Crazy how a lot of those recommendations are for boys, too. Just goes to show manga and anime is pretty universal.

Yeah, but its kinda for different reasons usually. Girls (and women) usually want someone to gush over, in pretty much every work I listed there is at least one notable male character (if not multiple) to gush over.

They also really don't care for sexualization of females (and they really don't like harems of women for male characters); pretty much all the ones listed have little to no sexualization of female characters and nothing like a harem.

Female characters have to be handled carefully, either as self-inserts, supporting characters, or as competition, or tools/toys for an intelligent/edgy male to use. Women really don't like bimbo supporting characters. Evil women are fine as villains. All female casts might be more of a different story in terms of expectations.

If its popular/buzzing, it also helps a lot too.

They like the action and whatnot reasonably well enough of course, but these are important aspects of determining whether they will like or dislike something. Something could have great action/story/characters, but be a lot more of a turn-off if they have a negative issue with the work.

To women you have to have something to hook them in particular besides just a good story/content (unless its really good), and you have to avoid pissing them off too much. If its already popular, that does give you a lot of leeway though.

I have similar thoughts and would put the same up, maybe not jojo though, a bit too wacky if you're not too into manga and anime at first.

I've seen enough female fans of JoJo that I think its fine, imo after they've seen 1-4 anime, they'll be fine. My sister saw and enjoyed JoJo based on my sibling's recommendation, and she wasn't exactly a huge anime/manga fan or anything beforehand, only probably seeing a single digit number of anime/manga (though she was reading manwha/webtoons so... maybe not completely analogous)

Crazy how a lot of those recommendations are for boys, too. Just goes to show manga and anime is pretty universal.

Yeah, but its kinda for different reasons usually. Girls (and women) usually want someone to gush over, in pretty much every work I listed there is at least one notable male character (if not multiple) to gush over.

They also really don't care for sexualization of females (and they really don't like harems of women for male characters); pretty much all the ones listed have little to no sexualization of female characters and nothing like a harem.

Female characters have to be handled carefully, either as self-inserts, supporting characters, or as competition. Women really don't like bimbo supporting characters. Evil women are fine as villains. All female casts might be more of a different story in terms of expectations.

If its popular/buzzing, it also helps a lot too.

They like the action and whatnot reasonably well enough of course, but these are important aspects of determining whether they will like or dislike something. Something could have great action/story/characters, but be a lot more of a turn-off if they have a negative issue with the work.

To women you have to have something to hook them in particular besides just a good story/content (unless its really good), and you have to avoid pissing them off too much. If its already popular, that does give you a lot of leeway though.

I have similar thoughts and would put the same up, maybe not jojo though, a bit too wacky if you're not too into manga and anime at first.

I've seen enough female fans of JoJo that I think its fine, imo after they've seen 1-4 anime, they'll be fine. My sister saw and enjoyed JoJo based on my sibling's recommendation, and she wasn't exactly a huge anime/manga fan or anything beforehand, only probably seeing a single digit number of anime/manga (though she was reading manwha/webtoons so... maybe not completely analogous)