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Jul 13, 2023 6:28 PM
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I have a job to deliver today, so I spent the last half hour opening the profiles of 50 people who participate in this AD forum, selected at random, and found:

19 with all female favorites
15 with 8-9 female
9 with 6-7 female
5 with 2-5 female
2 with 0 female

And so I said to myself: Nande?



(If you're one of the exceptions: this thread may not be for you. It's not compulsory to vote on every single poll you know.)

Process: I opened threads by most recent, and then opened the profile of everyone who commented until I reached 50. When people had 20 favorites I divided by two. There were two people with incomplete lists which I ignored because that requires advanced maths and that's above my paygrade.
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Jul 13, 2023 6:38 PM
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na vdd a minoria dos meus personagens favoritos são mulhres  , mas todas elas mostram o meu tipo  
minha personagens favoritas são 

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Jul 13, 2023 6:38 PM
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Call me gay or something but I just prefer women
Jul 13, 2023 6:52 PM
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Frebby said:
I think a lot of the male characters end up being too shallow or just a self-insert. Not that all of them are like that, but let's be real. The anime community has a major focus on the girl characters, while there is little to no love for the guys. RI.P to my homies out there.

Pretty much this. I do have some favorite male characters though, like Okabe and most of the male characters from the Major series.

Jul 13, 2023 6:52 PM
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One of the major reasons anime became popular in the first place is because of cute anime girls.....it's only natural.
Also because number of men who watch anime is larger to women, most of them being horny teenagers
Jul 13, 2023 6:54 PM
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Idk if call most bc there are 5 out of 10 female characters in my list but anyway, most of them have good character development or are interesting characters.

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Jul 13, 2023 6:57 PM
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The funny thing is that the top 50 favorites are overwhelmingly dominated by male characters:

https://myanimelist.net/character.php

So you would expect the distribution to be more balanced, but no.

Does this forum in particular attract the more waifu-oriented kind of fan?

Jul 13, 2023 6:57 PM
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I tend to favour a certain type of male character (badass one man army-type guy with no super powers or other enhancements), and there's not many of those.
Those that are left usually are pretty boring harem protagonists.

The girls I choose to fave usually have personalities I like rather than just plain looks.
Jul 13, 2023 7:01 PM
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I'm gonna be honest, I just like anime women. Haha.



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Jul 13, 2023 7:06 PM

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The list should be expanded. I mean, if I were to choose between female or male characters, I would prioritize the former. But I'm not against adding male characters to the list as long as there is space xD. 
Jul 13, 2023 7:09 PM

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I noticed this about me the other day (not in my top 10, I should add the full list someday), but I can't tell you the reason why. I voted for coincidence.
Jul 13, 2023 7:11 PM
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I just think those characters are more memorable. So I just went coincidence. The others are too strong for the value I see t he characters as. Just interesting characters I enjoyed the appearance/presence/impact on the series.

Whether their moments in the series, their personality, just easily memorable for some reason. I don't have all listed I forget some in series I liked and would have to look through them again to add them (probably characters that aren't that great but I don't know what people's favs are from the series I haven't listed, nor do I care either), maybe changed my mind on them later depends.

Many great male characters I just don't find them as memorable. Some are, many aren't (even outside of self insert series).
Jul 13, 2023 7:17 PM

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Not me. 6 are male and 4 female. 
And because of a couple anime I recently finished I might be throwing two more of the chicks out for dudes...
BUT I totally get why females dominate, they basically dominate anime itself. Another interesting study would be to count up total named characters of the anime from this season, and just how many of them are male and how many are female. I would wager the majority be females. I mean just with Masamune, Liar Liar and Rent-aGirlfriend that's probably 20 female characters right there, with like 2 males? 
So with mostly women to choose from- and few of them remotely ugly- easy to see why fans mostly end up with females as faves. 
Jul 13, 2023 7:23 PM
BIKINI⚔️ARMOR

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Because they all wear beautiful bikini armors and i really love sexy warrior women.

Jul 13, 2023 7:52 PM

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Many of them misunderstood or seems to believe that "my favorite characters" is the same with "my dream waifus".

I disagree with some replies above that saying male characters are generally more shallow than female characters. It's the opposite, anime still lack on female characters with strong personalities. Most of the most favorites female characters are just waifu baits.
(It's similar with most favorite male characters though, most of them are far from the best written characters. Most are just generic MCs of popular anime).

