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Which of the Big Three/Forbidden Four Animes (AKA the ones huge in 00s) Had The Best Female Characters?
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Never watched any of them others, but I really liked Android 18 growing up. Her arc was great and yah boy Krillin ended up with her in the end.
One Piece probably has the most objectified designs, but it ironically has the best written characters. Nico Olvia is a top tier badass.
None of them have great representations of women, but Naruto is probably the worst out of those.
I also agree with this. Sadly, the women are often either lusted after by Sanji or someone for their good looks, or they're made super ugly as a joke.
(Never heard of this "Forbidden Four" concept? What's "forbidden" about it?)
One Piece, putting aside the designs, has my favorite female characters among these series and by quite a fair margin. Nami and Robin are both very cool and have some of the most interesting stories among the main character.
One Piece, putting aside the designs, has my favorite female characters among these series and by quite a fair margin. Nami and Robin are both very cool and have some of the most interesting stories among the main character.
Rukia gets a decent amount of love in the final arc and her bankai is hella op
Great, that's at least 10 arcs after I stopped giving a shit about Bleach.
why is it the forbidden four? Lol
One Piece would be my pick.
Naruto has nearly no women who do anything, same with DBZ except replace nearly with none
Bleach is actually quite a bit better, but also heavily sexualizes certain characters sooo...
e: I guess one piece does this too, but the characters in one piece are way more fleshed out
One Piece would be my pick.
Naruto has nearly no women who do anything, same with DBZ except replace nearly with none
Bleach is actually quite a bit better, but also heavily sexualizes certain characters sooo...
e: I guess one piece does this too, but the characters in one piece are way more fleshed out
The female characters in Bleach are better than the ones in Naruto at the very least.
This is how I feel about this poll. Wouldn't bother singling out one as being better as they all did a poor job.
I'm going to have to hard, hard disagree. Granted one poor representation of female characters shouldn't be lauded over a terrible representation.
One Piece had actual characterization
The other two, over time, kept theirs relegated to set decorations most of the time
I'm excluding dragon ball because bro what it's not part of the big 3
That being said it's a low bar Shonen isn't typically kind or interesting with female characters
The other two, over time, kept theirs relegated to set decorations most of the time
I'm excluding dragon ball because bro what it's not part of the big 3
That being said it's a low bar Shonen isn't typically kind or interesting with female characters
Yea, and that's not saying much. Naruto is the worst, but they're both pretty far down there.
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One Piece's characters are super-sexualized way worse than Bleach.
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when i googled the big three DBZ kept popping up and i saw it one of the links as forbidden four. i'm not too attached to whether or not it's in this poll
One Piece's characters are super-sexualized way worse than Bleach.
Her and shirahoshi are minors too
DBZ's females are nonexistent. They amount to Android 18, Bulma, Chichi and Videl.
Naruto's females are underutilized and they're all satellite characters outside Tsunade. But it objectively sexualizes its females the least from these four and most of the female characters are characters that I'd want to know more about and would be interested seeing them under a different writer.
One Piece has the best written females but also the most objectified. On paper, it's the best. In practice, Oda's drawings hurt his representation of females a lot.
Bleach probably has the best middle ground between having the second-best written females and the second-least sexualized.
So...I'll give it to Bleach.
One Piece and Naruto fighting for the next spot.
DBZ at the bottom.
Naruto's females are underutilized and they're all satellite characters outside Tsunade. But it objectively sexualizes its females the least from these four and most of the female characters are characters that I'd want to know more about and would be interested seeing them under a different writer.
One Piece has the best written females but also the most objectified. On paper, it's the best. In practice, Oda's drawings hurt his representation of females a lot.
Bleach probably has the best middle ground between having the second-best written females and the second-least sexualized.
So...I'll give it to Bleach.
One Piece and Naruto fighting for the next spot.
DBZ at the bottom.
Just googled it and saw it lol.
I like the idea of the "Big 3" as these manga/anime that were both extremely popular and came after Dragon Ball ended while being influenced by it so I'm kinda ehh on putting DB with them as one group. Not a big deal though obviously lol, just something I was curious about from the title.
Bleach I think had some decent female characters but outside of Orihime and Rukia all I really remember are like... variations of big, overly exposed boobs lol. For the most part none of the gals on that show left any kind of lasting impression for me outside of the main two. And I recall an entire ass long arc dedicated to rescuing Orihime so, again, lol.
I only ever watched a little bit of One Piece and I recall Nami being pretty great early on but I don't think I ever met any of the other girls and I've seen how they're drawn later in the series...;;;
DBZ I haven't seen since I was, like, 10. I remember liking Bulma and Launch during what I saw of DB, and Android 18 was p cool but... thinking back on it, outside of those three and Chi-chi I literally cannot remember any other female characters? I watched quite a large portion of the show, too. The girls were like negative important most of the time.
Naruto has pretty shittily written female characters, but by far the best designs overall and the least amount of sexualization. I'd take poorly written over boobie armor any day, so it wins for me. Also cuz I legitimately loved Temari, that girl was hella bamf! :D
I only ever watched a little bit of One Piece and I recall Nami being pretty great early on but I don't think I ever met any of the other girls and I've seen how they're drawn later in the series...;;;
DBZ I haven't seen since I was, like, 10. I remember liking Bulma and Launch during what I saw of DB, and Android 18 was p cool but... thinking back on it, outside of those three and Chi-chi I literally cannot remember any other female characters? I watched quite a large portion of the show, too. The girls were like negative important most of the time.
Naruto has pretty shittily written female characters, but by far the best designs overall and the least amount of sexualization. I'd take poorly written over boobie armor any day, so it wins for me. Also cuz I legitimately loved Temari, that girl was hella bamf! :D
