What redditors think makes a female character strong
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Big Mom's like the worst example, she's a fucking monster(inb4 imp approves). There is tons of great female characters in shounen that don't need to be fucking monsters, there's tons that are also feminine yet still great characters. And no, having abs like Mikasa from AOT doesn't mean you are a strong female character, quite the opposite in fact. If I were to name my personal favorite specifically in shounen it's probably gonna be Maka from Soul Eater or Shampoo from Ranma...but I don't really care if a character's male of female, I care if it's a great character.
I am not dissing Big Mom btw, she's a great character but not one I'd call a great female character, she's quite the monster in her own regard.
What's their angle with shounen anyway? Shounen's for boys, it's in the fucking name no wonder you don't find the next War and Peace amongst it so some characters do fall flat. There's some examples where that's not true though(IMHO One Piece has got such great characters overall, amazing writing which is why I don't get the critique from the linked comments). Seems overall just reddit venting that they don't like certain characters in a genre predominantly aimed at boys.
"Shoujo manga has too many women in it, it needs more positive male representation, character growth, and strong male leads."
Like seriously, do these people even know what a "target market" is?
I want buff dudes like from part 1-3 of Jojo in the next shoujo manga!
Mikasa is the very opposite of a strong female character. She's subservient to her bloodline, only doing what she does because it's her manifest destiny to do so.
Nay fool Akane us the best. Her initial dislike of Ranma is because she thought he was a degenerate man trying to play out a sexual fetish by pretending to be a woman. Hell half their arguments involve catching him with women's clothing or actually pretending to be a woman to advance his own interest
Ironically you'd think they'd at least find Ukyo to be a model character. Yeah she falls for the same "desperate for her man" thing they hate, but she is also completely independent (unlike every other girl in the series), runs her own successful business, has dreams and goals outside just the man, and is capable of applying both masculine and feminine traits to herself as needed whenever she wants.
The actual peak of strong female character.
Ukyo is a great example, too...I might just have a thing for Shampoo and see her in a much better light, lol.
I think both our Waifuism might be biasing us here.