#yukito sanjou

[hidengifs]

Abaranger 20th: The Unforgivable Abare ↳ Distribution Starts September 1st 2023

[mahoutoons]

on the topic of men in magical girl shows being treated worse than women in shonen... mot only is it not true but a lot of men in magical girl shows are actually nuanced, full fledged characters with their own personalities and characters arcs.

mamoru chiba may be the poster boy for the male damsel in distress in magical girl shows but he's actually very helpful to sailor moon, supporting her both emotionally and in fights and doing everything he can to be useful to her. he even had a whole arc in the dream arc about wanting to be more useful to usagi.

syaoran li starts out as a rival to sakura and proves to be quite capable, even collecting a few cards on his own. he slowly becomes friends with her and eventually, her boyfriend. in clear card he's a very loving boyfriend and does everything he can to support sakura and make her happy.

touya kinomoto is sakura's brother who knows about her powers but doesn't tell her. he watches sakura from a distance and protects her in any way he can.

yukito tsukishiro is the alternate form of yue. he only knows about this near the end of the sakura card arc. but even then he's a good character with a full fledged personality. also he and touya are such a good couple.

masaya aoyama puts on a facade of the perfect, popular boy but deep down he's cynical and hates humanity because of what they're doing to the planet. but him meeting ichigo and spending time with her opens his heart. he also takes on the role of blue knight to protect ichigo.

shugo chara has many magical boys. tadase hotori, kukai souma, kairi sanjou, and nagihiko fujisaki are all just as important as the girls and they have their own character arcs. even ikuto is quite a complex character, that is if you take away his whole deal with amu.

princess tutu has just as many main male characters as female characters, probably even more and they're all extremely important to the story. mytho is the prince from the story drosselmeyer wrote who went into the real world after he shattered his heart to seal away the raven. fakir is a descendent of drosselmeyer and starts out mean but eventually grows to care about ahiru and plays a very important role in the finale. drosselmeyer is the driving force behind all the events in the series.

the precure franchise, although it did some of its male characters dirty (*cough pikario and takumi cough*) also has some great male characters.

seiji sagara is megumi's childhood friend who finds out about her being a precure. even though he doesn't have any powers he does his best to support her and her friends.

prince kanata is the catalyst behind haruka becoming a precure and he's a capable fighter who does anything to protect his kingdom and supports the girls whenever he can.

henri wakamiya is the first ever male cure (although he's not on the main team) and gives a wonderful lesson about gender expression.

masato aikasi starts out being very conservative but after his heart is opened by henri, he starts to learn that gender roles are stupid and even stands up for his sister against their grandfather.

and now we have cure wing, who is going to he the first main male cure in the franchise.

even though there are male characters in magical girl shows who are either done dirty or quite useless, a lot of the time the authors actually develop the male characters just as much as the female characters.

and this should be an example because if these shojo magical girl authors can put just as much care into their male characters as their female characters, then what's stopping these male shone authors from doing the same to their female characters? shonen being aimed at boys and the authors not knowing how to write women is not an excuse. if shojo authors just said they don’t know how to write men, they would get laughed at. so why is it seen as an acceptable excuse for male shonen authors.

and even if there is a lack of men in these magical girl shows, so what? men have like 148293 shonen anime with generic male protagonist #738383 who beats up bad guys and gets a love interest whose only purpose is either the damsel in distress or fanservice bait. let us have a genre made for women by women. it won't hurt you.

[radroller]

Some of my favorite images of Yukito “AbareBlue” Sanjou

[floreszaa]

The way he falls

[cipi127]

Mai: I made a marshmallow Yukito. His arms are crossed because he’s mad at all the other marshmallow rangers for annoying him. Do you like it?

Yukito: *choked up* It’s fine.

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

Uhh Ryoga and Yukito from Abaranger either romantically or platonically with Shuffle.

I love romance, so romance it is! I really like Doja Cat's "Kiss Me More" for being a surprisingly sweet jam about asking for romance in what's previously been a casual relationship, and this isn't quite that, but it's close enough for jazz. ^_^ I hope you enjoy it!

Song: "Kiss Me More," Doja Cat feat. SZA (Spotify) - warning, song is NSFW

can you kiss me more?

"Yuki-san! What are you doing here?"

Yukito crouches, only pretending reluctance, and manages to brace himself right before Mai runs into him. "Ryoga got delayed at the park, a group of hikers got a little lost and he's helping with the first aid. So he asked me to come pick you up."

