| Okay so I have been noticing this for quite sometime but why in anime it's kinda rare to find an anime that has two female characters that aren't portrayed as rivals but as friends like yes there are quite a few friendships seen in an anime but it's very little you see people talk about that friendship. Like compared to the Boy x Boy friendships (which you can find in all anime) and the Girl x Boy friendship (also found a lot) why do we rarely see a girl x girl friendship that is actually memorable and people often talk about? Am I the only one who feels like this is rarely seen in anime? I hope not. |
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| maybe because unlike guys, girls hate each others inside |
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| Girl x girl friendship and boy x boy friendship both just lead to shipping, by the boy x boy ships sell better in 5he shows you're watching I guess :/ Pretty sure most moe shows show girl x girl friendship though |
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| Some Yuri Bait shows like Hibike Euphonium. more than just friends xD |
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| we dont need Girl x Girl friendship we need a cute romantic shoujo ai / yuri |
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| The anime/manga industry is filled with men that have never seen girls other than in anime. Yeah, but I agree on the lack of platonic relationships between females. Like irl girl relationships aren't just fighting over some basic dude. |
| Would Hanasaku Iroha and Nana fit under that criteria? |
Extect said: Girl x girl friendship and boy x boy friendship both just lead to shipping, by the boy x boy ships sell better in 5he shows you're watching I guess :/ Pretty sure most moe shows show girl x girl friendship though I kinda see your point in that one. RnDNEET021 said: Some Yuri Bait shows like Hibike Euphonium. more than just friends xD Hbike and K-On are on the same page with the Yuri Bait Lmfao. We need a cute badass girl x girl friendship and yes we also need a cute romantic shoujo ai / yuri anime too |
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| sounds like you don't watch enough mahou shoujo anime |
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Bowie said: The anime/manga industry is filled with men that have never seen girls other than in anime. Yeah, but I agree on the lack of platonic relationships between females. Like irl girl relationships aren't just fighting over some basic dude. Exactly! AltoRoark said: Would Hanasaku Iroha and Nana fit under that criteria? Yes @ Hanasaku Iroha but idk about Nana since I haven't seen it |
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| Yuri bait aside, Kumiko x Reina, BiriBiri x Kuroko, Shinobu x Karen for one on ones off the top of my head. Female friends, in general, you got Non Non Biyori, K-on, other parts of the Hibike cast, Lucky Star etc |
silverwalls said: Yeah, but like how about expanding that into other genres of anime? πͺsounds like you don't watch enough mahou shoujo anime |
silverwalls said: sounds like you don't watch enough mahou shoujo anime Kinda ugly to only have to watch Mahou Shoujo anime to see normal civilized sincere friendships between girls don't you think? it's kinda basic to include that into all genres. |
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| there are many shows like that with mostly female cast... cross ange, wixoss, flip flappers, mahoiku to name some recent ones ive seen |
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Darek said: If you are a fan of SoL (which I am) finding girl x girl friendships is far from being hard and some relationships between girls (non romantic one) really stuck with me in series like Aria for example. Albeit a lot of SoLs are yuri bait and it is hard to draw the line between friendship and them having hots for each other. Maybe cause I don't often watch SoL I usually watch anime with a lot of action and adventure and sadly you don't see that type of supportive friendship you usually find in SoL. I agree on your second point, this seems to be a flaw in all kind of anime, tv shows and movies lately. |
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| Try Card Captor Sakura, Madoka Magica, Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru and Selector Wixoss |
| Because of the whole "best girl" thing. Unless it's ecchi or hentai harem (the kind where every girl wins) then only one girl can be with the MC. And every girl wants to be with the MC. This is one of the many reasons to love Toradora. Minori and Taiga didn't let romance ruin their friendship. |
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PO1SON said: Okay so I have been noticing this for quite sometime but why in anime it's kinda rare to find an anime that has two female characters that aren't portrayed as rivals but as friends like yes there are quite a few friendships seen in an anime but it's very little you see people talk about that friendship. Like compared to the Boy x Boy friendships (which you can find in all anime) and the Girl x Boy friendship (also found a lot) why do we rarely see a girl x girl friendship that is actually memorable and people often talk about? Am I the only one who feels like this is rarely seen in anime? I hope not. In shoujo/josei anime there are these kinds of frienships. Orange, AoHaru Ride just to name a couple |
