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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 584417" data-attributes="member: 3820">Whoops. Sorry, man. I said "seems to be," but was el wrongo.  Which is very true, but the greater point that I didn't quite so accurately make is the specific targeting of the female demographic. A lot of anime tries to hit both male and female viewers equally, by balancing heavy romance and personal emotional issues with dynamic combat and displays of cool power and more "traditional" lures for male viewers. Escaflowne, for instance. But some of them don't even try for that balance. They go for the girls, and if the guys follow, so be it. Manga and anime both have plenty of offerings aimed with laser-like accuracy at female readers and viewers, which is something that is rarely done with the same media in the States (what percentage of DC and Marvel's titles is aimed specifically at female readers?). Even then, there's so much variety that you can't really call the female-oriented material genre, any more than Transformers and action movies are the same genre because they're largely aimed at males. This is why I twitch a bit (like most of the people still following this thread, I'm sure) at statements that imply that the popularity of the medium comes from the medium being designed to specifically cater to certain male fantasies. It's kind of the same thing as that "Peter Jackson named his movie The Two Towers to capitalize on the 9/11 disaster!" screed; it's just as easy to disprove, and therefore just as outlandishly surprising to see people say it like they believe it.</blockquote>

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