A sweet-faced woman who he assumes is Mai's classroom teacher is approaching, and he stands with difficulty, Mai hanging around his neck. Mai says, "This is Miss Suzuki!"

Nodding, Yukito shifts his grip so that Mai's balanced and holds out a hand. "Sanjou Yukito. Ryoga sent me, he got held up at work."

"Of course you're Dr. Sanjou!" Miss Suzuki shakes his hand, beaming. "It's nice to finally get to meet you!"

He blinks. "What do you mean, finally?"

"Well, we and the kids all adore Ryoga, of course, but I’ve been hoping to meet the rest of the family. Mai talks about you all the time, you know?”

Bewildered, Yukito nearly says, I’m sorry, the rest of the family? and then bites that back and just nods. “It’s nice to meet you as well, Miss Suzuki, I’ve heard a lot about you from Mai.”

Mai, recently gap-toothed and in exuberant good cheer as usual, nods vigorously next to his ear before saying, “Did you drive here in the new car? Can we put the top down? Please? It’s really nice out!”

“I…sure, why not, we’ll drive home with the top down.”

--

It had seemed only natural to invite Ryoga and Mai to stay with him when they returned from America. They had nowhere else to stay but in the room they’d shared over Dino House, and Yukito’s house was far too big to house just himself—he’d bought it several years ago, when he was still buried deeply in the need to spite his father with his financial success. There had always been the unspoken assumption that eventually Ryoga would probably want to find an apartment that he and Mai could call their own, but nothing firmly discussed. At this point they’d been living with him for nearly a year, and it hadn’t ever struck him how much he liked that until he’d spotted Ryoga reading the classifieds and circling rental listings in red pen.

He pulls up to the house, and as the car roof’s going back up and Mai’s making a slightly disorganized attempt to get her hair back in its barrettes he says, “Does your teacher think Ryoga and I are together?"

"You are together! We all live together!"

"No, not like–" He takes one of the barrettes out of her hand and clips her hair back, very gently and carefully. "I mean, does she think we're dating? Does she think I'm Ryoga's…" he hunts for a word, finds several that seem not quite right, and settles on what seems the least wrong as he's fixing another barrette, "boyfriend?"

“Oh. Maybe!” She blinks up at him, nose wrinkling as she thinks about it. “I do talk about you a lot. And we live with you! I drew you in my picture when we were doing pictures of where we lived last week.”

“Ah…that’s…good, thank you.” He reaches into the back seat and retrieves her backpack. “We should get inside.”

“Can I watch cartoons?”

“Not until you’re done with your kanji homework, I know you have some.”

“Only a little, though.”

“You still have to finish it first.”

“Ok!”

--

Yukito and Ryoga aren’t dating.

Not that he’s never thought about it, not that he’s never wished—

One of the first things that Ryoga had done upon returning to Japan was visit Nakadai’s grave. However much Yukito had disliked Nakadai himself, Ryoga had clearly felt something about him, and it would have been worse than tactless to ask Ryoga to dinner when he was still grieving his…his whatever Nakadai had been to him. And after that, of course, Ryoga had been living with him, and Yukito prefers to remain silent if the other option is possibly making Ryoga feel like he owes something.

Except that now Ryoga’s looking at apartments, which means he’s thinking about moving out. Yukito’s not sure how he feels about that.

No, scratch that, he’s terribly, agonizingly sure of how he feels about it. Which in turn means he needs to talk to Ryoga, and despite the fact that Ryoga is one of the easiest men on the planet to talk to, this is terrifying.

--

Of course, first Mai has to finish her homework. Not that she has very much, just a couple of kanji to practice, a few simple math problems, a short diary entry about the day's weather. Yukito checks the math problems for her and lets her read him the diary entry aloud. Then Ryoga gets home, and he's busy in the kitchen making dinner because he actually enjoys cooking and was horrified to learn that when Yukito's living by himself he mainly eats takeout. Dinner, and after dinner there are dishes to do and Mai wants them to watch a show with her and everyone needs to bathe and by the time Mai's gone to bed Yukito's had far too much time to think everything over and get more and more stressed about it.

They're in the living room now, and Yukito's trying to read a well-reviewed new novel but mostly staring at one page without processing anything. At the other end of the couch, Ryoga's got some journal in hand and is busily making notes all over the article he's reading, clearly very absorbed, but when Yukito finally puts the book aside he looks up and grins and says, "Hey, I meant to say, thanks for picking up Mai today, I know it was really last minute."

