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So I desperately looked for other anime like that. A lot of them I quit very quickly, because even as a little kid I felt so uncomfortable with the under the skirt shots and the big bouncy boobs. Some others I tried, but I got so bored because indeed there was no women for me to see myself in, or they could have very easily been replaced with a cardboard when there was, because they were so inconsequential to the story. And it's easy to say "well can you see yourself represented in a man" but that's always told to women. Why don't men identify with Scarlett Witch, or Tsunade, or Kikyo, or Jean Graley, oh no, cause that would be girly, they'd rather be Wolverine, or Inuyasha, or Naruto. Well the same is true for girls.

Shaman King, Digimon, Jujutsu Kaisen, are a few example where women are a bit more fairly represented. They're not really even fundamental to the story and act mostly as support, but at least they're treated like humans.

The only other anime I can think of where women are as consequential to the story as men, that are Shounen, other than Inuyasha, is FMA:B and it has something in common with Inuyasha: their creators are women.

The only main male character is Stark who is this sweet and innocent boy that shares a lot of similarities with Al from Fullmetal

and we also have some recurring characters like Serie who is the most powerfully elf in the world and Frieren grand teacher who is constantly disappointed that Frieren is such a loser

We have several female mages like Ubel who is technically good but a bit of a sociopath and loved finding excuses to kill people

We have these teen lesbians called Lawine and Kanne who are constantly fighting with each other because they can’t admit how they feel

When my cousin was 13 she cut her hair short, dressed as a boy only, watcher a ton of anime, learned how to skate.

Then at 14 she denied she ever did that, dyed the underside of her hair red, started dressing hella punk, and began listening to Arctic Monkeys and Mother Mother.

Then at 15 she denied she ever did that, became extremely girly, wore only flowery clothing. Started listening to Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo. Started bullying a girl for watching anime (which I called her out on).

And I get it, I get she is discovering herself BUT.

When I was 10 I loved Sakura Card Captor, Power Rangers, and Rebelde all at the same time. I painted, I read, but I also trained volleyball every day. I would wear pink one day and black the other.

I was bullied from the ages 11-14 for liking anime and getting good grades, but I never stopped doing either. I still played volleyball. I still wore dresses some days and pants some others.

I was the exact same person at 15, I would design lego vending machines while listening to Little Mix and was invited to a lot of quinceañeras and spent most of the year watching Naruto for the first time.

So I desperately looked for other anime like that. A lot of them I quit very quickly, because even as a little kid I felt so uncomfortable with the under the skirt shots and the big bouncy boobs. Some others I tried, but I got so bored because indeed there was no women for me to see myself in, or they could have very easily been replaced with a cardboard when there was, because they were so inconsequential to the story. And it's easy to say "well can you see yourself represented in a man" but that's always told to women. Why don't men identify with Scarlett Witch, or Tsunade, or Kikyo, or Jean Graley, oh no, cause that would be girly, they'd rather be Wolverine, or Inuyasha, or Naruto. Well the same is true for girls.

Shaman King, Digimon, Jujutsu Kaisen, are a few example where women are a bit more fairly represented. They're not really even fundamental to the story and act mostly as support, but at least they're treated like humans.

The only other anime I can think of where women are as consequential to the story as men, that are Shounen, other than Inuyasha, is FMA:B and it has something in common with Inuyasha: their creators are women.

Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?

"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?

"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?

"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?

"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?

The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?

You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?