Do you guys have any suggestion of an good cartoon series or anime series where the main protagonists are female?
The only one that I found and liked was mlp fim. That show has most female main characters and showed me that a show of only female character can be entertaining. Not that have anything against female character, but I haven't find any more good shows that have only female main characters. I tried to watch some precure anime, but the character are very shallow and are not very intersting enough for me to enjoy.
Big female-led anime series when I was growing up were like Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura. I'm not sure about cartoons.
Brayden Rodriguez
Is a female lead/cast your only criteria?
The big issue with that is until a few years ago, producers felt that shows without predominately male casts wouldn't appeal to boys and thus wouldn't move action figures and merchandise. Legend of Korra was the first real step away from that.
William Cook
Bwahahaha! Powerpuff Girls man. The original of course.
There's My Life As A Teenage Robot, Oban Star Racers, Ruby Gloom for that comfy and probably a lot more I can't recall at the moment. OP needs to be far more specific in terms of genre.
As for anime there's an insane amount of stuff, so again, what genres do you like?
Jordan Bennett
Let me hook you up with the real good shit.
Christian Richardson
Pepper Ann
Ryan Long
eliza thornberry ginger
Justin Torres
There's Kim Possible. I wasn't much of a fan but you might be.
Eli Allen
Mighty B! was pretty good imo + original PPG
Jayden Gray
For anime, there are several, but the best one that comes to mind where the whole main cast is female, is Magical Girl (or Mahou Shoujo) Madoka Magica. It subverts the genre and gets very dark and tense, even though it looks sickeningly cute on a first glance.
Brayden Collins
Totally Spies
Cooper Gray
I could think of Kim Possible and Winx right now. Pretty eh when you just ask for that but not for the kind of shows that you like (e.g. genres, tones, plots, etcetera)
Ethan Davis
Well, there's Oban, Kim Possible, Ergo Proxy, Ghost in the Shell, Claymore.
Connor Smith
Cheap knockoff of Evangelion.
Great anime with female protagonists, sans pure moe:
Serial Experiments Lain Kino's Journey Cardcaptor Sakura Joshiraku Kite
Those come to mind first, with a caveat that Joshiraku is not for newcomers to anime. Kite is violent and depressing, but a wonderful neo noir story and I feel very underrated.
Ryder Anderson
>this shit is considered ""great"" by anime standards Good to know the medium is shite.
James Ortiz
>Do you guys have any suggestion of an good cartoon series or anime series where the main protagonists are female?
At the risk of getting to Sup Forums in here:
Ghost in The Shell: SAC, seasons 1 and 2 Guardian of The Spirit (Seirei no Moribito) (pic related) Birdy The Mighty: Decode, seasons 1 and 2
I don't really know of any western cartoons that are good with female leads. I'd say Legend of Korra, but a lot of people really hate it.
Adrian Brooks
>Lain >Kino >Sakura >shit
Jason Adams
Yes, they are. >pretentious trash with the most boring, personality-less characters imaginable >shitty mahou shoujo (and all mahou shoujo is shit, it's capeshit of Japan)
Nolan Smith
There is no need to engage a consumer of Hollywood propaganda.
Carter Bell
>not liking sakura kinomoto
Jaxson Martin
>Cheap knockoff of Evangelion
It's dark like Evangelion. That's basically it. But everything "Urobutcher" writes is dark.
Jackson Harris
How do I write good female characters?
Angel Howard
just because they aren't jumping up and down doesn't mean a character doesn't have a personality.
>pretentious >capeshit oh never mind, you're retarded.
Jackson Butler
You shouldn't. You should just write good characters.
Alexander Wilson
With flaws, not obliviously making her manly just to compare her with the other male characters, also something that makes her interesting like a backstory.
Basically, whatever the setting, make it as you would make any other protagonist, but not as boring as say a harem/VN main character.
Caleb Anderson
Seconding
Eli Morris
>consumes awful trash that may as well be hollywood trash >accuses others of being hollywood trash consumers I'm sure you believe Kino is actually deep and anything but babby's first and cringeworthy attempt at including phulosophy in the work, you idiot.
>he disagrees with me and I don't like his wording, he must be retarded You're retarded enough to think the characters of those shitty series have personalities, now that is definition of a complete moron.
>just because they aren't jumping up and down doesn't mean a character doesn't have a personality. Thanks for putting words in my mouth, moron. Guess what, Ichise from Texhnolyze is not "jumping up and down" either and yet manages to have an actual personality unlike those hollow excuses to move the plot forward.
Isaac James
You write good male characters and add an "s" to the beginning.
Chase Miller
This blog has a pretty handy ten-point criteria, and several posts about how female characters from various movies and TV shows measure up to it.
>le rooster meme Oh, I forgot you're a slavshit. How's it being a non-white subhuman, barely above 'groids?
