Digimon...

Good thing the Digimon series is totally sexist and has a minimal number of female protagonists (especially in the later seasons).

 

I will defend Digimon and say it is not sexist. I mean, Xros Wars was pretty bad in representing women... And Season 4 had one female throughout the whole series pretty mucb....

But come on we all know that Kari is the mega ultimate champion female protagonist of the whole Digimon universe.
And Rika in Season 3 was a well developed character throughout that series, even if she was difficult to warm up to. I think it really depends on the writers/director/publisher as to how good the female characters are. A shame really.

 

I don't really think it is sexist, per se. I just don't think they were fair enough on the female characters in most of the seasons, in terms of both how many there were and what exactly they got to do.

Yeah, you're right. Kari was super mega goddess of everything, and they built up on that a lot...but did it actually pay off into anything? I don't really remember anything significant happening related to it. They just seemed too big her up throughout the show and then drop it almost entirely. I mean, Adventure 2 started something and then completely dropped it with no mention of it ever again (the beach shadow thing idk). Of course, I haven't watched 01 or 02 in quite a while so I'm probably forgetting a few things.

Apart from Rika (and maybe Nene and Yoshi from 6 and 5 respectively, maybe even Jeri fro Tamers), every other female protagonist in the series kinda got the boot, more to say they became almost useless towards the end arc whilst the guys were all strutting about with their shiny new (almost) deus ex machina toys.

tl;dr I agree with you, PaW, but I'm just being more assertive about it.
(tl;dr 70% of female protagonists in Digimon become useless for no reason whatsoever and writers instil false hope into the hearts of female viewers everywhere concerning the fact that one of their characters is built up to be amazing and brilliant and godly but then drop it without another word and why are we even having such a discussion?)

 

Well i feel like almost all the human characters, girls and guys, got enough screen time and plot inclusion to be accepted as a part of the overarchjng narrative and interest. Yolie had that big family that meant she was basically looked over and would fight with her siblings but still loved them and wished they could get along. Sora was being the mother because she expected to be, being the only female, but couldn't take the stress, but in the end realised it was her genuine love for her friends that she treasured. Mimi was the spoilt brat who cried at any sort of work, but over time she learnt the value of responsibility and doing it with other people, along while passionate.

Just in later seasons it gets worse.

 

I've seen all the digimon series to to Savers/Data Squad in English dub and I can't really watch the subs since the dub was basically my childhood.
Digimon Frontier (season 4) was my favorite and I used to REALLY hate Tamers but rewatching it when I got older I really liked it.
Is Xros Wars and the others any good?

 

In terms of the subs, it was alright but no clue of the dub that's coming so hedge your bets.