The tawdry female bosses are tiresome, and we could do with more male fanservice.

[Lersayil]

Idk, out of place fish boobies don't really tell a good story? Especially since they are visually useless (no fish nipple or fish suggestion of fish nipple). A better way to display she was a brood mother would be to decorate her stage with fish brood props. Piles of fish eggs along the edges, carrying young in her fish mouth, that kind of thing.... 'cause she's a fish not a human, and I'm looking for fish tells of fish motherhood.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the fish people weren't living in the dungeon were they? I had the impression they recently invaded the place to plunder it for creation magic blueprints. Hence the lack of any decorations, only a few barricades. Anyways the fish boobies weren't there to tell a story, just to make the character easily identifiable, as a random fish person mother figure, not worth building anatomical lore around for its one scene.

But that's the point. They don't have or need those features and yet we all still refer to them as males. It's really as simple as that. We're smart enough to not need to impose human body expectations on non-human monsters, and doing so kind of robs us of new and unique worldbuilding.

We refer to them as male, because the english language is obsessed with referring to monstrous god figures with their genders, and because we're told their gender. But other than arbitrarily knowing their gender, it plays no role in their themes, thus, its not pushed in any other visual way.

Would it matter at all if you switched Bismarks gender? Does it matter what gender many of the regular nameless mobs we slay are? Would it matter or count if someone told us Cuchulainn is a female? My argument is, that in case of the more monstrous foes, many times we're just not told, and have to rely on visuals, and if it doesn't have any human-like feminine features, we presume its male.

Also... damn, just realized that only Garuda had a voice of the OG 3?