There are some exceptions, like Miyazaki, but even Studio Ghibli never gave us a female badass like Haku or Howl.
Men don't write female protagonists who are supernatural AND good, most of the time.
Even with like, Ponyo, she's a child.
Naruto sidelined the female characters sooo bad.
I guess I'm just bringing this up because I was looking up zodiac signs and beastars came up, so I decided to see if I agreed with what signs people were saying, and the female characters (other than maybe haru) are so dependent on male attention and infantalized.
Sorry for the double post, but I can't unsee anime misogyny.
Hinata or Sakura should have been hokage.
Miss Amane could have been the main character and lived and Death Note could have ended as a cliff hanger where she doesn't kill herself but has her death note.
Males are writing us badly, and when teen girls watch anime, this is what they think we ARE.
Side characters, or less cool protagonists at BEST, like Chihiro, with no magic.
It's just not good enough for me.
Even anime written by women (death note author is anonymous, demon slayer and full metal alchemist author is a woman) only have women as side characters. They're always written as emotional support for the MC or offering utilities. The amount of degeneracy and over sexualisation (or FaN SeRvIcE) seen in anime is likely because Japan has a deeply misogynistic culture. I also hate how common sexual assault is in anime !!
And even worse I watched a popular anime then stopped by ep3 because it was very obviously p!dophillic. Same with demon slayers nezuko, she ended up getting sexualised because they just can't resist.
Most anime is very degenerate. The only ok anime is Sailor Moon and Inushaya. I also did love FMA, it has strong female characters in it with different personalities. I enjoyed death note but Misas ending was awful. Princess mononoke has a badass female character though. I've never been able to find a good anime after watching these.