![]() ![]() Ed wears a dress as a disguise, and is referred to by Jet as his daughter - however, the person they’re trying to fool doesn’t seem entirely convinced Ed’s a girl, and she takes off the dress as soon as she possibly can while Jet stays in disguise. The episode where they leave the group ends with “See you cowgirl, someday, somewhere!” rather than the usual “See you space cowboy.” At one point, Spike says “the women are gone” in reference to Ed and Faye. The only things that would imply gender are circumstantial. It’s the same when she’s reunited with her estranged father, who apparently doesn’t know or care about Ed’s gender any more than Ed herself does - Ed doesn’t say one way or another. At one point Faye says “wait, you’re a girl?” and Ed doesn’t confirm or deny it, just laughs. She refers to herself in the third person, rather than using gendered first-person pronouns. In the show itself, her gender is presented in a much more ambiguous fashion. However, in the original Japanese, Ed is rarely gendered, and only genders herself in the movie. This is no doubt why translations go with she/her pronouns for Ed. She’s voiced by a female VA, the character designer has referred to her as a girl, she was apparently changed from a boy to a girl to even the gender ratio aboard the Bebop, and her character profile in the Hajime Yatate manga¹ lists her gender as female. So while I might personally choose to see Ed as agender, and there is quite a bit of evidence to support that reading, I’m not sure I’d go so far as to call it “overwhelming.” As far as this database is concerned, I must take the official stance that Ed is a girl.įor the sake of clarity and posterity - meaning I don’t want to throw out my writing - I’m including a lightly edited version of my agender reading of Ed, which covers most of the points for and against it.Įd’s official gender is female. If I’m willing to disregard direct statements in favor of my own readings, it would be too easy for the line between my personal headcanons and the media as it actually exists to blur. This is mostly an attempt at retaining something resembling objectivity. My policy is to be very literal-minded with this database - if a character explicitly states their gender, that’s what I go with, unless there’s some overwhelming evidence against it. The night before it was supposed to go up, I figured I should probably watch the movie, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, which I’d never previously seen. I’ll be honest: I had this post done, dusted, and queued well over a month ago, with a good 550 words about how Ed was agender. I’m here to talk about… Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV ![]() It’s a good damn show and if the phrase “space western” appeals to you at all you should probably watch it, but that’s not what I’m here to talk about. ![]() The crew, gathered on a ship called the Bebop, is made up of gunslinger Spike, ex-cop Jet, femme fatale Faye, and genius hacker Ed, plus a corgi named Ein. Cowboy Bebop - if you somehow aren’t familiar with one of the most classic anime out there - is a space western about a ragtag group of down-on-their-luck bounty hunters. ![]()
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