User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/The 10 most common mistakes by fans/@comment-27092909-20151117004457/@comment-53539-20151117155720

I tend to not rush to conclusions with anime characters until I know about them... My days as a anime fan kinda built this wall up in front of me that says "halt, research first". It was hard the first time I saw Kyoichiro from Space-Time Detective Genshi taking him seriously as a male when he had eye lashes, short shorts and long stockings or whatever they are, but then I came across "The Wallflower" manga and anime where the guys look like girls.... But the time I was done, between that and the okamas of One Piece, I kinda just learnt to forget abut gender when it comes to the characters themselves.

Its only Vocaloid that has pulled the subject up for me again... Otherwise I doubt I'd have rally ever bothered with the subject again. I got used to young males being voiced by older women, for example, because as I aged so did the focus of characters I like. I went from liking Luffy from One Piece to adoring Shanks more, to put it bluntly. :-/

I know dressed up as a boy for most of my life, but there was a blonde haired girl in my junior school who was mistaken for a boy fullstop. Even when she reached highschool, she kinda never grew into a female shape. In the opposite direction, we had only the other day someone commenting on Iroha V4's soft illustration and how boobs are not suppose to be round and going off about objectifying females.

This whole situation feels like people will generally find the two ideas of character design, being too one way or not enough a issue. It also make s me feel parts of the fandom are hypocrits, for criticizing one female vocaloid for looking like the opposite gender yet criticizing them for being too booby.