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Originally Posted by karice67
It's characterisation that's spread over the first two volumes (and probably over the last two, but I haven't gotten to them yet) so I don't know if I can even summarise it properly, but let's see how it goes.
Spoiler for just in case (mini 1st movie spoiler too):
Basically, it goes back to something Kawamori said about Alto in the episode 10 commentary...I think it's something that the creators wanted us to consider when watching the series (Kawamori indicates as much in a couple of interviews I've skimmed), but only a couple of people brought it up back then and no one really discussed it. Which is possibly one of the reasons they made it explicit in the 1st movie (i.e. "Am I a man? Am I a woman?").
Except that the novels go a bit further into the implications of what it meant: i.e. especially considering he started acting at such a young age, probably before he was even able to form an identity for himself.
Personally, I'm still trying to get my head around what this means for Alto's relationships with the two girls. For example, one of the effects could be that he doesn't even try to understand what Sheryl and Ranka are thinking wrt him because that involves thinking like a woman again...
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I kinda guessed that he had gender identity problems. I wished this had been pronounced in the tv series, as I guessed that it was there but it was impossible to convince that it was there.
Interesting, its not that Alto can't understand its that he doesn't want to understand, episode 24 kinda gave me that impression.
I really want to read the novels now, you don't know how jealous I am of you.