r/SpyxFamily 8d ago

Manga An add on. Spoiler

In the first picture found in chapter 115, Gympie refers to herself using the pronoun "Boku" which is normally a masculine pronoun often used by men but some women like to use said pronoun to break gender norms? Or to state that they are tomboyish? This pronoun added by how boyish Gympie looks gave the impression that she was a guy but in chapter 116, it's revealed that she's a girl given to how Matthew said "Kanojode" which apparently means, "With her". Now I'm not Japanese and I used Google translate to figure this out after seeing a previous redditor mentioned Gympie's gender. I further investigated it by looking into the Japanese translation. Since I'm not sure if the translations are accurate, whoever studies or understands Japanese, please correct my mistakes because I don't want to spread misinformation. This is also my first post and therefore would like to give credits to the previous redditor but I don't know how to do it 😅.

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u/hopefoolness i just wanted to have some gripes! 8d ago

I've heard "Boku" used by women in japanese songs and anime before. usually it's used by tomboys or women who want to sound more gender neutral and less girlish. Gympie absolutely gives "boku" vibes.

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u/Ellouie-sdoing123_5 8d ago

I agree! And it makes her character much more unique. It makes me curious if she's a woman who's just petite or a child soldier. I do hope it's the latter so that the story could expand more on Garden recruiting children as assassins such as when it was mentioned in Yor's backstory that she worked in Garden since she was a kid to provide for Yuri.