The only female villain we’ve seen thus far is Mosquito-Girl (so females have the same representation in the villain-department as demonic-air-fans.)
I find it hard to believe you would be happier if opm had more female fodder types for Saitama to punch to death. More female villains means more selfish, meat-headed, and psychotic females that will have their guts punched out of them in full detail because that’s how 95% of the male villains are treated. I’m sure that would go over great with you.
Also, the leader of the entire Monsters Association is the other female villain.
The only two female characters in the series are the Esper Sisters – two flat female tropes that hate each other. The first is Tatsumaki, a floating-tsundere-loli that is marked as aged 28 to make her sexualization legit.
Out of the Top-Ten S-Class heroes, she’s the only female, and ranked 2nd place.
Tatsumaki is the highest ranked S class hero shown in the entire manga, including ONE’s webcomic. She’s only tsundere to her sister, but other than that she’s a total brat and it’s hilarious cause we get panels like this even in Murata’s redraw.
The second female is Fubuki, ranked 1st in the B-Class heroes (the 2nd and 3rd places are guys; the 1st ranked in the A-Class and the C-Class are guys, too.)
What does is matter if the heroes ranked just below Fubuki are male? They’re both seen once or twice and promptly stomped in a single panel. And why mention Sweet Mask? He’s a dick and, like Fubuki, stays at 1st rank in his class because he wants to. Same with Licensless Rider.
Fubuki also surrounds herself with lesser ranked male and female heroes, but only the male heroes are shown to be pathetic fighters (also Lily is adorable).
Before we go over Fubaki’s representation, let’s process that – out of four hero-classes, there are two females we know of, and around twenty guys we know by name (not including the main characters, that are both guys). That’s a rate of 1 to 10 (as opposed to that fact females make 50%~ of the human population.) Even if the 1st ranked S-Class would be a female (which I highly doubt), it wouldn’t mean much. All the kids presented in the story are male, as well.
And Fubuki and Tatsumaki have had more spotlight on them than most of the relevant male characters barring the two leads and maybe Bang and King. Having a ton of male characters doesn’t mean much if all they do is fail or speak for 2 panels every time we see them.
You’re right about the 1st rank S class gender not meaning much, since it will boil down to whether they’re a good character or not, and how they’re implemented in the story.
…The very first child in chapter 1 and episode 1 is female. She wears the “School Child” shirt. Are you even trying???
“Hysteric women aren’t fit to be on top” indeed seems to reflect the creator’s personal views, as this interaction enfolds - when facing off against Saitama (and inventively losing) she cries;
“Hysteric women aren’t fit to be on top” is Saitama’s view and he’s right. She came to his house and threatened him with violence if he didn’t join her group. She then tells him “I’ll beat you half dead!” because he doesn’t want to fight her. Seriously, just read the panels you conveniently didn’t include before Saitama’s comment.
All this because he didn’t want to get involved in her ranking politics. What part of this sounds like she’s a calm and reasonable person? It looks a whole lot like straight up bullying by a hysterical woman.
And then Saitama blocks her from getting hit by a direct explosion she wasn’t aware of because she was too busy trying to STAB HIM.
The “Gold-diggers” - two-conventionally-attractive-females that hang around a blatantly unattractive “powerful man” so he’ll buy them stuff
This is exactly what representation actually is. You have shitty female characters and shitty male characters side by side. The women manipulated him into buying them stuff and he became creepy and tried to get a kiss on the cheek out of them, which didn’t come close to happening. Then they took phone pictures of the man after he got beat unconscious.
Random Moms going around with their kids (filling their natural child-bearing role in the world), or Sisters that cry because their brothers didn’t come to help them carry all those heavy shopping bags;
LMAO so now a random mom and Metal Bat’s sister are negative representations? Metal Bat even says he’d rather be there for his sister than protecting the father and son he was with. Was it also bad when his sister wanted him to come to her piano recital? Or when his female cat was giving birth and he couldn’t be there? I don’t know what random mom you’re talking about but here’s the conclusion to that lick lick screenshot you posted.
It’s almost as if being perverted is seen as a negative in the opm universe, huh?
You’re right about the Pri-Pri-Prisoner thing. To add to that, at least ONE specifically pointed out that Pri-Pri-Prisoner’s reasoning is not correct in both manga renditions. If anyone is really offended by Prisoner, I’d honestly recommend they just not read further or skip his parts.
But then you swerved back into crazy town with the GenoSai thing.
It’s meant to make you wonder- why did they choose to feature this line? Other than being a cheap joke, why did it matter so to tell us, the readers, that Saitama is not interested in guys? It’s not as if it was a revolutionary dialogue, in which Saitama came out as Aro or Ace; no, it’s just a cheap NO HOMO.
No, not really. The line wasn’t emphasized or reacted to ever again. It’s literally an “I thought you meant a thing but you actually meant the other thing” joke. Even the panel structuring in both ONE and Murata’s version makes it a clear it’s a throwaway.
(And no, Sonic’s own over-sexualization doesn’t compensate for all the above.)
Well of course to you it doesn’t, that’s why you’re not pointing out Sonic’s sexualization and crotch abuse. Meanwhile the anime, manga, and fans flaunt his well articulated booty all over the place just like Fubuki. At least be consistent if you’re going to complain about sexualization.
As a female and GenoSai shipper, I couldn’t care less about most of what you say I should be offended by. It just sounds like you’re trying to guilt readers and watchers into viewing the show the way you do, the “morally superior” way. And in the same breath you’re telling them to think twice about buying merch for a series they likely are accessing for free.
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