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Francisco Salazar

Always found Kobayashi's sexuality really interesting. She's celibate, aromantic, and while she has a maid fetish, she seems to reject the idea that women are a romantic option. I'm pretty sure her friend Takiya knows she is gay but is being supportive and letting her figure things out at her own pace. Seen critics discount her character as "a female written as a man" but I feel she's the type that wise about everything but their own wants and needs. Kobayashi seeing herself in Ilulu is profound because, of the cast, they are unique in how they struggle with the question, "What do I want out of life?"

Ryuuji Gremory

One thing that is interesting is, she actually never says "I am not into women" all she did was correcting characters that mistook her as a man or where Kobayashi though that they might be mistaken. Or as in this case commenting on the fact that she can't possibly make another woman a child as she herself is a woman, it's never "I am not into women" it's always just the "I am a woman". That is actually one of the problems in the Dub. There Kobayashi's answer to Tohru's confession at the start of the series outright shuts her down, telling her she isn't into women, in contrast to the original where she is just assuming Tohru, that Dragon with seemingly no knowledge of humans or human society, mistook her as a man.

Francisco Salazar

Big reason why I hate localization. You hear "baka baka baka" and then go to the dub and they've inserted some witty clapback about bodyshaming. I wish the story followed through on meeting Kobayashi's parents. But I understand the author wanted to avoid an situation where Tohru is able to get concrete answers about Kobayashi's mindset, rather than discovering these answers organically. Dragon Maid author uses a pen name so we can't use their sexual/gender identity as a lens to understand the series. That said, their PIXIV bio has this gem: (Google translated) I love boobs Not a girl with boobs I love boobs