Anonymous OP 2w

strong female main characters who save the day, who are actually popular and get people talking. all the girl characters are always sexualized or just support the main character. i’m sick and tired of men being the hero.

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Anonymous OP 2w

shows like arcane, not an anime, are challenging it now and i’m glad we are.

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Anonymous #1 2w

what does that even mena

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Anonymous #1 2w

as a man you won’t understand. you guys are always the chosen one, the one who saves the day, the one who gets everything about them and women aren’t see like that. we help with the journey and nurture and i’m sick of that. i want to the woman to save the day, to be the chosen one.

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Anonymous OP 2w

Light novel series Extremely strong female leads Literally so strong that one of the female leads was cut from most character popularity polls for being too popular and she’s not even the most girlboss character in the series

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Anonymous #1 2w

share pls

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Anonymous #1 2w

see me not knowing that is a problem, it should be known and shouldn’t be cut. i bet if it was gojo or naruto they wouldn’t be shut down that quick…and thats the issue.

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Anonymous OP 2w

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1ac2MN4mHmTKhUPgYtI9H-mga0bln243I

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Anonymous OP 2w

It’s literally the best selling light novel of all time if u don’t count digital sales Just had a really shitty anime adaptation so didn’t really blow up in the west I recommend sticking with the LN for a while (at least first 3 volumes) but if u want to cut to the girl boss stuff u can just read the manga ”a certain scientific railgun” manga

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Anonymous #1 2w

as usual, the west always wants to see the males as leads. we have some don’t get me wrong like katniss or whatever her name is in divergent i forgot lol…

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Anonymous OP 2w

Naw anime fans just don’t wanna read books most of the time 😔 Makes it kinda hard for a light novel series to take off especially when the anime cuts entire halves of volumes for time

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Anonymous #1 2w

nah i get it: i love mangas and manhwa, i just started reading more!

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Anonymous #1 2w

i just want my girlies to be the hero 😔 we need a character like mikasa to be the MC

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Anonymous OP 2w

Yeah that’s why we have railgun Or if u prefer crazy girls doin crime u have item Or if u prefer lesbians u have astral buddy Or if u prefer crazy lesbians u have mental out The toaru series has enough spinoffs for every type of female lead Most of them just require reading up to New Testament 9 to fully appreciate

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Anonymous OP 2w

Oh and if u do wanna read it goes OT, NT, GT

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Anonymous #2 2w

we deserve this

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Anonymous OP 2w

Well if women actually supported anime like men did then maybe we’d see that but until that actually happens I think it’s a good idea to start thinking w a bit more reality in mind right?

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Anonymous #3 2w

shut up ?

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Anonymous #3 2w

i never said that but okay ?? stop trying to make things about culture when it wasn’t even deemed out to be that way

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Anonymous #3 2w

you know i meant it in a different way, you know that

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Anonymous #3 2w

sorry us women fans don’t want to always see dicks save the day

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Anonymous #3 2w

When a part of a culture is sexualizing and objectifying women and little girls it deserves to be called out. There’s a reason there aren’t many strong female leads and it’s 100% because of sexism. Just period end of sentence. You can’t hide behind “culture” when it’s objectively harmful in nature it’s gonna get criticized

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Anonymous #4 2w

exactly. thank u for saying what i couldn’t bc i was too heated 😭

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Anonymous OP 2w

I am a girl and I also love superhero’s and action and bloody stuff, but I don’t mind that there aren’t a lot of women MCs who are well written because I think being a supporting character is cool and usually the MC can’t succeed without the supports. I get what you mean about our gender being misrepresented. I think that I’m just chill with any MC as long as they are written well

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Anonymous #5 2w

i do love my side characters! the MC always need supporting characters but girls are always support and never are the main, that’s what i don’t really like. we can never be the hero. nobody sees the side characters as the hero unfortunately. you see batman, you don’t see robin.

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Anonymous #5 2w

i love so many male MC’s, i just want there to be more female ones roo

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Anonymous OP 2w

Yeah I get it. And most of the female ones in mangas never get animated for TV. So sad

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Anonymous #4 2w

ok so that’s part of a tradition within the culture, not having ANYTHING to do with the categories of “Shonen” “shojo” “seinen” and “josei” completely different thing to go off ab y’all need to learn how to express yourselves better bc that’s valid

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Anonymous #3 2w

even then, the categories are just magazine marketing labels, not prescriptive genres. plenty of japanese people seek out works that aren’t advertised to them, and the stories themselves break demographic boundaries as well. women are literally the reason the gundam franchise didn’t fold, and you can find female lead pov romance in seinen magazines. you kinda just created a strawman to act smug about, the original post had a reasonable point

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