"Of course, I couldn't just leave her at school. And my afternoon was open."

"How'd it go? The teachers didn't give you a hard time, did they?"

"No, not at all, ah." Yukito stares into space for a moment. "In fact as far as I can tell, Miss Suzuki thinks I'm your. Partner."

"Oh, I…you know, I can see where she'd think that, we do live together. I hope it wasn't too awk–"

"I noticed you were looking at apartment listings this morning."

Ryoga blinks, clearly a little thrown by the apparent change in topic even though in Yukito's mind it had seemed like a perfectly logical transition. "I, yeah, I mean, we've been here almost a year, and it's been wonderful of you to have us, but I figured maybe it was about time we got out of your hair."

"I, ah. No, I don't think—I would like you to be. More…in my hair?" Yukito frowns. "That didn't come out right. I'd like it if you stayed here as long as…as long as it suits you."

More surprised blinking. “You really mean that? I mean, I know Mai would love to stay here, she’s very happy here, but we wouldn’t be too in the way?”

“No, not at all. Not at all. I also, I’d like it if, please don’t think this is conditional in any way, but.” Yukito stares forward at the wall, nearly blanking on the words he wants to say. “Would you have dinner with me?”

“…I’m assuming you mean in a date way and not in the way where we have dinner together nearly every evening already?”

“Yes. Yes, that.”

There’s a silence, and Yukito is genuinely terrified that it’s a lead-up to Ryoga saying no and then he’ll have worked himself up like this for nothing, and then when he glances over Ryoga’s looking at him thoughtfully and saying, “That’s sort of new and unexpected.”

“It’s not new, really, it’s just never seemed like the right moment before now. Since I wouldn’t want you to think that I was putting some kind of, of pressure on you because you’re living here. And before that there was…” Vague gesturing in the air. “You know.”

“...I was still kind of hung up on Nakadai for a while there, yeah.”

“I thought you might be.” Yukito swallows hard. “In any case, as I was saying, you and Mai staying here isn’t at all conditional on your—”

Ryoga reaches over and pulls him closes, leaning their foreheads together. “For one,” he says, very softly, “I have a better opinion of you than that. And for two, you need to give me a chance to say yes before you start assuming I’m going to say no.”

“…ah.”

A soft grin. “You’re such a pessimist sometimes.”

“I—it’s just what I’m like, you know that. Can I kiss you?”

They stop talking.

[veeranger]

heterosexual sanjou yukito moments

[biomic]

Jon Pertwee did not subject himself to radiation poisoning while preaching morality at a giant talking spider lady to be succeeded by Sanjou Yukito

i think yukito and the third doctor should kiss

[yukimari]

ミュージカル『刀剣乱舞』/ Musical Touken Ranbu :

Trial Performance / トライアル公演 ( Autumn 2015 )

Atsukashiyama ibun / 阿津賀志山異聞 ( Spring 2016)

Bakumatsu tenrouden /  幕末天狼傳 ( Autumn 2016 )

in Itsukushima Shrine /  in 嚴島神社 ( Autumn 2016 )

Shinken Ranbu Sai  2016 /  真剣乱舞祭 2016 ( Winter 2016 ) 

Mihotose no Komoriuta / 三百年の子守唄  ( Spring 2017 )

Kashuu Kiyomitsu Tanki Shutsujin 2017 (Kashuu Kiyomitsu solo live) / 加州清光 単騎出陣2017 (  Autumn 2017 )

Tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato / ～つはものどもがゆめのあと～ ( Autumn 2017 )

Shinken Ranbu Sai  2017 / 真剣乱舞祭 2017 ( Winter 2017 )

Performance Dates: 

