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.