Christopher Baker
There's just a certain element to add or subtract when writing specifically feminine characters too. Mostly the only difference if you're writing females is just hobbies and love interest, but with really feminine ones, it's another type of character personality.
Brandon Powell
>Freak's Sqeele
>I Kill Giants
>Sky Doll
>Girl Genius (if you can get past Folios art)
Kevin Walker
It fascinates me how people find the drive to write novels like this. The other user would probably forget it faster than you typed it.
Caleb Brooks
It fascinates me that someone is actually attention-whoring on an ANONYMOUS board.
Brody Jackson
I suggest Kill la Kill
Blake Carter
Like you write any other character: give them a strength, a weakness, and a quirk. For example: a genius with shit social skills who stutters or a good athlete who has a bad temper and has a thing for fine wines.
Adam Lewis
write them as people with their own aspirations, plans, agency, flaws, preferences and hobbies, rather than writing them as objects you'd want to fuck. Give them traits and opinions you don't personally agree with or have interest in but still show these traits to be positive. That really goes for any character, but most shit female characters are those that exist because the writer wants to fap to them and all their traits and personality are centered on being the perfect girl for the creator.
Julian Lewis
>tfw I did that and ended up with something that can be barely considered a female, let alone a human being So my advice, take the poster's above me advice but be careful.
Kayden Green
Gaze upon our glory little man.
Jaxson Torres
>SEL >shite
I don't know if you legitimately have shit taste, or trying to pass off having superior taste but hating actual good shows.
either way kill yourself.
Chase Campbell
His anus is aching for some reason so he's venting his frustration. Also Watamote was enjoyable in that strange kind of self-depreciating way.
This was absurd but really fun to watch.
Isaiah Clark
>actual good shows Low standards of a weeb. I bet you think Nolan is a genius too.
Jordan White
I suggest Little Witch Academia to you
Liam Walker
The only butthurt here comes from you weebs, pretending your medium is anything but utter dogshit.
Mason Ramirez
>female characters >entertaining No.
Landon Thompson
>medium
That'd be animation. You literally judge whether a piece of art is good or not based upon the nationality of the creator.
Ayden Baker
We're throwing around Sup Forums stuff too? Good, then let me introduce you to God.
Jack Baker
Nothing wrong with that. There's a reason nothing good ever came from non-white countries.
Carter Russell
Seconding the first part of this but I think it's important to be able to empathize with all of the characters you make (male/female, hero/villain, etc.) on some level otherwise you really run the risk of making a strawman. If you can relate to your female character then you've made a good female character. Basically the problem most guys have is that they view their female characters from the outside instead of trying to see things from their point of view and ask themselves "How would they feel in this situation?"
Jaxson Gutierrez
I agree. I must aspire to your apex of kino. How is The Big Bang theory this season?
Joshua Richardson
Well, what would you say is good?
Kevin Mitchell
>Cheap knockoff of Evangelion It's awkward hearing anyone call something else a knockoff of an anime created by complete tools.
Colton Martinez
>If you can relate to your female character then you've made a good female character What if I'm making them as inhuman and unrelatable as possible? Have them operate on their own logic and morality rather than those of what any reasonable human being would have?
Angel Lopez
I really liked Lain but you have to admit it gets pretty pretentious.
Jace Rivera
>not being able to reason case by case Look, as long as you don't make them Barbies, you should be good.
Cooper White
You activated my trap card. Mitsudomoe.
Godtier animation in that.
Benjamin Allen
Best female characters come from Studio Ghibli, Higurashi, and Umineko.
Lucas Kelly
>Cheap knockoff of Evangelion.
This is bait. No one is actually that dumb.
Adam Garcia
>Anno >a tool
Jaxon Gonzalez
I can do that, at least.
Also >all that talk about anime >no mention of the best anime female character Shame on all of you. >inb4 "female"
Joseph Cox
>Studio Ghibli
Sadly the stories are usually shit. The one about the planes was good though, but unrelated to OP's question.
Adam Barnes
>Studio Ghibli God no, they're all boring as hell.
Joshua Wright
Then focus on making them interesting. We can still like interesting characters that we can't relate to. But they have to offer a point of view and operate on internal logic that's alien to us but can still be explained. Are they a villain? Are they a hero that doesn't relate to the other heroes? Both of those can be interesting if you're interested in exploring how the character sees the world.
Brody Adams
First movie she barely even behaves human and the whole plot is her mixing with puppet master to become something else.
Granted she's far less autistic in the second gig tv show
do you have a tripcode or something so I can filter you?
Luke Powell
Cyber Six
Samuel Rodriguez
I'm writing a story with a male and a female lead and basically writing the same character arc for both with some differences for each.
Both were exiled because of a mistake they made, the male was too impulsive and greedy and the female was too cowardly, it cost them dearly and now they'll go through a journey that'll challenge their flaws.
