yes it's like that if I remember it correctly. I don't study Japanese but there are quite a few languages that use gender neutral pronouns :)
The japanese language does have gendered pronouns, but they are not used very often in natural speech. So it is normal that translated texts come off as vague.
Yeah, my native laguage also like that, the pronouns are neutral gender. There's one time when one of webtoon from my country got fans translation, the translators was confused because one character's gender never stated clearly and the character also have androgynous appearance too, so they kept changed the pronouns between 'he' or 'she' until the authors said they decided that character to be neutral-gender, which no problem in my language but confusing in english. In the end the translators use the character's name as pronouns ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Yeah, it's a neutral form. That always makes me wonder why the English translators don't go for "they", though... :-/
I see, I see! That makes sense tho! Sometimes I really wondered how the characters couldn't make the difference between "he" and "she" lol
Maybe in japanese you can't really tell the difference between "he" or "she" (like I don't speak japanese, 'cause every time in yaoi they talk about the person they love and they say "he" and not "she" the other people around don't get it.... so interesting