Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is making waves with its surge in popularity and success, but its impact in anime expands well beyond that. Women and girls in shounen have been written notoriously bad for so long, so for Frieren to come in and smash all other competition (shounen and non-shounen) is pretty notable. Will we learn anything from Frieren’s success? Perhaps the biggest takeaway is that well-written, multifaceted female protagonists in shounen are extremely profitable! Let me know your thoughts about Frieren and women in shounen in the comments.
Wait, are you saying that Lemon from Mashle isn’t a complex, multidimensional character?
(She’s not. Her personality traits can be summed up as “girl because we forgot to make any interesting women in this show”.)
Love how she is introduced with some possibly interesting back story, then given the sole personality trait of liking Mash, and immediately going missing for like 25 chapters after only having 2 interactions with the main cast. Only to come back as the damsel in distress for Mash to save, and somehow during the rescue, he gets a nakama power up by remembering their friendship?? Boy you talked to her two whole times, you haven’t even had a full conversation. Hell, with how many potentially interesting characters that manga banishes to the shadow realm it already seemed like Lemon was another casualty.
Putting her with Nami and Power is an insult to both. And I haven’t even watched One Piece.
EDIT: Damn, also Kagura, Sagiri and Yor. What’s next Asa Mitaka???
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