Which sexy female anime characters were designed by women ? Alcyone from Magic Knight Rayearth :    Kanoe from X/1999 :    Ichihara Yuuko from ×××HOLiC :    Kochō from Colour Cloud Palace :    Bai Ling from The Apothecary Diaries :  Mei Mei from The Apothecary Diaries :  Nu Hua from The Apothecary Diaries :  |
KingSunWukongOct 27, 5:19 AM
| Cornelia and all the other sexy ladies from Code Geass. |
| All the girls from Date a Live were designed by Tsunako, same lady who did Neptunia. So that's my example. |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas |
| Pretty much alot of the Sailor Moon characters, particularly the antagonists. |
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@Zarutaku Incorrect: Takahiro Kimura designed all the Geass girls. CLAMP only did some minor preliminary work on the clothes designs.
I don't know how this disinformation about Geass persists.
I don't know how this disinformation about Geass persists.
| @TheMechaManiac If that's the case, then clamp shouldn't have the "original character design" title. |
| As mentioned, CLAMP, Tsunako, and Rumiko Takahashi. I'd like to add Akemi Takada. |
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Jaga. Can draw them big, small, and everything in between.  |
    MAL didn't say Yona author a women but Im just assuming it should be a girl tbh |
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Judging by how around 60% of mangakas are women - a lot. |
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Kind of cheating since the whole seven deadly sins aspect is core to her design, but Lust from FMA comes to mind. I've always kind of deep down felt connected to her design and aesthetic and wish I could be her lol (the nails being retractable is also really cool and convenient if you're sapphic like me so you don't really have to worry about inconsistent nail length while keeping the aesthetic). |
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| https://myanimelist.net/character/130594/Kaho_Nikaidou she's kinda thicc for a shoujo girl |
TheMechaManiac said: @Zarutaku Incorrect: Takahiro Kimura designed all the Geass girls. CLAMP only did some minor preliminary work on the clothes designs. I don't know how this disinformation about Geass persists. But @Zarutaku is correct! I'm sorry to blogpost, but the misinformation is saying CLAMP only did minor preliminary work on the clothing design. They continue to work on Code Geass to this day. Kimura wouldn't have drawn them as noodle people if this weren't the case. The official webpage for the series on Sunrise's website lists both: キャラクターデザイン原案／CLAMP (Original Character Design: CLAMP) キャラクターデザイン／木村貴宏 (Character Design: Kimura Takahiro) Source: https://www.sunrise-world.net/titles/pickup_256.php 「スタッフ」 Section They were also credit for Dakkan no Rozé. https://x.com/CLAMP_news/status/1788011079463010676 Ookawa Nanase, CLAMP's team director, has talked about their design process for characters like Lelouch (eg. his hair was originally going to be white) in interviews alongside Taniguchi. CLAMP worked together with Sunrise staff to create the character drafts, including the design for Zero and his flower shaped mask, which I think is a very CLAMP-like touch. This bit on the English Wikipedia for Code Geass is all sourced from the same 2007 Newtype magazine interview: Clamp's finalized original character design art, illustrated by its lead artist Mokona, was subsequently converted into animation character designs for the series by Sunrise's character designer Kimura Takahiro, who had previously spent "every day" analyzing Clamp's art and style from their art books and manga series. In working on the animation character designs, he focused on designing them so as to enable the series' other animators to apply them without deviating from Clamp's original art style. If you can read Japanese, you can see the interview here, it even includes some of the original concept art.   