{"id":15719,"date":"2022-09-15T11:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T02:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=15719"},"modified":"2022-09-15T11:15:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T02:15:20","slug":"20220915-15719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220915-15719\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Gear: Bridget\u2019s gender identity officially confirmed by developers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>Arc System Works has released the 11<sup>th<\/sup> edition of their Developer\u2019s Backyard blog for <em><strong>Guilty Gear -Strive-<\/strong><\/em>. In it, the team takes time to explain all sorts of news and details regarding the game and also gives the official stance on the gender identity of Bridget, a recent DLC addition to the <em>Guilty Gear -Strive- <\/em>roster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The latest Developer&#39;s Backyard is finally here! Hit the link below: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YqMRg2MiVz\">https:\/\/t.co\/YqMRg2MiVz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Arc System Works America (@ArcSystemWorksU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArcSystemWorksU\/status\/1569981008795279362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bridget is a popular <em>Guilty Gear<\/em> character that first appeared in the series\u2019 third title, <em>Guilty Gear XX<\/em>. After being added to the <em>Guilty Gear -Strive-<\/em> roster as a DLC character in August of this year, Bridget\u2019s gender and story have been a hot topic among fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the series, Bridget has been characterized by her feminine attire. Born as the younger of twin boys, the village Bridget was born in held a superstition that male twins would bring misfortune and insisted that any younger male twin be put to death or exiled from the village at birth. Not wanting to do this, Bridget\u2019s parents hid her gender and raised her as a daughter resulting in the character\u2019s feminine appearance in games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not wanting to cause her parents pain, Bridget begins acting like a man and proving the superstition to be unfounded. This backstory has led to Bridget being a popular otokonoko character, a term which refers to males with a feminine appearance, among fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Bridget\u2019s appearance in <em>Guilty Gear -Strive-<\/em> saw the gender symbol on her outfit change away from the male sign, with cutscenes in the game addressing the character\u2019s gender identity. This caused murmurs to spread through the community about whether Bridget was transgender instead of a male character with a feminine appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- Season Pass 2 Playable Character #1 Trailer\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eMlf83j7WD8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That brings us to the latest Developer\u2019s Backyard where Daisuke Ishiwatari, an Arc System Works company director and general director of the <em>Guilty Gear<\/em> series, made a statement about Bridget\u2019s gender. It sounds like the company has received a lot of questions on the matter leading to the following response:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f9f9f9\">\u201cWe\u2019ve received many inquiries about Bridget\u2019s gender. After the events of Bridget\u2019s story in Arcade Mode, she self-identifies as a woman.&nbsp;So, as to whether \u2018he\u2019 or \u2018she\u2019 would be the correct pronoun for Bridget, the answer would be \u2018she.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Bridget\u2019s backstory mentioned above, her exploits and success while behaving as a man brought prosperity to her village and overturned the superstition. However, Bridget didn\u2019t feel comfortable continuing to live as a man after this, and that\u2019s where her story in Arcade Mode begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ishiwatari also stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f9f9f9\">\u201cAfter her exchanges with Goldlewis and Ky, Bridget faces parts of herself she has tried to ignore, and makes a big decision for herself. I hope that all of you will watch over her path after her courageous choice to stay true to her own feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220914-219152-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220914-219152-001.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220914-219152-001-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220914-219152-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220914-219152-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220914-219152-001-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220914-219152-001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220914-219152-001-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220914-219152-001-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220914-219152-001-747x420.jpg 747w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Bridget\u2019s introduction on the official website hasn\u2019t been totally clear regarding the gender identity of the character, and since she appeared back on the scene, fans have been discussing the matter. There was even a case where someone posed as Arc System Works and posted fake responses as if they were official (<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220827-15286\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">related article<\/a>). But now Ishiwatari who leads the <em>Guilty Gear<\/em> team has delivered a clear answer to fans and put the discussion to bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Guilty Gear -Strive-<\/em> is now available on PC (Steam), PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5. The rest of the blog post discusses the slightly delayed Crossplay Beta Test scheduled for late September into early October, the July Season 2 survey results, the Q&amp;A corner, and more. Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guiltygear.com\/ggst\/en\/news\/post-1657\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> for more details.<br><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>Written by. Nick Mosier based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20220914-219152\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2022-09-14 23:41 JST)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arc System Works gave their official stance on the gender identity of Bridget, a recent DLC addition to the Guilty Gear -Strive- roster. &#8220;After the events of Bridget\u2019s story in Arcade Mode, she self-identifies as a woman.\u00a0So, as to whether \u2018he\u2019 or \u2018she\u2019 would be the correct pronoun for Bridget, the answer would be \u2018she.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":15722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-15719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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