Talk:Accelerator/@comment-7694700-20130608225944/@comment-2052919-20130609034147

The people who keep changing his gender are just idiots. I'm not sure the line you mentioned is a literal enough translation from the original Japanese, though. I'll have to double-check that episode and listen for the Japanese.

What's probably a better piece of evidence is the exchange between Heaven Canceller and Yoshikawa in volume 5, epilogue. It's on page 320 in the novel. I have a scan of the raw here: http://i.imgur.com/xfLCh4f.jpg

"But really, that was a close shave. No matter how good I am, I still can't heal a dead person. If you want to thank someone, then thank that boy."

''"That boy...did he do something? Hold on, I should have been shot with a military pistol through my heart, why am I still alive?" ''

In both of these lines, the the word 'shounen' is used by both adults to refer to Accelerator. Heaven Canceller and Yoshikawa are both people who should definitely know whether Accelerator is a guy.