Kishi-tan wa Jouheki no Naka ni Hana Hiraku - Ch. 1 - The Apprentice Knight of Claustra

[MangaDex]

 

[CatDESTROYER]

OH he (?) has a "girly back" because he(?) is a girl

 

[RC1138Boss]

Everyone knows she is a girl. She is called Rosa and people use feminine pronouns to refer to her.

Anyway, i liked it. Her interactions with that horse were funny.

 

[Fuko]

@RC1138Boss ^{feminine pronouns} Does japanese have them?

 

[mokonaarappa]

she ???

 

[Tersione]

@RC1138Boss It makes me wonder about the relevance of the last page if everyone, including Rosa, knows she's a girl, and this isn't a scenario where she's either hiding or ignorant of that fact.

Could it be that she can't become a knight as a girl and everyone around her just doesn't have the heart to tell the truth?

 

[R4nd0mus3r]

Just gonna guess that the last panel is just to confirm that Rosa is indeed a girl. It was pretty obvious with the hints but it's nice to get confirmation

 

[matthewkng]

@Tersione it's probably just because the larger they are, the more of a nuisance they'd be when fighting/training/exercising.

 

[Timowoof]

I accidentally used the "she" pronoun in a random characters' dialogue. It has been fixed. The original Japanese doesn't use a pronoun.

 

[Ravezta]

interesting. bookmarked

 

[Tersione]

@matthewkng Well, that isn't an impossibility, at least.

@Timowoof This change lends some credence to my theory, but there's nothing really ambiguous about the name "Rosa", unless I'm missing something.

 

[Fuko]

@Tersione I guess you are supposed to ignore that fact, pretend it is the surname (but most likely it is not)

 

[Legion]

@Tersione I don't believe that the Japanese have a strong gendered naming convention like the West. In so many of Manga that I have read, the majority of western characters have strange names that show an unfamiliarity with western style names in general. Even Arte, a Manga that tries really hard to be historically accurate to Renaissance Italy has an Italian nobleman from Venice named Yuri Falier, a Russian first name and French last name. In this Manga, the Mangaka gave the MC the name Rosa, a Spanish name while Scarlae and Celus aren't. My guess is that giving her a feminine name wasn't intentional or was something meant to slip by the original Japanese audience.

 

[Tersione]

@Legion Makes sense too I guess. Lord knows how many times I've had to do a double take at the names authors give things in their stories within this medium.

 

[kwendy]

It's just pectorals grown.

 

[TurntAturn]

I see reverse trap, I follow.

 

[RanmaChaos]

This is interesting. Please continue.

 

[theilikepie]

It's like a manga adaptation of alanna

 

[Avalicia]

At start I wondering what if he is girl that would be more interesting, at the last page. Auto bookmark 😆

 

[Nunally]

I know she is a girl because she is blushing when seeing sir knight naked