Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,603
edits
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (Fixed image/caption markup, quote markup) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) m (grammar) |
||
(18 intermediate revisions by 7 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:NanohaStrikersCast.jpg|link=Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|frame|Is every adult male in Mid-Childa a [[Draft Dodging|draft dodger]]?]]
{{quote|
|[[Girls Bravo]]}}
There are two main reasons for a work choosing to have an Improbably Female Cast: they target a male demographic and the many women provide [[Fan Service]] and [[Ho Yay|Les Yay]], or they target a younger female demographic and are simply going with characters the intended audience will most likely empathize with. Confusion between these two motivations can easily result in a [[Periphery Demographic]] for both that can leave you asking "[[What Do You Mean It's Not for Little Girls?]]"
Line 11 ⟶ 12:
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* Aside from the cute boy Twin Stars and a middle-aged commander, ''[[Galaxy Angel (
▲* Aside from the cute boy Twin Stars and a middle-aged commander, ''[[Galaxy Angel (Anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' is noticeably devoid of men. This role is usually performed by Forte whenever a gag requires a "male" equivalent, something she eventually starts complaining about.
** Broccoli (the production company) sometimes lampshades this in gags, notably the prince who kidnaps Milfeulle and a flashback to [[Di Gi Charat|Usada]]'s father, who are obviously women in really transparent disguises.
** And the serious [[Dating Sim]] [[Galaxy Angel (
* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' ''did'' have male pilots, didn't they? There was Colin and Cedi, who were [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|dead in the first episode.]] Carris? {{spoiler|Dead.}} Dickon? {{spoiler|Incapacitated for the [[Grand Finale]], with very little of a role otherwise.}} Ralph? [[Big Bad]], [[Ax Crazy]]. Meanwhile the girls, {{spoiler|other than Mary and [[Alpha Bitch|Isabella]]}}, did mostly fine. All due an inversion of [[Women in Refrigerators]]. Well except for Ralph.
* The male population of ''[[
** Even the villains follow this trope. The [[Mad Scientist]] Scaglietti is male, but for some reason, except for Zest, all of his combat cyborgs and artificial mages are females. He ''does'' give a reason, albeit one with disturbing implications: {{spoiler|he's impregnated all of them with clones of himself}}.
** ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force
* ''[[
* While ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' isn't a bishoujo series, its creator is fond of the genre. To get around this, nearly all the male characters are funny aliens, while female characters are often [[Cute Monster Girl|prominently humanoid]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Simoun]]''. Another [[Justified Trope]], due to the world they inhabit.
* ''[[The Idolmaster Xenoglossia|The iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia]]''. Somewhat justified. The reason they use innocent girls as pilots is to avoid the appearance of the robots being weapons, since they're only used for asteroid defence.
* ''[[Vandread]]'', [[Justified Trope|justified]]. The bulk of the cast are [[Space Pirates]] from an [[Lady Land|all-female]] planet. The few males are refugees/prisoners from the all-male planet. And the planets they visit are more normally gender-balanced.
* In ''[[Yami to Boushi
* For some reason there are absolutely no male gondoliers in ''[[
* ''[[
* For some reason all the mecha pilots in ''[[Sky Girls]]'' are cute young girls. There's a reason males of the right age aren't around, but you'd think they'd be able to find people out of their teens.
* ''[[Battle Athletes|Battle Athletes Daiundokai]]'' is focused on a prestigious, interplanetary sport event which is for girls only. Male characters are rare, mostly passive and usually much older.
* In ''[[Silent Möbius]]'', the special agents battling the monsters/demons from another dimension are all women. At one point, their leader offers some sort of philosophical justification about women being able to bear children and thus being the key to the future. It doesn't really hold water, especially since one of the agent is a cyborg and most certainly unable to become pregnant.
* ''[[Strawberry Panic
* The eponymous warriors from ''[[Claymore]]'' are all female. There's a plot reason why, and it ain't pretty ([[Take Our Word for It|trust us]]).
* In ''[[Strike Witches]]'', which very much follows the mold of ''[[Sky Girls]]'', only young, female mages can pilot the units that enable them to fly.
* ''[[Koihime Musou]]'' uses [[Gender Flip
* ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]''.
* In ''[[Shikabane Hime]]'', only girls of a certain age who die in specific circumstances can become Shikabane Hime. It is later [[Justified Trope|justified]], when it turns out the ritual to create them was originally developed by the founder of the Kougon Sect to resurrect his dead daughter.
* ''[[Kurogane Pukapuka Tai]]'' manages to have only one recurring male character, the old, Zen Master-like Captain of the ''Unebi'', who is monk-like in his asceticism and thus off limits for any erotic speculation. No explanation has been given except that the cruiser's intended crew were all taken ill with typhoid and a substitute crew had to be found; why these would be all women has not even had a [[Hand Wave|Hand Waving]] justification, although a shortage of military-age men in 1943 might be one that comes up.
* The only boys, aside from the adults which [[Adults Are Useless|rarely appear]], in the ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* [[Hayate
* Yamabuki High School in ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' is supposed to be coeducational, but males happened to only occupy a third of the student body. The only recurring male characters in the series is just the principal and an art teacher.
