In anime there are a lot of hot women... who are competent at what they do.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that, unless the anime/manga is up front about being wank bait from the beginning, the fact they are competent is just as important as their looks. Back before 'Rona, I went to an anime club at the local university just to shoot the shit and we would watch new anime every semester. One of them that we watched was Fire Force. Everyone loved it and thought it was great...except one character, named Tamaki. The girl on the team that, when she activated her fire powers, turned into a cat-like form and fought that way. At first, people liked her. It didnt matter that she was usually walking fanservice in most of her scenes, getting into situations like dudes accidently grabbing her boobs or getting stuck face down in her thighs. When the action actually started, she was actually fairly competent. Not the best fighter of the team, but one of the better ones.
But then, after a certain episode where she needed to be rescued by the main character, she was literally moved to desk duty and becomes nothing but fanservice. And most people in club started to move away from liking her toward Maki or Sister Iris, both of whom also had their own moments of fanservice, but retained their competency.
And as for myself, when I looked over my personally kept Waifu list, the overwhelming majority of them on there are women who have the looks AND the ability, and I have turned my nose up at more than a few other instances of waifu-bait because the only thing going for them was their looks, so I was not interested.
That's why they've gone back to broad swipes over the years, when they try to drag on things like Moe the outrage of 'how dare they like these girls for a specific personality type!' ends up making them look foolish.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that, unless the anime/manga is up front about being wank bait from the beginning, the fact they are competent is just as important as their looks. Back before 'Rona, I went to an anime club at the local university just to shoot the shit and we would watch new anime every semester. One of them that we watched was Fire Force. Everyone loved it and thought it was great...except one character, named Tamaki. The girl on the team that, when she activated her fire powers, turned into a cat-like form and fought that way. At first, people liked her. It didnt matter that she was usually walking fanservice in most of her scenes, getting into situations like dudes accidently grabbing her boobs or getting stuck face down in her thighs. When the action actually started, she was actually fairly competent. Not the best fighter of the team, but one of the better ones.
But then, after a certain episode where she needed to be rescued by the main character, she was literally moved to desk duty and becomes nothing but fanservice. And most people in club started to move away from liking her toward Maki or Sister Iris, both of whom also had their own moments of fanservice, but retained their competency.
And as for myself, when I looked over my personally kept Waifu list, the overwhelming majority of them on there are women who have the looks AND the ability, and I have turned my nose up at more than a few other instances of waifu-bait because the only thing going for them was their looks, so I was not interested.
The anime treated Tamaki better than the manga did.
That's why they've gone back to broad swipes over the years, when they try to drag on things like Moe the outrage of 'how dare they like these girls for a specific personality type!' ends up making them look foolish.