Non-Cis Character Database

This is intended to be a database of any and all canon (or heavily implied to be canon) trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, intersex, and/or otherwise non-cis characters in Japanese pop media (anime, manga, video games, etc). A more complete introduction to and explanation of the project as a whole can be found here.

[WARNING: this page contains unmarked spoilers. Please read at your own risk.]

• If a character or piece of media is listed without a quality assessment, I am not personally familiar with the media in question yet. I’ll get to it!
• If there is a question mark after a character’s gender, it’s not made clear in the text, and the gender listed is my best guess.
• A bracketed name means I discuss the character in question to some extent, but they’re not officially part of the database. Generally, these characters are gender non-conforming.
• This list is as complete as I’ve been able to make it, but it’s always a work in progress — if you have any suggestions for characters to add, please tell me!
• Everything is subject to change at any time, especially when it comes to characters I haven’t written profiles of yet.

Media Name	Character Name	Gender	Quality of Representation
1bitheart	Shitara Yakumo	Trans Female
Ai no Shintairiku	Sara Nikotama	Trans Female
Akiba’s Beat	Kanata Saotome	Trans Female?
Alice in Borderland	Hikari Kuina	Trans Female
Angel Sanctuary	Arachne Belial/Mad Hatter	Trans Female Agender
Asobi Asobase	Tsugumi Aozora	Trans Female?
Astra: Lost in Space	Luca Esposito	Intersex Male	Good
Attack on Titan	Hange Zoë	Nonbinary	Fairly Good
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order	Sechs	Trans Male	Good
Black Butler	Grell Sutcliff	Transfeminine Nonbinary?
Black Jack	Kei Kisaragi	Trans Male?	Fairly Bad
Blue Period	Ryuji “Yuka” Ayukawa	Nonbinary	Fairly Good
Bokura no Hentai	Marika Aoki	Trans Female
Boys Run the Riot	Ryo Watari Tsubasa	Trans Male Nonbinary
BREAK THE BORDER ～rebirth of ECHOES～	Sei Igarashi	Trans Male
Cardcaptor Sakura	Ruby Moon/Nakuru Akizuki	Nonbinary/Agender
Carole and Tuesday	Dahlia Carpenter Desmond Mermaid Sisters	Trans Female Nonbinary Nonbinary	Fairly Bad
Catcher in the Rhyme	Utsugi	Trans Female
Catherine	Erica Anderson	Trans Female
Chivalry of a Failed Knight	Nagi “Alice” Arisuin	Trans Female	Fairly Good (anime), Bad (light novel)
Chrono Trigger	Flea/Mayonne	Nonbinary	Fairly Bad
Claudine	Claude de Montesse	Trans Male
Corpse Party; Musume	Miyu Shinohara	Transfeminine Nonbinary?	Fairly Bad
Cowboy Bebop	[Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV] [Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener] Marilyn (Hajime Yatate Manga)	[Androgynous Cis Female?] [Intersex Male?] Trans Female	Questionable
DANKIRA!!! Boys, be DANCING!	Ageha Kurenai	Nonbinary/Transfeminine
Dark Souls	Gwyndolin	Trans Female?
Deadman Wonderland	Chaplin Sukegawa	Trans Female
Devilman	Satan	Intersex Nonbinary	Questionable
Dirty Pair	Lilis Joanca	Trans Female	Good
Dorohedoro	Turkey	Trans Female
Dororo	Dororo	Trans Male?	Bad (manga), Questionable (anime)
Double House	Maho	Trans Female
Dr. STONE	Francois	Nonbinary/Agender	Good
Ensemble Stars	Arashi Narukami Natsume Sakasaki	Nonbinary/Transfeminine? Trans Male?
Family Compo	Shion Wakanae Sora Wakanae Yukari Wakanae	Nonbinary Trans Male Trans Female
Fate/ Series	Chevalier d’Eon Enkidu Leonardo da Vinci Mordred Nezha Qin Shi Huang	Nonbinary Nonbinary/Agender Trans Female Trans Male Trans Female Nonbinary
Fire Punch	Togata	Trans Male	Good
Fullmetal Alchemist	Envy	Nonbinary/Agender
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo	Peppo	Trans Female?	Fairly Good
Gatchaman CROWDS	Berg-Katze O.D. [Gelsadra] [Ninomiya Rui]	Nonbinary Nonbinary [Gender-Ambiguous Male] [Femme Cis Male]	Good
Genkaku Picasso	Jeanne Hishida	Trans Female	Fairly Good
God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!: Legend of Crimson	Sylvia	Intersex Trans Female?	Fairly Bad
Golden Kamuy	Kano Ienaga	Trans Female	Bad
Gnosia	Raqio Setsu	Nonbinary Nonbinary
Granblue Fantasy	Balurga Ladiva Cagliostro	Trans Male Trans Female Trans Female
Gugure! Kokkuri-san	Inugami	Nonbinary	Fairly Good
Heaven’s Design Team	Kanamori/Venus	Trans Female?
Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku	Shija	Nonbinary/Unconfirmed	Fairly Good
The House in Fata Morgana	Michel Bollinger	Intersex Trans Male
Hunter x Hunter	Alluka Zoldyck Neferpitou [Kalluto Zoldyck]	Trans Female Nonbinary [Femme Cis Male]	Fairly Good