Trial Performance :  17 performance within 10 days, 0 days off

Tokyo : October 30, 2015 - November 8, 2015 

Atsukashiyama ibun  :  40 performance within 22 days, 2 days off

Tokyo: May 27, 2016 - June 12, 2016 

Osaka : June 17, 2016 - June 19, 2016 

Kyoto: June 23, 2016 - June 26, 2016 

Bakumatsu tenrouden  :  65 performance within 39 days, 4 days off

Tokyo: September 24, 2016 - October 10, 2016 

Fukuoka: October 15, 2016 - October 16

Osaka: October 21, 2016 - October 30, 2016 

Tokyo: November 17, 2016 - November 27, 2016 

Shanghai: January 13, 2017 - January 15, 2017

in Itsukushima Shrine  : 2 performance within 1 day 

November 12, 2016

Shinken Ranbu Sai  2016 : 6 performance

Osaka : December 13, 2016 

Tokyo : December 20, 2016 - December 21, 2016 

Mihotose no Komoriuta :  65 performance within 40 days, 5 days off

Tokyo: March 4, 2017 - March 26, 2017 

Osaka : April 1, 2017- April 9, 2017

Tokyo: April 14, 2017 - April 23, 2017 

Zhuhai : May 19, 2017 - May 21, 2017 

Kashuu Kiyomitsu Tanki Shutsujin 2017 : 16 performance within 10 days, 1 day off

Tokyo: October 5, 2017 - October 15, 2017

Tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato :  36 performance within 24 days, 2 days off

Tokyo: November 4, 2017 - November 12, 2017 

Kyoto: November 17, 2017  - November 19, 2017 

Tokyo: January 6, 2018 - January 14, 2018 

Osaka: January 26, 2018 - January 30, 2018

Shinken Ranbu Sai  2017 : 11 performance 

Tokyo : December 8, 2017 - December 9, 2017 

Osaka : December 12, 2017 - December 13, 2017 

Saitama: December 19, 2017 - December 20, 2017 

Guangzhou : December 23, 2017 - December 24, 2017

Place used:

Tokyo:

AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo : Trial Performance,  Atsukashiyama ibun,  Bakumatsu tenrouden, Mihotose no Komoriuta, 

Ryougoku Kokugikan : Shinken Ranbu Sai 2016

Tennouzu Ginga Gekijou - The Galaxy Theatre:  Kashuu Kiyomitsu Tanki Shutsujin 2017

Nippon Budokan : Shinken Ranbu Sai 2017

Tokyo Dome City Hall :   Tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato

Nippon Seinenkan Hall :  Tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato  

Osaka:

Morinomiya Piloti Hall :  Atsukashiyama ibun, Bakumatsu tenrouden 

Sankei Hall Breeze:  Bakumatsu tenrouden 

Osakajo Hall : Shinken Ranbu Sai 2016 , Shinken Ranbu Sai 2017

Umeda Arts Theater: Mihotose no Komoriuta,  Tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato

Kyoto: 

Kyoto Gekijo:  Atsukashiyama ibun,  Tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato

Fukuoka: 

Fukuoka Canal City theater:  Bakumatsu tenrouden

Saitama:

Saitama Super Arena: Shinken Ranbu Sai 2017

China: 

Shanghai Hongqiao Culture Artistic Center:  Bakumatsu tenrouden

Zhuhai Grand Theatre : Mihotose no Komoriuta

Guangzhou Stadium: Shinken Ranbu Sai 2017

Touken Danshi Actors: 

Kuroba Mario ( 黒羽麻璃央 ) as Mikazuki Munechika

Kitazono Ryo ( 北園涼 ) as Kogitsunemaru

Sakiyama Tsubasa ( 崎山つばさ) as Ishikirimaru

Saeki Daichi ( 佐伯大地 ) as Iwatooshi

Ohira Shunya ( 大平峻也 ) as Imanotsurugi

Sato Ryuji ( 佐藤流司 ) as Kashuu Kiyomitsu

Torigoe Yuuki ( 鳥越裕貴‏ ) as Yamatonokami Yasusada

Arisawa Shoutarou ( 有澤樟太郎‏ ) as Izuminokami Kanesada

Ogoe Yuuki ( 小越勇輝‏ ) as Horikawa Kunihiro

Takahashi Kensuke ( 高橋健介 ) as Hachisuka Kotetsu

Imari Yuu ( 伊万里有 ) as Nagasone Kotetsu

Araki Hirofumi ( 荒木宏文 ) as Nikkari Aoe

Ota Motohiro ( 太田基裕 ) as Sengo Muramasa

Spi as Tonbokiri

Yokota Ryugi ( 横田龍儀 ) as Monoyoshi Sadamune

Zaiki Takuma ( 財木琢磨 ) as Ookurikara

Miura Hiroki ( 三浦宏規 ) as Higekiri

Takano Akira ( 高野洸‏ ) as Hizamaru

Human Team Actors:

Atsukashiyama ibun / Trial Performance :

Tanaka Shigemi (田中しげ美) as Musashibou Benkei   

Araki Kentarou (荒木健太朗) as Minamoto no Yoshitsune  

Okuno Masaaki (奥野正明)  as Minamoto no Yoritomo 

Kako Lion (加古臨王) as Fujiwara no Yasuhira 

Bakumatsu tenrouden :

