| I love the kind of woman that can kick my ass |
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| Because it's cool and badass and most importantly, hot. |
| MEA·MENTVLA·INGENS·EST |
Theo1899 said: Because it's cool and badass and most importantly, hot. Plus strong woman can metaphorically step on me. |
 just wanna feel wanted by someone other than the police π« |
| went through top 100 popular and this is true. well done op. very cool. |
| Well some have strong will power and some have strong body figure. |
| "When they're alive, you can enjoy watching them struggle. When they're dead, you can enjoy tearing out their guts. Tales are things you get to enjoy twice." |
| There are just a lot of females in anime in general (kind of a dumb statement), so it just seems like there are many strong female characters. Honestly, you can ask the same question about weak female characters too and have a valid point. I think strong female characters just leave bigger impressions and are therefore more popular. Japanese culture aside, it’s just how it seems to work psychologically. |
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| Why not?? I mean the more the merrier I'd let Saber stomp on me |
CasualKarmaJul 9, 2020 10:38 AM
| "No matter how hard we fight it we always return to where we're meant to be." |
| They're all trying to be the next Fujiko Mine, also this: Ty-Foo said: I love the kind of woman that can kick my ass XD |
| how are they strong doe? most female characters suck ass so hard that they can be hardly called characters. their personality only consists of the most generic 'strong attractive feminine straight woman' traits. or maybe just 'attractive feminine straight woman' traits, bc swinging sword (not better than a man of course) in a dress hardly makes them 'strong' characters. i aint saying femininity is bad, but theres so many other, interesting ways to write women. give them fucking abs at least. and yeah, fujikos a good example, bc she actually has personality besides also being the archetype i mentioned above |
tofucznicaJul 9, 2020 10:45 AM
| I think... 1. They aware of those and trying to "encourage" woman to be like that and break that stigma (is this a right word ?), although sadly yes like someone said above they still portrait them as submissive so it's kinda wasted that led to the 2nd points below 2. They only made those for drawing "market target" who have that "kind" of fetish If we look at how is japanese weeb rn (atleast from their behaviour in vtuber world), i think points 1 is almost impossible to do |
VIVE LA FRANCE, homies !!! |
Bebop_Hakusho said: They're all trying to be the next Fujiko Mine Man is speaking some facts here. I couldn't agree on this one more. |
| because all us psychologically weak anime nibbas definetely need a strong personaltity to save us from ourselves i guess |
| There are fan edits of popular movies by misogynists where they alter or remove any content that violates their ideal of women being subordinate to men. I have to wonder if these guys do the same to anime, or if they have discussions over which anime they consider "good" and "bad" according to their twisted ideal of gender roles. |
A møøse once bit my sister... |
| Japan is a pretty sexist country, but it doesn't necessarily say that women are weak and submissive the way Western sexism has often told. Rather that they have to be... virtuous, in the way defined by the strict gender roles. That may include having a strong personality when it's "needed". On the other hand, about anime... you guys are treating it as some sort of mirror of the Japanese society and culture, when like any other artistic or narrative medium it is a construction, and a construction often created to escape, form an alternative or counter the cultural norm. I think the magical girl archetype for instance was considered countercultural at the time it was created. |
| Because ass kicking women are hot asf. |
| Simply because it's hot and who doesn't like to get beaten by a hot woman? |
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| Simply having physically powerful female characters isn't feminist in and of itself. They need to feel like a person in their own right as well, else it's just lip service. And in many action anime I see that it doesn't necessarily hold up to that standard. |
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| Possibly because there's precedent for them in Japanese history. You also gotta keep in mind that a lot of mangaka are women, even for works aimed at men. And as mentioned previously, a lot of guys well...  And also "Strong female character" doesn't just mean "chick that fights", but a character that is well-written and memorable in addition to being capable. Like any medium, there are anime characters that are strong female characters and "strong female characters". |
removed-userJul 9, 2020 7:47 PM
HeruruMeruru said: And also "Strong female character" doesn't just mean "chick that fights"... Not that there's anything wrong with appreciating the shallow version, right? |
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| There are certainly more heroines and strong women in anime than in other media imo, but I still think they are kinda underrepresented overall. I usually enjoy watching a show more if there is some diversity in gender, especially when it comes to the main cast. Unfortunately especially shounen anime suffer from too many strong male characters for obvious reasons. |
Ty-Foo said: Lol, looks like you are a masochist.I love the kind of woman that can kick my ass |
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| Yes, we need more women main characters that make tea at the office. Joking. Audiences love strong main characters, doesn't matter the sex. |
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| I find it hot. The more we have of them the better. |
| I've seen my fair share of both weak and strong female characters (physically or mentally). And i say... I prefer the strong one so.. i don't have a problem with that. XD And i saw a lot of people in some discussion thread also say they rather dislike weak ones. I guess that can be the cause..? XD |
 I'm starting to get embarrassed by my own forum signature line.. XD |
lmao you made me laugh so hard , ty mate . |
| Well i don't think there's that many. I think most female characters are pretty weak. There is a few real badass women in anime. So we need more. Or maybe I didn't see the "right" animes. But anyway to answer the question, even though Japanese society is pretty conservative, that doesn't mean there aren't people who try to be modern, or even if they really aren't, they try to be in their work, maybe to make it sell better, maybe to make themselves look better or for other reasons. Also if it's a female author, chances are high she'll have strong female characters. I don't really know how conservative people think, but maybe they can fully differentiate their real-life views from their work. Maybe they really only make badass females because they are hot. Who knows? |
"If you accept everything you're told without question, you'll lose your ability to think. Even if you reached the same conclusion, it would still be worth analysing the reasons behind it." - Lacie Baskerville, Pandora Hearts |
| just like in video games, crybaby defenseless character that you have to escort is not attractive |
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| I love how quick Westerners are to call Japan sexist. Japanese women by and large have rejected feminist ideology. Nekopara, the anime and visual novel constantly held up by Western feminists as an example of how sexist Japan and anime is was made by a woman who explicitly sexualized the cute, feminine innocence of catgirls in the visual novel. Anyway though, I don't really see that many animes with "strong female characters." I think they only really exist in shonen animes and I don't watch very much shonen. Romance, SOL, ecchi, and even the psychological/thriller/horror genres are usually cutesy and vulnerable. |
Ryuk9428Jul 12, 2020 1:57 AM
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| Because anime doesn't give a shit about gender politics Step 1: make a good character Step 2: pick a gender I wonder why this seems to be such a difficult task in a certain other industry π€π€π€π€π€π€π€π€π€π€π€π€π€π€π€π€π€π€ |
| Fiction is not necessary to depict reality, sometimes author want to depict their idealism in their work. Strong women and better world are examples of this idealism/dream. |
"The Slave is the have-not, the oppressed one with nothing to spare. But because the Slave is in that despairing situation, having nothing, it can kill the Emperor !" |
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