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How all-female casts are pratically UBIQUITIOUS in anime/manga/japanese video games

ChagenChagen
edited 2011-10-24 16:53:06 in Media
[tɕagɛn]

This is really starting to tire me.

Any time I see a game/manga/anime/whatever the fuck that has an all-female cast, then my interest in it drops sharply. I can get interested enough in it to get it, but it will take some serious work. Can we please just stop making all this Otaku shit? Whatever happened to making things with both genders (and actually having interesting characters, but that's a whole 'nother show) and simply making good stuff?!

I also hate how it is nothing but a blatant marketing tactic--almost any all-female work, I can guarantee, has no other redeeming features and relies solely on the dicks of the male userbase to keep selling.

God dammit. I thought people bought things with their heads, not their dicks.

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Comments

  • AHRAHR
    Could you possibly given an example, Chagen?

    Would Sailor Moon be the type of thing you're thinking of? 
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    pratically UBIQUITIOUS
    Ubiquitous is far too mild a word to be paired with "practically."

    Okay, nitpick mode over, there are lots of all-female works that are marketed to girls, because apparently, the creators don't think girls can empathize with males. Not that that's any better.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "
    Would Sailor Moon be the type of thing you're thinking of? "

     

    No. There are actually interesting characters in that.

    I'm talking about the recent influx of shows/manga that have basically only female characters--Such as K-On!, Gunslinger Girls, Sora no Woto, Strike Witches, Lucky Star (Though I actually like those last).

     

    They either are slice-of-life shows where these girls, who, despite being rather attractive and nice, know no boys, do nothing together besides being vaugely lesbian or shows that are some other genre but have nothing but female main characters for absolutely no reason/some bullshit reason.
  • AHRAHR
    Oh I see.

    Female characters pandering to a male base, basically?
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    edited 2011-10-24 17:05:32
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    I think it's kinda different in the case of all-female casts marketed towards men. I can't help but think there's an element of objectification in there.

    ^ Ninja'd.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]

    The fact that these all show up so much is the exact reason why I make sure ALL of my works that I would like to see animated have nearly even gender ratios.


    Even the story that takes places at a boy-only school has an even gender ratio! Come on how hard is this shit

  • AHRAHR
    If it helps at all Chagen, I am sure there are all-male-casts that are insultingly there for the girls.

    ...somewhere.
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!
    Hetalia. I know there are girls,but still
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    If it helps at all Chagen, I am sure there are all-male-casts that are insultingly there for the girls.

    Watchmen, if you believe the shippers.
  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-10-24 17:11:05
    ^^...eh. Hetalia is not an example.

    For one thing, the yaoi fangirls do not make up the entire fanbase, it's more of a vocal minority.

    And for another, a lot of the jokes are in fact historical, and have nothing to do with "look, hot man!"

    ^...
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!
    I know, I was talking about it having a nearly all male cast
  • IaculusIaculus
    If it helps at all Chagen, I am sure there are all-male-casts that are insultingly there for the girls.

    ...somewhere.

    Shoujo provides with aplomb - it was famously spoofed by Ouran High School Host Club.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-10-24 17:13:29
    You can change. You can.
    ^^^ You're supposed to laugh, not to take me seriously, missy.
  • AHRAHR
    JC: But it makes me too sad D:
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I have a hard time reconciling this post with your recent topic about wanting to buy terrible anime just because it was filled with scantily clad anime girls and T&A.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]

    Actually, I wasn't really that interested in buying Maburaho. And I was bored as shit and wanted to watch it with my friend so we could Real-Time MST it.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-10-24 17:35:24
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    As a point of irony, I noticed that in Sky Girls, despite the premise that 90% of the world's young men died in a huge war not long before the story, the cast actually comes out to be about half male.

    Not that that's a good thing.  It kinda goes to show that when casting characters they didn't seem to think much about the fact that they sorta contradicted their own premise by including several male characters who are of the approximate age of the female leads, but who are not involved in military service.

    ^ That sounds like an awesome reason to buy something, actually.  However, I may be thinking with my lulz.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Eh, I've found the problems with the pandering all-female cast to be different than the fact they're all girls.

    Also, nit-pick time, Sora No Woto has a bunch of guys in it. One of them is even a grizzled vet one of the main cast has a crush on.
  • TachikazeTachikaze
    Erm...are we thinking about the same Gunslinger Girl? The one where half the cast is grown men?
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I'm pretty sure Lucky Star has at least one dude too.

    So we're left with K-On!.
  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-10-24 17:48:09
    ...Lucky Star had a DUDE?

    ...what did his EYES look like?
  • TachikazeTachikaze
    edited 2011-10-24 17:49:22
    Minoru Shiraishi was in every episode. Then there's Konata's dad. Both fairly minor characters though.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Lucky Star has a dude, but they're supporting roles at best.
  • AHRAHR
    To be honest, I don't think this is necessarily about a 100% absence of males.

    It's about a predominantly female cast, in order to fill in as many harem archetypes as possible.
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-10-24 17:50:17
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    ^^^ Also that one creepy dude that wanted Kagami's doll in that one episode.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    To be honest, I don't think this is necessarily about a 100% absence of males.

    Yeah, this.
  • TachikazeTachikaze
    Okay, so it's not about what the OP says it's about. Gotcha.

    I'd still disagree that it's about filling harem archetypes, I'd say they're more going for character types that have been proven to interact in amusing ways.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Besides, it's not like casts that aren't all female don't make characters for people to find attractive.


  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2011-10-24 18:02:42

    I also hate how it is nothing but a blatant marketing tactic--almost any all-female work, I can guarantee, has no other redeeming features and relies solely on the dicks of the male userbase to keep selling.

    No.  You are very wrong.  The fact that you say this suggests that you have a very limited exposure to media that isn't shitty harem anime.

    I know you later said that that's not really what you meant, but it should be noted that the distinction you made is kind of bullshit (essentially, you're saying that female casts are bad when they aren't done well, which, you know, is a tautology), so your argument still sucks.

  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-10-24 18:02:36
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    ^^ stay away from my waifu
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