Basic Trope: Overproportional representation of young and beautiful male characters in the main cast.
- Straight: A group of teenagers has 15 pretty boys and 3 girls.
- Exaggerated:
- Female characters do exist, but only in the background or not at all. The focus lies upon the world of uber-beautiful males, men that look like women, and men dressed as women.
- There are only male characters in the show, and they all look pretty.
- Downplayed: The show has a large number of very attractive male characters, but there are a fair amount of girls too. Maybe 10 boys to 5 girls.
- Justified:
- The show is set in a place or a community that only allows pretty boys to join, such as a gay bar, a prestigious One-Gender School that is full of The Dandy, or a Boy Band.
- In some shows, women are completely useless and weak, so they are forced to stay on the sidelines.
- Or said women happen to be Faux Action Girls.
- They're One-Gender Race
- Inverted: The show consist only of tough women.
- Subverted: A show has a large number of male characters, but the real focus lies on the female character and ignores the male characters most of the time.
- Double Subverted:
- However, the female character happens to be the heroine of a Reverse Harem.
- The sole female character is actually a Wholesome Crossdresser.
- Parodied:
- There are so few women in the work that characters consider them to be mythological creatures. People who claim to have seen women are treated as if they just said they believed in Bigfoot.
- All of the few women in the show are hilariously Gonks and far uglier than male characters, so the men only use them to repopulate, and the men date and mate with each other for emotional fulfillment.
- Zig Zagged:
- There's an even balance between male and female characters in a TV show, but it's a Cast Herd and they don't all appear in every episode. Most episodes feature mostly (or only) male characters, while other episodes might feature an even mix, or just girls.
- The characters in the show are Attractive Bent-Gender, and they can switching between being boys and girls throughout the show.
- Averted:
- The balance between boys and girls is even.
- There is only one pretty boy in the cast, the rests are either square-jawed Hunks with full beard or Fan Disservicey Gonks.
- Enforced: Apparently, the creators of a show found a large fanbase in girls wanting male Fanservice, so they decide to reduce the number of female characters.
- Lampshaded:
- "Why are there so many boys in the gym?"
- "Well, this party's turned into a total sausagefest." "Dude, there's like three girls in the whole city. What did you expect?"
- Invoked: A group of boys go out camping without taking their girlfriends.
- Exploited: A girl shows up all of a sudden with the explanation that "there's so many cute guys around here with no girls, I'm sure to find a date!"
- Defied: A leader of a club decides to add some girls to his club.
- Discussed: "Where are the rest of the girls at? Don't tell me she's the only one here?!"
- Conversed:Alice: "There never seems to be any girls in that show. Did they all die or something?"
Bob: "What do you mean? There's a girl right there! Don't you see her?!"
Alice: "Erh... I'm pretty sure that's just an extremely feminine boy."
Bob: "Wh-WHAT?! Really?! Oh, man..." - Deconstructed: A world with too few women causes the men to fight against one another, just to claim and mate with them, not because they're beautiful, but because they need to repopulate.
- Reconstructed:
- The men realize that women are too much more trouble than they're worth and decide either to turn a few men into Futanari, or make gynoids instead.
- Alternatively, they find out that the women have hidden themselves away from the violent males.
All beautiful boys go back to Cast Full of Pretty Boys~! Girls... Do something else.
