4/6/2023 0 Comments Fullmetal alchemist envy![]() ![]() I hope that the new edition of the manga will change Envy’s pronouns, but regardless, now you know where it came from. ![]() Of course most English-speaking FMA fans are going to call Envy “he” if they don’t know any better, because that’s how everything in English refers to them- for the reasons I just explained above. On top of this, Envy in the 2003 anime genuinely is male, being the failed attempt at resurrecting Dante and Hohenheim’s son, and is referred to as such. ![]() While it’s sometimes possible to determine a seemingly androgynous character’s gender based on their Japanese pronouns, as far as I know, Envy always refers to themself and “kono Envy” (”I, Envy”) rather than, say, the masculine “ore” or feminine “atashi” or anything like that.Įnvy looks like the sort of character who is usually a guy Nonbinary characters aren’t all that common, and in general nonbinary identities weren’t as well known in the early 2000s as they are now, so it’s highly likely that early translators looked at Envy and just assumed they were a dude based on common manga tropes. Although we know from guidebooks that Envy is nonbinary (genderfluid? I’m not really sure of the specifics but whatever), their gender never actually comes up within the narrative, and those guidebooks may not have been out at the time that FMA was first translated.įurthermore, characters with vaguely androgynous (by western standards) appearances like Envy are pretty common in manga. While Envy can assume its actual form of an enormous leviathan creature, its body pulsing the faces of the Cselkcess citizens who constitute their stone, Envys. The habit of referring to Envy with male pronouns goes back all the way to the early days of FMA. ![]()
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