It confused a lot of people for a long while, but most people are now satisfied with an answer.
Yet... we don't really have a set answer yet to the burning question, "What is Deidara's gender?"
Now I know, I know, you're all gonna scream at me, 'Male, duh!'. But, let's ponder this a bit more in depth.
So, here's the arguments for both sides. You'll see that although evidence leans a bit more towards Deidara being male, it isn't really proven fact yet. But give your thoughts. Maybe there's some info I missed.
Deidara as a Guy~
- Deidara uses male pronouns to address himself(or herself).
- In the manga, Deidara was referred to as a he by others.
- Deidara's voice in episode 135 was reallly deep.(I can discount this totally, and this is nothing to base arguments off of, but most people always do, so I listed it here anyway.)
- Deidara is modelled after a famous Japanese artist- a male artist- whose modern art looks almost exactly like Deidara's clay sculptures. And Kishimoto always does everything in his manga for a purpose, and his characters always have some purpose and symbolism- in this case I suppose being a tribute to this artist.
- Deidara's name supposedly stems from some ancient Japanese folktale about some huge and powerful giant. Again, as far as I know, it was a male giant.
- Deidara may look a bit feminine, but then again... look at Haku. Dei doesn't look anything like a girl when compared with that weirdo.
- Supposedly(though I haven't seen this, and if you have a link to this statement, please send it to me!! 'Cause hell, this might not even be true!), Masashi Kishimoto put out a statement saying that he's been getting lots of fanmail from America asking about Deidara being a girl. In this statement, he supposedly said that Deidara is most definitely a guy, and another Akatsuki member will be a girl. (Of course, most of us here have never seen this statement, so don't know for sure what it says- so if you have a link, please post it!!).
Deidara as a Girl~
- Okay, so Deidara uses these male pronouns, big whoop. Although it isn't exactly the commonplace thing to do in Japan, there is another anime where one of the girl characters does the same. And after all, you figure with Deidara being in Akatsuki, why wouldn't Deidara address hereself(or himself) as such? Surrounded by everyone else, whose all full of themselves, and way powerful and all, it'd be almost degrading not to put yourselves on their level- and.. the way the Japanese language is set up, words for girls aren't exactly looked upon with the same respect it seems as those for guys. Sorry, but it is kinda a shovenistic society.
- Deidara pretty much looks like a girl- and yeah, some of you are gonna majorly disagree with me. That's fine, this thread was made for that as well. But.. have you seen any guys who're that.. well, pretty?
- Okay, well the manga was screwed up. You can't really go by the translated manga much at all, because first they were saying Dei and Sasori were married, then referred to Deidara as female for a while without saying crazy things like that, then switched over to calling Deidara male. You can't base the gender off of the translated manga. If you speak Japanese and read the Japanese one, and that said Deidara was male, the whole way through, fine. I'll believe that.
- As for Epsiode 135- guess what people, that wasn't Deidara's voice, so don't panic(because most people didn't feel that that deep voice fit Deidara). Because of the jutsu that all of the Akatsuki use to gather together in their shadowy, hologram like forms(while their real selfs are still outside somewhere doing whatever they were doing), their voices seem to change, and all become the same. How do I know this? Well, because I watched that part of that episode 5 times in a row, and then got my sister to watch it with me another 5 times. I have extremely good hearing- and every single Akatsuki member that talked while they were meeting had the exact same voice. It was just the jutsu, and not their real voices.
- Now, here's where it starts getting tricky- Deidara's name. I'm not stupid, and was not ever one of the people who confused Deidara's name with Deidra, or more properly spelt Deirdre(cause I've seen Deirdre in English, so is Deidra a variation of that?..) A lot of people seem to have made that confusion though, but whatever. Anyway, I knew what Dei's name was, only I didn't know where it came from. It looked ancient Greek to me- still does- go and look at some ancient Greek girls names if you think I'm lying- but of course I was wrong. I've heard some people say that the name Deidara is from some old Japanese folktale, and is the name of some huge giant. Some... sadly... male, huge giant. Which if true would most likely prove that Dei's a guy *sob, there goes my female representation* But, just today, I was given a link to this really great site that discussed Deidara- and, well- it talked about that artist as I said above, but then about Dei's name too- and said it was influenced by ancient Greek as well. If so, it wasn't an ancient Greek guy's name. I may not know my Japanese, but I know Greek, and that name if Greek, is a girl's name.