Goumoto Naoya (郷本直也) as Kondou Isami 

Takagi Tomohiro (高木トモユキ) as Hijikata Toshizou 

Tochihara Rakuto (栩原楽人) as Okita Souji  

Mihotose no Komoriuta :

Washio Noboru (鷲尾 昇) as Tokugawa Ieyasu 

Ohno Mizuki (大野瑞生) as Matsudaira Nobuyasu

Ayuba Shuri (阿由葉朱凌) / Kojima Yukito (小島幸士) as Takechiyo (W cast)

Takane Masaki (高根正樹) as Gohei 

Tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato:

Tanaka Shigemi (田中しげ美) as Musashibou Benkei  

Araki Kentarou (荒木健太朗) as Minamoto no Yoshitsune  

Tomita Masanori (冨田昌則)  as Minamoto no Yoritomo

Kako Lion (加古臨王) as Fujiwara no Yasuhira

Touken Danshi Appearance:

Atsukashiyama ibun / Trial Performance : 

Mikazuki Munechika

Kogitsunemaru

Ishikirimaru

Iwatooshi

Imanotsurugi

Kashuu Kiyomitsu

Bakumatsu tenrouden :

Kashuu Kiyomitsu 

Yamatonokami Yasusada

Izuminokami Kanesada

Horikawa Kunihiro

Hachisuka Kotetsu

Nagasone Kotetsu

in Itsukushima Shrine :

Mikazuki Munechika

Kogitsunemaru

Ishikirimaru

Iwatooshi

Imanotsurugi

Kashuu Kiyomitsu

Yamatonokami Yasusada

Izuminokami Kanesada

Horikawa Kunihiro

Hachisuka Kotetsu

Nagasone Kotetsu

Shinken Ranbu Sai  2016 :

Mikazuki Munechika

Kogitsunemaru

Ishikirimaru

Iwatooshi

Imanotsurugi

Kashuu Kiyomitsu

Yamatonokami Yasusada

Izuminokami Kanesada

Horikawa Kunihiro

Hachisuka Kotetsu

Nagasone Kotetsu

Mihotose no Komoriuta :

Ishikirimaru

Nikkari Aoe

Sengo Muramasa

Tonbokiri

Monoyoshi Sadamune

Ookurikara

Tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato :

Mikazuki Munechika

Kogitsunemaru

Iwatooshi 

Imanotsurugi

Higekiri

Hizamaru

Shinken Ranbu Sai 2017 :

Mikazuki Munechika

Kogitsunemaru

Ishikirimaru

Iwatooshi

Imanotsurugi

Kashuu Kiyomitsu

Izuminokami Kanesada

Hachisuka Kotetsu

Nagasone Kotetsu

Nikkari Aoe

Sengo Muramasa

Tonbokiri

Monoyoshi Sadamune

Ookurikara

Higekiri

Hizamaru

Other:

NHK’s Shibuya Note:

(September 4, 2016) Team Sanjou with Kashuu Kiyomitsu

(July 2, 2017) Team Shinsengumi with Hachisuka Kotetsu (without Horikawa Kunihiro, Nagasone Kotetsu)

 (September 30, 2017) Formation of Mihotose

INDIA GAMING SHOW:

(February 4, 2017 - February 5, 2017)  Team Shinsengumi with Hachisuka Kotetsu

Japan Expo Paris 2017:

(July 7, 2017 - July 8, 2017)  Team Sanjou with Kashuu Kiyomitsu (without Mikazuki Munechika)

Music Videos: 

Team Sanjou with Kashuu Kiyomitsu:  『キミの詩』 / “Kimi no Uta”

Team Shinsengumi with Hachisuka Kotetsu: 『ユメひとつ』/ “Yume Hitotsu”  

Formation of Mihotose: 『勝利の凱歌』 / “Shouri no Gaika”

OFFICIAL SITE :

 Here

[tokutracks]

aoki jounetsu | bakuryu sentai abaranger

yukito sanjou (sho tomita)

[aonodreamland]

ALL BLUE SENTAI!!! XD

Tokkyu 2go (Tokashiki Haru/Hiramaki Jin)

Abare Blue (Sanjou Yukito/Tomita Sho)

Aoninger (Kato Cloud Yakumo/Matsumoto Gaku)

Blue Buster (Iwasaki Ryuuji/Baba Ryoma)

Deka Blue (Tomasu Hoji/Hayashi Tsuyoshi)

Kyoryuu Blue (Udo Nobuharu/Kinjo Yamato)

Source : 1, 2

[tsunflowers]

Yukito Sanjou from Abaranger??