CGDCT is my favorite genre, but I rarely find the best written characters are from that genre.
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Jul 13, 2023 8:04 PM

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i guess i just don't want a sausage fest in there but i do like a good amount of male characters as well, but then again, my female characters are just slightly better.
Jul 13, 2023 8:28 PM

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I'm the first kind, all my favorites are female, simply because I find them extremely likeable, interesting, or cute, also really great picture.
Jul 13, 2023 9:19 PM
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Because they are so cute and I love their personalities.
Jul 13, 2023 9:40 PM

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I just like cute girls, what can I say.

I do still enjoy male characters, but unless it's a battle shounen or a comedy/slice of life without romance, very rarely will I watch something where most of the important characters are male.

Out of my 6 favorites, only 1 is male, and that's only because I really like how Nasa is both the shy MC that everyone hates, as well as the type of MC to really get after what he wants. I have had other male characters in there before (Rock from Black Lagoon, the robot from Suisei no Gargantia, etc), but it's always been dominated by female characters.

Cute girls rule the world btw.





Jul 13, 2023 9:52 PM

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I like anime girls and find them attractive, especially if they're already interesting and likeable characters.


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Jul 13, 2023 9:55 PM

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For now, I'm trying to balance it out with 5 characters from both genders. I was considering giving all 10 slots to male characters while I have 10 female characters in the bio. 

I can see why people here prefer attractive/cute anime women much over cool or well written male characters. They're the main appeal for entire genres of anime after all.
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Various different reasons. Some of them because I think they're funny, some relatable, some attractive, some really cute. I tried to balance it at one point but for whatever reason I just switched to mostly the female characters.

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Jul 13, 2023 9:59 PM

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50-50 for me, but for most people it is their waifus.
Jul 13, 2023 10:09 PM

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Waifu culture.
Standards of appleal for a female characters are vastly lower than for male ones. All it takes is nice visual appearance to make weebs go rabid.
On the other hand, a male character needs more depth and be well written.
Jul 13, 2023 10:12 PM

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I have Balsa in my favourites and she's only there so that I wanted at least one female character listed. Otherwise it would be ALL males. 
Jul 13, 2023 10:22 PM

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You know, I know it, everybody knows it.
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Jul 13, 2023 10:39 PM

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The REAL question here is: why are you assuming all or most of my favorite characters are females?
Jul 13, 2023 11:11 PM

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Jul 13, 2023 11:30 PM

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Thank you guys for your replies. Although I notice that quite a few people, rather than simply giving the reason for their own personal choice (which was all that was being asked), feel called upon to explain other people's choices.

takamono said:
also really great picture.

Thanks but I don't claim any credit for it, I just googled "pic with a lot of anime girls together" or something.

TheBerserker said:
The REAL question here is: why are you assuming all or most of my favorite characters are females?

Why are you assuming that I'm assuming that most of your favorite characters are female? I did a survey and showed the results, which seemed to indicate that this true of most people; the poll was clearly aimed at them. You are apparently one of the exceptions, which I covered with a note: "If you're one of the exceptions: this thread may not be for you." I will assume that you assumed that I was assuming that all or most of your favorites were females because you missed that.

Jul 14, 2023 12:02 AM

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Most of my faves are male. 3/10 are female at the moment in my top 10 list. I'm a girl myself, so I don't know if that plays a part. If I had a top 50 or something I think it'd be pretty balanced gender-wise. 
Jul 14, 2023 12:07 AM

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50% female favorites here, even though it's not literally my top 10 because I wanted to include only characters from anime and manga not already in my favorites (in order to display even more series I like).

Related to this matter, I can say that most of my favorite anime are female-led or have a mostly female cast because that's where the industry puts the best production value, if you're not a battle shounen; as a matter of fact, my fav manga are more male-oriented instead. And anime girls are cute, not gonna lie.
Jul 14, 2023 12:08 AM

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same reason why most girls will have more anime boys in favorites
Jul 14, 2023 12:13 AM

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Well, most of my favorite characters happen to be male. And there are a few characters, like Yujiro, Gojo, and Joseph, who are very close to becoming my favorites, and they're all male.

