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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' is almost the poster for this trope. While Mr. Chang and Dutch certainly are no slouches, compared to Revy, Balalaika, Roberta, Eda, Fabiola, Sawyer, Shenhua, and others, they might as well just toss their guns up and kick back.
* Roughly every [[Magical Girl]] show, for obvious reasons. A lot of times, it's not just the main cast members; the monsters of the week are often all-female as well (as is often the case in ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' or ''[[Sailor Moon]]'').
** Especially in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. [[Enigmatic Empowering Entity|Kyubey]] has only ever contracted teenage girls to hunt [[Eldritch Abomination|Witches]], going as far back as {{spoiler|Cleopatra and Joan of Arc.}}
* ''[[Claymore]]'' actually tries to justify this trope. Women inherently make better Claymores than men, because men are more likely to become Awakened Beings.
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* ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World]]'' features a cast of magically empowered females, with Fujisawa as its only noteworthy male since Makoto and Jinnai are a pair of [[Ordinary High School Student|high school students]] with no combat ability whatsoever. There's the three priestesses for starters: [[Playing with Fire|Shayla]] [[Dark-Skinned Redhead|Shayla]], [[Blow You Away|Afura]] [[Brainy Brunette|Mann]], and [[Making a Splash|Miz]] [[Christmas Cake|Mishtal.]] Along with the demon god [[Person of Mass Destruction|Ifurita]], who's a biological super weapon. And finally, there's [[Apocalypse Maiden|Kalia]], easily the most powerful being in all El-Hazard.
** In addition, both of the key positions of power are held by women: with [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Rune Venus]] as Roshtaria's benevolent ruler, and [[Evil Is Sexy|Diva]] as the enigmatic queen of the Buggrom Empire. Even the Eye of God, which floats above El-Hazard, can only be activated by the two princesses of the royal house of Roshtaria.
* In ''[[Freezing]]'', the only combatants are females. Though most are really [[Faux Action Girl]]s
* The [[One-Gender Race|Solonoids]] from ''[[Gall Force]]''. In this case, it's an [[Enforced Trope]] - they're a [[One-Gender Race]].
* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' is like this. Not only are all the characters young girls, but all of them have been trained to [[More Deadly Than the Male|take advantage of how they're young girls.]]
* ''[[Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls]]'' every fighter are females.
* The primary fighters in ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'' are female.
* Considering it's a mass [[Gender Flip]] of ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'', ''[[Koihime Musou]]'' definitely fits this trope.
* In ''[[Infinite Stratos]]'', Same thing except for the [[The One Guy|main character]].
* ''[[Noir]]'', not is only almost every member of the cast some kind of [[Badass]] assassin, but most of the cast is also women.
* Mid-Childa from the ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' series
* ''[[Queen's Blade]]'' is a series narrating how a bunch of hot women fight each other in order to become ruler of the kingdom. There are some males, but they are, at most, secondary characters and not geared towards kicking ass like the females.
* ''[[Sengoku Otome]]'' is [[Koihime Musou]] [[Recycled in Space|IN SENGOKU-ERA JAPAN]], so it qualifies.
* ''[[Strike Witches]]'' is essentially about teenage action girls with magical power who tends to use guns as big as themselves to fight invading aliens.
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'', with a full cast of super powered heroines... and only two males, Tenchi and his grandfather {{spoiler|the legendary Jurian prince, Yosho}}, worth mentioning. He and the others often have to rely on [[Mad Scientist|Washuu's]] reality warping scientific genius, [[Space Pirate|Ryoko's]] raw power and tenacity, and [[The Ojou|Ayeka's]] Jurian powers to save them. Then there's the spiritual embodiment of Jurai's greatest battleship [[Lady of War|Tsunami]], queen of the universe (by proxy of Jurai) [[Hot Mom|Funaho]], and captain of the royal guard [[Cloudcuckoolander|Misaki]]. With women like these running the show, [[Stealth Pun|who needs Tenchi, indeed.]]
** An odd example, since Tenchi is the main character and eventually becomes the most powerful of them all, but aside from him, his Grandfather, and a handful of villains, everyone with power lacks a Y chromosome.
* ''[[To Aru Kagaku no Railgun]]'' only focuses on the females of the universe.
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