| I don't really mind either way so long as the story interests me. I've watched some shows with a female main character but more shows with main male character because thats just how it is. |
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| I don't have a problem with the main character gender, as long as he keep me interested in the show , I whatched many anime female leads and they were pretty fine |
| Female since the reason I watch anime is to look at cute anime girls |
| male leads of course !!, cause' i don't like female mc |
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| I way prefer male leads. Not too many good characters come from the female characters, they're all so generic. The male leads have some amazing characters though, as you can see by my favourite characters list. |
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Anime needs more good female leads in action/sci-fi. |
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| Male for a action/shounen anime Female for slice of life anime |
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| Anime with male leads, and anime with female leads, both are appealing in their own way. But I would say I prefer male leads since I'm a male myself, and naturally I would mostly relate more to a male lead than a female lead. |
| Their gender doesn't matter if they are well developed. I have both male and female characters in my favorites. But I still love male leads a little bit more. Usually they are more badass and more intelligent, plus they look really handsome. |
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Romaki26 said: I genuinely don't care, they just need to be well-written. If you understand a character's motivation then you can relate to them. I feel the same way. I relate to characters and not gender and so on. In Japan, target audiences are very gendered, so the protagonists of shounen and other certain genres are often male so the target audience can relate more, so it's not like it totally doesn't matter at all, but I often relate most to people who are not my gender and look completely different from myself. |
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| Some male leads are better than female leads. However, preferably I'd say I like female leads more. They're just more satisfying to watch. |
| i think its pretty obvious which one i prefer lol |
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| I prefer male leads, not because i'm gay or anything (I'm straight) but I just find anime with female leads to usually be very boring. |
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wape said: Female since there's barely any of them. Yeah, just seeing a female lead tends to make me happy, especially if it's not a shoujo series, because it's getting pretty difficult these days to find well-written female characters in male-targeted shows, much less protagonists. That said, it doesn't mean I automatically PREFER female leads. I like GOOD leads. I like the female characters who do exist being written like people instead of cardboard waifu bait. Give me those things and I'm happy. |
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| Honestly, it doesn't really make a big difference to me. If you look at my list you'll see I've watched a very large amount of anime with male leads and a very large amount with female leads. It just comes down to the series itself and the character I am following. If a character is good I am going to enjoy that series whether they are a guy or gal. Likewise, if a character sucks I'm probably going to dislike it whether it's a guy or gal. I guess since I watch a lot of shounen if I had to pick I prefer Male leads but honestly I'm just open to a female lead in those as well, I mean did you see Promised Neverland? Emma was a great lead. |
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| It depends, quite honestly, but leaning more towards females. Personally, I prefer for an idol Anime to be an all-female cast rather than male. For example, I loved 22/7 and the leads are females. Unintentionally that I noticed, most of the series that I've been following this year have been female with exceptionally of few. Winter season, I was following "Koisuru Asteroid", "22/7" and "Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!" which had little to no males in the series. Spring season, "Kami no Tou", "Nami yo Kiitekure", "Arte", "Gal to Kyouryuu" and "Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta..." which only one show has a male lead and it was an okay series. "My Next Life As a Villainess" was the clear winner of the past season on the ones that I watched because Catarina Claes is awesome. She's, so far, my personal favorite lead for this year. Also, my personal favorite Anime ever is "Cardcaptor Sakura" which is female lead. So there... |
simonitroJul 25, 2020 2:02 PM
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| Well I can appreciate any story with a fair amount of thought put into, but I do have a preference for femininity among the character traits that I enjoy more, which happens to be more of a quality of female characters. So I like male characters with traditionally feminine traits (Like Satล Mafuyu, Natsume Takashi, and to a lesser extent Rei Kiriyama) and female characters more than their masculine counterparts. I'm not talking about appearance. |
AuronJul 25, 2020 1:54 PM
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| I prefer both. Although this question don't even make sense. Because it's depend on the anime. From example most of the shounen anime have male main character and most of the moe or shoujo anime have female main character... So again it's depends on the genre.... |
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| female leads honestly. But that may be because I'm better at picking those that interest me for those so I usually don't get disappointed by books/anime/manga with female characters that I pick, dunno. |
