>>21367792>Was Char explicitly referred to as 彼?No, and what they call a "fansub" is a shot from the dub with closed captioning turned on. It's the "Japanese doesn't have gender pronouns" shit that shows how much of the language their resident experts actually know.
Ash's Hawlucha HAS been referred to as 彼, though. Bulbapedo claims its gender is "unknown", and would most likely just say "well the fansub is wrong" if someone corrected that.