Gender Symbols in Titles.
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I am curious on symbols used in some titles e.g., gender female symbol in “Reborn To Master The Blade ….” I suspect it means Yuri content. If so does male gender symbol mean Yaoi?
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@gprovida said in Gender Symbols in Titles.:
I am curious on symbols used in some titles e.g., gender female symbol in “Reborn To Master The Blade ….” I suspect it means Yuri content. If so does male gender symbol mean Yaoi?
Neither; it just means that she was reborn into a female squire, which is different from starting as a male king.
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Also, while they're not necessarily accurate (particularly if the situation changes later on in the series), JNC puts tags on the page for each series which tell you about stuff like it being a yuri series. So, you can usually figure that sort of thing out from the tags.
The fact that there's any kind of gender symbol in the title for Reborn to Master the Blade is a quirk of the title that the author or Japanese publisher decided on (presumably for the reasons given by myskaros). JNC didn't add it, and I've never seen any other series with a gender symbol in its name.
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@kalessin said in Gender Symbols in Titles.:
I've never seen any other series with a gender symbol in its name.
"The Invincible shovel "Wave Motion Shovel Blast" ( `・ω・´)♂〓〓〓〓★(゜Д ゜ ;;;).:∴ KA-CHOOM" was the first one that came to mind that uses one. Has absolutely nothing to do with the story though...
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@gprovida Different forms for "I" or "me" indicate different genders which does not translate: such as ore or boku are often used by males (boys) and atashi/watashi is used by females (girls). There are of course people who don't follow that. In this context the it is used to indicate the person changes gender.
It would be fun to see more novels where this happens!
