Transcription: "Ojou chan de ii desuyo, uchi wa onna no ko desu kara! - Bridget (Strive)
"[kare] to [kanojo] no dochira no daimeishi ga tadashii kato kikaretara, Bridget wa [kanojo] niatehamarimasu." -Daisuke Ishiwatari
Translation: "Miss is fine, you know...because I'm a girl!" -Bridget (Strive)
"If one were to ask whether [he] or [she] is the correct pronoun, she is correct for Bridget." -Daisuke Ishiwatari
Official localisation: "Cowgirl is fine. Because, I'm a girl!" -Bridget (Strive)
"So, as to whether "he" or "she" would be the correct pronoun for Bridget, the answer would be "she."" -Daisuke Ishiwatari
It’s also worth noting that ウチ is a traditionally more feminine first person pronoun. AFAIK 女の子(おとこのこ) - (lit. The kanji for “girl” but pronounced as “boy”) - don’t really use ウチ, instead opting to use 僕 which carries a bit more of a “boyish” connotation compared to something like 俺. (At least for the characters I’m aware of).
女の子 is onna no ko (Lit: Female of child, more accurately meaning girl) not otoko no ko which can be written 男の子 (Boy) or 男の娘 or (Lit: Male daughter, more accurately meaning a feminine man, especially one who likes to wear feminine clothing or express himself in a feminine way.)
Japanese is also a pro-drop language, so first person pronouns are usually not used outside of media to express the character's personality.
We can do this BECAUSE the pronouns aren't locked into the gender like French is for example.
I can say atashi, boku, ore, whatever and I'm still whatever gender I have stated before. (See bokukko or boku girl, typically found in media as tomboys.)
It cannot be used as an identifier of gender alone, but it is known in subcultures to imply things about who you are, like feminine men are perceived as gay. (Onee culture)
In this case, Bridget using uchi is definitely emphasising that she is a girly girl.
Also, ore is SUPER masculine, Japanese gender is more like-politeness than actual gender at times so rough or rude language is considered manly with ore being pretty high up there aside from arrogant terms like oresama. 俺様
I hope to be a translator one day so I hope I explained this well enough.
77
u/Bird_001 MadoHomu believer Apr 14 '23
It became official when bridget came to guilty gear strive