I Wanna Be Your Girl	Akira Yonezawa	Trans Female
Ice Revolution	Nao	Trans Female
IDOLiSH7	Kaoru Anesagi	Trans Female
Innocent	Chevalier d’Eon Zèro Sanson	Nonbinary/Transfeminine? Nonbinary	Fairly Good
Interspecies Reviewers	Crimvael	Intersex Nonbinary	Bad
Ixion Saga DT	Mariandale [KT]	Trans Female [Masc Cis Female?]	Fairly Good
J no Subete	J	Trans Female
Japan Sinks: 2020	Kite	Trans Male?	Good
Jujutsu Kaisen	Uraume	Nonbinary/Unconfirmed
Kaitou Queen	Queen	Nonbinary
Kino’s Journey	Kino	Nonbinary
Komi Can’t Communicate	Osana Najimi	Nonbinary
Level E	Kyoko Mikihisa	Trans Male
Liar Game	Yuji Fukunaga	Trans Female
Love Com	Seiko Kotobuki	Trans Female
Love Me For Who I Am	Mei Tatebayashi Ryuunosuke Mogumo Satori Iwaoka	Trans Female Nonbinary Trans Female
Made in Abyss	Nanachi	Nonbinary	Fairly Good
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers	Otto	Trans Female?
Magical Girl Site	Kiyoharu Suirenji	Trans Female	Questionable
Mairunovich	Futou “Fuwari” Koutsugi	Trans Female
Maria Watches Over Us	Kintarou “Alice” Arisugawa	Trans Female
Mascara Blues, “To Be Myself — A Long Dream”	Hikaru	Trans Female	Good
Mermaid Line, “Ayumi and Aika”	Aika Maki	Trans Female	Good
The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories	J.J. Macfield	Trans Female
Monthly Girl’s Nozaki-kun	Yuu Kashima	Nonbinary?	Fairly Good…?
Moriarity the Patriot	James Bond	Trans Male
My Hero Academia	Kenji Hikiishi/Magne Yawara Chatora	Trans Female Trans Male
Nabari no Ou	Yoite	Intersex Male
Naruto	Orochimaru	Nonbinary	Fairly Bad
NieR RepliCant	Kainé	Intersex Female
No. 6	Inukashi/Dogkeeper	Nonbinary
No Bra	Yuki Nomura	Trans Female
One Piece	Bentham “Mr. 2 Bon Clay” O-Kiku Yamato	Nonbinary Trans Female Trans Male?	Questionable
Our Dreams at Dusk	Misora Shuji Natsuyoshi Utsumi	Nonbinary Trans Male
Our Demon King Doesn’t Bite	Lois Bennett	Trans Female?	Bad
Ouran High School Host Club	Haruhi Fujioka [Ryoji “Ranka” Fujioka]	Nonbinary/Agender [Femme Cis Male]	Good
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door	Vivian	Trans Female
Paradise Kiss	Isabella Yamamoto	Trans Female
Pokémon X/Y	Beauty Nova	Trans Female	Fairly Good
Princess Knight	Sapphire	Nonbinary/Genderfluid	Fairly Good…?
PriPara	Hibiki Shikyoin	Nonbinary
Project Sekai	Mizuki Akiyama	Nonbinary
Saiyuki	Kanzeon Bousatsu	Intersex Trans Female
Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru	Nanashi	Nonbinary	Fairly Good…?
Samurai Deeper Kyo	Akari	Trans Female
Sazanami Cherry	Umi Takano [Ren Takano]	Trans Female [Femme Cis Male?]	Fairly Good
Sengoku Rance	Ryouma Sakamoto	Intersex Nonbinary	Fairly Bad
Shangri-La	Momoko Miiko	Trans Female Trans Female
Shugo Chara!	Nagihiko/Nadeshiko Fujisaki	Nonbinary/Genderfluid?
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen	Stephanie	Trans Female
Soul Eater	Crona	Nonbinary
Stars Align	Yu Asuka	Nonbinary
Steins;Gate	Luka Urushibara	Trans Female	Questionable
Stop!! Hibari-kun	Hibari Oozora Gekijirou Taiga	Trans Female Trans Male	Questionable
Super Lovers	Kiyoka Takamori	Trans Female
Symphogear	Cagliostro Prelati [Elfnein]	Trans Female Trans Female [Female? Homunculus]	Fairly Good
Takane and Hana	Rino Inokuma	Trans Female
Tamako Market	Kaoru Hanase	Trans Female?	Good
Tekken	Leo Kliesen	Transmasculine Nonbinary?	Fairly Good…?
Tiger and Bunny	Nathan Seymour/Fire Emblem	Nonbinary	Questionable
To Strip the Flesh	Chiaki Ogawa	Trans Male	Fairly Good
Tokyo Ghoul	Big Madam [Toru Mutsuki] [Karren “Kanae” von Rosewald]	Trans Female [Masc Cis Female?] [Masc Cis Female]	Bad
Tokyo Godfathers	Hana	Trans Female	Fairly Good
Trigun Maximum	Elendira the Crimsonnail	Trans Female
Tsubomi, “Cotton Candy Love”	Chiaki Tabata	Trans Female	Good
Umineko: When They Cry	Lion Ushiromiya Sayo Yasuda	Nonbinary Trans Female?
Vinland Saga	Cordelia	Trans Female
Wandering Son	Mako Ariga Shuuichi Nitori Yuki Yoshida [Yoshino Takatsuki]	Trans Female Trans Female Trans Female [Masc Cis Female?]
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun	Opera	Nonbinary/Unconfirmed
Witch’s Heart	Noel Levine	Trans Male?
Wonder Egg Priority	Momoe Sawaki Kaoru	Trans Female? Trans Male	Fairly Good…?
A Year of Springs	Haru	Trans Female	Good
You’re Under Arrest	Aoi Futaba	Trans Female
Yuureitou	Tetsuo Sawamura Taichi Amano Marube Doukurou	Trans Male Nonbinary? Nonbinary	Fairly Good
Yu Yu Hakusho	Miyuki	Trans Female
Zombie Cherry	Rio Hasegawa	Trans Female	Good
Zombieland Saga	Lily Hoshimiya	Trans Female	Good

