[Gender-specific classes]

Awakening has 4 playable manaketes and there's not a single boy. You don't include that many characters and have them all be the same gender unless it was intended to be that way.

You're over thinking it imo. I agree with you that it was intended, but not for that reason.

I'd bet that the actual reasoning for it is that they wanted more of legal age "8 year old girls". XD

[Gender-specific classes]

I forgot about Bantu. Still, the majority of manaketes have been female and they were genderlocked in Awakening.

(speaking of playable characters, mind you)

I might be wrong as I've never had the chance to play awakening yet, I don't think you could reclass characters(male or female) to manakete in the first place.

Makes it quite irrelevant to say that it is, since it's more of a "x character only" class.

No point in arguing about this though lol.

[What is your opinion of Felicia?]

Feels like there isn't enough info to make a decent guess tbh.

But from seeing like 2 seconds of her from the trailer, I guess she's one of those "mai waifu" characters designed to be cutesy, shy and clumsy.

I hope there's more to her than that, would be a boring character if i guessed correctly.. (Mai cute little maid waifu sorta character >_>)

[Features you want to return/not return in FEif]

I hope biorhythm never comes back, I always forget about it lol.

I don't want the removal of some tools in harder modes like in radiant dawn, e.g. you can't see the movement and attack range of enemy units.

[Gender-specific classes]

I would really like to see like an Ike on a peggie. That image is somehow amusing to me. So I say do away with them.

I'd like to see this too, but I don't really care either ways. feels like some irrelevant feature in the game.

Also I don't think manaketes are gender locked in the first place, Iirc the first recruitable one was a male manakete.

[Precisely how excited are you for this game?]

Same, I don't have a 3DS, and I'm hoping that they'll give a bundle for me to buy.

probably going to be a hoshidan version and nohr version of the 3ds if they do the version split in NA

Yeah, that's why I want a bundle, Don't have one either. Interesting choice of favorite FE considering you don't have a 3DS lol.

That would be nice if they make a Nohr and/or Hoshidan theme, Hopefully they don't go with the "FE Blue" though as we already have the awakening version.

[Precisely how excited are you for this game?]

Not too excited about it.

Hoping for a nice N3DS bundle to go with it though