- Deidara uses male pronouns to address himself(or herself).
- In the manga, Deidara was referred to as a he by others.
- Deidara's voice in episode 135 was reallly deep.(I can discount this totally, and this is nothing to base arguments off of, but most people always do, so I listed it here anyway.)
- Deidara is modelled after a famous Japanese artist- a male artist- whose modern art looks almost exactly like Deidara's clay sculptures. And Kishimoto always does everything in his manga for a purpose, and his characters always have some purpose and symbolism- in this case I suppose being a tribute to this artist.
- Deidara's name supposedly stems from some ancient Japanese folktale about some huge and powerful giant. Again, as far as I know, it was a male giant.
- Deidara may look a bit feminine, but then again... look at Haku. Dei doesn't look anything like a girl when compared with that weirdo.
- Supposedly(though I haven't seen this, and if you have a link to this statement, please send it to me!! 'Cause hell, this might not even be true!), Masashi Kishimoto put out a statement saying that he's been getting lots of fanmail from America asking about Deidara being a girl. In this statement, he supposedly said that Deidara is most definitely a guy, and another Akatsuki member will be a girl. (Of course, most of us here have never seen this statement, so don't know for sure what it says- so if you have a link, please post it!!).
Deidara as a Girl~
- Okay, so Deidara uses these male pronouns, big whoop. Although it isn't exactly the commonplace thing to do in Japan, there is another anime where one of the girl characters does the same. And after all, you figure with Deidara being in Akatsuki, why wouldn't Deidara address hereself(or himself) as such? Surrounded by everyone else, whose all full of themselves, and way powerful and all, it'd be almost degrading not to put yourselves on their level- and.. the way the Japanese language is set up, words for girls aren't exactly looked upon with the same respect it seems as those for guys. Sorry, but it is kinda a shovenistic society.
- Deidara pretty much looks like a girl- and yeah, some of you are gonna majorly disagree with me. That's fine, this thread was made for that as well. But.. have you seen any guys who're that.. well, pretty?
- Okay, well the manga was screwed up. You can't really go by the translated manga much at all, because first they were saying Dei and Sasori were married, then referred to Deidara as female for a while without saying crazy things like that, then switched over to calling Deidara male. You can't base the gender off of the translated manga. If you speak Japanese and read the Japanese one, and that said Deidara was male, the whole way through, fine. I'll believe that.
- As for Epsiode 135- guess what people, that wasn't Deidara's voice, so don't panic(because most people didn't feel that that deep voice fit Deidara). Because of the jutsu that all of the Akatsuki use to gather together in their shadowy, hologram like forms(while their real selfs are still outside somewhere doing whatever they were doing), their voices seem to change, and all become the same. How do I know this? Well, because I watched that part of that episode 5 times in a row, and then got my sister to watch it with me another 5 times. I have extremely good hearing- and every single Akatsuki member that talked while they were meeting had the exact same voice. It was just the jutsu, and not their real voices.
- Now, here's where it starts getting tricky- Deidara's name. I'm not stupid, and was not ever one of the people who confused Deidara's name with Deidra, or more properly spelt Deirdre(cause I've seen Deirdre in English, so is Deidra a variation of that?..) A lot of people seem to have made that confusion though, but whatever. Anyway, I knew what Dei's name was, only I didn't know where it came from. It looked ancient Greek to me- still does- go and look at some ancient Greek girls names if you think I'm lying- but of course I was wrong. I've heard some people say that the name Deidara is from some old Japanese folktale, and is the name of some huge giant. Some... sadly... male, huge giant. Which if true would most likely prove that Dei's a guy *sob, there goes my female representation* But, just today, I was given a link to this really great site that discussed Deidara- and, well- it talked about that artist as I said above, but then about Dei's name too- and said it was influenced by ancient Greek as well. If so, it wasn't an ancient Greek guy's name. I may not know my Japanese, but I know Greek, and that name if Greek, is a girl's name.
Okay, well, there are many other arguments that I could put forth here, but I'd like to see what everyone else thinks. So... post away.
