Talk:Katsuyu

Can Sakura also summon Katsuyu?? I mean she trained under a Sannin like Sasuke and Naruto did. Is it possible that she learned it too???
 * It's very well possible, yes. However, there is absolutely no evidence for it yet. --ShounenSuki 10:52, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Question
I was wondering, just out of nowhere, when Katsuyu uses her great division technique and creates many Mini-Katsuyus, are each Mini-Katsuyu part of her, or are they like, babies? I mean, in the Invasion of Pain arc, they all had a brain of there own...Just Confused...--~ EDITOR - NejiByakugan360 - Please respond on my Talk Page! 16:01, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Every division is Katsuyu. Their minds even seem to be linked together. It works a bit like the Six Paths of Pain, but without a central body like Nagato. --ShounenSuki (talk 18:53, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Mystical Palm Technique
Can't she use Mystical Palm Technique or another medical ninjutsu of some sort? She was healing others in the Pain Invasion, wasn't she? --NejiByakugan360 14:31, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * She was transmitting Tsunade's chakra. Jacce | Talk 14:35, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Gender
I've been reading all shippuden manga recently and on chapter 431, page 2, Tsunade says: "He" has intel on them. Is this a translation mistake or something ?StefanSB (StefanSB) 14:17, September 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * That would be a mistranslation. However, this does raise a question with me: do we have any proof Katsuyu is female? Technically speaking, slugs are hermaphrodites. --ShounenSuki (talk 15:38, September 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * I suppose since she..eh..he..screw it "it" sounds female, we've come to the conclusion that Katsuyu is a female...--AlienGamer--Talk (contribs)-- 16:02, September 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * They also call her 'Lady Katsuyu' in the anime so it's assumed she is a uh ,, 'She'. --UchihaGlenn (talk) 14:49, May 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Which would be Katsuyu-sama in Japanese. Which is genderless. --ShounenSuki (talk 14:58, May 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yet she has female voice actors, and has been referred to as her and she several times over the manga. Official translation is 'She'.--NaruHina fan (talk) 19:51, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Naruto has female voice actors too. ~SnapperTo 19:59, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Katsuyu's only been referred to as "sama" and the one time a gender is identified it's apparently a mistranslation (when Tsunade says "him"). The fact that Katsuyu has a female voice actor really has nothing to do with her gender. Though I don't it (pun :3), it's the most rational thing to do given the apparent situation. But i'll look to see if there's any other time that a gender might've been mentioned in the manga.--Cerez365™ Hyūga Symbol.svg 20:01, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Katsuya is explicitly said as 'she' in the official translation of the manga. "All right...but take Katsuya with you. She'll come in handy. She has intell..." Volume 46, chapter 431, page 156.--NaruHina fan (talk) 20:02, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * If it were as simple as something lost in translation wouldn't Shounen have just said so though?--Cerez365™ Hyūga Symbol.svg 20:07, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Just going by what was officially put down in regards to Katsuya's gender. --NaruHina fan (talk) 20:12, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes but it's not from the raw manga...--Cerez365™ Hyūga Symbol.svg 20:16, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Those are translations, which we all know to be subject to error. The databooks do not identify animals' gender, pronouns are rare and unreliable in Japanese (see Japanese pronouns and gender differences in spoken Japanese), and Katsuyu doesn't appear often enough for the few exceptions to have been used. Would a trivia point saying that Katsuyu is referred to as a female in English translations be a fair compromise? ~SnapperTo 20:18, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * We should've done that to at least explain the shift.--Cerez365™ Hyūga Symbol.svg 20:32, May 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * Is she really referred to as female in the English translations? Sure, they might be using female pronouns, but that isn't really the same. Remember that slugs are hermaphrodites and there is no good way to refer to hermaphrodites in English. The translators might have just picked the lesser of two evils. —ShounenSuki (talk 22:24, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * What exactly did Tsunade say though when it was translated to "him" Shounen O.o? --Cerez365™ Hyūga Symbol.svg 22:27, May 30, 2011 (UTC)