Trans Characters

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Character: Crona

Fandom: Soul Eater

Gender: Nonbinary

Why: Crona's sex is canonically considered "unknown" by Soul Eater creator Atsushi Ōkubo as of the series ending. In the original manga Japanese text, Crona is referred to in gender-neutral terms in which does not exist in the English language. In the Funimation dub, Crona is referred to with “he/him” pronouns, but Funimation confirms that the use of masculine pronouns does not define Crona’s sex/gender.

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Character: Inukashi (Dogkeeper)

From: No. 6

Gender: Nonbinary

Why: Inukashi is canonically gender ambiguous, and they are referred to a mixture of masculine and feminine language by other characters (e.g., prince, mama). They use the masculine personal pronoun “ore” in the anime, but they don’t refer to themself with any gendered pronouns in the novels.

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Character: Ryoji "Ranka" Fujioka

From: Ouran High School Host Club

Gender: Trans woman

Why: While Ranka dresses femininely for a job at an okama bar, the narrative of their identity and sexuality fits into that of a closeted trans woman who presents as a cross-dressing gay man.

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Character: Haruhi Fujioka

From: Ouran High School Host Club

Gender: Greygender

Why: Haruhi is very gender ambivalent, outright telling the other members of the club that she doesn’t care whether anyone sees her as a boy or a girl, and she dresses in both masculine and feminine clothing.

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Character: Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu

From: Super Danganronpa 2

Gender: Trans man

Why: Fuyuhiko short for a boy his age and is often referred to as “baby-faced,” something he is very insecure about. He often acts impulsively and out of anger, possibly due to trying to fit into hyper-masculine stereotypes and to assert his status as a yakuza member. He is also ashamed of his “feminine” enjoyment of sweets, going as far as to keep it a secret because he sees it as “unmanly.”

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Character: 707 (Saeyoung Choi)

From: Mystic Messenger

Gender: Genderfluid

Why: Seven usually presents masculine and wears masculine clothes but also enjoys dressing up in feminine clothes and likes to be called pretty when he does

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Character: Rei Saotome (Blair Flannigan)

From: Yugioh GX

Gender: Genderfluid

Why: Rei goes to Duel Academy disguised as a boy, but even after it is revealed she is a girl, Rei still interchangeably uses the personal pronouns “boku” (masculine) and “watashi” (feminine)

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Character: Yubel

From: Yugioh GX

Gender: Nonbinary or genderfluid

Why: Yubel is androgynous and characters in the show interchangeably use both she/her and he/him pronouns for Yubel. They also have two VAs (a man and a woman) in the sub, and their voice changes fluidly between being masculine and feminine

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Character: Eridan Ampora

From: Homestuck

Gender: Nonbinary

Why: Eridan is a canonically nonbinary in the Homestuck canonical multiverse

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Characters: Rilakkuma, Korilakkuma, Kiiroitori

From: Rilakkuma and Kaoru; general San-X Co.

Gender: Agender

Why: All three are canonically genderless

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Character: Kiyoharu Suirenji

From: Mahou Shoujo Site

Gender: Trans girl

Why: She is a trans girl canonically. 

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Character: Near

From: Death Note (original manga)

Gender: Nonbinary, specifically transfeminine

Why: Near has a male birth name but no longer goes by it, appears in both oneshots that take place after the main manga with longer hair and in the 2019 oneshot, also appears to have visible breasts despite wearing a baggy shirt, something new to the 2019 oneshot that makes it seem like Near has started taking estrogen, and characters close to Near no longer refer to Near with he/him and instead forgo pronouns altogether.

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Character: Genos

From: One Punch Man

Gender: Trans Man

Why: He’s a loner with more cybernetic modifications than the average cyborg in the one punch man world and he’s lost his family. He’s on a quest to avenge his family and he’s just trying to be his best possible self. He’s hard on himself and he’s always pushing himself to grow, change and self-actualize. (You don’t start a path of gender transition, knowing the cost, without such powerful intrinsic motives) Although his cybernetics give him great power and self-assurance, they allow him to be who he is and to be more powerful than the average hero in the opm universe, they come with some limitations like having to be put back together again by his Doctor. 

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Character: Hyakkimaru

From: Dororo 2019

Gender: Trans Man

Why: Rejected by his family father, fed to demons, he lived the first years of life in the discomfort of not having skin or normal senses. He fought tooth and nail to get his true body back even while others said his quest was selfish and misguided. 

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Character: Higashi Setsuna

From: Fresh! Pretty Cure

Gender: trans girl

Why: I headcanon Setsuna as a trans girl.

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Character: Barry Glickman

From: The Prom Musical

Gender: Trans man

Why: I headcanon Barry as a gay trans man who, having transitioned years ago, is now confident enough to be comfortable with his feminine side. He identifies very strongly with Emma Nolan, the (soft?) butch lesbian teenager whose school PTA cancelled prom because she wants to attend with her girlfriend, even saying they’re like the same person because they were both estranged from their parents at a young age. I think Barry was perceived very much like Emma in high school.

Barry hasn’t spoken with his mother in decades, ostensibly because of her reaction to him being gay. When Emma asks him what he wore to his prom, he jokes that he wore the same dress she has on. He explains that he dreamt of attending prom wearing a silver tux with a turquoise cummerbund and tie, but he says he didn’t have Emma’s courage and never actually went to prom, even without a date. Despite that, he kept his prom tux for twenty-nine years and has it ready to wear when he is eventually invited to attend Emma’s prom, although it first needs, as he puts it, “major renovations.” He canonically wears a compression undergarment and is one of the shorter adult characters in the show.

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Character: Wakamiya Henri

From: Hugtto! Pretty Cure

Gender: trans girl

Why: In her debut episode, Henri calls herself a Yamato Nadeshiko. In episode 33, she has a full-on dysphoria scene. In episode 42 (lol 42), she becomes a cure when episode 37 had previously stated that pretty cure are the legendary girls.