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| That's a tough one. On one hand, I'd like to think I can relate to both equally, on the other, I just know it's way easier for me to relate to girls. I don't relate to most qualities you'd think of as traditionally male. I usually relate way more to girls' sensibilities and trains of thought, even though I'm very much a straight male. So the way that this translates to my favorite media is pretty interesting because most of it is unconscious and I don't even realize till later. Around half of my anime/manga favorites either feature female leads or are written by women, my favorite video game is NieR:Automata (2 out of 3 female leads), my favorite live-action movie is Bumblebee (female lead), my favorite anime movie is Kaguya-hime no Monogatari (female lead), I listen to a lot of artists and bands that feature girly sounds/vocals/lyrics (like Kero Kero Bonito and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu), etc. That's not to say I think of myself as girly or rarely relate to male characters or characteristics. Heck, I'd say it's a 70%-30% situation in media and an even smaller gap in real life. It's just that I gravitate quite a bit more towards female, as well as less masculine male characters (as evident from my favorites) and people in general. Oh and when it comes to little stories and characters I make in my head daily for my own amusement while daydreaming or listening to music, the number of male and female protagonists is usually equal, so that's an area where it doesn't reflect the same way. So if I was a creator, I'd probably have an equal amount of characters from both genders. |
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| I can enjoy anime either way. Male, female doesn't matter to me. |
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| Male or female, it's pretty much the same in the end. |
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hentaiFBI said: First why would that matter and secondly you're extremely wrong with your statement. I'm not entirely sure but the ratio shoule be closer to 1/3 female lead series, even this sasuge fest season has 5/26 female lead series from the debuting line up. Could you find a single season with 90% male leads? the more recent the better.Roevhaal said: saying you prefer female leads because generally male leads are worse characters is a very broad statement when 90% of series have a male leadI greatly prefeer female leads since male leads have a tendency to be absolutely awful characters and I also have an easier time to care for female characters. |
| Male leads, maybe because i haven't find impactful Female Leads yet but overall i don't care either male or female... as long as the story is interesting. |
| I prefer well-written leads. It's as simple as that. |
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| Doesn't matter as long as they are well written, but if I have to pick, then female probably because I can relate more with them. |
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| I find myself strongly leaning towards a preference for male leads despite being female myself. Part of it is that female leads tend to occupy genres I don't enjoy or have them attached to them even in genres I do like (like bringing romance into adventure and so on). I'm also kinda sensitive to high-pitched sounds and amongst Japanese voice actresses, that kind of sound is not exactly uncommon. Also, it's kinda hard to relate to many of the female characters because there's just no overlap; I can't relate to their worries or interests at all. They usually feel like "how a guy thinks girls probably act" and not like actual girls, so that's just uncomfortable and weird. And in the rare case that it's done well, I'm just kinda bored because...that's already my life, isn't fiction supposed to be an escape from that? Of course there are exceptions to that (like Psycho-Pass, Akatsuki no Yona, Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne, Nana, Tokyo Magnitude, InuYasha, etc.) where I actually did enjoy the female leads, but way more commonly I'm annoyed or weirded out by them. That said, it's not like I conciously avoid one or the other, if the story interests me I check it out, regardless of the gender of the protagonist :) |
| I prefer male leads very highly over female leads. |
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| Depends on the type of show, but any is fine, as long as the show made them remarkable and MC-like. |
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| Since a character is well written I don't care about gender. |
| It really depends. In Shonen, most series have male leads. The same goes for action or sci-fi. I still don't mind a female lead, as I still thought Emma in The Promised Neverland was good. I still haven't delved much into Shojo or Slice of Life so I can't say. |
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| I tend not to think about the gender of the lead too much when considering what I watch, in fact the only things I consider is how long the show is, if it's compete, and what genres it fits into. I would think that if anything the gender of the writer reveals far more than the gender of the main character. Female writers tend to give their female characters a bit more development and natural feeling dialogue, which is a big reason why I think I love so many of FMA:B's female characters so much. Not to say men don't of course but it would be far more likely that a man would write less natural dialogue for a woman than another woman would. |
| I don't really mind either way, as long as I enjoy the anime that I'm watching. |
| both can equally be annoying and bad so it doesnt matter |
| I don't mind either, but I guess it really depends what type of genre the anime is. If it's a Moe anime genre then obviously female, but if it's something like an action pack series, then male. |
| I prefer male leads than female leads. I dont feel comfortable with female leads I dunno why. |
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