There's nothing I'd say is wrong about this, but I'd argue that it's nowhere as dire as you make it seem. The mainstream certainly is following the trends you describe, but there's plenty of good women-centred/women-written series still running today. Some good yuri/josei/etc magazines have folded but webmanga has more than made up for them in volume. Anime is certainly dominated by isekai and other stupid genres, but there's more yuri series getting adapted than ever before.
Like a lot of media, anime and manga are suffering from a stagnation of mainstream ideas resulting from more and more risk-adverse investments. But also like a lot of media, the sheer volume and diversity of material being produced is still increasing. I hope you'll still look for new series that could interest you :)
You're not wrong. Webtoons/comics seem to be where most of the new content is being made and I do browse those spaces.
Tbh, I think part of the problem is that the sheer weight of shonen advertising causes women gravitate towards shonen works (like MHA), until there's a general perception of anime in general being bad at fem characters, when it's mostly just a mainstream male writer thing. I also think the overwhelming number of poorly written fem characters isn't doing us any favors when it comes to inflating the egos of incels.
There's nothing I'd say is wrong about this, but I'd argue that it's nowhere as dire as you make it seem. The mainstream certainly is following the trends you describe, but there's plenty of good women-centred/women-written series still running today. Some good yuri/josei/etc magazines have folded but webmanga has more than made up for them in volume. Anime is certainly dominated by isekai and other stupid genres, but there's more yuri series getting adapted than ever before.
Like a lot of media, anime and manga are suffering from a stagnation of mainstream ideas resulting from more and more risk-adverse investments. But also like a lot of media, the sheer volume and diversity of material being produced is still increasing. I hope you'll still look for new series that could interest you :)
You're not wrong. Webtoons/comics seem to be where most of the new content is being made and I do browse those spaces.
Tbh, I think part of the problem is that the sheer weight of shonen advertising causes women gravitate towards shonen works (like MHA), until there's a general perception of anime in general being bad at fem characters, when it's mostly just a mainstream male writer thing. I also think the overwhelming number of poorly written fem characters isn't doing us any favors when it comes to inflating the egos of incels.