Immortal Rain
Sarashi Asobi
Seiyuu Ka!
Shiawase Kissa Sanchoume
Matsuri Special
Akuma to Love Song

All of these have lovely strong female leads. 🙂

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When I said 'death' before 'dishonor', I meant alphabetically.

Imagine what would happen if there were no more hypothetical situations.

Started this one juuuust last night; I attend a women's college so something about this felt particularly resonant...!

The manga Real Clothes - it seems as though it'd be consumeristic and shallow, but I think the way she makes herself over and adapts to a new lifestyle lifestyle shows off her tenacity, skill, and dedication. Not to mention the fact that she should be allowed to feel pretty in whatever way she wants, and the world of fashion seems to open her eyes in that respect. She learns and moves up and constantly tries to self-improve. The males need to respect the women and their careers in this series. Otherwise, it's over!

Most of the one's I wanted to list are already taken and some of the one's I could list aren't translated in english as well. Anyway I didn't see anyone list Bamboo Blade or Taisho baseball girls. Baseball girls manga isn't fully translated but I find the anime to be better anyway. This was written by a feminist and its set during a time in japan when feminism new and females were expected to do certain gender roles. Bamboo Blade is about females on a kendo team and they are all taken seriously as opponents, I don't remember seeing any ecchi either. Its also fully translated and it has an anime as well.

It also may have been better to just list the topic as strong female leads because feminist has more to do with equality for all than just females alone. Being in a relationship with a guy or relying on one doesn't mean you can't be a feminist. In life we all need to rely on someone at one point or another and humans are social people. What you want are mangas were the females are seen as people and not just sex objects and ecchi only doesn't take away from that.

As long as the females are written as real people before sex objects the ecchi does not matter. That would be like saying that man can't find females sexy or that females don't look better in certain clothing than males. Also you don't want things to be too realistic because females are by nature/scientifically weaker than males physically and our brain patterns are different. I'm guessing this topic was made because feminism is the thing right now 😀 .

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It also may have been better to just list the topic as strong female leads because feminist has more to do with equality for all than just females alone.

It's because sexist themes are so prevalent and a manga that features gender equality is so rare that we can't help but sit up and take notice when that happens. Also in the real world there's still discrimination against women so a feminist manga necessarily has to deal with that if it is to be honest.

Being in a relationship with a guy or relying on one doesn't mean you can't be a feminist. In life we all need to rely on someone at one point or another and humans are social people. What you want are mangas were the females are seen as people and not just sex objects and ecchi only doesn't take away from that.

The problem is when a strong female character has to depend on a guy to validate her self worth, or when she can typically take care of herself, but plays the part of the damsel in distress when it counts. A strong female character is also vulnerable, but when the person who saves the day is always a guy it can take something away from that.

There are more damaging representations of female characters than the ecchi/sex object thing. That men objectify women and that women objectify men are a given. Real problematic ecchi manga are ones that portray girls as being a prize for the boy and having no other purpose in the story than to be with the boy. Which is what the original post said, albeit about shoujo.

I'm guessing this topic was made because feminism is the thing right now 😀 .

Right, feminism is a passing fad, yes. It's not because for some reason people are sick of sexism in manga at all.

To stay on topic: Shin Angyo Onshi kind of reverses the female prophet/harem of bodyguards trope. It has one guy as the anti-hero protagonist who almost never engages in a physical fight and reserves the best sword fights for the female characters. I love the one quote from an early chapter: "I hate women. Why do they have to be so strong?"

Also, seconding the people who said Teppu, Oresama Teacher and Claymore.

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