...Ironically, I was just going to do a post about how all the female characters in Kingdom Hearts revolve entirely around the men in their lives and have no personalities of their own. <.< >.>
You pinpoint exactly the reason I couldn't get into Tsubasa: I adore Sakura--and Shaoran, for that matter--and I couldn't stand the idea of seeing them reduced to crappy stereotypes. And these aren't even crappy stereotypes I like.
>>Should I expect any better from a shounen manga, though? Actually, yes, I should - the idea that boy manga readers only care about boy heroes, or don't want to see girl characters being active and heroic, has been disproven again and again and again (most recently, see: Soul Eater).<<
YES TO THIS. (Also, info on Soul Eater, plskthx.)
I really don't get CLAMP these days. And I'm getting more and more irritated by the apparent inability of 90% of the writers/artists out there to write decent, non-passive/stereotypical female characters in manga and comics. I mean, geez, is it really that hard?
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You pinpoint exactly the reason I couldn't get into Tsubasa: I adore Sakura--and Shaoran, for that matter--and I couldn't stand the idea of seeing them reduced to crappy stereotypes. And these aren't even crappy stereotypes I like.
>>Should I expect any better from a shounen manga, though? Actually, yes, I should - the idea that boy manga readers only care about boy heroes, or don't want to see girl characters being active and heroic, has been disproven again and again and again (most recently, see: Soul Eater).<<
YES TO THIS. (Also, info on Soul Eater, plskthx.)
I really don't get CLAMP these days. And I'm getting more and more irritated by the apparent inability of 90% of the writers/artists out there to write decent, non-passive/stereotypical female characters in manga and comics. I mean, geez, is it really that hard?