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{{quote|'''Yukinari:''' Man, and I thought there were too many girls here ''before...''|[[Girls Bravo]]}}
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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?]]"
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** ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|ViVid]]'' takes this a step further, with every major character introduced being a girl. So far, Erio and Zafira (in a brief cameo) are the only named male characters to have made an appearance in the entire manga. At least Zafira get's to show up in his human form.
** ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force|Force]]'' began to turn the amount of improbability back a bit by giving us a male protagonist in Touma and an antagonistic family with a male-female ratio of 3 to 4.
* ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' isn't a bishoujo series, but [[The Chosen One|Earth's chosen]] [[Magical Girl
* 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]].
* ''[[Lucky Star]]'' has a grand total of ''three'' recurring male roles (five, if you count Anizawa and his assistant.) The girls eventually [[Lampshade Hanging]] this by commenting on the lack of romance in their lives.
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* 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.
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* The only male cast members in the [[Buddy Cop Show|buddy cop]] anime [[You're Under Arrest]] are Nakajima and Tokairin. Even then the latter is more of a guest member than anything. There technically is one more male member however he is referred to as female due to [[Wholesome Crossdresser|working as a woman]] and seems more like a [[Transsexualism]] than a crossdresser.
* 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-chan in Wonderland]]'' Not a male character in sight! (Kinda makes sense, though, as it's a lesbian parody of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''
* ''[[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, ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' has only three NAMED male characters - the title character's dad and little brother (who are practically nonexistent after the first episode), and another main character's love interest. Since it's a [[Magical Girl]] show, the five primary characters are all female; the aforementioned magical pet is technically male, but [[Cross-Dressing Voices|has a female voice actor]] and is closer to [[Ambiguous Gender]] than anything else.
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* ''[[Arcana Heart]]'' is an all-girl [[Fighting Game]].
* Similarly, ''[[Variable Geo]]''.
* ''[[Skullgirls]]'' starts out as an
* ''[[Touhou]]'' contains about [[Loads and Loads of Characters|130 characters]], yet a mere ''three'' known males have ''ever'' appeared in any of the games or [[All There in the Manual|supplementary material]], only ''one'' of which is even humanoid. [[Word of God|Statements from ZUN]] however imply that this is less of a personal decision and more implicitly enforced, as ''Touhou'' has become so strongly linked with "[[Cute Monster Girl|cute girls]] [[Little Miss Badass|beating the snot out of each other]]" that adding any males would wreak that dynamic. For example he mentioned that the [[Final Boss]] of ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' was originally going to be Byakuren's brother Myouren, but then decided the [[Final Boss]] of a ''Touhou'' game being an old man would be weird, and the [[Final Boss]] of ''Ten Desires'' is a [[Gender Flip
* ''[[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-Based Strategy]] game ''[http://www.kongregate.com/zening Zening]'' will most of the time have more women than men. At one point, a player will have six women and [[The One Guy|one man]] in the party. There are also times where the party is composed entirely of women.
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== Western Animation ==
* Out of over 60 recurring characters on ''[[My Little Pony]]'', only ''three'' are male. And except for Spike, all of them were invented solely for the TV series; talk about girl toys. There ''are'' male ponies, but they only show up in one story; they've been on "a race around the world" the entire rest of the
** In the G4 incarnation, ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Friendship Is Magic]]'', not only are nearly all characters female (the only recurring males are [[Adorably Precocious Child|Spike]] and [[The Quiet One|Big Macintosh]]), but background shots of Ponyville usually consist of no stallions whatsoever. Season 2 mostly addressed the background pony issue and added numerous male characters, including a major antagonist, but recurring males still peaks at two (Big Mac at least got [[Ascended Extra|more lines]] and a [[Lower Deck Episode]], along with a "blind bag" toy).
** 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"). ''[[My Little Pony Tales]]'' and the later G2 line had male ponies as much as female ponies but by G3 stallions were nonexistent.
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