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Originally Posted by Konakaga
So then trap characters are allowed if they're from a male aimed series?  |
Yes. Trap was discussed explicitly because some of the running joke in some series is ambiguity of the gender, with Hideyoshi being the prime example. Watarase Jun in the Happiness! is another complicated reason. Since Both series can be said to be more geared towards male viewer and won't likely attract much female voters to the contest, thus these two characters retain eligibility since they are either male or female in anatomical sense.
The reason this matters is because non-human characters who can't be said to be male-like or female-like are not eligible. The prime example of this case is that Kyuubey is not eligible, since he isn't human, and we don't have any clue whether he has a gender in traditional sense. Raising Heart and Bardiche are also not eligible as they aren't human, and other than the voice, their physical feature doesn't conform to normal human gender. Traps are human, and while we may not exactly know their gender in some cases, we do know that in end, they are either male or female.
If we had someone with ambiguity about the gender in a series that is popular with both male and female, best guess about their gender is used, because they have to be at least one of the two genders. In rare case of being mixture of both, international convention says they will be treated as male in most cases.