Gender is really secondary to all that, it surely influences their personalities but it's not all they are, and I think that's a good way of writing character of either gender depending on the kind of story you're working on.
Jayden Baker
Korra
Samuel Kelly
Kaziklu clearly is that retarded.
Colton Cox
>producers felt that shows without predominately male casts wouldn't appeal to boys and thus wouldn't move action figures and merchandise. Legend of Korra was the first real step away from that.
Did Korra move merchandise though? The comic is coming out like 2 years after the show was over, were there any toys?
Luke Smith
Steven universe. The gems are sympathetic but also deeply flawed, and none of them fall into "the chick" stereotype.
As for writing women, write them the same way you'd write a man or non binary character. The audience may perceive what a character does differently because of their gender, that shouldn't stop you from writing what you want.
Gabriel Parker
It literally doesn't, because that would imply that it pretends to have more depth than it actually does. Its problem is that it literally goes too deep into things almost nobody knows shit about. It's like if your show randomly got into the nitty gritty of the history of cults in scientific communities.
Ryder Roberts
>Cartoon or anime Uh. Huh.
Cyber Six and Calamity Jane come to mind.
For comics: Ms. Marvel is [not shit], American Vampire is very good, Gotham Academy is great, and the current Jem and the Holograms comic is also really, really good.
Dominic Jackson
Before you get shat on by the SJW witch hunters, I don't really think SU counts. While the CGs are main characters, the story is still told from Steven's perspective. This thread is about how female characters who carry the show by themselves like Star Butterfly.
William Turner
>It's like if your show randomly got into the nitty gritty of the history of cults in scientific communities. d-do you know of such a show? asking for a friend.
Nathan Hughes
I really wish she appeared in flashbacks more. I find her much more interesting than the MC
Henry Perry
Its weird how little kid cartoons have good writing nowadays. They just can't show that much violence or have a real bad guy.
Hunter Gray
And also Trigger the anime
Thomas Reyes
>real bad guy Neither can adult shows, apparently. All I'm seeing these days are boring cartoonish villains that's hard to take seriously.
Parker Rodriguez
...
Ian Jenkins
Oban, Totally Spies, W.I.T.C.H.
Oliver Turner
>Sup Forums hates Miyazaki now I knew this board had shit taste desu
Thomas Mitchell
Well there are crime dramas
Logan Morgan
Isn't he Japans John K? I mean he has good animation, but its not that fucking good
Jonathan Sanders
>crime dramas You're only proving my point. Even The Wire had a caricature character in the face of Marlo Stanfield, what can I say about much worse written shows?
James Taylor
All I said was that I find his female characters to be extremely boring but he's supposedly a feminist, so that's expected.
Bentley James
>female protag thread >Ctrl+F >no Life and times of Juniper Lee you guys need get it together
Andrew Collins
how the hell is he japan's john k if he's actually directed good stuff
Nicholas Jackson
Not every person in the real world has something to make them sympathetic. Some people are just sociopaths or were born with something wrong in their head. Many of those people, who don't become serial killers, happen to end up involved in organized crime.
Noah Howard
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Dominic Gutierrez
they hate Alan Moore and john K too. turns out someone hating the current state of an industry is a valid reason to hate them.
Juan Murphy
My problem is not that villains in crime shows are sociopaths, the problem is that they're usually boring sociopaths and frankly just because something exists in reality doesn't mean it works in fiction too. Personally, I feel that someone like teenagers who kill people and animals for fun (who by the way exist in reality, look up 3 guys 1 hammer for instance) don't make for compelling villains in fiction.
Hannibal may not have been a great show (even if it had potential) and too had a caricature villain like Mason Verger, but the way Hannibal himself was presented was actually pretty interesting.
Zachary Young
Because not everything he makes is good and I might be remembering this wrong, but his ego is so far up his ass he thinks that only his way of anime is the right way.
Dominic Rodriguez
>don't make for compelling villains in fiction
Why not? The concept is pretty frightening, particular the idea that there are people capable of faking traits such as empathy but who are really hollow on the inside.
>Police also came across a hand-drawn "treasure map" that led them to two buried five-gallon buckets.One contained envelopes with names and victim IDs, suggesting that the full body count might be as high as 25. In the other bucket, police found Lake's handwritten journals for the years 1983 and 1984, and two videotapes that showed the torture of two of their victims. These demonstrated that Ng was intimately involved in these crimes. In one of the tapes, Ng tells victim Brenda O'Connor: "you can cry and stuff, like the rest of them, but it won't do any good. We are pretty – ha, ha – cold-hearted, so to speak".
Charles Ng would make a terrifying villain.
David Jenkins
Because it's usually not done very well and feels more like a one-dimensional caricature. Besides what you posted sounds scary in reality, but would sound like a saturday morning cartoon villain gloating. Again, it can be done well but just usually isn't. I don't know, maybe we need new talented writers.
