You have to keep in mind the genre. While there are several exceptions female characters do tend to be less fleshed out so with all the anti-Sue rants and such are going to keep less confident writers from attempting to work with female characters.
For the most part the interactions between the female characters are fairly limited. A good example would be Tifa’s relationships with Cloud and Barret vs. the one she has with Aeris. More than a good portion of the plot is wrapped up with her relationship with Cloud and Tifa and Barret start off with a friendship and they continue it through the game through various dialogues and I’m pretty sure out of all the characters who are not Cloud they speak to each other the most, while Tifa and Aeris have one bonding conversation over cross dressing then they girl chat and that’s about it, other than Tifa’s comment’s on Aeris death. I could be wrong as I only had Aeris in my party my first game before I realized she died and didn’t want to wasted time leveling her up on other games. That said outside of the big three most of the in AVALANCHE relationships between each other weren’t fleshed out but this leads to point three.
Also a lot of the girls lack a common point of bonding as you usual have a princess, a fighter, the ordinary girl, and the magic girl all from diverse backgrounds all involved in the general quest for different reasons. With the boys you usual get to see them interacting and in turn get to see that point of bonding of course this one isn’t all always the case as FFX has all the girls coming together but then while I disliked the game it did have well developed characters.
So I guess I’m trying to say to work with girl characters you have to either gutsy or new to the fandom and have to be willing to do a lot of canon manipulation.
While I will say several of the themes in Archetypically reminds me of Sailor Moon, I can see why it’s not your kind of thing. I enjoy it as much as I do because it has practically everything I love rolled up into one story: fantasy, science fiction, all the types of love, friendships, kick butt girls along with an awesome maternal tough girl, fairytales, Greek myths, having to choose between what makes you happy and duty and realize it’s not about duty, epic feel, you know it’s a tragedy but it’s about hope. While it far from perfect it was the first manga of its type I’d ever read and I have lots of warm fuzzes whenever I think about it.
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For the most part the interactions between the female characters are fairly limited. A good example would be Tifa’s relationships with Cloud and Barret vs. the one she has with Aeris. More than a good portion of the plot is wrapped up with her relationship with Cloud and Tifa and Barret start off with a friendship and they continue it through the game through various dialogues and I’m pretty sure out of all the characters who are not Cloud they speak to each other the most, while Tifa and Aeris have one bonding conversation over cross dressing then they girl chat and that’s about it, other than Tifa’s comment’s on Aeris death. I could be wrong as I only had Aeris in my party my first game before I realized she died and didn’t want to wasted time leveling her up on other games. That said outside of the big three most of the in AVALANCHE relationships between each other weren’t fleshed out but this leads to point three.
Also a lot of the girls lack a common point of bonding as you usual have a princess, a fighter, the ordinary girl, and the magic girl all from diverse backgrounds all involved in the general quest for different reasons. With the boys you usual get to see them interacting and in turn get to see that point of bonding of course this one isn’t all always the case as FFX has all the girls coming together but then while I disliked the game it did have well developed characters.
So I guess I’m trying to say to work with girl characters you have to either gutsy or new to the fandom and have to be willing to do a lot of canon manipulation.
While I will say several of the themes in Archetypically reminds me of Sailor Moon, I can see why it’s not your kind of thing. I enjoy it as much as I do because it has practically everything I love rolled up into one story: fantasy, science fiction, all the types of love, friendships, kick butt girls along with an awesome maternal tough girl, fairytales, Greek myths, having to choose between what makes you happy and duty and realize it’s not about duty, epic feel, you know it’s a tragedy but it’s about hope. While it far from perfect it was the first manga of its type I’d ever read and I have lots of warm fuzzes whenever I think about it.