Source: Newtype Magazine May 2007 https://archive.org/details/nt-2007-01/2007-05/mode/2up Other related trivia; Kawaguchi Yoshitaka specifically contacted CLAMP to design the characters. It was the first time CLAMP had ever been requested to design characters for an anime series (not based on their own work). They were there from the beginning of development and provided a lot of the initial basis for Geass both in setting and character writing. In an interview with Taniguchi from 2023, when asked about the inclusion of so much nobility in Code Geass, he replied: "Regarding your question about nobility, I think that came from CLAMP." He also mentions how early CLAMP was involved, and how they thought that would've gotten their concept sold sooner. Lastly, Taniguchi talks about how Kimura was selected specifically because he thought that he would be able to adapt CLAMP's style most faithfully. Going back to CLAMP, at a recent event dedicated to Takahiro Kimura, you said that you selected him because you thought his style fit CLAMP’s. Could you explain what you meant? Why did you think that way? Gorō Taniguchi. The thing with CLAMP is how they draw proportions. You can’t draw such elongated bodies with an approach like Otomo’s. So you need someone with a different style – but also who doesn’t make the proportions so exaggerated it looks weird. (laughs) Characters have to look cool, and the overall thing stylish – but not something like Eiichirō Oda! His style doesn’t really fit Geass. And then, on top of that, you need to add some unique quirks, things like giving big breasts to this character, or think about what a character would look like from all sides… Basically make them such that collective work is possible. That’s very important, especially on TV series. Finally, something like Code Geass needs the contribution of many animators, so you need someone whom all these animators look up to. The person who met all of these criteria was Kimura. Source: https://fullfrontal.moe/goro-taniguchi-interview/ *Insane interview, by the way, especially the part where Lelouch or Suzaku were meant to be sexually assaulted by their teacher (but not a female teacher, @Zarutaku, very sorry). tl;dr CLAMP were never just a "minor preliminary" factor, nor did they just work on clothing. Yes Kimura Takahiro brought them to life and enhanced their beautiful bouncy bodies, but the sexy women of Code Geass were a collaborative effort and CLAMP has never been afraid of designing sexy women. OP even includes one of theirs in the form of Ichihara Yuuko. P.S. Love you Kimura Takahiro, you'll be missed forever. Edit: Oops, a typo. |
CCOct 25, 10:22 PM
 Another hero? Oh, please! You're a god-damn philistine. |
Shura from Blue Exorcist. The mangaka is a woman |
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Kind of cheating since the whole seven deadly sins aspect is core to her design, but Lust from FMA comes to mind. I've always kind of deep down felt connected to her design and aesthetic and wish I could be her lol (the nails being retractable is also really cool and convenient if you're sapphic like me so you don't really have to worry about inconsistent nail length while keeping the aesthetic).
@LSSJ_Chloe Piggybacking off of using FMA... |
| Marin Kitagawa of My Dress Up Darling was designed by a female mangaka, and that's why she has a surprising amount of female fans for a fanservice anime. She's designed as the girl other girls look up to in a way most male mangaka wouldn't be able to capture. |
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Dorohedoro's Noi and Haru (and other Dai Dark's Death too) Also for sexy Dungeon Meshi women : Falin, Cythis, Milsiril, Kiki, Namari, Hien, Benichidori, Maizuru.  And Marcille mom too!  In general I find alsmost all Q Hayashida's and Ryouko Kui's women cool, cute, pretty or sexy and rarely only one of those. Madara Moyou no Yoi's Akeno too.  Also niche but a lot more random too is this extra in Monochrome Rumor, she's totally my type.  edit : idk the genre of the artist of the webcomic but since it's BL it's more likely to be a woman. Also a lot of Kaoru Mori's women characters ! And the list is never ending lol. |
piroriparopiriraOct 25, 9:38 PM
Recently, Reiko Kujirai from Kowloon Generic Romance, created by Jun Mayuzuki: |
Reply to MelodyOfMemory
Marin Kitagawa of My Dress Up Darling was designed by a female mangaka, and that's why she has a surprising amount of female fans for a fanservice anime. She's designed as the girl other girls look up to in a way most male mangaka wouldn't be able to capture.
