Common Attributes of Female Characters that Appear in Manga Aimed at Males

Source: Girls Channel

Common Attributes of Female Characters that Appear in Manga Aimed at Males

1. [+2973 / -2]
First of all, big breasts

2. [+1569 / -5]
Bishojos

3. [+1339 / -6]
Tacky outfits

4. [+1211 / -1]
Airheads

5. [+938 / -28]
Self-centered

6. [+1862 / -6]
Unnecessary panty flash during a pointless scene

7. [+1749 / -17]
Happy when people say perverted stuff to them

You wish, idiot men

8. [+2402 / -8]
Abnormally big breasts
Abnormally narrow waists
Abnormally long and slim limbs

9. [+1091 / -7]
The number of girl characters that are weak and need to be protected all the time is surprisingly little.

11. [+480 / -6]
Panty flash ★

12. [+1629 / -6]
Huge breasts

13. [+1385 / -7]
Beautiful women with nice bodies are strong. If they can beat the hell out of macho men, shouldn't they be reasonably muscly at least?

14. [+1002 / -6]
They don't get mad when their breasts or butt are touched

16. [+951 / -2]
Closeup of cleavage or butt tends to be drawn from a male's perspective

17. [+771 / -1]
Garter belts and panties are worn in the wrong order.

18. [+842 / -21]
Rare, but toilet scenes:
Pants are pulled down to the calves

*Left: Manga, Right: In real life

21. [+693 / -5]
Straight flowing hair

23. [+1855 / -6]
Girl with long black hair who wears a white dress and straw hat
Character is usually sickly

24. [+886 / -4]
An accomplished and capable bishojo will like the main character for some reason

25. [+1036 / -4]
Beautiful girls fall in love with an ugly men.

26. [+800 / -6]
Big breasted tsundere who beats up the dense main character.

28. [+274 / -1]
Has some sort of power or ability

29. [+737 / -4]
Pure and innocent characters

46. [+476 / -1]
>>29
"Deceive men? Preposterous! There's no way such a pure and cute girl could be calculating!" They've packed all their dreams into these characters.

32. [+998 / -2]
Clothes are tight and dig into the skin

33. [+686 / -2]
There will always be a loli girl with pigtails in the harem

34. [+21 / -19]
Girls with guy faces

35. [+531 / -5]
They don't wear leggings

36. [+341 / -4]
Absolute Territory
*Exposed skin between the top of knee-high socks and hemline of skirt

38. [+885 / -7]
They don't tie up their long hair when they take a bath

39. [+578 / -1]
Almost no female characters who first appear as an enemy will hate the main character when the manga ends.
97% will fall in love with him.

40. [+624 / -3]
Bespectacled honour student beauties for some reason use "desu wa" or "desu/masu*" when they speak even though they're students and the same age as the person they're talking to.
*Speak politely

41. [+354 / -2]
Mentally strong
Serious
Cute face
Delicate
Smart

43. [+400 / -5]
Love triangle between cute childhood friend and hottest girl in class. Who the main character chooses depends on the author's type.

45. [+594 / -4]
Male is always in a convenient situation

47. [+410 / -1]
When there's a closeup of someone's lips, the lips are glossy and plush.

49. [+1137 / -14]
But y'know, when males see the male characters in shojo manga, they probably think, "That sort of guy doesn't exist in real life!" too.

50. [+865 / -10]
Extremely sensitive
They flinch at the slightest touch.
If someone was like that in real life, they wouldn't be able to survive.

51. [+549 / -0]
When a character who usually has their hair tied up lets down their hair, their hair is way too short.
With hair that short, there's no way it would end up in that hairstyle when it's tied up.

52. [+632 / -3]
They're bursting out of their uniform even though it's a school blazer, the curve of their body is clearly shown.

54. [+185 / -1]
Bespectacled girl who talks politely

57. [+247 / -6]
Ayanami Rei tsundere character

58. [+308 / -2]
Ugly male is crazily popular with girls!!

59. [+380 / -2]
Every cute girl swarms around the dull and unattractive main character

60. [+325 / -4]
Leg joints are weirdly angled so only the knees are touching

62. [+420 / -16]
Characters like Ran-neechan and Kindaichi's Miyuki who act like they're SO important even though they're just a childhood friend.
Ahh, they're so annoying!

64. [+446 / -6]
In other words, the 'tall high-spec ikemen' characters in shojo mangas are the 'slender, airheaded, big breasted loli' characters in manga for males.
It's interesting. Both are the explosion of each side's fantasies.

65. [+174 / -0]
Bad fashion sense

66. [+280 / -3]
"Why is it you?! (＃▼皿▼) "
↑ How they get angry

67. [+191 / -4]
Violent heroine

68. [+431 / -1]
The cutest and most beautiful girl in school doesn't have a boyfriend and hasn't dated anyone before either.

69. [+197 / -0]
Pattern where girl falls in love due a misunderstanding.
And then the girl declares "I won't hand ○○-kun over to you!" And the guy gets all flustered and panicky or is stupefied.

70. [+173 / -1]
Even if they're hostile towards the main character in the beginning, they suddenly start liking the main character out of the blue→High probability of turning into a tsundere

77. [+423 / -0]
An excessively energetic girl and a quiet girl will appear to contrast each other.

78. [+387 / -0]
"Fine, I'll make something" when someone reluctantly cooks food for someone, it always turns out either very good, or shit.

80. [+201 / -0]
Character will suddenly fall in love with the extremely average main character.

81. [+184 / -3]
Defeating a man in a hand to hand fight!

Unrealistic.

82. [+196 / -1]
A strong girl who only cries or shows her weak side in front of the main character.

83. [+242 / -0]
Basically everyone is interested in the main character.

87. [+268 / -5]
Even small breasted characters would be pretty big in real life

94. [+550 / -8]
>>87
This is basic but it captures it really well w

Top: What guys incorrectly think the sizes are
Bottom: What the actual sizes are

89. [+377 / -5]
Even when the male tells her to "Run away!" she says "I'll stay here too!" but she's weak and ends up getting in the way.
I always think: 'You're weak, just do what he says and run away!'

91. [+219 / -9]
Short
There's no heroine who is taller than the main character.

103. [+147 / -3]
>>91

*L from The Kabocha Wine. She is taller than the main character.

98. [+315 / -0]
Lots of authors and readers like the type of character that don't fully open their eyes. They don't exist in real life, and if they did, they would be disliked by other women.

108. [+335 / -1]
Girls are simple
They immediately fall in love with the main character
Shallow characters
(I guess you could say the same about shojo manga though)