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>Unless I'm mistaken adding these kind of kanji suffix at the end of your name isn't a thing IRL
True, they put it at the start of the word. My bad. Either way, it applies to both men and women.
>and so far there hasn't been any counterpoint to this
The counterpoint is that the word itself means "princess" and so far we've only seen princess-ish people get called that. Imu is not a princess-ish person so it would not make sense to call Imu that.
> you'd need to do some serious mental gymnastics to explain why Gunko is considered underage even though she's older than Shamrock.
I mean, something is obviously fucky with Gunko's timeline. She has memory issues and she gets possessed by Imu. We know from Garling that god's knights do age so clearly there's something different going on with her. Whether she gets cryogenically frozen, or she doesn't age when Imu possesses her, or whatever her deal is, she looks and acts like a 15-16 year old.
That's not mental gymnastics, that's just picking up what the story is clearly laying down.
>If physical age is all that matters for it, what about Imu ? Odds of them being a kid is very high .
We have no reason to believe Imu's body is particularly small. She was normal sized compared to a wanted poster.
>And second because there'd need to be an equivalent title for young males that still hasn't been introduced even though we're past 1000 chapters. Sounds unlikely again.
If you knew anything about Japanese, you would know that its an extremely sexist language. The male terms are almost always treated as the default with the female terms treated as the exception. This has the effect of a lot of the male terms being the effective gender neutral term that applies to everyone and the female terms rarely being used.
For example, ninja and shinobi are gender neutral, but kunoichi is female only, but women can still be called ninja and shinobi.