| Huh? Isn't there a literally sub-genre for this? Cute Girls doing Cute things?! It usually consists of girls with other girls doing cute things....like K-ON! and shit. |
| Ayukawa and Hikaru are great childhood friends in Orange Road. And still are for a while after Kyosuke barges in. zoeanime13 said: Try Card Captor Sakura But Tomoyo is only friend with Sakura because she can't be more (I lost her quote about love being the wish for the loved person to be with her own love or something) |
PO1SON said: silverwalls said: sounds like you don't watch enough mahou shoujo anime Kinda ugly to only have to watch Mahou Shoujo anime to see normal civilized sincere friendships between girls don't you think? it's kinda basic to include that into all genres. >watching anything else but mahou shoujo but seriously though, there's plenty of shows with girl friendships, as someone mentioned above SOL has TONS of them, there's the whole "cute girls doing cute things" subgenre and idol shows and those kinds of series. |
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| The first examples that immediately come to mind are Kill la Kill and Coppelion. But based on the post it seems to be more you're skipping the genres where they're extremely common, or looking to the community for discussion related to girl x girl friendships but aren't finding them. Which does make since, the boy x boy shipping community is often portrayed as much more vocal. Probably because especially amongst certain genres girl x girl friendships are extremely common so shipping is much more common. Like 2 other examples that come to mind are Jormungand and Canaan but most people will remember those series for the action and not the fact that 2 girls happened to be friends. So focusing on action series you've also set the bar rather high. Looking at my list now there's like 9 shows that I'm watching that have significant focus on friendships between female characters, granted 3 of them would be counted as magical girl anime and only like 3 have a focus on action. So tl;dr: it's not that they're uncommon it's that you keep adding extra hurdles and portraying it as a larger issue when you set the standards to be extremely specific. |
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Rei366 said: Ayukawa and Hikaru are great childhood friends in Orange Road. And still are for a while after Kyosuke barges in. zoeanime13 said: Try Card Captor Sakura But Tomoyo is only friend with Sakura because she can't be more (I lost her quote about love being the wish for the loved person to be with her own love or something) I'm currently reading the manga, Tomoyo clearly wants to be more than friends. Did the anime tone it down about her being a lesbian? |
| You will find a lot of them in Slice of Lifes and the likes. I think there are some shonens where females friendship is noticeable. On another note, I liked the friendship of Taiga and Minori in Toradora a lot (it also helps Minori is one of the person whom Taiga doesn't treats like trash at the beginning of the series), to the point it was one of the things I liked the most of the series. They care for each other, are always ready to help the other in cases of needs, and are even willing to giving up in their love to make the other happy. There is also Claymore, who is a shonen where the female protagonists creates strong bonds between themselves and over the series forges a friendship as strong as the iron. |
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| As many people said, there are a lot of girl x girl friendships, you just need to look closer, even shonen and action anime in your list have it. Like To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, Akame ga Kill, Canaan and even Log Horizon and Sword Art Online Sometimes, the girls start as rivals, but after certain events they become BFF. Well, the most recent action+adventure+friendship anime I saw was Shinsekai Yori and Kure-nai |
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| Do we really see that many BoyxBoy friendships that's not a rivalry or implied homosexual relationship? |
| well we have Love Live at least haha... but maybe that's just me |
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| That's because of things like the smurfette principle (only having one girl to a group of three or more guys), harem elements/love triangles (girls competing for a male character), and in general girls only existing to be paired off with male characters. Even if a show has none of that and there are female friendships, most of the time the bulk of attention will be focused on the M/M (platonic) or M/F (romantic) relationships. Ofc, this only applies to shows that don't have a female majority cast, particularly shounens and seinens. |
| Most idol anime have friendship between girls. Also, watch a few Manga Time Kirara adaptations with a mostly female cast. |
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| You have your choice of the following genres: • SOL • Mahou Shoujo • Sports • Idol • CGDCT • Romance All of these are either built upon female friendships or contain them often. |
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