This is actually from 2022, but I missed it back in the day. This is quite important research imo, and very relevant lately. Link to the paper itself: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563222001637

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

Funny you bring up gachas because in most of them the cast is overwhelmingly women.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Genshin has plently of male characters (F to M is ~1:2 iirc), and there is a variety of niches covered: cute twink-like types like Venti, hot tall guys like Diluc, etc. Anyway, vote with your wallet. It's only natural there are more girl characters if that's what larger chunk of playerbase want.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Even in your example there is way more women than men

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    I personally wouldn't call 1:2 "overwhelmingly", but even so, if there was just a single male Venti in the whole game, it wouldn't in any way make the claim "Plenty in gachas, jrpgs, and such" untrue, because these games combined have a lot of sexy twinks to pick from.

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