Then we won't be able to relate with Garron, at least not fully.
If you want to appeal to the monster enthusiasts, then you'll be using the monster, no? Why use a human then? Beside, Tina doesn't seem to have, well, attraction towards Garron at all.
I generally chalk the requirement up as the "It's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit." factor (well, and "it's drama..."). Maybe you could explain it as how, just as the palace was still reflected by the lake after the spell went into effect (and thus could be said to still exist there?), you needed someone "real" to pass into a reflection, to take the palace with them? I think the reason Crowe volunteered and was determined to see it through, rather, was because he aspired to be that heroic figure he originally saw in Garron (and which he got a chance to see again, right before the spell finished). Rather than someone who might resent that fate, or feel trapped, he wanted to ensure Mirrorro had a "friend".
The katakana is "mo-mo-su-ro", so Momoslo could've worked but honestly, it looked like the word just sort of cut off abruptly, like it was missing a letter, so I included the "w" in the western spelling (similarly with Crowe's name, he's "ku-ro-u", but "Crow" would've been a weird name for a rabbit, and I felt like adding the "e" makes it readable as being just a little extended, like the original).
Looking at the armor rabbit is likely a girl
Crowe uses the masculine first-person pronoun "ore" in the Japanese. That's not a for-sure guarantee of gender, but enough to say the rabbit is probably a guy.
How about a tomboy who hides her boobs with armor?
The chest fur is also thick enough to cover the area completely. Crowe's figure resembles a woman's too (slim stomach, wide hips). But YoungGaron never said "You might be a woman but blah blah blah" or something like that that references Crowe's gender during Crowe's flashback.
Absolutely possible, hence, only "probably". Though even then, tomboy types are more likely to use "boku" (which, incidentally, Momoslow uses) instead of "ore".
first of all, why can't we relate to a character just because they don't look human? It's their struggles and personality that we should relate to.
Well.. a fairly good leader wouldn't fussing about gender, only usability. Is Garon ever treating FMC as a gender-oriented companionship during the journey? Even though he is a doctor too
The problem is not that Garron doesn't look human. It's that his mindset and motivation oppose those of humans'. Tina's POV serves as our proxy so we can understand Garron better. Without Tina, we the readers would be forced to accept Garron's mindset as is.
Man, I would hate it so much if that happens in this manga, since Tina is under Garron's blood pact.
Yeah, present Garron definitely doesn't have that vibe, but YoungGarron seems to me like the type to hold the old "men go to war, women stay at home" belief. I don't think I've seen someone who's clearly a woman among YoungGarron's troops.
That or the intended purpose, have the perspective from both sides...
That's hardly an proper argument against angelusalvus point and I agree with him. You wrote both sides have wrong perspectives of the other side. How do you know? We know hardly anything about human society in this manga.
In a way, I think that what she hasn't said, actually does say a bit. The assumption being made here is that the Humans, in general, actually know the answers to that. Baghra commented in chapter 17:
I agree that this may be the case, but if that were true than there isn't enough build up.
It almost makes it sound like, in general, Humans are sort of being led into a conflict by leaders who might even be deliberately obfuscating the truth of certain things. Tina's exposited enough on Adventurer culture,
Honestly, the aspect of Garron's story I want to see most is his journey of becoming a healer. Right now, he's an extremely competent healer. But I'm sure that he had to study and work his way to that point, and from what little we saw, it would not have been easy at all. There would have been so many monsters that he couldn't save, or ones that sacrificed themselves to let him see another day. I would love to see something that delves on his failure as the Beast King and his journey what he is now. Maybe something like an amalgamation of Frieren and Berserk.
