/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8908898
>POV change
it actually started in university, I met a very good professor that gave very informative speeches about the entertainment industry
>I'm in a comics degree, so we learn about everything from US marvel/dc comics, franco-belgian stuff to manga, even webcomics and smaller industries in southeast asia.
>I started out as a massive fujoshit weeb btw

anyway so we went on to study manga history, and in the 80~90's it was the girl power! phase of shoujo manga and you had awesome series like sailor moon (first female sentai team), magical knight rayearth, utena, jem and the holograms(?) etc.

so girls back then had lots of role models in terms of comics to look up to; but then fast forwards to the 2000's you start to have series like hana yori dango that lets their female protagonist get run over by cars, abused etc. to then get saved by the boys kind of thing
>fast forward to now and you get diabolik wifebeaters aka japanese twilight you get what I mean right? with the abuse and stuff

so basically as the years went on, female characters/representation was getting more and more dummed down (in general, I'm not saying every single piece of entertainment is like this)
and the more dummed down they looked, the more feminine they were drawn

I think that kind of reflected badly not just in shoujo but yeah, because I simply couldn't identify with those types of characters when I was growing up in the 2000s, and read a lot of shounen instead.

but shounen's target audiences are little boys, and are mostly shows like naruto, one piece etc. of boys going on adventures etc. and though they do have girl charas they often don't do as much as the main protagonists which are male

usually the girls just 'get in the way' of the male characters, and then they need to be saved at the end of the day. this was also the point where I started using the internet, and I remember sakura got lots of hate cuz she got between sasgay and naruto etc.