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Originally Posted by kuromitsu
This was pretty nice for a first episode, if a bit too heavy on the exposition. The visuals were a bit stiff as it still is the case with CG but otherwise they were pretty nice.
It was funny to see the subtitles bending backwards and twisting into pretzels to avoid using gendered pronouns, though. (I don't get why they can't just follow the original dialog, after all that is what the characters use for themselves...)
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explicitly gendered pronouns are used in the Japanese and the question of whether the characters' speech patterns alone provide sufficient justification to assign genders to them is a debate that continues to rage on the manga forums and one we probably don't need here.
At any rate, any use of gendered pronouns would just be a convenience for the audience as the concept of gender is explicitly unknown among the gems. Maybe it's worthy convenience, maybe it's not, but the localizers have made their decision so we can't do anything about it.