is hanji zoe male or female?

antonn said:
Futa.

Male_Pregnancy said:

why you have to do this futa did not exist before 2000 years you fag

JaegerTheMan said:
Is she/he male or female?

despaircest said:
neither. hanji zoe doesn't need gender. and they haven't been given one by the creator either so that's nice

genderqueer characters are the bestttttt

also for people who think that "boobs = female", please tell me you know the difference between sex and gender, because if you don't, you really can't comprehend what op is asking lol

teravixen said:
She's a titan. Titans are genderless.

nnangle said:
Switches between the two.

katarin said:
In Japanese, the "I" pronoun differs between genders.

For example, males usually use "ore" or "boku" to refer to themselves.
i.e. Eren, Levi, Mike, Reiner, Jean use "ore"
Armin, Marco uses "boku"

Females tend to use "watashi" or "atashi"
Hanji uses "watashi"
so I assume she's a girl?

Though, "watashi" is technically gender neutral and guys use it too if they are speaking more formally (I think Erwin uses "watashi," but I'm not sure; Roy in FMA uses "watashi").

Also, there was that omake with Hanji (in a school girl outfit) being saved from a truck by Sawney (basically Hanji's dream theater of her relationship with the titans lol).
[url]http://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/images/fotolife/k/kajika_eps/20130504/20130504234013.gif[/url]
[url]http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/mstkkt-shingeki/imgs/4/b/4b07005f.jpg[/url]

Plus, I think Isayama purposely gave an ambiguous answer to be a troll, and that shouldn't really be surprising lol.

Pretty sure Hanji is female!

Lylaaz said:
Troll title is troll.

But seriously, Hanji is the typical yaoi fangirl character but she is a titan fangirl.

Easy and simple.

Kari-chan said:
Isayama is a big troll...

Dark-Princess said:
I think Armin is the only trans in SnK

monster_killer said:
Female in the anime but male in manga.

bloodswordzkill said:
Look at Hanji near the end of the most recent chapter. It's easy to see how people would call Hanji a male. Personally I don't think it matters what gender Hanji is. It's not like it matters either way, imo.

According to the official Kodansha translators (http://kodanshacomics.tumblr.com/post/73207971230/hello-i-wanted-to-ask-you-guys-a-question-about-attack) Isayama asked them not to use gender pronouns for Hanji (like 'she' or 'he'). And if they have to that they use male/female pronouns with equal frequency.

Just because the anime made Hanji more obviously female, it seems Isayama has a different intention. It is definitely more ambiguous in the manga. In Japanese Hanji is never referred to using female pronouns. In English it's harder to translate without using pronouns so that's why translators used 'she' for Hanji.

Some people think Isayama is trolling because he was asked that question, but now the official translation team has been asked not to refer to Hanji as female people can either just accept that or just keep viewing Hanji how you always have.

SolvyTwerk4Jesus said:
Neither. She is a titan.

AntenorA said:


That would be an interesting turn of events. :D

rextor666 said:
in chapter 70 of the manga,Levi calls him ''Mr.Hange''
So that should do it

rextor666 said:
in chapter 70 of the manga,Levi calls him ''Mr.Hange''
So that should do it

AntenorA said:
Well since he is officially not answering the question (Because i guess, he loves fan wars) i can only say my opinion in his reaction:

I think Isayama acts like a pussy (As in a little scared kitten) He just doesn’t want to piss off fans who take Hanji as the other gender. He didn't say she is transgender, nor a-gender, nor male or female, he said he will leave it “up for interpretation.” And he didn’t say it officially, but to his translator. You know what that means: "I wanna get out of this situation as clean as possible." At first I called troll, now I call coward.
I have no problem with Hanji being ANY of those things, as long as he, the Creator, say so, but he is taking the easy way out and becoming a bitch for his fans, which, given all the respect I have for him, is incredibly disappointing.
Now it's something insignificant as that, and soon he is gonna ship Levi with every other character, because fangirls say so, and before you know it even minor characters are going to have a plot shield because fans like them. I strongly think he didn't plan Hanji to be "up for interpretation" and all that happened because he tired to be a troll, but internet knows no sarcasm, so shit got out of hand.
He has no idea about the problems this will cause him:
I'd love to see him try and translate this manga in, say, my native Bulgarian, without using gender specification words, since the language demands it. It means sacrificing the dialogue’s quality big time. And let’s admit it Aot has become huge enough to go into many non - English and non - Japanese speaking courtiers, which languages demand a gender classification. And IT just won’t do it. Using he and she equally will be, most likely viewed as a mistake… it’s just - what he thinks is impossible. On Bulgarian at least.

Trolling gone wrong...

I really have no problem, if he say Hanji is a Male, Transgender, A-gender, Female, whatever - as long as he takes a strong position on this. (I accepted Haku (naruto) as a boy after all. :D) He is the creator of this story, not the fangrls, and he is the one who should stay behind it!

Until he takes a strong position Hanji is a woman in my eyes and no one can convince me otherwise. In the anime she is clearly female, and for a mangaka, who is involved even in the fillers of the anime and has an obviously well planned story - I don’t see him missing to tell them he planed Hanji to be “up for interpretation.”
Other than that - a smart person in a powerful position - hmmm must be a guy. :/ in my eyes Hanji is the best woman in this manga, alongside with Annie. Calling her a male, because she doesn’t look like some High school of the Dead bimbo is unfair.

That being said if she turns out anything but a woman - it’d still like the character.
I am just angry that Isayama is acting like a pussy (little scared kitten) and can’t take a strong position on that.
But hay - maybe he just loves fan wars THAT much!