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Ange is great.

Leonhart4 posted...

Pretty sure Ryukishi has gone on record saying that's what it's referring to

I don't think I remember ever seeing that, especially when the VN specifically says "because of this horrible injury". But yeah, it is still left ambiguous, I suppose- he's never outright confirmed it. I definitely think it leans much more toward 'was born male but raised female' than anything else however. It's possible to have the same gender identity issues without the injury factoring in, I suppose, but then why mention the injury is the cause of it at all? Kinda feels like an Occams Razor type scenario to me or whatever.

But yeah, draw your own conclusion on that whole debate I guess.

The George thing is true, though, I absolutely do remember him saying that at some point in an interview.

I do kind of agree that the answer to things were better being kept ambiguous in the VN. It's not that hard to puzzle the answers out on your own by the end, and anyone that kept up with actually trying/theorycrafting pretty much just got a "yeah, that's what I thought" reaction from reading Confession.

What really makes me love the series though is that, outside of some of the sillier comedy scenes like the aforementioned Episode 4 fights, nearly every single scene is actually relevant in some way or another. I've reread the series probably around 10 times at this point overall (especially if you count the 2 LPs I've watched other people read it in), and its really, really impressive. Even a lot of the magical combat 'going full fantasy' scenes are very important in retrospect.

Completely unrelated to the serious discussion, probably my favorite bit of trivia in the entire series: Lambdadelta got her top 3 spot after Episode 8 in the character polls after all.