category "Male Demographic with Female Author" ?

How do you know HONNA Wakou is a woman?

Because the rule of Google states:
If you Google a Japanese mangaka named Honna Wakou that wrote a certain manga and the first thing you find is information about a female Japanese mangaka named Honna Wakou that wrote that manga, chances are she is female.

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the picture they used for them on google search is the actor who played the female lead in the movie adaption of nozoki ana. mangaseek says gender is unknown and booklive says they're male other sources vary so who knows?

I think data links on Wikipedia can be trusted (in most cases)
[url]https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10644200[/url]

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im not familiar with that site but even japanese people are unsure...

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the picture they used for them on google search is the actor who played the female lead in the movie adaption of nozoki ana. mangaseek says gender is unknown and booklive says they're male other sources vary so who knows?

Exactly, possibly the people and websites (including wikidata which even I can edit) who thought the author is a woman based themselves on that actress picture? lol.

"female
0 references" lol

本名ワコウ

本名means real name no? is it a common surname? and then the first name in katakana... is it even a female-like name?
isn't it just a pen name? perhaps why then people actually don't really know the author's gender?

Here is an ANN article conforming the gender:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-11-28/nozoki-ana-wakoh-honna-to-launch-fureru-to-kikoeru-manga/.95769
"Honna launched her...". So stop down-voting the tag.
You can easily find other neutral sources, including publisher information. This could all be a pseudonym but basically every author can hide behind one. Who is to say that Stephen King wrote all those books and not his wife. Insert dramatic gif [here]... ?
Case closed.

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Here is an ANN article conforming the gender:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-11-28/nozoki-ana-wakoh-honna-to-launch-fureru-to-kikoeru-manga/.95769
"Honna launched her...". So stop down-voting the tag.

What says that wasn't based on the misleading first-look google result or even this website? lol.

You can easily find other neutral sources, including publisher information.

Where?

This could all be a pseudonym but basically every author can hide behind one.

This just makes me want to start disconsidering author's gender, unless there's any actual source somewhere showing actual evidence. Lol.

Who is to say that Stephen King wrote all those books and not his wife. Insert dramatic gif [here]... ?
Case closed. What's that pigeon playing chess quote again? Haha jk... ?

This is basically saying the only way you will acknowledge her gender is when you find the transcript of her birth certificate which also states she wrote the manga in that same official governmental document.
Information on the internet isn't rocket science... You either believe the majority of the same information or you doubt it and say everyone just did a Google search of a false source. There is no way to convince you of anything this way so there is no point in having this discussion to begin with.

Basically, if you wanna doubt, do it but don't involve others in it.

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If I may inqure, why does it even matter, anyway? Just seems like a pointless tag to begin with.

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I'm not doubting, there are just no sources nor this "majority of the same information". I don't want to be convinced of anything especially of what you don't know, I made the question wondering who put that tag there and why. And looks like my suspects were correct...

I asked because sometimes I do get curious to know if it was a man or a woman who wrote the manga.

Has Honna Wakou ever presented itself as a woman or not, like in those author comments in manga volumes? Well, maybe some time I'll check

Heh, wow, amazing how some people could obsess over such a trivial thing.

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Heh, wow, amazing how some people could obsess over such a trivial thing.

Who's obsessing? I just don't know the need for tags based on supposition. If it's not known, then leave it as unknown.

@MaskingTape
"or you doubt it and say everyone just did a Google search of a false source"

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the picture they used for them on google search is the actor who played the female lead in the movie adaption of nozoki ana. mangaseek says gender is unknown and booklive says they're male other sources vary so who knows?

This obviously is a misunderstanding. Not a false source, it's not even a source thereby.

Well then I'll stand corrected on the "obsessing" point, but not on the "trivial" point..........that part stands. It's a trivial tag (among many, maaaany here) that I'd never pay attention to to begin with, about a trivial piece of information that I wouldn't even remotely consider when evaluating whether or not to read a story.

But to each their own 🙂

Reading back, lovely how this nasty piece of work just conveniently ignored this question:

[You can easily find other neutral sources, including publisher information.]

"Where?"

Don't act like a smartass if you don't even know it. Quoting a random anime website phrase that contain no reference isn't a source.

Here is a japanese comment that says this author's gender seems to be unknown.
https://twitter.com/nymphsao/status/898916452303949824?t=8F8GXd3_tIX6Z81o0PnjoQ&s=19

As for the people who think the interest isn't important, then why are you here? Don't reply if you have no interest. Some people might be interested to know if the author is male, female or even otherwise (nowadays). If you can't respect that it's YOU who shouldn't involve others, therefore no need for your useless smart ass remarks so please next time go troll elsewhere.

Besides, remember there's a (false) tag that implies the author is female when that isn't known. Which can mislead people to find this manga when it's not really what they were looking for. Stop defending a false tag and attacking people who want a single ACTUAL source of what the author's gender is. And not a random ONE anime little "article" single pronoun used by who knows who. That's not a source at all.