Part of the problem is that I think that there's a huge component of the female fandom in Japan that read Jump manga just for yaoi fuel, so they don't really *care* about the characterization of female characters (and of course I'm sure we're all familiar with the ridiculous female character bashing that happens in fandom if it's a character that happens t get in the way of the TRUE LOVE of Favorite Yaoi Pairing X as well.) I figure that the editors probably don't see much of a reason to encourage their mangaka to be more progressive on this front at least partially because of that. They probably get less pressure about improving gender roles than what happens here.
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Part of the problem is that I think that there's a huge component of the female fandom in Japan that read Jump manga just for yaoi fuel, so they don't really *care* about the characterization of female characters (and of course I'm sure we're all familiar with the ridiculous female character bashing that happens in fandom if it's a character that happens t get in the way of the TRUE LOVE of Favorite Yaoi Pairing X as well.) I figure that the editors probably don't see much of a reason to encourage their mangaka to be more progressive on this front at least partially because of that. They probably get less pressure about improving gender roles than what happens here.