The Ultimate Kuja Debate

It's a tough one, but i agree with the said statement above that he was considered genderless. At one time clones were considered to have no gender, but were made to look like both sides.

[Setzer]

I believe that Kuja is defenitely a guy. i mean he looks femenine, but just has qualities that seem like a male. plus whenever I hear Kuja get mentioned I hear how HE looks very awkward, but he is infact a guy.

[bent chocobo]

i think kujas the wierdest loking villain in all the final fantasy games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...then you haven't seen Seymour yet XD

[Aleks]

Originally Posted by Bronwyn

I've had a few people tell me that they've played the Japanese version of FF9, and that the pronoun used for Kuja is actually feminine. Plus, there's the appearance of Kuja; very feminine looking, has curvacious(sp?) hips, and wears make up.

Thats friggin' bullshit. Kuja is a guy in the Japanese version too. I'm 99% sure. You'r friends are probably saying stuff they don't know.

[Iudicium]

He is- I mean she is a chick, if in the Japanese version Kuja is female then the first version is what Kuja really is and look how Kuja dresses.

[Deicide]

-->>>This post contains heavy spoilers. Read at own risk.<<<--

Firstly to put the genome based theories to rest, I beleive it is stated in the game that the genomes are intended to serve as vessels for the Terran souls once the native Gaian souls have been completely destroyed, my memory on this is a little rusty, but I'm pretty sure it was at least implied that the genomes had gender since, well, they would be expected to be functioning in all capacities for there hosts.. Added to this there is the fact Mikoto is very positivly identified as a female, if the male identification of Kuja was merely a mistake on Zidanes part why not also make that assumption about his 'sister'? Also, since I know its coming, bare in mind that Kuja was not supposed to have a soul, he is a mistake, just one that Garland decided to put to use.

However, this being said, I actually do subscribe to the theory Kuja was originally female, to me it just seems a heck of a lot more likely, both from the various name reports and just from the way s/he acts. After all to this day the main complaints about FFVIII remain aimed firmly at the sudden and, as far as many are concerned, ill thought out shift in the magic system as well as the characters who are apparently rather hard to symaphise with. As for the 'gay' cloths excuse? We know that, if it was a male, then 'he' was not gay since there is a lot of obvious hitting on Garnet in earlier parts of the story.

In fact, I beleive that such segmants are one of the main reasons why 'his' gender was altered. Think about it, could have been pretty awkard for a large part of the Western audiances at the time had Kuja and Garnet both been female. It would have been a heck of a lot easier to just cast her as male and let people assume 'hes' a little.. Odd.

:..2-2-7..:

[Anomaly]

Well they did say that Genomes have sexual identities. I think its Vivi that actually asks the question at one point and they say yes 'if we weren't male and female would would not be able to adeqately adapt'. Which is true...the process of sex exercised by most higher creatures in biology serves the function of weeding out bad mutations and preserving strong ones through natural selection.

As to the subject itself, I'm not sure Kuja has a gender at all. Oh yes, he was made male for the West, but I don't know about the East. It could be he is a Genome that was made without a gender and thus why he is somewhat of a failure. (though granted a failure with the highest power capacity of the Genomes until Zidane and Mikoto)

At the end of the day, you can't peak into the thong of this videogame character so I don't see why it should matter. Not like he sexed anyone up or anything

...we should email the question to Square-enix, so it will FINALLY be answered for good.

[Anomaly]

Originally Posted by Thaliel

...we should email the question to Square-enix, so it will FINALLY be answered for good.

If you think they'll give you an answer somehow I doubt they'd give you a straight one.

[TomStrife]

He`s neither. He`s an MJ.

Narf, Narf, Narf.

Seriously, he`s just a realy ugly guy who longs to be a really ugly girl and Sephiroth at the same time...

Wait a minute...

[Asheis]

http://c-uncut.com/media/ff9-kuja.jpg
http://www.galbadiax.com/ff9/kuja.jpg
http://www.myfilestash.com/userfiles...IX/kuja004.jpg

Those are some comparison shots..

If you ask me.. the space down there isn't quite... available?

[Hildegarde]

Kuja is a male, his profile says so.
I actually know a FF fan from Japan, if I can get a hold of her, I'll ask her, but, I just think that he is all about being bishounen and nothing else.