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I feel like Shonen Manga should have the rival character double as a love interest.

A lot of this discourse made me realize that the problem has been that the rival character should be female more. Like Shonen Jump editorial will encourage male leads to be promoted as the face of the series but why not let the rival/lancer be a girl?

I mean, that's how a lot of shows and movies I saw growing up did it.

Like it often does come down to either blindspot on the part of the author (male or female, sexism rots all of our brains) or editorial too concerned with demographics like a girl becoming less appealing when they take the battle damage the boys will often get.

Even so, the Love Interest in and of itself often shows the hand of the author when they’re not allowed to be too much outside of that. But when they’re packaged with another archetype like rival or nemesis or best friend, they’re more of a likelihood that the audience will be able to see how our protagonist would fall for them.

Especially with rival characters where there’s a clash of ideologies along with the protagonist learning that there will always be somebody to surpass and the rival learning that their dogmatic stance doesn’t got to be the end-all-be-all.

If the hero guy needs a clean heterosexual romance to appease editorial, making the rival the girl they’re gonna be set up with or the best friend would make it all the more smoother.

Basically, what I’m saying is that if Sasuke was a girl, then NaruSasu would be guarunteed an endgame.

Buuuuuuut this often clashes with certain unconscious or not biases that male authors and readers have about female character in action based storytelling. MistereFusion did an excellent breakdown on Videl’s tournament battle, how it was written and how it’s been received.

Namely how there’s an unfortunate mentality that’s the girls are either to be ejected quickly with a knockout lest their “physical qualities” are compromised or they are brutalized to show that they’re outta their depth and to create an air of seriousness all of a sudden.

btw the katy perry/bezos' girlfriend/other four irrelevant billionaires 10 minute space stunt was not the first all female expedition no matter how much they try to market it as such. the first all female mission was in 1963 with soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova - all three of which were working class and had to pass incredibly hard exams to be chosen from 400 potential candidates. just in case we started falling for the propaganda machine again

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Diane and Derieri ♥

DIANE

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life 

hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang

best quality: her dedication!!

worst quality: idk

ship them with: King

brotp them with: Elizabeth, other Sins, Matrona

needs to stay away from: LITERALLY ALL EVIL THAT THREATENS TO HURT HER PRECIOUS FACE

misc. thoughts: She use to annoy me in the beginning of the manga but now I love her 👌 I hope she gets some more development hah

DERIERI

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life 

hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang

best quality: two words: Character. Development.

worst quality: she’s killed lots of people

ship them with: Monspeet, slightly Meliodas

brotp them with: Meliodas, Zeldris, Elizabeth

needs to stay away from: Mael

misc. thoughts: i wish she was still alive, but she went through the best character development in the series in my opinion. I STAN A QUEEN

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