Nonhuman Biology

Characters whose circumstances/biology are impossible for a real-world human in ways that affect their gender identity and presentation. While the quality of representation obviously can’t be assessed the same way it would be for the above characters, these depictions are still written by humans familiar with human gender, and therefore colored by said familiarity. The focus will be less “is this a good depiction?” and more “what does this depiction of gender/biology show about the creator’s understanding of human gender?”

Media Name	Character Name	Gender/Biology/Circumstances
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.	Saiki Kusuo	Unconsciously changed his gender using his psychic powers one or more times while in the womb
Gonna be the Twin-Tail!!	Soji Mitsuka/Tail Red	Normally cis male, female-bodied as a Twintail Warrior
Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku	Tensen	Immortal sages who can switch between being physically male and female through energy manipulation
Hunter x Hunter	Kite	Originally cis male before dying and being reborn in a female body
Kämpfer	Natsuru Seno	Normally cis male, female-bodied as a Kämpfer
Kara no Kyoukai	Shiki Ryougi/SHIKI	Two artificially induced personalities sharing a female body, one male and one female
Knights of Sidonia	Izana Shinatose	Sexually undifferentiated, can become permanently male or female after finding a partner
Land of the Lustrous	Gems	Sexless gemstone people
Magical Girl Raising Project	Souta Kishibe/La Pucelle	Normally cis male, female-bodied as a magical girl
Magical Trans!	Akira Asaba Minami Maki	Normally male-bodied, female-bodied as magical girls
Mazinger Z	Baron Ashura	Literally half male, half female, split down the middle
One Piece	Emporio “Iva” Ivankov Inazuma	Can switch between being physically male and female by altering hormones
Ranma 1/2	Ranma Saotome	AMAB and identifies as male, can switch between being physically male and female
Simoun	Everyone	Everyone is born female and chooses a permanent sex at 17
So I’m a Spider, So What?	Karnatia Seri Anabald/Kanata Ooshima	Originally cis male before being reborn in another world in a female body
They Were 11!	Frolbericheri Frol	Sexually undifferentiated, receives hormones to become permanently male or female upon reaching adulthood
Touhou	Toyosatomimi no Miko	Originally the historical figure Prince Shotoku before being reborn in another world in a female body

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