Male charcters you mistook for a female

Yes, thank you.

(Incidentally, ShadowGUN, where did you see/hear all that? Anime Medusa called Crona her son and "A Bad Little Boy", and Crona wearing a bikini is something I just do not want to think about.)

I always just took it for granted that Envy had no gender.
 
What, no Freeza yet? I first saw him watching the Ocean dubbed episodes and was really confused when I kept on hearing Freeza referred to as "he" by Vegeta and other characters. If they'd given him a transexual male voice like his Japanese VA, I probably wouldn't have been so lost. Of course later I made the same mistake with Freeza's expy Zofis from Zatch Bell!

And I can't blame myself for ever thinking Zoisite was a woman because unlike Freeza, the dub outright made him a girl.



I always knew Saturn was just a girly guy but I first saw Zoey in a screenshot and thought she was a boy too. Then I read her profile and I was like "What?" Of course, I'm used to it now.
 
Crona's sex is intentionally left arabiguous in the Japanese version. The characters vary on what they think Crona is. Black Star and Patti think Crona's a boy, while others sometimes call Crona a girl. The dress doesn't help either, nor the rail-thin figure. Medusa just calls Crona her "kid."

Yoshihiro Togashi does this in a lot of his series--especially Hunter x Hunter. When Kurapika was first introduced, I thought he was a girl for three volumes. Killua's little brother Kalluto has a feminine face and wears a kimono, but he's a boy too. Finally, Neferpitou is male called despite his incredibly feminine figure (sometimes he's even drawn with what might be breasts, and other chapters he doesn't).
 
I'm surprised no one mentioned this example:

Shun Kisaragi and his little brother
from Here is Greenwood.

And several characters within the show mistake them for girls as well. And... I guess this was meant to trip up the audience also.

There was an older English dub of the series from the Philippines (which predates Funimation's), where the dubbers mistook him for a girl and dubbed him as one for part of the series. Later on, they realized their mistake and changed him back to a guy by introducing some nonsense that he was posing as his sister.
 
Haku from Naruto...I read the manga first,so I already knew he was a guy when I saw the anime,but even if I had seen the anime before the manga,I would've thought he was a girl at first,since he was given a feminine voice..

Sesshomaru from InuYasha...Before I started reading the manga,I was reading an interview with Rumiko Takahashi (I think it was in Animerica) which had some pictures of the cast in manga style,and just seeing a picture of Sesshomaru,I thought he was a girl...
I wouldn't have made that mistake if I'd seen the anime first,since he's not quite as feminine looking there,and has an obviously masculine voice...
 
When I first saw the cover to Death Note volume 8, I briefly thought Mello was female.

While this wasn't *me*, I remeraber reading that in one dub (forget which one) of Digimon Adventure 02, Iori was mistaken for a girl by the dubbers!
 
Well at the beginning of the manga Rumiko Takahashi gave Sesshomaru an extremely feminine design which gradually shifted to how he looks in the anime where he's more of a bishonen.

O-chan
 
Found the image I was talking about. It seem I was confusing Patty with Crona. So my bad.

I seem to remenber one the recent chapter where Medusa called Chrona her daughter.
 
Rua/Leo from Yu-Gi-Oh 5RAB. I honestly thought that he and Ruka/Luna were twin sisters when I first saw them.

Amakusa from Samurai Shodown. It didn't help that he was actually made into a woman in the US dub of the anime.

And I also thought DBZ's Freeza was a woman before he first transformed.
 
When first watching the Saban dub of DBZ in the '90s, I too mistook Freeza as female because of the dub voice. When other characters would to refer to him as a "he" in the dub, it made me raise an eyebrow. When I saw the Latin American Spanish dub in 1999, which has him voiced by a man, I definitely knew the character was male.

I was also fooled by Sesshomaru's gender at first, until I heard some voice clips.

As for the reverse:
Before watching the series of Cowboy Bebop, I mistook Ed for a boy. It's interesting though that in the original character designs for the series in an artbook that was released, Ed was originally supposed to be a boy. Her design as a boy looked in some ways similar to the character of Samson, the teenage hacker in the Cowboy Bebop movie.

There were also countless other times where I must've mistook toraboyish anime girls as boys, but can't remeraber.
 
Can't believe I'm the first one to mention him, but: Mizuho Miyanokouji from Otoboku. The brown-haired person second from the right in that top pic is actually a guy. For those that haven't seen it, it's another of those contrived "male student must go to an all-girls school incognito" plots.
 
wait a minute!
I thought
it was established that the lead met the guy he was supposed to be living with and he said that was his sister in a chapter...or so I thought
 
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