>>43787502I'm usually the one making posts like yours about other bishounen characters and I can't help seeing him as a girl in official material. I think the hair is just the tipping point since his body and face are so androgynous (masculine leaning yes, but still very easily capable of belonging to a flat, boyish lanklet girl).
Unless they gave him something like facial hair, a squarer jaw, a wider frame, etc., all of which I can see arguments against and some of which I think would look awful, it all came down to the hair. They gave him a loose, long feminine style, which upsets the androgyny balance and outweighs what little masculine lean he had, if that makes sense?
tl;dr: yes because he's too androgynous elsewhere