User blog comment:Joekeybladeaura/envy is a boy?/@comment-76.14.232.64-20110425040523

Both the anime and the manga have been written and produced by Hiromu Arakawa; states that Envy was Hoenhiem's son who died and was brought back and created his sin inbodied: Envy. Hiromu states that "Envy is an androgynous male who has the ability to shape shift into both male and female, though he takes on the androgynous form to look as neither sex because he feels beautiful."