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Interestingly enough, Nintendo did not truly settle on a specific gender for its Toad characters from the Mario universe. That’s despite the fact that Toad takes on the appearance of a male and Toadette has female characteristics.

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker producer Koichi Hayashida told GameSpot in a recent interview:

“This is maybe a little bit of a strange story, but we never really went out of our way to decide on the sex of these characters, even though they have somewhat gendered appearances. But I think what I can say is that Toadette and Toad are not siblings — perhaps it would be more accurate to say they are adventure pals. And that’s certainly true here [in Captain Toad].”

Hayashida also went on to clarify that Toads are not mushrooms. When GameSpot brought up the resemblance and nomenclature, Hayashida noted:

“This particular riddle might stay unsolved. That’s one of the great mysteries of the Mario universe.”

This makes quite sad. I've always shipped Toad with Toadette :(

I didn't realise anyone thought they were siblings anyway.

There goes my extra income with drawing Toad and Toadette Hentai..

"we don't know the answer but the obvious one you concluded is wrong" ~nintendo


also,. lol at "adventure pals". is that what we call it these days...

Btw so Toad also doesn't get some? He schould join the Nintendo Friend zone club with Mario and Link..

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeh.............HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEH...........Nope...I just cant give a shit.

all Nintendo characters are genderless

what next? Link is actually a guy?

Toad friendzoned confirmed