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[-] Zizzy 4 points 3 days ago

Iirc, and i could be wrong, but im pretty sure about these:

Top left astolfo: nonbinary, refers to themselves that way Top middle felix: girl, i remember a scene where she was talking to someone else and this is the impression that was left on me Middle middle rimuru(maybe?): never adresses their gender once afaik so im going to guess non binary, but possibly leaning male

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

It gets addressed. Hes male not allowed to use his male form, so he's stuck using the female form of a good friend. He changes it to be more masculine one to not be a clone of his dead friend he's borrowing the body form. And he can only change it so much.

So it's stuck in the middle. Basically a flat chested androgynous woman.

But because his new body is a genderless slime. Any human form he takes is basically just cosplay.

Rimaru is basically just doing magical crossdressing cosplay with the modified corpse of a very close friend.

The entire thing has very morbid subtext while also being really sweet.

[-] JordanZ@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Except Felix is a guy...

[-] Zizzy 12 points 3 days ago

I looked into this a bit more, and it seems its a bit contested, especially because light novel vs anime vs translations both dub and sub.

There's this quote, and there are some other things listed here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=81711&type=att

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Fascinating. As someone who only watched the anime, I thought they identified as male. Those scenes mentioned where they identify as female were never shown.

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Rimuru was previously male (before being isekaid) but the humanoid body is copied from a woman, but Rimuru goes by male pronouns (at least in the anime).

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Does out side the anime too. There's even a whole thing about him wanting but not allowed to use a male form for reasons.

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