MelodyOfMemory said: Marin Kitagawa of My Dress Up Darling was designed by a female mangaka Somehow didn't know that. It's simultaneously so obvious and also surprising... This character that consistently gets waifubait accusations is created by a woman... Can't really get my head around it. I guess it's nothing that unusual? |
perseii said: This character that consistently gets waifubait accusations is created by a woman... Can't really get my head around it. I guess it's nothing that unusual? I mean, she is waifubait, even if she's better written, more assertive, and more relatable than most. She's Gojo's manic pixie dream girl, and the whole idea that she's empowered by being so loose about showing off her body doesn't really hold water when that just so conveniently happens to be the kind of empowerment that caters to male fantasies. Still, it consistently surprises me that people are shocked that women like drawing sexy women. We dress up mostly for each other. Even women that dress in skimpy outfits are often seen as brave by other women because of our collective body image insecurities. Marin is polarizing because of all those contradictions. I would say she's similar to Bayonetta, but at least Bayonetta is an adult woman. |
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Riza Hawkeye from Fullmetal Alchemist. |
Reply to Rally-
Riza Hawkeye from Fullmetal Alchemist.
@Rally- I see your Riza Hawkeye and raise you a a Winry Rockbell. |
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| @tchitchouan I definitely agree on your choice as well! |
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@tchitchouan I definitely agree on your choice as well!
| @Rally- Thank you so much, dear friend. |
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MelodyOfMemory said:
Marin Kitagawa of My Dress Up Darling was designed by a female mangaka
Marin Kitagawa of My Dress Up Darling was designed by a female mangaka
Somehow didn't know that. It's simultaneously so obvious and also surprising...
This character that consistently gets waifubait accusations is created by a woman... Can't really get my head around it. I guess it's nothing that unusual?
| @perseii The waifubait title doesn't come from her design though, but rather her swooning over Gojo. |
CC said: Source: https://fullfrontal.moe/goro-taniguchi-interview/ *Insane interview, by the way, especially the part where Lelouch or Suzaku were meant to be sexually assaulted by their teacher (but not a female teacher, @Zarutaku, very sorry). Too bad, the lack of female molesters in disheartening =( |
Kinda obvious, but Demon Slayer with Mitsuri and Shinobu. |
 "Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki I rate by enjoyment |
| Maris (Maris the Chojo) A space cop with strength and sensuality. Lum (Urusei Yatsura) Alien bombshell with electric shocker. Lust, Olivier Mira Armstrong I don't know much about all the creators lol |
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perseii said:
This character that consistently gets waifubait accusations is created by a woman... Can't really get my head around it. I guess it's nothing that unusual?
This character that consistently gets waifubait accusations is created by a woman... Can't really get my head around it. I guess it's nothing that unusual?
I mean, she is waifubait, even if she's better written, more assertive, and more relatable than most. She's Gojo's manic pixie dream girl, and the whole idea that she's empowered by being so loose about showing off her body doesn't really hold water when that just so conveniently happens to be the kind of empowerment that caters to male fantasies.
Still, it consistently surprises me that people are shocked that women like drawing sexy women. We dress up mostly for each other. Even women that dress in skimpy outfits are often seen as brave by other women because of our collective body image insecurities. Marin is polarizing because of all those contradictions. I would say she's similar to Bayonetta, but at least Bayonetta is an adult woman.
MelodyOfMemory said: She's Gojo's manic pixie dream girl Not this shit again. The term was coined for female characters that offered everything to the male one and received little to nothing in return. The MPDG is the shining ray of light in his life that just gives and gives and asks for nothing in return. This obviously doesn't apply to Gojo and Marin, considering he does far more for her than she does for him throughout the series. The irony is that Marin is always called the waifubait character, and yet Gojo would be far more deserving of being called a husbandobait character lol. The term is stupid regardless. Her personality matches the criteria, but her dynamic with Gojo doesn't. |
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TheMechaManiac said:
@Zarutaku Incorrect: Takahiro Kimura designed all the Geass girls. CLAMP only did some minor preliminary work on the clothes designs.
I don't know how this disinformation about Geass persists.
@Zarutaku Incorrect: Takahiro Kimura designed all the Geass girls. CLAMP only did some minor preliminary work on the clothes designs.
I don't know how this disinformation about Geass persists.
