User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Episode 202: Welcome Home, Frosch, Review./@comment-24277053-20141005014223/@comment-7418318-20141005082959

If you always read your manga of the same translation team and that team picked Frosch's gender as male (like most of them do) it's not surprising that some people have never heard of Frosch's gender problems prior to coming to the wikia. I wouldn't call reading the story in your favourite place (i.e. website) and not looking for more facts ignorance.

But it does get you stuck with just that single interpretation of the translation that the team of your choice picked. When translating Japanese to any western language you often have situations where multiple translations are possible and you have to pick the one you think is most likely. And then there are some things that we simply don't have an exact equivalent for, like the various gender-neutral pronouns you have in japanese.

Always going with "that person" and "they" instead of "he/she/him/her" just makes things sound very unnatural, so usually the translators just go with what they think/feel is the correct gender.