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5th Gen Male or Female [ #1 ]

Male or Female Protagonist?

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To answer my own question, I'll be choosing the female. Not just because I'm a girl myself, but her design is outstanding and the character clothing is both simplistic and attractive.

The male is alright; the style is similar to the others, but he's still decent looking. The only thing I had a small problem with is his unoriginal clothing which I've noticed, the male protagonists always seem to have the same simple type of clothing. :( He doesn't stand out as much as the female protagonist, but is still another fine male protagonist.
 
Because I'm a guy, I'm going with the male protagonist. There's more to why I picked him: he reminded me of Jaded Yuki from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX when he was first revealed.
 
To the question of which one I'm going to be/am playing as, that would be both. But I picked the male first because I'm currently playing Black as a more experimental run, and want to save the girl to play, for writing purposes.

As for which design I prefer, I have to say that I do like both designs. This is the first region where there wasn't something that bothered me about the trainer designs (with the exception of the first generation, because there was only Red at that point). I do like both. It's the male's design, however, that I tend to lean towards just because he keeps popping into my mind. And he fits Mijumaru's color scheme. So while I do like both characters, I think that I do prefer the male, since I chose to play as him first and because he's the one that I remember more than the girl's.
 
I prefer the guy. He reminds me of Red, and his design looks pretty cool, even if he's somewhat generic. He's one of my favorite protagonists.

The girl is fine, but I'm not really a fan of those short shorts and her hair. I like her more than Dawn and Lyra though, at least.
 
Male because the female looks like she got pulled out of a 80's movie about bad fashion. XD
 
Going with the female, however, I dislike the OWs for both. Plus, I have no reason to choose the male (unlike in R/S,where the character was more appealing), so yeah, female. Plus if I was male I'd probably choose the female too... because she just looks better.

However I do like the actual art of the female.
 
At first I preferred the male protagonist, but the female is beginning to grow more and more on me. <3
I love her poofy insanely awesome hair, and her oddly cute fashion sense, so nyeh. >P

/tosses in vote
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I choose the male since I hated the design for Diamond and gold's new artwork was a "meh" feeling for me. This male protagonist actually looks cool and his sprite is one of the best in my opinion (His trainer sprite not OW). So I'll toss mine in now.
 
Mew~ said:
Urm, lol isn't a bit simple, if your male you will probably be picking the male protoganist and if your female you'll pick the female protoganist... thats the reason they added the female protoganist in Crystal, so females could be females!

Although you can completelly ignore my post if your just picking which gender you want to be by design, or the change to have boobs

Btw, I chose the male, cuz im male xD
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No, I actually know a lot of people who dont go on their own gender but on their designs.
 
I actually think the male design is better than the female's. :x I would certainly say that B/W has the best male protagonist by far. All of the previous ones were awful, in my opinion, with the possible exception of Ethan. Anyway, if this is a question of which protagonist I will play as, I will still choose the female, for one reason: ToukoxNforeverrrrr nvm. I still don't like her as much as Dawn, though.
 
I prefer the male over the female too, although the female looks really cool too. If I get both games I will have one trainer for each game.
 
I like everything about the female protagonist's design more than the male protagonist's (with the exception of the VS sprite - it's just awkward looking) so I've chosen to play as her. I don't particularly think of the character as "me" in the games so gender isn't an issue and if I ever restart the game I'll choose the male character simply because I hadn't already and it would be something different.
 
I'm playing as Black/Touya (name reminds me of Digimon's Takuya) to match my own gender. I love both of their designs, but White's/Touko's seems more original (plus she looks very hot). I disliked how Black's outfit looks very similar to Lucas' Platinum outfit (in terms of color scheme, sans shoes). But a plus is that Black's outfit looks more rugged and less "formal." The slight resemblance to Red is also cool. At first, I disliked how White's hair color matched his eye color, but I'm gradually becoming accustomed to it...

Both of their VS sprites look slightly awkward to me... And I really dislike how White's sprite has more "dark pink" on it. The original artwork had those areas (sans the boots) with coloration of what I saw to be red/scarlet; why couldn't her sprite receive the same coloration? (like the red parts of Black's sprite)

I love how their Japanese names imply "transparency and purity", though (finally revealed after all this time! :)). Hope the English names are just as awesome! (though I could definitely run with Black retaining the name Black, and White retaining the name White. But I'm planning to name myself Nero, so I won't notice much...).

I'm glad that the player's counterpart makes an appearance in the Battle Subway; I was getting a bit worried that White would be nowhere to be seen in my playthrough! :(

On a side-note, this weekly poll implementation looks like a nice idea that will hopefully tide us over until the English releases of BW!
 
I chose the guy. What were you excepting?
I hate the girl's shorts, and the hair look very weird.
I think he's designed the second best from all the generation,after GSC Ethan.
 
Eh this is unfair because there are more males playing pPokemon than females. :/ Anyway what's the point of this poll? It's not like this is Harvest Moon.
 
mineowyn said:
Eh this is unfair because there are more males playing pPokemon than females. :/ Anyway what's the point of this poll? It's not like this is Harvest Moon.
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Some males choose to play as females, though.

However, the point is just a fun poll, asking users what they're going to do in the lead up to the games. It isn't serious or anything.
 
Imma be using the guy. He's adorable. Idc what any you guys say, I want to play as him. Plus, imo, he's the best looking guy you get to play as yet.
 
PlatinumDude said:
Because I'm a guy, I'm going with the male protagonist. There's more to why I picked him: he reminded me of Jaded Yuki from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX when he was first revealed.
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Same here! I am picking a boy because I like the guy's design better and I'm male. He looks pretty cool compared to some other starting guys. Also, he does remind me of Jaden Yuki!
 
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