Bouken ni wa, Buki ga Hitsuyou da! ~Kodawari Rudy no Kajiya-gurashi~ - Ch. 20 - Commission for Gleeia the Adventurer

[mayu_hojo]

The pitcher and the receiver, classic.

 

[7goat]

Rudy's talk about weapon affinities in this chapter mirrors the one she gave to Yugo in chapter 7.1, except the dwarf is now Bergin holding a crossbow while the elf is now Serterra using an axe.

 

[KoffeeStarZ0e]

THAT'S A SHE ??? and holy shit she hit that morningstar like its a baseball

 

[Junpaku]

Great question! It's not explicitly stated. Gleeia uses the "Ore" pronoun, which is commonly used by both men and masculine women.
A Japanese audience would typically understand that "-ia" endings of names usually indicate feminine.

There's also this:
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So I'm pretty comfortable going with she until stated otherwise.

In the style of Diogenes:
Behold! A woman!!
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg144/0262/image,info

This type of cuirass was apparently called an kastenbrust. I knew there would probably be some real life examples of knights wearing this kind of thing because medieval armor liked big angles for deflecting blows away from the vitals in the torso. (Gleeia should also be wearing a helmet for the deflections that are definitely going to go for the vitals of their head and neck lol)
Found a good forum discussion sharing a lot of pics of the different kinds of kastenbrust from old paintings and manuscripts circa the 1400s.
http://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.33002.html

 

[Sanosaur]

I guess she also gonna be the reason baseball is gonna be a thing in this world ey

 

[PechWild]

 

[benderboyboy]

Yugo's a harem protag?!?!

 

[tremor3258]

The solution this time is surprisingly simple, but hilarious in execution.

 

[Laxtir]

Fuck , that idea is soo cool like the lethal baseball sound soo much like a 2010's radical versión of a baseball Game.

 

[natural-log]

Great question! It's not explicitly stated. Gleeia uses the "Ore" pronoun, which is commonly used by both men and masculine women.
A Japanese audience would typically understand that "-ia" endings of names usually indicate feminine.

There's also this:
View attachment 41495
So I'm pretty comfortable going with she until stated otherwise.

Nah, if it's "Guriako/Gleeiako" then the Japanese audience would understand. The mangaka never stated that Guria/Gleeia is "kanojo". That's a man(he even uses "ore") and Saint Seiya is also a man. Yuuta, Shouta, Kouta are also male names. If the art is clearly a man, I'd default to a man until stated otherwise. Please, please, be respectful to both the mangaka and the manga.

 

[fight2live]

and Rudy gains another client! she's getting famous i'm so proud of her

 

[Scrabbleman]

Can’t believe this guy is actually a harem protag. Good for him!

 

[AzzoleOddone]

that actually subverted my expectations but that's sick. Like imagine playing an mmorpg with someone and you can just parry their flail attacks to hit harder lmao

new ultrakill weapon?

 

[IamaTire]

When the problem of Rudy's weapons is not that they don't work, but that they work too well, it's a terrific sign
What an amazing way to use the deflect projectiles skill, so creative.
A two people attack, Mario & Luigi vibes

 

[Liam.A.R]

I love the creativity of Thea’s weapons or rather how there used. There so fun, wacky and cool!

 

[Yuyu_yusha]

THIS, DUDE! THIS! The bane of all exiling fantasy manga and romcom manga: communication. Why don't we just sit down and talk about our problem like normal human and solve it in one chapter? Nope! Let's drag it for 1000 chapters with small miscommunication.

And Gleeia is a gal?! I thought Gleeia is a dude.

 

[Celiohogane]

An axe swinging elf and bow drawing dwarf?

Roll credi- oh wait not here.

 

[CyanHide]

Few will either care to listen or want to believe me, but I saw the baseball strategy coming a mile away. Glad the party has reconciled, and on another note, I'm glad that the club has gotten to shine a bit brighter than the sword.

 

[NicholasTurner]

I think people are worrying too much on whether the leader is male or female to the point that they are forgetting one thing, Tomgirls exist. Now don't get me wrong I love Tomboys but there is definitely a severe lack of Tomgirls in the industry and leader could just be an effeminate male, using female words while being male.

And for those more linguistically challenged or want a TLDR, Tomgirls are the gender mirror of Tomboys: where Tomboys are girls whom are boyish, Tomgirls are boys whom are feminine.