On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, James Powell wrote:

While "-chan" and "-kun" are not gender-indicative, they do
seem to be a generally accepted practice in fanfiction dealing
with Ranma.  They also have been used by Studio Ironcat's
traslation of "Futaba-kun Change" by Hiroshi Aro to differentiate
between male and female Futaba Shimeru.  And, if the title is
anything to go by, Hiroshi Aro might have used those exact
terms when refering to Futaba. However, that is pure speculation
on my part, as I have not seen the work "in the raw", nor would I
even be able to read the original work.

I have the original (it's all fan-translated).  It does use "Futaba-kun" for
male and "Futaba-chan" for female in the original version.

Ranma gets called Ranma-kun all the time because people know that he's a guy
and treat him as one.  Futaba's change is a secret.


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