Hunter x Hunter

So I finally watched the entire thing and I don't get the controversy surrounding Pitou's sex. What part of the series does it stem from?

People just don't like catgirls I guess

pitou uses male pronouns

In the manga, due to togashi's chicken scratch drawings for 95% of it, Pitou appeared to be male, and used male pronouns.

When he updated the art, it was clear she was more female though.

People want to jerk off to the character but don't want to feel guilty for doing so

Pitou is a cute!!!

People don't know what a bokugirl.

It's a fun bait to use to troll the waifufags.

Pitou is an androgynous boy in the manga.
In the anime, they made him look like a cute girl, which is the source of the confusion.
A lot of people waifu Pitou and don't want to admit they got fooled by a trap.

This with the databook implying male by using the word "kare" off hand.
Togashi having given Pitou tits later makes it pretty clear that Pitou is female after all's said and done.

This user is a dumb redditor.

>Pitou is an androgynous boy in the manga.
Not with these tits.

The anime was following the manga's later design of Pitou.

>What part of the series does it stem from?

-Togashi's drawing style is pretty essential oftentime and sometimes even worse, which led to Pitou's slender figure to be often drawn without any defined features which made it look like a very thin male body

-Pitou refers to herself with "boku", the male pronoun, so people took that for proof that she's a boy. What they don't know is that in japan tomboys and other girls use "boku" as a gimmick because it sounds personal and cute

-Trolls having fun poking at people

reminder that all worker ants are sterile females so pitou is a girl

Autists. Pitou is female.

Pitou's body never even looked particularly "male", Pitou always had hips as wide or wider than the shoulders, which is a strongly female sexual trait. At best you could say Togashi's nebulous designs were androgynous due to a flat chest juxtaposed with birthing hips.

Does that make Pouf and Youpi reverse traps?

yes the only actual male ant is Meruem

who cares if she is a boy
that would only make her better

>What part of the series does it stem from?
Butthurt Western losers who can't handle she is a cute girl.

I'm still mad at how badly Madhouse messed up Pitou's hair outside the absolute most important scenes. Looks like fucking clay.

Meruem is the only one who can reproduce because a colony needs only one King/Queen.

Assuming a new colony is formed I'm pretty sure all ants would develop the ability one way or the other, like Zazan did.
I guess Pouf and Youpi would do it like a male would while Pitou would some way other.

Pitou is my wife

Chimera ants are different from regular ants.
To oversimplify, real ants have 3 "genders": female, male, and queen.
Females are sterile and only exist to work. Like the soldiers, officers, and royal guards.
Males are sperm donors who do nothing else. For chimera ants, the squadron leaders and the king are able to breed with other species, and they go out and start their own colonies after the queen dies. The squadron leaders seem to serve a more female role before the queen dies, though.
The queen is the queen.

>he never blackmailed and hatefucked her while stuck healing Komugi

What a missed chance

This. It's 100% a Western thing. If you look at Japanese fanart it's clear not a single one of them thinks she's a boy, or even seem to realize there's supposed to be any confusion. Obviously fanart by itself isn't canon but when literally none of it makes use of the idea that Pitou's a trap, that can only mean the idea doesn't exist in the first place.

It's unclear whether Royal Guards have the ability given they're supposed to follow and die for the king, they're not like the officers.

Also Zazan is a question mark given she(?) wants to be the new "queen" but she's not actually capable of reproducing and has to use the stinger, and let's not forget how she's a tribute to Dragon Ball's Zabon. She might be some weird tranny thing.

Chimera ants aren't divided into workers and drones like real ants. Meruem is a glorified drone and it's said that soldier ants can mate like a king does, though that has given rise to controversy whether "all ants are male" or not (they're not). It's only implied that female chimeras aren't able to breed, in the fact that Chimera queens are only born from a King impregnating a female of another species, and Zazan's method of "reproduction" (she tries to write it off by saying laying eggs is "inefficient", so it's up to interpretation if that's just sour grapes).
So a male ant like Leol could reproduce, but we don't know if Pouf and Youpi who technically aren't soldiers are naturally able to do anything. Obviously Youpi could just turn any of his cells into gametes and even mate with himself, but that's outside ant biology. Later we get ant Kite who is female, so we at least know that someone of Meruem's generation can be female (thereby destroying the "all ants are male" retards), but some people think she's a queen which doesn't make any sense. Kite is either a soldier, or a royal guard for the next king that the queen was supposed to conceive.

There was early fanart of Pitou with a dick but it died down pretty quickly, especially after the anime. At this point it's a meme just like the shitposter who pretends Kurapika is a girl.

latest fanart on pixiv is Pitou with a cute shota dick.

>At this point it's a meme just like the shitposter who pretends Kurapika is a girl.
Nice try, Kurapika-girl hater, but there's no objective proof that Kurapika isn't a girl & plenty of evidence to suggest she is one.

thanks for the tip

The official databook says pitou is male, that's all there is to it. I'm guessing a lot of you aren't aware, but transgender people do exist, and pitou and kurapika are heavily coded as trans. Looks don't decide gender. Please respect his pronouns and gender because otherwise you're honestly just being rude.

HxH newfag here, what caused the change in art style?

Nothing, Togashi always do that.
Especially with female characters.

I was confused about this subject too so I looked at the wiki's talk page and holy shit it's a bottomless pit of asspain and gender autism

Togashi's style changes a lot in HxH. It's most noticeable in the Ant arc because it took so long to finish.

