Board Thread:Manga Discussion/@comment-32189512-20180216130910/@comment-73.94.20.6-20180311035137

Be careful not to confuse more or less ambiguous with non-binary. Here is what I assume so far regarding HxH.

subject = sex/gender

Kurapika = male/male        He is pretty, SO WHAT?

Kaluto = male/male            He crossdresses because his mom gave him the habit. No reason to beleive otherwise.

Alluka = male/female          Killua has the greatest affinity to her and states as a fact that she is a girl.

Nanika = asexual?/female? We don't know what Nanika is but it's behavior is human enough and Alluka refers to her by femminine words.

Neferpitou = ?/female? We don't know much about Chimera ant biology, it could be anything from asexual to sequential hermaphroditism. She is cute in a toboyish way.

For Togashi and any observant person, gender is a separate concept from sex. They often correlate but they can be nuanced conditions. The japanese language doesn't even have separate words for sex and gender as far as I know. Don't get stuck on these commonplace words when ideas are the impetus of complex communication.

I doubt Togashi has the same notion of "non-binary" that is currently popular in the west but he absolutley has written characters that have gender and sex incompatabilities. Many including I happen to have a distate for that horrendously vague word.