Is there gender bender?

Bruh he's literally 9 years old, of course he doesn't look like the pinnacle of masculinity.

Androgynous feminine boys are a particularly popular Japanese archetype for some reason I don't understand.

@RobertBobert You guys need to stop spreading lies so naturally. There’s nothing that supports this view, neither statistically nor culturally, nothing at all. Even looking at all the anime released every year, it doesn't seem real, at least you can't say it's "popular".

bishonen is a popular thing in japan so this follows that

@deg Bishonens are more or less teenagers, MC is closer to shota in terms of labels. He's not even 10 years old.

@RobertBobert nah bishonen is any male under 18 read the wikipedia about it

@deg Yes, also pointing out the forty-year-old Gackt as an example of bishonen. Not to mention the references to unknown dudes who think the term is "queer" due to the androgynous nature of the term. The phrase about 18 years has no source, by the way. In general, article is quite chaotic and far from the current reality, which, by the way, was written about on the discussion page back in 2015. Again, the protagonist is too young to use such terms to describe him.

@RobertBobert shonen is age 9-18 years old and he is 10 years old afaik

@deg Shonen is aimed at male teens between 13 and 18 years old. A lower threshold already marks the "kodomo" audience. Remember the old loli manga "kodomo jikan", which is about an elementary school teacher. The characters' ages are mentioned in episode 11.

@RobertBobert Shōnen manga refers to manga aimed at an audience of adolescent boys, with the primary target audience alternately defined as 9 to 18 years old and as 12 to 18 years old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dnen_manga