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And why they haven't though of putting a female lead? I don't mind males being leads, however, I want to have females to say "hey look, there is something that we relate to, and a game we can play!" though girls does play the game in reality.

And why they haven't though of putting a female lead? I don't mind males being leads, however, I want to have females to say "hey look, there is something that we relate to, and a game we can play!" though girls does play the game in reality.

I guess they didn't want to go that route but it sure as heck would have been fresh and help bring in a female audience to the game.

I've been wanting there to finally be a female lead too if they were going to do another show. We had four shows with male leads so far so it's about time they threw in a female for a new show. I guess they didn't want to go that route but it sure as heck would have been fresh and help bring in a female audience to the game.

Maybe the heart of the cards hates women? Notice how there are many more male characters than female characters in all the Yu-gi-oh franchises and how all the male characters seen to be pretty-boys. Yep. Heart of the Cards is gay.

This mindset of 'it needs a female main character to appeal to females' does not have as much weight in Japan as it does in American cartoons given the inclusion that media in Japan can capitalize on the sexuality of the characters where as American cartoons can not. Yu-Gi-Oh is extremely popular with females in Japan in the same way shows like Hitman Reborn and Kuroko no Basket are despite all of them being shonen series aimed at boys featuring primarily a male cast. The characters are extremely popular with fujoshi to the point of hundreds of doujinshi being produced about them and that is the main draw of the series for girls. To put it bluntly, putting a female lead in Yu-Gi-Oh would actually decrease the female fanbase than if they left it as is, as would be the case for a lot of shonen properties.

Maybe they want a change to bring the cape idea back, or have him as part of Atem's bloodline, just as Yugi was.

yukai5 wrote:

Maybe they want a change to bring the cape idea back, or have him as part of Atem's bloodline, just as Yugi was.

Well, if thats the case, he better be the best duelist ever right out the gate(wouldn't want to be like Yuma and lose 20 duels in a row lol). Who said Yugi was part of Atem's bloodline? He is the reincarnation of Atem, but it doesn't mean they are related(*cough*Siamun*cough*).

KH91 wrote:

yukai5 wrote: Maybe they want a change to bring the cape idea back, or have him as part of Atem's bloodline, just as Yugi was. Well, if thats the case, he better be the best duelist ever right out the gate(wouldn't want to be like Yuma and lose 20 duels in a row lol). Who said Yugi was part of Atem's bloodline? He is the reincarnation of Atem, but it doesn't mean they are related(*cough*Siamun*cough*).

That is true, however some people do think that Yugi is Atem's direct desentant, as well as Ishizu (Isis), Kaiba (Seto) Shada (Shadi....though theroticly they are the same) and Grandpa (Shimon). However, despite appearances, there is no official backstory about why the look like the past counterparts (or there is backstory....but I keep missing it).

For the new main lead....I totally agree with that. And I also hope that he is better that Yuma too (20 duels in a ROW???? That....wow...I don't really watch Zexal that much but even that probally destroyed Jonouchi's/Joey's record so much lol)

Maybe they want a change to bring the cape idea back, or have him as part of Atem's bloodline, just as Yugi was. And I really hoping that they don't add on a new type of card to the game.....having 6 kinds of monster cards is more than enough.

And why they haven't though of putting a female lead? I don't mind males being leads, however, I want to have females to say "hey look, there is something that we relate to, and a game we can play!" though girls does play the game in reality.

4KidsFan wrote:

I've been wanting there to finally be a female lead too if they were going to do another show. We had four shows with male leads so far so it's about time they threw in a female for a new show. I guess they didn't want to go that route but it sure as heck would have been fresh and help bring in a female audience to the game.

That's what I'm thinking too.

Davy0 wrote:

Maybe the heart of the cards hates women? Notice how there are many more male characters than female characters in all the Yu-gi-oh franchises and how all the male characters seen to be pretty-boys. Yep. Heart of the Cards is gay.

Correction. 4 out of 6 are Pretty Boys (or classed as sexy), 1 out of 6 is cute (come on, if you were a girl, you know what I mean) and the remainder comes from a totally different universe with NO clothes on (yes i know the back story with that but still). But that's my opinion on that matter.

Guile wrote:

This mindset of 'it needs a female main character to appeal to females' does not have as much weight in Japan as it does in American cartoons given the inclusion that media in Japan can capitalize on the sexuality of the characters where as American cartoons can not. Yu-Gi-Oh is extremely popular with females in Japan in the same way shows like Hitman Reborn and Kuroko no Basket are despite all of them being shonen series aimed at boys featuring primarily a male cast. The characters are extremely popular with fujoshi to the point of hundreds of doujinshi being produced about them and that is the main draw of the series for girls. To put it bluntly, putting a female lead in Yu-Gi-Oh would actually decrease the female fanbase than if they left it as is, as would be the case for a lot of shonen properties.

I get what you mean, and totally agree 100% (I mean, the first kick a$$ female duelist was Mai). I'm just saying on an English (actually Kiwi but English is my first language here) girl point of view that there should be a female lead for girls to look up to, despite the HUGE chance of fanservice, sexual pics (yes they are still around) etc with the older audience. On the flip side of this, they will focus more about the clothes they are wearing, or how sexy the character is etc, so there is more than a risk of decreasing numbers if they go ahead on this, plus showing that its ok to wear skimpy clothing (which the censorship in America does a good job changing the clothing, much to the disgust of the older audience). I know this is going a bit back of what I said earlier but this is how I feel.

I hope this one is more like 5D's than Zexal.