Aside from the cute boy Twin Stars and a middle-aged commander, Galaxy Angel is noticeably devoid of men. This role is usually performed by Forte whenever a gag requires a "male" equivalent, something she eventually starts complaining about.
Broccoli (the production company) sometimes lampshades this in gags, notably the prince who kidnaps Milfeulle and a flashback to Usada's father, who are obviously women in really transparent disguises.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha's male population hasn't fared well after three seasons. Chrono got shipped off with (new character) Griffith to Mission Control, which, oddly enough, doesn't seem to affect their female co-worker Hayate's screen time in the least. There's a whole meme about Yuuno slowly losing his screentime once he stopped being a cute talking ferret, and new character Erio being prominently featured has a lot to do with being a [[Moe non-threatening little kid]] that fan-favorite Fate likes to dote on. Zafira suffered an even worse fate, since he has apparently been trapped permanently, and inexplicably, in his animal form since the beginning of the third season. Even when severely injured and bedridden in the infirmary, he's still in wolf form.
Even the villains follow this trope. The Mad Scientist Scaglietti is male, but for some reason, except for Zest, all of his combat cyborgs and artificial mages are females. He does give a reason, albeit one with disturbing implications: he's impregnated all of them with clones of himself.
Vivid takes this a step further, with every major character introduced thus far being a girl. So far, Erio and Zafira (in a brief cameo) are the only named male characters to have made an appearance in the entire manga. At least Zafira get's to show up in his human form.
Force has begun to turn the amount of pink bishonen-ness back a bit by giving us a male protagonist in Touma and an antagonist family with a male-female ratio of 3 to 4.
While Keroro Gunsou isn't a bishoujo series, its creator is fond of the genre. To get around this, nearly all the male characters are funny aliens, while female characters are often prominently humanoid.
Lucky Star has a grand total of three recurring male roles (five, if you count Anizawa and his assistant). The girls eventually lampshade this by commenting on the lack of romance in their lives.
The iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia. Somewhat justified. The reason they use innocent girls as pilots is to avoid the appearance of the robots being weapons, since they're only used for asteroid defence.
Vandread. The bulk of the cast are Space Pirates from an all-female planet. The few males are refugees/prisoners from the all-male planet.
In Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito, originally a Bishoujo Game, the role of the player is replaced by the side character Hazuki (a girl) who, in keeping with the theme, is the one with the crush on Hatsumi.
For some reason there are absolutely no male gondoliers in ARIA, even though steering a gondola can be hard work requiring quite a bit of muscle power. The girls don't look especially strong, though. Explained in the manga: gondoliers not working in tourism do tend to be men, and the appeal of the female Undines has made them a tourist attraction in themselves. The sexism in the industry makes it so that any young woman looking to steer a gondola basically has to go into tourism.
Mai-Hime. I think there was a line explaining the reason, but it's an obvious excuse.
The anime (which came first) is better about this, though the fact that the magical girls are, well, girls, and the fact that there are 12 /13, counting fake-HiME Alyssa of them doesn't particularly help.
It finally makes sense at the very end: it is revealed that the winning HiME has the choice of either facing off against the Obsidian Prince or becoming his wife and helping him reshape the world. The Obsidian Prince might have only come up with this for this particular HiME Carnival, though.
For some reason all the mecha pilots in Sky Girls are cute young girls. There's a reason males of the right age aren't around, but you'd think they'd be able to find people out of their teens.
Battle Athletes Daiundokai is focused on a prestigious, interplanetary sport event which is for girls only. Male characters are rare, mostly passive and usually much older.
In Silent Moebius, the special agents battling the monsters/demons from another dimension are all women. At one point, their leader offers some sort of philosophical justification about women being able to bear children and thus being the key to the future. It doesn't really hold water, especially since one of the agent is a cyborg and most certainly unable to become pregnant.
Yes, yes, Strawberry Panic is set at an all-girl school... but it goes beyond that. Not one male character is ever shown. The only man who even comes up is Rokujou's arranged fiance, and all we see is his silhouette. Straight girls (if there are any) will have to settle for Amane. (There is, however, a male on the cover of a magazine that Rokujou picks up in an episode towards the end of the series.)
The eponymous warriors from Claymore are all female. There's a plot reason why, and it ain't pretty (trust us).
In Strike Witches, which very much follows the mold of Sky Girls, only young, female mages can pilot the units that enable them to fly.
Played completely straight by Mahou Sensei Negima!. The vast majority of the characters are female, but it's a Shōnen series (at least after the first few volumes. The enormous number of girls seems to be more for Fanservice purposes than anything else.
Even after you chop away comedy/useless characters like Ayaka or the twins and even somewhat important characters like Sayo you still have one little kid, Asuna, Konoka, Setsuna, Kaede, Mana, Evangeline, Chachamaru etc. before you get to someone like Fate (who has his own fangirls) and Rakan.
As time goes by the gender balance of new characters is much more even. Eishun, Fate, Jack Rakan, Godel, Tosaka, Zect, Kagetaro. True, some of their screen time isn't very impressive apart from flashbacks (Zect) or mention (Eishun) the spotlight on the girls also shifts quite a bit. And more of the girls are losing their place as well.
In Shikabane Hime, only girls of a certain age who die in specific circumstances can become Shikabane Hime. It is later justified, when it turns out the ritual to create them was originally developed by the founder of the Kougon Sect to resurrect his dead daughter.
Kurogane Pukapuka Tai manages to have only one recurring male character, the old, Zen Master-like Captain of the Unebi, who is monk-like in his asceticism and thus off limits for any erotic speculation. No explanation has been given except that the cruiser's intended crew were all taken ill with typhoid and a substitute crew had to be found; why these would be all women has not even had a Hand Waving justification, although a shortage of military-age men in 1943 might be one that comes up.
