Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-26871067-20160930142956

Ectomees wrote: Olivemeister wrote: Olivemeister wrote: Ectomees wrote: Okay, OnePieceNation alredy clarified this, but my thought a bout the chapter 322  title was, that it could have refered to Nanika, not Alluka. As we already found out, Nanika is defenitely a girl, so it would make sense. I couldn be wrong here, but when Killua enlightened Illumi about Alluka and Nanika in the woods, didn't Illumi say Nanika is a  Zashiki Warashi? Nanika does not appear in chapter 322, to my knowledge. I'm rechecking. Disregard this, Nanika does appear in flashbacks. However, this is before Nanika's introduction as a separate character, and so I believe the argument that it refers to Nanika has very little weight.

Additionally, the term "zashiki warashi (座敷童)" is not gendered. They are not necessarily female. Yeah I see what you mean. Nanika and Alluka kind of belong together so even if Nanika is not out, she's still inside of Alluka so in my opinion it still makes sense to call the chapter "siblings" to be not exclusive of Nanika, even though she did not appear in the chapter.

But most of the time they are girls, we definitely need to keep that in mind. I think it's a very important key to understand the character. It took me a moment to realize you were referring to zashiki warashi in that last bit. The fact that most depictions of zashiki warashi are female doesn't really have any bearing in my opinion, as, again, the term is not gendered.

Additionally (I forgot to mention this), Illumi does not refer to Nanika as a zashiki warashi. He specifically says to Killua that Alluka would be trapped as a zashiki warashi. The line before it refers to Nanika, so the argument that he is referring to both of them is not applicable.

So if you want to continue to argue that Illumi's use of zashiki warashi is an indication of being female, it applies to Alluka.

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