But @Zarutaku is correct! I'm sorry to blogpost, but the misinformation is saying CLAMP only did minor preliminary work on the clothing design. They continue to work on Code Geass to this day. Kimura wouldn't have drawn them as noodle people if this weren't the case.
The official webpage for the series on Sunrise's website lists both:
キャラクターデザイン原案／CLAMP (Original Character Design: CLAMP)
キャラクターデザイン／木村貴宏 (Character Design: Kimura Takahiro)
Source: https://www.sunrise-world.net/titles/pickup_256.php 「スタッフ」 Section
They were also credit for Dakkan no Rozé.
https://x.com/CLAMP_news/status/1788011079463010676
Ookawa Nanase, CLAMP's team director, has talked about their design process for characters like Lelouch (eg. his hair was originally going to be white) in interviews alongside Taniguchi. CLAMP worked together with Sunrise staff to create the character drafts, including the design for Zero and his flower shaped mask, which I think is a very CLAMP-like touch.
This bit on the English Wikipedia for Code Geass is all sourced from the same 2007 Newtype magazine interview:
Clamp's finalized original character design art, illustrated by its lead artist Mokona, was subsequently converted into animation character designs for the series by Sunrise's character designer Kimura Takahiro, who had previously spent "every day" analyzing Clamp's art and style from their art books and manga series. In working on the animation character designs, he focused on designing them so as to enable the series' other animators to apply them without deviating from Clamp's original art style.
If you can read Japanese, you can see the interview here, it even includes some of the original concept art.
Source: Newtype Magazine May 2007 https://archive.org/details/nt-2007-01/2007-05/mode/2up
Other related trivia; Kawaguchi Yoshitaka specifically contacted CLAMP to design the characters. It was the first time CLAMP had ever been requested to design characters for an anime series (not based on their own work). They were there from the beginning of development and provided a lot of the initial basis for Geass both in setting and character writing.
In an interview with Taniguchi from 2023, when asked about the inclusion of so much nobility in Code Geass, he replied: "Regarding your question about nobility, I think that came from CLAMP."
He also mentions how early CLAMP was involved, and how they thought that would've gotten their concept sold sooner.
Lastly, Taniguchi talks about how Kimura was selected specifically because he thought that he would be able to adapt CLAMP's style most faithfully.
Going back to CLAMP, at a recent event dedicated to Takahiro Kimura, you said that you selected him because you thought his style fit CLAMP’s. Could you explain what you meant? Why did you think that way?
Gorō Taniguchi. The thing with CLAMP is how they draw proportions. You can’t draw such elongated bodies with an approach like Otomo’s. So you need someone with a different style – but also who doesn’t make the proportions so exaggerated it looks weird. (laughs) Characters have to look cool, and the overall thing stylish – but not something like Eiichirō Oda! His style doesn’t really fit Geass. And then, on top of that, you need to add some unique quirks, things like giving big breasts to this character, or think about what a character would look like from all sides… Basically make them such that collective work is possible. That’s very important, especially on TV series. Finally, something like Code Geass needs the contribution of many animators, so you need someone whom all these animators look up to. The person who met all of these criteria was Kimura.
Gorō Taniguchi. The thing with CLAMP is how they draw proportions. You can’t draw such elongated bodies with an approach like Otomo’s. So you need someone with a different style – but also who doesn’t make the proportions so exaggerated it looks weird. (laughs) Characters have to look cool, and the overall thing stylish – but not something like Eiichirō Oda! His style doesn’t really fit Geass. And then, on top of that, you need to add some unique quirks, things like giving big breasts to this character, or think about what a character would look like from all sides… Basically make them such that collective work is possible. That’s very important, especially on TV series. Finally, something like Code Geass needs the contribution of many animators, so you need someone whom all these animators look up to. The person who met all of these criteria was Kimura.