>Pitou gender thread
This can only go wrong

Nothing. All authors go through changes when creating a new character. The design gets refined and sometimes varies compared to the initial idea.

>pitou and kurapika are heavily coded as trans.

Um, no?

Japanese don't even know what trans people are, stop making shit up. Crossdressing and feminine males are very common in asian cultures, it is no wonder it leaks into the otaku subculture.

so as Kalluto

Wasn't there another japanese character that used boku which confused morons too? I'm feeling deja vu here.

Have you read Level E? Togashi is interested in the tranny mind.

Togashi does though. Both him and his wife are known for LGBT themes.

>Kurapika
>Pitou
>Kalluto
>Alluka
I'm certain Togashi does it intentionally to fuck with us. Hell even Biscuit has the original manly form, Togashi seems to have a thing for androgyny.

Keep that poison out of here.

Yupi > Pufu > Pitou

That strut is adorable.

ok

I want to fuck Pitou while she destroys my back with her claws.

>tfw not having the phantom troupe as family

they are so comfy

>pitou uses male pronouns
So autists can't grasp that some girls use male pronouns and it's been viewed as a moe thing for over a decade now.

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>replying to copypasta

>stray cat strut

Kalluto doesn't have birthing hips, you dumb shit.

>this is a man to some

Why is HxH's magic system so autisticly complicated?

They're just Stands.

It appeals to people who like some rules in their magic. Guess it's not for you.

anons ITT have embarrassingly forgot to mention that the official English translation caused most of the gendershitposting, at least in the west.
The translator arbitrarily decided to use male pronouns for pitou which were not there in Japanese.

It's the most versatile and actually rewards creativity, also if you find it so complicated then you just be retarded.

must*

I want to bust a nut inside Pitou's girl cunny.

I'd agree with you if there weren't dumb asspulls and that fucking retarded "Specialist" class. Why make all these rules if you're just going to fart all over them with shit like that?

Don't you love it when people go out of their way to answer to the OP's inquire only to be ignored?

Because you don't, the rules are still there. "Specialists" are just for bizarre magic abilities that don't fall into any other category.

>They're just Stands.

Die FuJo fag. I genuinely want you to die. Every single HxH thread you come in (it's always the same guy) spewing this retarded shit.

No, "they" are not "just Stands" (most retarded name for a "power system" in history of shonen by the way).

Your pathetic "Stands" are a pathetic miniscule of what Nen's beautiful, original & fantasy-filled power system (the best power system ever made in all of fiction by the way).

just pitou being a tomboy, who was her japanese grammatical teacher anyway

pitou is a guy or at best sexless
not a girl
many people cannot accept this

Updated the Kakin portion to 370.

Silent Majority's user must have been someone who was there from the start in room 1014, so either Bill or Shimano.

What rules have been broken?

But they are actually Stands. Manifestations of mind energy with specific limitations and rules.

Only difference is that they aren't named after bands.

Pitou is a techinically sexless, feminine catgirl. Kurapika is just a super androgynous boy. The only trans character in HxH is Alluka

>But they are actually Stands.
Stop shilling your inferior fujo appeal trash shonen & it's retarded dogshit power system.

>many people cannot accept this
Yeah you can't accept that Pitou is female.

Alluka breaks the rules of nen, no?

Stands get assigned to you and you can do nothing to change it or make it better outside of the requiem bullshit, nen powers are malleable and you can do whatever you want with them.
Sasuga JoJofag, yet again you prove to everyone how retarded you people are.
Alluka is an entity outside what nen is capable of, it has nothing to do with it as far as we know.

>Silent Majority's user must have been someone who was there from the start in room 1014

Only if we assume Woody and the other bodyguards were killed by Silent Majority and not Woble's nen beast.
And I'm not sure about that.

The species stats of these ants state that by his birth order and colony standing, they are males and can impregnate other animal females when there is no queen or king. Its all fucked up creature powers in world. Pitou must have a ant dick no matter what animals he was birthed from.

she can have a dick and still be a girl though, that's the heart of what people care about

Would you a Pitou?

Retard

that is still good for some, there may still a vag just by being birthed from the parts of a female animal, just like the other sexual characteristics we see.

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>its retarded
My reasoning is sound by what info is given about the ants.

This reminds me of when Kurama (Yu Yu Hakusho) was called a woman in the Phillipines dub named 'Denise' . This shit just keeps happening to Togashi.

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yes but I'd make her keep the coat on

It absolutely isn't considering only soldier ants were stated to be able to mate, Zazan puts a wrench in your theory and any claims that Zazan might just be a male pretending to be a queen would be wholly disingenuous, Kite is not male by any argument, and going back to the first point your entire spiel doesn't even apply to the royal guard Pitou by default.

the royal guard all have dicks, because the royal guard ants have dicks.

Please return to reddit if you're not going to put a modicum of effort into your shitposts.

quit fucking lying.

Also, why not put Barrigen who got killed in 370 in there?

It's not a lie, more of a guess. I have no proof you're a redditor but you're sure dumb enough to fit in.

Am I the only one who prefers the design on the right?

I prefer it too, but it doesn't fit with Pitou's later self. I wish she kept the bow at least.

Actually no, they use neutral

People are fucking retarded, author said it's a girl, so that's the end of the story

Boku is still considered a male pronoun regardless of the bokukko girls in Japanese media. Pitou uses the neutral watashi when speaking with Meruem though.