That has been one of anime's (and Japan's) growing weaknesses for a very long time. Their general resistance against unnecessarily idolizing women started dying somewhere in the 90s. Having a harem of cute flawless girls was an easy way to sell manga/anime and all the production companies leaned into it shamelessly.
There's a tiny fraction of negatively portrayed female failure characters compared to male ones. They took shitty women out of the stories and only left the badass ones or the cute angelic ones. There's a reason the audiences in Japan were so eager to embrace stories like Shield Hero and Redo of a Healer before even the West got to them,a piece of media finally unabashedly showing shitty women getting their comeuppance was as long overdue a catharsis there as it was here.
That has been one of anime's (and Japan's) growing weaknesses for a very long time. Their general resistance against unnecessarily idolizing women started dying somewhere in the 90s. Having a harem of cute flawless girls was an easy way to sell manga/anime and all the production companies leaned into it shamelessly.
There's a tiny fraction of negatively portrayed female failure characters compared to male ones. They took shitty women out of the stories and only left the badass ones or the cute angelic ones. There's a reason the audiences in Japan were so eager to embrace stories like Shield Hero and Redo of a Healer before even the West got to them,a piece of media finally unabashedly showing shitty women getting their comeuppance was as long overdue a catharsis there as it was here.