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[Sirus]

Nope. Just not really into girl-on-girl stuff.

[Flying Dice]

That was what I'd assumed; anything with a really skewed gender ratio is pretty much giving warning that it's either a harem, girls' love, or boys' love.

[Zangi]

That was what I'd assumed; anything with a really skewed gender ratio is pretty much giving warning that it's either a harem, girls' love, or boys' love.

I figured the default was predominately male.  The only females being potential love interests and/or thrown under the bus when plot and male character advancement.

[majikero]

That only applies to anime/manga. VNs have the luxury of having chance to focus on each girl. Only the ones with focus on porn have harem endings.

[Reelya]

That was what I'd assumed; anything with a really skewed gender ratio is pretty much giving warning that it's either a harem, girls' love, or boys' love.

I figured the default was predominately male.  The only females being potential love interests and/or thrown under the bus when plot and male character advancement.

For Western media, that is true, but the sheer predominance of female cast members in anime is different. These are the shows I'm watching from October (I don't recommend checking most of these out. Dodge the bullets I didn't):

Tokyo Ravens: 1 main guy, about 4 main girls, +male "sidekick"
Log Horizon: large cast, evenly split male/female
Kuroko no Basket 2nd Season: sports anime, so mostly guys
Nagi no Asukara: gender symmetry
Magi: The Kingdom of Magic: kind mixed, lots of characters probably 2/3 male, but quite a few named female characters who get their own backstories.
Yowamushi Pedal :sports anime, so mostly guys
Diamond no Ace  :sports anime, so mostly guys
Gundam Build Fighters: mainly male, but it's pretty much a sports anime
Golden Time: romance anime, even split male/female
Strike the Blood : 1 main dude, almost everyone else is a girl
Kill la Kill : both MC and antagonist are women
Samurai Flamenco : slight bias to guys, but still has ~5 named female characters

Those are the 2-cour (25+ episode) shows i started watching in october. Pretty much the only ones with a predominance of male characters are the ones which revolve around men's team sports. every other genre including magic, battles, romance is either 50/50 or predominantly female characters. Note for the "harem" label: Tokyo Ravens and Strike The Blood are both pretty similar to A Certain Magical Index. So if you consider Index a harem, then those are harems, too.

[Flying Dice]

Ah, apologies. To clarify: I meant that in the context of romances/series with a strong element of romance alongside other things. So for example, Tenchi Muyo! is an action/adventure series paired with a harem romance, and the gender ratio is pretty heavily weighted for the core cast, but the former half of the premise means that as a whole the setting is fairly balanced, as far as that goes.

Obviously series with contexts unrelated to romance might have a specific gender ratio for a completely different reason (sports series, magical girl series, school life series, etc.). Though one can't help but wonder about Hajime no Ippo every now and then... 


On a different note, time to finally watch G Gundam. 

[Leafsnail]

That was what I'd assumed; anything with a really skewed gender ratio is pretty much giving warning that it's either a harem, girls' love, or boys' love.

An all-female anime makes me think "girls cutesily doing nothing" more than anything else

[Sirus]

That was what I'd assumed; anything with a really skewed gender ratio is pretty much giving warning that it's either a harem, girls' love, or boys' love.

An all-female anime makes me think "girls cutesily doing nothing" more than anything else

Girls und Panzer?

[Flying Dice]

That was what I'd assumed; anything with a really skewed gender ratio is pretty much giving warning that it's either a harem, girls' love, or boys' love.

An all-female anime makes me think "girls cutesily doing nothing" more than anything else

See the post above yours.

That was what I'd assumed; anything with a really skewed gender ratio is pretty much giving warning that it's either a harem, girls' love, or boys' love.

An all-female anime makes me think "girls cutesily doing nothing" more than anything else

Girls und Panzer?

Let's be honest with ourselves here. 

[Sirus]

Girls und Panzer is about girls shooting tanks at each other. They aren't doing nothing, they're doing awesome.

[kaijyuu]

On a different note, time to finally watch G Gundam. 

I get the feeling you'll enjoy it.

This hand of mine glows with an awesome power; its burning grip tells me to defeat you!


Note that the dub is painfully bad, though that might be a positive depending on what you're watching it for.

[Steelmagic]

I just finished Girls Und Panzer recently. I'm so proud. Seriously, this is probably the first show, anime or otherwise, I've finished.

[Leafsnail]

Nazi girls shooting tanks at each other for sport.

But yeah I was actually thinking of K-On! to be fair.

[Reelya]

Nazi girls shooting tanks at each other for sport.

But yeah I was actually thinking of K-On! to be fair.

Nothing quite does nothing like K-On. But I think it's more the discrepancy that gets people - "the back of the box" seems to promise "something" but you get nothing.

[Flying Dice]

On a different note, time to finally watch G Gundam. 

I get the feeling you'll enjoy it.

This hand of mine glows with an awesome power; its burning grip tells me to defeat you!


Note that the dub is painfully bad, though that might be a positive depending on what you're watching it for.

Having heard snippets of the dub, I'm thinking I might watch both the dub and the sub, doing episodes back-to-back.

Nazi girls shooting tanks at each other for sport.

But yeah I was actually thinking of K-On! to be fair.

Nothing quite does nothing like K-On. But I think it's more the discrepancy that gets people - "the back of the box" seems to promise "something" but you get nothing.

That was my impression, and the reason why I avoided it. And really, GuP was a sports anime, which equates to "girls doing nothing" in this case. There is technically a plot, I suppose, but it is less than inspired. The only novel part is that instead of a tennis team or mahjong club, etc., they're saving the school by driving tanks. And honestly, for all the tank stuff that they actually did their research on, I was still turned off of that aspect by the handwavium that apparently makes it no more dangerous than any other sport. (We lined the interiors of the tanks with carbon, which makes them impenetrable! Yay!) Especially how nonchalant the MC is when she's turned out while people are blasting away at her.

Meh. The only series of this sort that I really managed to enjoy at all was Azumanga Daioh (which I really need to get back to watching), and that because a lot of the characters hit the right notes of dysfunction.