First impression: cringe

Impression now: cringe (affectionate)

Favorite moment: when they made him dress up as a nun

Idea for a story: yukito desperately trying to show affection to ryouga but he doesn't know how due to his stunted childhood so he's just like showering him with gifts ryouga neither needs nor wants. finally he realizes all he needs to do is spend time with him and mai but he wastes so much time trying to buy ryouga a car

Unpopular opinion: all my opinions about yukito are just true

Favorite relationship: with ryouga of course

Favorite headcanon: the pineapple curry was not a one-off he has no concept of what makes food good. he thinks if it's expensive or unusual it must be good. he would watch one of those terrible food videos and think "wow they're so innovative"

[the-evil-pizza]

How about you stop being a fucking jerk , Yukito ? 

[floreszaa]

Pls, pls im searching some fanarts or comics or fanfiction of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger, cuz it's so good. I need to find some or else I'm gonna go nuts

[aqua-tan]

[kawaiixchaotic]

this is why i am a mahou shojo lover through and through

on the topic of men in magical girl shows being treated worse than women in shonen... mot only is it not true but a lot of men in magical girl shows are actually nuanced, full fledged characters with their own personalities and characters arcs.

mamoru chiba may be the poster boy for the male damsel in distress in magical girl shows but he's actually very helpful to sailor moon, supporting her both emotionally and in fights and doing everything he can to be useful to her. he even had a whole arc in the dream arc about wanting to be more useful to usagi.

syaoran li starts out as a rival to sakura and proves to be quite capable, even collecting a few cards on his own. he slowly becomes friends with her and eventually, her boyfriend. in clear card he's a very loving boyfriend and does everything he can to support sakura and make her happy.

touya kinomoto is sakura's brother who knows about her powers but doesn't tell her. he watches sakura from a distance and protects her in any way he can.

yukito tsukishiro is the alternate form of yue. he only knows about this near the end of the sakura card arc. but even then he's a good character with a full fledged personality. also he and touya are such a good couple.

masaya aoyama puts on a facade of the perfect, popular boy but deep down he's cynical and hates humanity because of what they're doing to the planet. but him meeting ichigo and spending time with her opens his heart. he also takes on the role of blue knight to protect ichigo.

shugo chara has many magical boys. tadase hotori, kukai souma, kairi sanjou, and nagihiko fujisaki are all just as important as the girls and they have their own character arcs. even ikuto is quite a complex character, that is if you take away his whole deal with amu.

princess tutu has just as many main male characters as female characters, probably even more and they're all extremely important to the story. mytho is the prince from the story drosselmeyer wrote who went into the real world after he shattered his heart to seal away the raven. fakir is a descendent of drosselmeyer and starts out mean but eventually grows to care about ahiru and plays a very important role in the finale. drosselmeyer is the driving force behind all the events in the series.

the precure franchise, although it did some of its male characters dirty (*cough pikario and takumi cough*) also has some great male characters.

seiji sagara is megumi's childhood friend who finds out about her being a precure. even though he doesn't have any powers he does his best to support her and her friends.

prince kanata is the catalyst behind haruka becoming a precure and he's a capable fighter who does anything to protect his kingdom and supports the girls whenever he can.

henri wakamiya is the first ever male cure (although he's not on the main team) and gives a wonderful lesson about gender expression.

masato aikasi starts out being very conservative but after his heart is opened by henri, he starts to learn that gender roles are stupid and even stands up for his sister against their grandfather.

and now we have cure wing, who is going to he the first main male cure in the franchise.

even though there are male characters in magical girl shows who are either done dirty or quite useless, a lot of the time the authors actually develop the male characters just as much as the female characters.

and this should be an example because if these shojo magical girl authors can put just as much care into their male characters as their female characters, then what's stopping these male shone authors from doing the same to their female characters? shonen being aimed at boys and the authors not knowing how to write women is not an excuse. if shojo authors just said they don’t know how to write men, they would get laughed at. so why is it seen as an acceptable excuse for male shonen authors.

and even if there is a lack of men in these magical girl shows, so what? men have like 148293 shonen anime with generic male protagonist #738383 who beats up bad guys and gets a love interest whose only purpose is either the damsel in distress or fanservice bait. let us have a genre made for women by women. it won't hurt you.