Gunslinger Girl features a covert government agency that utilizes little girl cyborgs to fulfill its morally ambiguous missions. However, each little girl is paired off with an adult male handler. There's also some justification offered - apparently, the technology is more likely to stick the younger the subject is. This doesn't account for their gender though.
Note that the adult characters (many of whom are male) typically get about as much facetime as the girls - in some chapters/episodes, they get far more.
The only male cast members in the buddy cop anime You're Under Arrest are Nakajima and Tokairin. Even then the latter is more of a guest member than anything. There technically is one more male member however he is referred to as female due to working as a woman and seems more like a Transsexual than a crossdresser.
Yamabuki High School in Hidamari Sketch is supposed to be coeducational, but males happened to only occupy a third of the student body. The only recurring male characters in the series is just the principal and an art teacher.
Infinite Stratos has just Ichika and his friend, who rarely appears. Justified since it's based around Gender RestrictedArmor. Ichika is the only male who can do this.
Parodied in the Excel Saga episode "Increase Ratings Week", in which all the female characters are drawn in moe style (as they go to a swimming pool, which just so happens to be populated by characters catering to nearly every fetish imaginable) and all the male characters are forced offscreen (much to their displeasure).
The series in general though averts this trope. There are a few more female than male characters, but it is not improbable.
To Aru Kagaku no Railgun is arguably guilty of this seeing as almost every prominent character, including the main cast and both primary antagonists, is female. Male characters in the series barely rise beyond Mooks and few appear more than once or twice. Somewhat justified in that the titular character attends an all girls school but doesn't really account for the scarce male population elsewhere.
The World God Only Knows has a male protagonist, two very minor recurring male characters, and a helluva lot of girls. This makes sense, considering the show's premise.
Comic Books
Small Favors only shows young attractive females even during the crowd scenes of a supposedly normal city. No males are even mentioned in these comics.
Films
Women make up an overwhelming number of the major characters in the Spanish film All About My Mother, although most of them are older than usual for the trope (and not all of them were born female.) Even the protagonist's son's biological father turns out to be a Cross Dresser named Lola.
Volver doesn't take it as far as the above film, but it does have a large female majority in the cast.
Kill Bill is almost all women. The few men that show up are unimportant mooks or Budd and Bill.
Literature
In Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment, it's implied that a good majority of the Borogravian military consists of cross-dressing females who have fooled almost everyone, including each other. In fact, only three soldiers are confirmed male: Lieutenant Blouse, who tells the other regiment members that they could never pull off dressing as female; Paul, Polly's older brother; and the man who supposedly got Shufti pregnant (though she rejected him). Everyone (except Blouse) in the eponymous regiment is female. Hell, it's revealed at the end of the book that the masculine Jackrum is actually a woman and has been faking for so long that she's more comfortable as a male. S/he even goes to visit his/her son and tell him that s/he is his father. At first, you're led to believe that it's really a Cast Full of Pretty Boys, but nope.
This is possibly because the war (wars?) has been going on for so long that there aren't any men left.
Live Action TV
The cast of Doctor Who, over the years, is seriously skewed toward the female side of things. The Doctor very rarely travels with just one guy as his companion, but he very, very often travels with just one girl. Occasionally lampshaded — he's teased about it by characters who've known him for a while and think he must be a bit of a Covert Pervert for it. It's said that the point of having stylishly- and/or scantily-clad ladies around at basically all times is to keep the dads interested.
Toys and Collectibles
The various Pinky:st figurines. Every last released figure has been female (with the exceptions being Akito/Agito Wanijima and Yuuichi Kannami).
Monster High consists mostly of the daughters of Universal Monsters, with four male characters (three if you count Jackson Jekyll and Holt Hyde as the same person) against eight females as of this writing. The disparity comes in when you count how many times the female characters pop up in different lines compared to the males- Deuce is the only male so far (August '11) who has appeared in a second line after his introduction.
Takara's CY Girls averted this, at least somewhat- only the two cyborgs were male, and every single other figure was a *very* non-pink-and-bishoujo female.
The Touhou series of shooting games, out of a cast of over a hundred characters, has only a handful of named males — the only ones who have actually appeared in the games are a turtle and a cloud. The reason for this may be particularly simple, though: the series creator, ZUN, isn't a great artist, and it's entirely possible that he just can't draw dudes.
Rumble Roses. It's the only wrestling game that has an actual mudwrestling fight. Advertised right on the box, no less.
Your party in the story mode of the flash Turn Based Strategy game Zening will most of the time have more women than men. At one point, a player will have six women and one man in the party. There are also times where the party is composed entirely of women.
The online game Blade Mistress is an aptly named version of this trope. Apparently it was done as a There Are No Girls on the Internet joke.
In the first chapter of Alpha Shade, set in a war, nearly all the important soldiers on both sides were attractive women, although crowd photos appeared to be mostly male.
Earthsong has 8 of the 9 protagonists as being female.
Angels 2200 is a space combat webcomic set in a future where a mysterious plague has killed all of the men. Needless to say it has a slightly high female-to-male ratio.
Collar 6 - To date there hasn't been a single named male character. A handful of male background characters have appeared, but so far only one of them has had any dialogue whatsoever.
Western Animation
Out of over 60 recurring characters on My Little Pony, only three are male. And except for Spike, all of them were invented solely for the TV series. Talk about girl toys. There ARE male ponies, but they only show up in one story; they've been on "a race around the world" the entire rest of the series — According to one of the comics, the baby ponies come out of Majesty's magic mirror.
The newest incarnation, Friendship Is Magic, has a 50/50 split amongst background ponies but recurring, speaking male ponies countable on one hand.
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