WARNING: Spoilers below if you haven't watched Episode 8 of Zombieland Saga
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In episode 8 of current ongoing anime series Zombieland Saga the adorable Hoshikawa Lily was revealed to be a boy with the original name of Masao Go
Now the first thought, as mentioned in the comments on post #3325742, would be to swap all Xgirl tags applying to Lily to 1boy, adding the otoko_no_ko tag where applicable, and apply the genderswap_(mtf) tag to all posts where Lily is portrayed as a girl. However I'm fairly certain that would be against the policy of Danbooru regarding spoilers.
One commonly mentioned rule on Danbooru is "Tag what you see" which is mentioned as a rule of thumb in Howto:Tag
But how would that work when compared to for example otoko_no_ko characters.
If we take Watarase Jun from Happiness!; He is drawn as a cute girl, but for all intents and purposes he is considered to be a boy and gets a 1boy tag. What makes Jun different from Lily?
@Keita-Kuhn and @NWSiaCB mentioned in the comments of post #3325166:
NWSiaCB said:
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Also, the tags stay. When fanartists draw girls, they are tagged as girls.
Keita-Kuhn said:
Does the series in question refer to them as a girl by all sources-- character account, official profile, and fanart? Then yes, they would be girls. you don't tag a futanari as a boy, right?
Unless the art, or artist commentary contradict, you default to the official profile. We have the xboy, xgirl, xother and androgynous tags for questionable cases.
Which is a pretty solid rule if you ask me, but referring to outside sources immediately counters the "Tag what you see" rule.
To make a long story short; what is the correct way to proceed?
- Hoshikawa Lily has a male body. Tag as 1boy unless the post explicitly portrays Lily as a girl.
- Hoshikawa Lily is considered a girl by everyone. Tag as 1girl unless the post explicitly portrays Lily as a boy
- Hoshikawa Lily's gender is ambiguous, tag as Xother unless the gender is explicitly revealed in a post.
- Something else ....
Edit: Replaced inappropriate term
Updated by Hillside Moose