Source: https://fullfrontal.moe/goro-taniguchi-interview/
*Insane interview, by the way, especially the part where Lelouch or Suzaku were meant to be sexually assaulted by their teacher (but not a female teacher, @Zarutaku, very sorry).
tl;dr CLAMP were never just a "minor preliminary" factor, nor did they just work on clothing. Yes Kimura Takahiro brought them to life and enhanced their beautiful bouncy bodies, but the sexy women of Code Geass were a collaborative effort and CLAMP has never been afraid of designing sexy women. OP even includes one of theirs in the form of Ichihara Yuuko.
P.S. Love you Kimura Takahiro, you'll be missed forever.
Edit: Oops, a typo.
| @CC Either way, whatever the exact split was I feel it's kind of disingenuous that people don't know more about Kimura on Geass. Because it was that combo that made the goodness that the Geass girls are into what we know and dearly love today. And yeah, Kimura-san is sorely missed. One of the OGs. |
| Hot Blood saves lives. |
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CC said:
Source: https://fullfrontal.moe/goro-taniguchi-interview/
*Insane interview, by the way, especially the part where Lelouch or Suzaku were meant to be sexually assaulted by their teacher (but not a female teacher, @Zarutaku, very sorry).
Source: https://fullfrontal.moe/goro-taniguchi-interview/
*Insane interview, by the way, especially the part where Lelouch or Suzaku were meant to be sexually assaulted by their teacher (but not a female teacher, @Zarutaku, very sorry).
Too bad, the lack of female molesters in disheartening =(
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As a cunnysoir the Wataten girls  😭💢😭💢😭💢 So bratty and peak |
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Tropisch said: I wonder when people will realize that a lot of female artists also draw and like loli characters too. Almost nobody's bothered by female lolicons, only the male ones are called creeps. |
Bishamon from Noragami, which was written by two women. |
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It's already been mentioned but I feel the need to include this image of every (major) female Kodomo no Jikan character in here lol Feels like near every even half-decent lolicon mangaka is a woman |
eroguyOct 26, 6:27 PM
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MelodyOfMemory said:
She's Gojo's manic pixie dream girl
She's Gojo's manic pixie dream girl
Not this shit again. The term was coined for female characters that offered everything to the male one and received little to nothing in return. The MPDG is the shining ray of light in his life that just gives and gives and asks for nothing in return. This obviously doesn't apply to Gojo and Marin, considering he does far more for her than she does for him throughout the series.
The irony is that Marin is always called the waifubait character, and yet Gojo would be far more deserving of being called a husbandobait character lol. The term is stupid regardless.
Her personality matches the criteria, but her dynamic with Gojo doesn't.
| @MAlibabba Took the words right out of my mouth! Another anime girl often falsely called an MPDG would be Shouko Komi; if anything Hitohito Tadano is her Manic Pixie Dream Boy |
Some of you never watched Bakugan Battle Brawlers on TeleToon in 2008 and it shows. |
| Neither. Women don't design attractive women. That's why men refuse to read or watch Shoujo/Josei after all. 🙃 As for a serious answers? I'll cap it at 10:
Honorable mentions, since I haven't watched it yet, but Caldina, Tata, and Tatra from Magic Knight Rayearth are gorgeous. They made me want to watch the anime. |
| Most of them are made by women. Who else knows what men want more than women? certainly not people like Go Nagai and his garbage undead monsters with big boobs in the 1970 Cutie Honey animated horror. My last example would be Cure Idol in Kimi To Idol Precure, the designer of Cure Idol is a woman and Cure Idol alone (said with no offense for the other sexy ladies in the series like Cure Wink, Cure Zukyuun and Mereron/Puririn in Human form) together with her "dedicated" online fanart made the impossible possible, making me invested in a IP after three horrible failures, one worst than the other. If that is not a miracle, I don't know what it is. |
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@RainyEvenings Rumiko Takahashi created Lum. And tons of other characters over the decades, including Ranma's female form, etc..
| @Sheol01 I meant I know many such characters but I don't who made them, a lot mangaka use a pen-name or write different Manga under different name like shin kibayashi |
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