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Jul 14, 2023 12:17 AM

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i'm a male who likes female. i think that reason is enough.

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Jul 14, 2023 12:31 AM
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Because i'm male and attracted to females.
Jul 14, 2023 12:38 AM

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Tirinchas said:


Does this forum in particular attract the more waifu-oriented kind of fan?


Maybe small sample, but probably

Lost chance to see if it's the case with favourite people

Jul 14, 2023 12:46 AM
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There are nine favorite characters, but only three of the nine are female characters, so the number of female characters is the opposite.

Jul 14, 2023 12:51 AM

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The funny thing is that the top 50 favorites are overwhelmingly dominated by male characters:

I feel like the most of the 'most favorited' male characters on MAL are main characters from some action shounens, while this forum rather doesn't bring action shounen fans but rather ppl who are longer into anime and start appreciating characters from more genres than the most mainstream ones, so genres that aren't dominated by male characters in the cast
Jul 14, 2023 12:51 AM

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I honestly just tend to find that female characters have more engaging personalities. They tend to be more fun to watch on screen then their male counterparts. I find it's much harder to distinguish a large cast of male characters apart from each other for example, then a large cast of female characters.
Jul 14, 2023 12:54 AM
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I have 6 males and 4 females, mostly because I place my waifus in their special place. The only exception is Nico Yazawa, she's so waifu that she also gets a spot within my favorites.
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Jul 14, 2023 12:58 AM

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Because IMO there is nothing more annoying then anime males 

They are often loud abusive overly aggressive. Screaming and harassing the cute girls and pissing me off! 

I have enough of them to last me ten lifetimes. They can't be in my anime anymore =P I forbid it!! 

I like Yuri Idols CGDCT. I want my cute little angels and all of them shall be lesbians 

So ofc this reflects on my favorites and there are only females there 

I only accept my lesbian waifus,,,YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES




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They aren't, all of my favourite's are male
Jul 14, 2023 1:23 AM

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too cute to not put them in my favorites i guess
Jul 14, 2023 1:28 AM

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Maybe if they make more cute male characters. Also I really like long hair and most male characters have short hair. Of course there is more to a character than just appearance, but I prefer cute characters.

Most of my favorite characters are my favorites, because they feel relatable to me, sometimes in a extremely specific way.
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Female characters are the most important and attractive part of anime...
They are the selling point of anime since majority of anime watchers are males..

Also most male characters in anime are kind of boring clones of each other,unless you are talking about the likes of ranpo, gintoki etc.. They are not unique

Also I love dominant women who put the male characters in their place..
 

Jul 14, 2023 1:39 AM
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Tirinchas said:
The funny thing is that the top 50 favorites are overwhelmingly dominated by male characters:

https://myanimelist.net/character.php

So you would expect the distribution to be more balanced, but no.

Does this forum in particular attract the more waifu-oriented kind of fan?


It's not that.. Favorites and ratings on mals are often misleading..
I always found it hard to believe the male characters here have more favorites by users but when I visit the profiles of random users, I find more female characters..

So obviously such numbers you see in top 50 list of popular characters have been made up by using numbers configuration codes by mods and bots..
 

Jul 14, 2023 2:04 AM

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For me, it matches a tendency to watch quite a few things with mostly female casts, frequently female protagonists. Which is probably because masculinity is everywhere in culture generally and I don't like it very much, female-heavy shows just tend to appeal to me more. If you think of younger-aimed stuff in particular, saving the day with love makes a far better story for me than saving the day with strength. I guess it doesn't hurt that they're nice to look at too.
Jul 14, 2023 2:14 AM

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I've only got one girl in my favourites, I use it not to rank or collect attractive characters but characters I like from series I've watched.

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Jul 14, 2023 12:19 PM

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I got 50:50. Half is my actual favorite characters (all male) and the other half is what experts would refer to as "waifus" (all female).
Jul 14, 2023 1:15 PM

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The REAL question then is why are you assuming this:
Tirinchas said:
Why are you assuming that I'm assuming that most of your favorite characters are female? I did a survey and showed the results, which seemed to indicate that this true of most people; the poll was clearly aimed at them. You are apparently one of the exceptions, which I covered with a note: "If you're one of the exceptions: this thread may not be for you." I will assume that you assumed that I was assuming that all or most of your favorites were females because you missed that.
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