now, i am going to keep watching, and it is also a good story ^.^ |
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| I don't remember because it was like 5 years ago, but probably for like a couple minutes if at all. In each series he has a girl as his VA, so that coupled with not knowing much about him probably fooled me for a couple minutes. |
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| I started with the manga, and I never considered him being mistaken for a girl until that character poll came up and some of the fans reaction(?) when it came to kurapika was something like "we like him cuz 'is it a girl? a boy? we can't tell". and I was wondering why, because at that point he didn't look all that much like a bishounen to me (he started looking more like one during YS I think) NA's adaptation added some weird stuff in the beginning though. and Celastias, you're not going to find a whole lot of the female characters you're looking for in a shounen anime xDD |
meshimoon said: and Celastias, you're not going to find a whole lot of the female characters you're looking for in a shounen anime xDD People like Erza from Fairy Tail as a strong female in a shounen anime. But there probably aren't a lot more, more iffy female characters like the ones from One Piece or Naruto. |
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| well i am still learning the genre's of anime, i saw a picture of kurapika and started watching before i knew anything about hunter x hunter or "shounen" C: |
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| i was watched the original anime--not the remake one, i knew that kurapika is a guy but the more i watch, the more i looked at him as a girl because of his personality and appearance really looks like girl. |
| No ofcourse!.. |
| Yes, only for a moment but that's to be expected from at least one character per work from Togashi. |
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| Thought he was a boy when I first watched the old anime, but when he revealed his earrings I thought he's a girl who pretended to be a boy (there was some knight anime I watched around the same time and this happened in it so it's their fault) |
| In the original I thought kurapika was a girl till Greed Island OVAs when someone said "he" and I noticed. I wonder how my face was then, since I was mindblown. |
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| When I originally started reading the manga I thought he was a girl at first. |
| Lol, who doesn't? His design and voice really support him to be mistaken as a girl.. He's a cool character though, one of my favorite in the series for sure.. |
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| Lol, wtf? I voted yes (God knows when), but I came to this thread to say I realised he was a guy as soon as I saw him.... |
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| When I first watched hunter x hunter it never crossed my mind Kurapika wasn't a boy. But that was before I knew ambiguous sexes were a thing in anime, and something Togash was known for. So knowing what I know now I'm pretty sure Kurapika is a girl. |
| I did think he was a girl when I first watched HxH (the original one) but apparently I was wrong, lol. If you have watched the original HxH, they made Kurapika acted more like a girl. But Kurapika could be a girl pretending to be a boy. It doesn't matter though, he's still one of my favourites character and HxH is one of my fav anime/manga, lol. |
RyanEvan said: Between the voice and the way he was drawn I thought that it was a girl disguising herself as a boy. My theory kept being validated when he was in the shower and it didn't go past his sholders, and when the other guy walked in to the cabin they were sharing naked he flipped out (i fogot his name, it the doctor with the case). by "the doctor with the case" you mean leorio? i don't remember this part at all tbh i never thought kurapika was a girl, maybe because i watched too many shoujo animes so androgynous characters are a normal thing to me :P |
| When I first got into manga as a middle schooler Hunter x Hunter was one of the first ones I saw on the book shelf. I remember seeing Kurapika on the front of the manga and wondering if he was a boy or girl but never bothered to actually look because at the time I was only interested in magical girl stuff lol. |
| I saw him for the first time in J-Stars and at that point I've already watched enough anime to recognize a trap |
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