What the actual fuck does this mean? 50% of the population is female, how the fuck does representing complex female characters with personal struggles and growth equate to diversity for the sake of diversity? NO ONE is asking for a hundred trans, non-binary or gay characters. Just for the love of Christ above, stop reducing women to stereotypes and cheap satellite characters that revolve around men. They statistically outnumber men. This isn't fucking rocket science.
Every time someone makes this argument, I'm utterly convinced they eat crayons day in and day out. Absolutely retarded, brain dead argument.
How do you jump to this conclusion? You're completely missing the argument here, the point isn't that there aren't females or other ethnicities than "white people". Thing is, when a story (more often than not an adaptation of a story) starts altering the plot just because of someone's ethnicity or background. Like how suddenly J.K Rowling decided that oh yeah ofc Hermoine is black, like what?? Hello?
I have absolutely NOTHING against people adding in diverse characters to spice things up, but I have a problem with people who finds fault in other people's works of art to funnel their own morals/ ethics/ politics into them.
The pressure that this group that wants "inclusion" is asphyxiating and when people cave to their demands it feels forced, and doesn't feel right nor should anyone let other people dictate how your OWN STORY should go.. Like what the f?
Good female characters exist in the medium of manga, they might be in smaller amounts in Shonen specifically but, anime/manga is not solely shonen..