#yes this is partly joking but also. kenma is trans idc what anyone says

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haikyuu uses a lot of animal imagery to give us information about the characters and their personalities/traits in a visual way. the karasuno kids are often compared to crows, especially in their fighting style; similarly, the nekoma kids are compared to cats and their character designs often make use of cat eyes or other cat features. kenma specifically is modeled after a calico cat with his half-bleached hair, and in fact when we first meet him he is shown with a calico cat and the cat is used almost as a kind of foreshadowing. the interesting thing about calico cats is they are almost all female, because in order to get the calico pattern they need two X chromosomes. klinefelter males (XXY) can be calico but they are extremely rare. therefore i believe furudate intended us to understand that kenma himself has two X chromosomes, making him canonically trans. in this essay i will -