Follow Casey on Twitter, where he’s more likely to use ore than any other Japanese pronoun.
Well, at first, Mitusha (in Taki’s body) calls herself watashi, which is indeed the Japanese word for “I.”
So while Taki’s friends no longer think he’s talking like a girl, he now sounds like a little boy.
Yes, watashi is the first thing you’ll see listed for “I” in an English/Japanese dictionary, and it’s also the first pronoun you’ll learn in any Japanese class.