Like title suggests, a mature female MC...
Shounen or shoujo... doesn't matter, as long as she does not turn all weak later in the series.
Thanks!

Shingeki no Kyojin was the first thing that came to mind

Sounds interesting, thank you! Anymore?

[m]kono s O mi yo[/m] maybe
bonnouji
EDIT:
say i love you

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Mmm.. The request is a bit vague since the boundaries are set very wide. Can't also see a reading list so it is impossible to tell if you've already read what is being suggested. Just looking at my physical manga collection we get the following three:

Claire from Claymore. Yukino from Kare Kano is usually quite beyond her years and only gets more so as the story progresses. Then we have Mina Tepes from Dance in the vampire bund.

3 female MCs, all strong and mature, each in their own way, and they never stop being so.

Edit: Ah, then we have one of manga's great Yamato Nadeshiko archetypes who is also nothing of the sort... Belldandy from Ah! My Goddess.

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Battle Angel Alita
Cross Game or pretty much anything by ADACHI Mitsuru
FLCL
Hyper Police
Kekkaishi

got some seinen stuff too. Don't know if you are interested.

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Sorry about that, I've been too lazy to add a reading list.
I already read Claymore, and it was amazing
I tried Ah! My Goddess but I couldn't stand the art... maybe I'll go back to it.
Kare Kano? If I remember correctly... I thought she was only pretending to be perfect...
Dance in the vampire bund sounds interesting
Thank you so much!
Oh, and as for a clarification: I meant personality wise, I guess... not easily flustered, stays calm during situations, even calculative, like that I supposed. I guess I'm just too tired of boring girls who have no use in manga and are a waste of space. In shounen, it's better but... honestly... shoujo becomes unbearable.

Thank you, some of them sound quite interesting!

It makes me sad when people dismiss a series because they don't like the art. Especially a series like ah my goddess. over 25 years the art shift is very dramatic.
Also, one more for you.
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind

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Thanks, I'll look into it!
It's not all art that I do not like... for example the art for Angel Densetsu wasn't exactly beautiful but I read through that and the art was not a problem. It's more like... something about the proportion of the faces and body in the first few chapters... but later on, the art style changed so much, so I ended up jumping into the series in the middle after reading a couple of summaries from the beginning...

If you're going to jump into it in the middle may I suggest you start at around the teens. I think that's where it's art and story were the best.

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Well, I see Silent killer mentioned this already, but just.... power through the early installments of AMG (or like you said, skip up to later parts). I actually re-read it once again recently and yes, I'll admit the art and whatnot is very weird in the beginning. The both the art and the setting as a whole evolve quite a bit over time.

And yes, Yukino from Kare Kano pretends to be perfect in the beginning. It is actually the character development afterwards that makes me say she is mature. She doesn't meet the "requirements" straight away, but I'm confident in saying that she is definitely not a "boring girl who has no use in manga and is a waste of space." She is actually quite awesome, most of the time.

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I'm a big fan of Bonnouji that was mentioned before, and while the MC is older than is typical (late 20s) I'm not sure if I'd call anyone involved in that series "mature." That being said you should absolutely read it since the series is fantastic.

Maybe 3-gatsu no Lion, the main female character is very mature although she doesn't get as much facetime as you would get in most Mangas.

You could consider Hori in [m]Horimiya mature[/m] depending on your definition of mature, but it's still a school life series.

The female MC in Natsu no Zenjitsu is mature and older than the male MC.

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Saver is definately what your after, don't think she breaks down even once....and if she does it was in a mature way XD
Shut hell about as calm and calculative as you get XD only really shows rage and mild curiosity....
Majo there are lots of different female protagonists in this and I'd say most of them are pretty mature.
Kaguya hime the main girl is quite a tomboy and doesn't make a big deal out of things....but there is one girl thats annoying and makes a big deal out of everything -__- your choice XD
Double arts mature about the situation in the manga, romance was slightly blushy but nowhere near as bad as some get...
Shuna no tabi I know nausicaa has already been mentioned but this has a similar female lead in it.
Hatenkou Yuugi mc is mature, especially in the ways you mentioned...she has a 'take it in stride' sort of attitude and is very calculating.
Chihayafuru? I'd say she's pretty strong....again didn't read it all.
Kemono no souja in the beginning she's not at all mature (cos it starts when she's a kid) but we kind of watch her mature which is quite cool.

Plus some others that fit well but didn't have much to say about them, some are sienen's that are relevent so I mentioned them:
Love (lee so young), Nanase, Shirahime-syo, The scarlet chair, Amakusa 1637, Sprite, Japan tengu party illustrated, Golondrina

Koi dano Ai dano
I don't know if you would be interested in Josei but the lead in Kimi wa pet is pretty calm and collected most of the time.