[SPLIT LIP]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Even Rinko, a female detective (which is not something easy to achieve in such a male dominated career), is portrayed as a ditzy damsel in distress and it really, really pisses me off. I find her characterisation quite insulting.

It just reminds me how, honestly, kind of fucking awesome Akiko was.

Yeah she had her damsel moments, yeah she was bouncy and squeaky and shit, but she actually racked up a lot of victories, and she was the boss. She gave Shotaro shit all the time for, like, being in debt and shit. If anything her cutesy bouncy routine was a front for her "I'll kick your ass"-ivity. She's the only token female hanger-on in every series I've seen who's first instinct when seeing a monster is to give it shit for being an asshole and smacking it on the head. It also helps that she didn't become Shotaro's love-interest, which I seriously expected. Yeah she fell in love with Ryu, but she earned her stripes in my eyes well before that. Besides, everyone deserves to find someone and be happy. It wasn't the defining aspect of her character.

I think only Hana is, obviously, more badass... until she became a child. She kicked ass. But most other series I've watched don't fare as well, like Hina perma-puppydog-eyes the hug machine from OOO being a total load on the plot, or Mana from Agito. "Soocheekuh". Yeah, that's about all there is to her. Also the weirdly distant and annoying lump of human being taht was... the girl from Kabuto. Never got her name, doubt it would've been important.

Black weirdly has no female lead. Yeah, there's female characters, but no constant supporting... anyone. Except BattleHopper. Is BattleHopper a girl?

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Sorry, I phrased that poorly, real heroes aren't useless and flawed but the way media writes 'real' heroes is by giving them flaws and having them regularly fail. It apparently makes them more human or some shit, for me it just makes them uninteresting to watch. I don't want my superheroes to have marriage problems or drug addictions, I come to these genres for escapism.

This I get.