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One of my friends read an article which claimed that [Armin
Arlert](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Armin_Arlert) of Attack on
Titan is female. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

[This article](http://sunrisingblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/shingeki-no-
kyojin-armin-is-a-girl/) included the following statement:

> **Q** : _Out of the group of female characters in the 104th Trainee Squad,
> who did Mikasa get along with the most?_
>
> **A** : _Armin_

[This related article](http://zakitakubu.com/2014/10/09/shingeki-no-kyojin-
armin-is-a-girl/) further states the following:

> _Isayama has revealed that Armin is a female character. Now this is a huge
> surprise for Shingeki no Kyojin fans. Everyone thought that Armin was always
> a boy but it looks like she was a girl._

Finally, [here's another
article](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2014-10-10/attack-on-titan-
creator-isayama-totally-called-armin-a-girl/.79797) discussing the possibility
of Armin being female.


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What is the gender of Armin in Shingeki no Kyojin?


Armin is a boy.

There are some reasons worth consideration:

  1. His appearance is male. This isn't always telltale, due to [traps](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/3520/274).
  2. Armin uses distinctly male language in Japanese. (He refers to himself as 僕【ぼく】 ( _boku_ ), which is a male pronoun, fairly rarely used by females unless they are traps.)
  3. The [_Shingeki no Kyojin_](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Armin_Arlert) Wiki refers to him as male.
  4. Armin is a boy's name. ([One source](http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Armin), but there's many.)
  5. He is voiced by a male in the English dub. Though he is voiced by a female in Japanese, this is common for young or weak boys (Shinji Ikari, Edward Elric, etc.). However, a male voicing a female character is exceedingly rare, and I doubt the mangaka would have allowed it.

In [the article you are referring
to](http://zakitakubu.com/2014/10/09/shingeki-no-kyojin-armin-is-a-girl/), the
answers to the questions are actually just for humorous purposes, and should
_not_ be regarded canonically. For example:

> Q: Mike smells all kinds of stuff, how does a titan smell?  
>  A: They smell like a spa-town.

After this article, Armin was later **confirmed to be male** by the mangaka
himself at a public event found in [this Japanese
video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guuyZxqGNi8) at 3:09 (thanks
[@OshinoShinobu](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2869/oshino-shinobu)):

> Q: アルミンの性別はどっちですか？  
>  What is Armin's sex?
>
> A: 男です。  
>  Male.


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Armin is a boy because of his physical appearance. Although a woman plays
Armin in the Japanese version of Attack of Titan, the voice actor is a guy in
the English version.


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Armin is confirmed to be a boy in story when:

> He is kidnapped while pretending to be Krista/Historia. While the kidnappers
> originally think him to be female, they are... shocked... when they find out
> he is male.


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Armin is male. It was joked that the girl Mikasa got along with best was
Armin. This is kind of a joke on the fact that Mikasa doesn't seem to have any
female companion that she likes and also because of Armin's more feminine
build and behavior as opposed to Eren or any other distinctively male
character.

It is common practice in Japanese production that mild, gentle and physically
weaker males are voiced by women as well as young boys. Armin is all of these
as a 15 year old intellectual who has been thrust into the position of a
soldier because he was alone and scared.


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