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Jan 31, 2021 4:10 PM

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Cuz Japanese society is sexist
Just kidding. Most of the people who watch anime are teenagers/young men, so the animes are made for them to identify with the character
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Jan 31, 2021 4:22 PM
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WTF is even everyone talking about here ?
Jan 31, 2021 5:44 PM

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>watch shounen and anime that are mostly male-led cast
>Why Male Characters are more interesting in personality compared to female characters

There are just as much good and well written female characters as male ones, just because you can't relate to them doesn't mean they don't have interesting personalities, even characters from a trash anime like Domestic na Kanojo have distinct unique personalities, but you obviously can't relate to them unless you're a female. It's not that hard of a concept to understand.
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This is a joke right? I don't have a single male (humanoid) character on my favorites list.
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Jan 31, 2021 7:44 PM
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A quick look at the top 20 or so anime on my list, suggests that, here at least, the most interesting characters are split fairly evenly by gender. [I would argue that here gender is a better word choice than sex]. I have not done a thorough analysis on the full list, but I do no have an impression that in general we have interesting male characters and flat female characters.

My explanation is that my list (drawn heavily from top X lists) consists mainly of reasonably well written stuff, and well written characters tend to be interesting.
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UberBat said:
I have an almost entirely male list of favourite characters and those that would have made it had I more space would be 90% male as well.

For me it's not necessarily that I like male characters better but more because I find less to like about female characters in anime.


Hmm or maybe I just relate to the male characters more? I'm female but my interests are not really considered common for my gender. I'm a gamer I watch some sports, I don't own a single dress or skirt, I'm not interested in romance and would rather spend an day/evening going to the cinema or an amusement park then clubbing or gossip sleep over.
(See I don't really know what women/girls really get up to as it's just not me)

I can't relate to soft, happy girl females who predominate anime or female characters who have romantic interests in a male one. And I don't want to relate to tsundere, girls who punch guys for no reason or who get overly emotional.

Edit: There is also usually not much choice between flat chested and big bazoonga girls in anime. Two extreme of moe or ridiculous.


Your avatar picture is asiripa, asiripa is well writen,
Full metal alchemist females are well written
Many other animes also have interesting characters were their personality isnt around men, the issue here is that 90% or more anime is catter to men, so lf course those animes will have waifu, isntead of FEMALE ChARACTERS, they are just written to be the male love interest , thats it

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