Talk:Tsugumi Ohba

message: why do we need his blood type?? ((unsignedIP|24.207.29.58}}
:It's a japanese horoscope type of thing. Blood type determines personality and stuff. Why wouldn't we need his blood type?? Ismo Kalkku (talk) 08:02, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Blood type

message: Isn't Tsugumi Ohba a woman?  Why is she referred to as "he" in this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Parrotpixels (talk • contribs) 
:What makes you think that Ohba is a woman? I don't think there's a source either way, but (sexism aside) considering the genre of Death Note, etc., Ohba seems more likely to be a man than a woman. Nique talk 01:11, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gender

message: In the How To Read volume Ohba is always referred to as "she" or "her". She's female.
Nescover 20:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes -- also, I'm pretty sure "Tsugumi" is in hiragana, which is never done for male names. It could be a man's pseudonym, but I'm not sure why it would be, given that she wrote a famous shonen manga... it seems like it would be more likely in that case for a woman to take on a male name than vice-versa. (Men writing shojo have been known to take female pen names in the past.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.151.194 (talk) 01:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hiragana are frequently used in manga pen names, male or female. There is no official evidence suggesting either gender; assumptions made by fans based on misinformation are a poor basis for changing things. I agree that it should be clarified that Ohba's gender is as much a mystery as everything else about him; but in cases where the gender is unknown, the standard practice with English is to use male pronouns. Doceirias (talk) 04:32, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Japanese Wikipedia Page has a LOT of evidence pointing towards Gamou Hiroshi as the "true" identity of Ohba. I have heard this theory for a long time and I believe it to be true.69.242.164.219 (talk) 07:28, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

text: It's not actually spelled "Ooba" it's spelled "Ouba" without the Macrons, that's some weird way to Romanize Japanese... A few of my books use "Oo" for "Ō", but the majority of mine use "Ou" for "Ō", and, although I don't have any books that utilize this one, some use "Oh" for "Ō" (which I think should only be used for Stylistic purposes, and not for romanizing, but it is used in this article, and something similar here, and Satoshi Ohno, etc.) Moocowsrule (talk) 20:53, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The JSL system (I think) is pretty incorrect. In actual Japanese "oo" would be pronounced as "o-o", not "ō". But of course it is consistent with all the other double sounds (aa, ee, ii, uu, and ou seems a bit asymmetrical, rather than aa, ee, ii, uu, and ou which seems symmetrical). Still I don't like it very much, and it just drives me CRAZY whenever "おう" is romanized as "oo" like in JSL. I mean that literally says "ou", while JSL intentionally romanizes it as "oo". Moocowsrule (talk) 20:59, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Except 大 is actually read おお and not pronounced as a split sound at all. Doceirias (talk) 01:21, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: My italian copy of Death Note sais it's a woman. Then, I'm not english, but I thought when the gender was unknown you should use "they", "them" and so on. Chlorophilia  at <I>Chlorophilia's Palace</I> 10:56, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

text: So why wasn't anything ever decided on this? Is a source needed to say she's referred to as a woman, regardless of true identity, or what?184.5.166.215 (talk) 05:36, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ohba is a woman.