Kanda And Alma Headcanon

Kanda and Alma Headcanon

Spoilers for D.Gray-Man Hallow and the manga

(Just a heads up, I will be using gender neutral pronouns and present tense for Alma)

So I was looking at a list of LGBTQ+ characters in media and in the anime and manga section they listed Kanda Yu and Alma Karma from D.Gray-man as both being bisexual.

The more thought about it, the more it felt not quite right.

The big thing that stood out was that Alma is never depicted as having any interest in females at all. Only Kanda who is male both now and in his previous life. That would make Alma straight in their past life and "gay" now. (Now granted they did call For pretty but I don't think that means they think For is attractive.) Another thing is my impression of Alma in their current form is not a cis gendered male. My reasoning is first that Alma uses the Japanese pronoun "Boku" which, in real life is used by young or more soft spoken men, in anime is often used by neutral characters and second is Alma calls their past self me. Quote from D.Gray-man chapter 198: "I'm sure you (Kanda) will search for me as long as you live. You might discover "that person" was me, one day." This shows that Alma sees themselves as both their past self and their present self, as one and the same. Finally a quote from an interview with creator Katsura Hoshino: "I created Alma with the premise “Alma = that person” in my mind. That’s why I wanted to make them look as non-feminine as possible"

As for Kanda he loves both past Alma and present Alma so bisexual could be the right word but I'm not so sure. I think that Kanda loves Alma no matter what and just sees Alma. Pansexual fits better in my opinion.

TLDR: I think Alma is non-binary and Kanda is Pansexual.

If you disagree, I would love to hear your opinion. Feel free to message me if you don't want to post your opinion