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someone who knows japanese help me out here:
if shounen is manga for boys and shojou is manga for girls, what would manga for enbies be called
-F
@Felthry After some mild research, it looks like there's no official term for non-binary as a gender. Most of the words they have are loan words, and will probably take some explanation to native speakers.
https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/68111
(Translation of the bulleted list:
* Non-binary gender
* Third gender
* X-gender
* Genderqueer)
-Sam
@Felthry I'm not sure there's an official word for it, since I'm not sure whether Japan is as open to the idea of enbies as we are.
If I had to guess... Shounin? (少人)
"Shou" (少) means young in this case. "Nen" (年) is written with the kanji for "year", but defaults to boy. "Jo" (女) is the kanji for "girl". "Nin" (人) can be "human", with no immediate gender implications.
This leaves some room for improvement, particularly among therians, but it's as accurate as I can manage right now.
-Sam