* ''[[Miyuki
* ''[[K-On!]]'' has exactly one eligible bachelor: Ritsu's little brother. Even when the band goes to a live show, most of the other bands are also all female.
* Other than a magical pet, ''[[
* Every major character in ''[[Infinite Stratos]]'' is female... well, except [[Token Guy|Ichika]] and his friend, who rarely appears. The school has no male staff, no prominent males appear to exist in the town the school is set in, and none of the girls appear to even understand what a 'male' is the way they fawn over Ichika.
* ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'''s only important male character is [[Deadpan Snarker|Vice]] [[Only Sane Man|Presdient]] [[Celibate Hero|Tsuda]].
* Parodied in the ''[[Excel Saga (
* ''[[
* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' has a male protagonist, two very minor recurring male characters, and a helluva lot of girls. This makes sense, considering [[Dating Sim|the show's premise]].
* ''[[
** Mato lampshades it in episode 4 of the OVA, noting that her [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone]] dreams of the Otherworld tend to be full of a lot of girls.
* The 1121st Platoon in ''[[So Ra No
** Not only that; the 1121st Platoon is traditionally always composed of five females, as a callback to the mythical Flame Maidens who protected the city from a demon.
* In any Media Factory light novel, [[Kämpfer
* ''[[
* ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Small Favors]]'' only shows young attractive females even during the crowd scenes of a supposedly normal city. No males are even ''mentioned'' in these comics.
* "La Bionda"/"The Blonde" has an occasional male, and in one story a boy general (overshot with the youth serum)but is overwhelmingly populated by women. Not all of the normal proportions neither as Franco Saudelli likes BBW as well as the more standard superheroine proportions.
== Films ==
* Women make up an overwhelming number of the major characters in the Spanish film ''All About My Mother,'' although most of them are older than usual for the trope ([[
▲* Women make up an overwhelming number of the major characters in the Spanish film ''All About My Mother,'' although most of them are older than usual for the trope ([[Transsexual|and not all of them were born female.]]) {{spoiler|Even the protagonist's son's biological father turns out to be a [[Cross Dresser]] named Lola.}}
* ''[[Volver]]'' doesn't take it as far as the above film, but it does have a large female majority in the cast.
== Literature ==
* In the ''[[
== Toys and Collectibles ==
* The various Pinky:st figurines. Every last released figure has been female (with the exceptions being [[Air Gear
▲* The various Pinky:st figurines. Every last released figure has been female (with the exceptions being [[Air Gear (Manga)|Akito/Agito Wanijima]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sky_Crawlers_(film) Yuuichi Kannami]).
* ''[[Monster High]]'' consists mostly of the daughters of Universal Monsters, with four male characters (three if you count Jackson Jekyll and Holt Hyde as the same person) against eight females. The disparity comes in when you count how many times the female characters pop up in different lines compared to the males - Deuce is the only male so far (August '11) who has appeared in a second line after his introduction.
* In Takara's CYGirls, only the two cyborgs were male.
== Video Games ==
▲* ''[[Arcana Heart (Video Game)|Arcana Heart]]'' is an all-girl [[Fighting Game]].
* Similarly, ''[[Variable Geo]]''.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Rumble Roses]]''. It's the only wrestling game that has an actual mudwrestling fight. Advertised right on the box, no less.
* Your party in the story mode of the flash [[Turn
* The online game Blade Mistress is an aptly named version of this trope. Apparently it was done as a [[There Are No Girls
* Seifuku Densetsu Pretty Fighter on the [[SNES]]
* [[Eternal Fighter Zero]] is another all-girl doujin fighting game.
* ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]'' and it's sequel is an all-girl [[Eastern RPG]] game where [[Console Wars]] is literally the premise of the game. The sequel gave us [[Ax Crazy|three]] [[Noble Demon|male]] [[Dirty Old Man|characters]] [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|who aren't even human]].
* [[Rosenkreuzstilette]]. A [[Mega Man (
== Web Comics ==
* In the first chapter of ''Alpha Shade'', set in a war, nearly all the important soldiers on ''both'' sides were attractive women, although crowd photos appeared to be mostly male.
* ''[[Earthsong]]'' has 8 of the 9 protagonists as being female.
Line 107 ⟶ 97:
* [[Collar 6]] - To date there hasn't been a single named male character. A handful of male background characters have appeared, but so far only one of them has had any dialogue whatsoever.
* ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'' - Justified. The first case the Doctors solve in the series is a cursed valley with a statue in the center that caused all visitors and inhabitants to become permanently female. The doctors themselves were hit by this curse before they managed to destroy the statue, so most of them are stuck as women. Most of the comic takes place in Tinto, the town next-door to the valley, but it also has a large female population as a sociological side-effect of the curse; rescue workers, police officers, delivery workers and anyone else with a high-mobility job is female in case they need to pass through or near to the valley.
* ''[[
* [[
== Western Animation ==
* Out of over 60 recurring characters on ''[[
** In the G4 incarnation, ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** The toy line has always been better with gender then the cartoon adaptations. Back in G1 there were some 20 or so male ponies, stallions and colts, and it was made explicit that ponies can breed normally (as seen by the "families"). ''[[
{{reflist}}
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Gender and Sexuality Tropes]]
|