History Main / ImprobablyFemaleCast

** ''Birds of Prey'' is also an example of the PeripheryDemographic that an all-female cast can invoke. Is it a series written for girls by having an all-female superhero team? Or is the audience mostly men who read for the attractive female characters and the occasional GirlOnGirlIsHot? Some men expressed suspicion when Black Canary was made bisexual because of this, despite the female writer Gail Simone having repeatedly commented on the importance of organic media representation of all kinds of genders and sexualities.

* The Canadian children's show Series/FourSquare has a couple of these

* Justified in ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It should be self-evident as to how]].

* While the main character Negi Springfield in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is male, he teaches an all-girls class. Of course, this is a HaremGenre series... Even at the very end of the series with a huge cast, the number of main male characters can be counted on one hand, contrasting the dozens of female characters.

%% * ''Anime/AkumaNoRiddle''

* In ''Manga/SilentMobius'', 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 agents is a cyborg and most certainly unable to become pregnant.[[note]]The likely subconscious reason is that in Shinto, priestesses are the ones who deal with ''hostile'' spirits.[[/note]]
* ''Manga/KuroganePukapukaTai'' featured an Imperial Japanese cruiser in World War II that is entirely crewed by women, except for the only one recurring male character, the old, Zen Master-like Captain of the ''Unebi''. No explanation is 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 is not explained, although a shortage of military-age men in 1943 might be one. Additionally, none of this explains the all-women crews of the ships they interact with, including US and British cruisers and a German U-boat.
* Parodied in the ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' 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).
* In ''Anime/HyperDimensionNeptuniaTheAnimation'' as with its video game equivalent, all the characters representing personifications of parts of the (male-dominated) game industry are girls.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' explains why all the assassins are children,[[note]]Older minds are unable to adjust to the cyborg process. Younger minds are more flexible, and they still have trouble.[[/note]] but it never explains why there aren't any young boy assassins.
* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' takes place in a world where [[TankGoodness operating military tanks]] is considered a "womanly" martial art, resulting in most of the cast being female. While there are male characters, none of them are part of the main cast.

* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' delves more and more into this with each season.
** Erio from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' is one of only three major male characters in the entirety of the season, and he gets the least amount of character development. And this was a season with so many characters that the character page had to be split in three. And the male characters from previous seasons were DemotedToExtra to boot.
** ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid ViVid]]'' takes it even further since it only introduced ''one'' new male character, and they've been dead for hundreds of years. During the tournament arc (which was open to both genders) there wasn't a single male entrant to be found, not even among the extras.
** ''Anime/VividStrike'' continues the trend, only introducing two male characters. One of them is a SatelliteCharacter and the other [[PosthumousCharacter is dead]].

* ''Manga/NewGame'' is about a game studio and its staff. While the RealLife video game industry is still largely male-dominated even after more women have entered it, the cast is completely female. The internal justification is that the manager Shizuku is a bit of a lesbian CovertPervert; she later admits that she prefers to hire girls who are cute enough so that she'd forgive their mistakes if the need arises.
* ''Anime/QueensBlade'' is a [[{{Fanservice}} Fanservice-Fuel]] MedievalEuropeanFantasy with all the important characters, including protagonists and antagonists, being all females. Male characters seem to exist only as [[LivingProp living props]] or as [[FlatCharacter flat characters]] serving as living plot devices.

* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Manga/UraraMeirocho''; since only women have the power to become diviners and only diviners can live in Meirocho, the resident population of Meirocho consists entirely of girls and women. Played straight, however, in the portrayals of visitors as few men are seen among them.
* ''Manga/YuruYuri'' exaggerates this to the point where even among ''background characters'' there are no visible male characters, even in places where they should logically be (one chapter takes place in Comiket, for example).
* Justified in ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'' with Ousai Academy, a former [[OneGenderSchool all-girls school]] which just switched over to being co-ed, meaning that only 28 of the 552 students are male.
* Discussed in ''Manga/ShonenNoteBoySoprano''. The choir has very few male singers. At the start of the series they attempt to get more boys to join, but even then girls outnumber the boys. The manga itself has a fair amount of male characters.

* If there are any male characters to be seen in ''VideoGame/LapisReLights'', they are unnamed side-characters or background figures in the town. The entirety of the cast within Flora Girls' Academy are all female, student or staff. This may be somewhat justified by the school being a WizardingSchool and there being no male magic-users depicted so far.
* Parodied in ''Anime/AnimeGataris''. While the Anime Club starts out as roughly equal (counting Neko-sensei among the boys), the story ends with Kai Kai as the sole male member. [[spoiler:The animification of the world resulted in Sebas and Neko-sensei getting {{Gender Ben|der}}t, while Nakano was sent back to the anime world as a fictional character.]]
* Justified in ''Anime/TenchiMuyoWarOnGeminar'', the series is primarily about mecha pilots and the world of Geminar explains that less than 10% of mecha pilots are male because you have to have a specific gene to be able to pilot a mecha, and that the gene is far more common in women than it is in men.

* {{Justified|trope}} in ''Manga/InTheHeartOfKunoichiTsubaki''. In their world, the Akane Class is an all-girls' class/village, in which the students are forbidden from making any contact with men, believed to be dangerous and unforgiving.[[spoiler:.. or so say the matriarchs of the village. The actual reason was that when the Akane Class and their male counterpart, the Aoi Class, used to be a single entity, they suffered from a problem stemming from many of their disciples abandoning their ninja heritage in favor of coupling off and eloping. Fearing their heritage would go extinct if the problem continued, the heads of both classes made the decision to separate, agreeing to never let either the boys or girls of their respective classes make contact with each other again, thus creating a lie amongst both classes that the opposite gender is dangerous.]] [[spoiler:By the end of the series, the rule was finally abolished, allowing the two classes to gradually allow their students to mingle again]].

* ''Literature/OthersidePicnic'' is partially set at a university in Tokyo, partially in another world, and partially at a research facility known as DS Labs. Of eight regularly appearing characters, only one is male.
* It's mentioned in passing at the start of ''Literature/HighSchoolDxD'' that Kuoh Academy has a disproportionate number of female students, thanks to being an all-girls school until it went co-ed three years ago. At first that's just the reason [[TheHero Issei]] and his two perverted buddies went for that high school in particular, but it also serves as foreshadowing: Occult Research Club President Rias Gremory actually [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil runs the place]] and had the school converted when she took over the surrounding territory three years ago so her male subordinates could attend with her.
* ''Literature/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'' has the main character assembling herself an expansive and diverse family across the series, all of which are female.

* ''VideoGame/{{Arcaea}}'': {{Exaggerated}} -- Every single partner available is a girl or at least a young woman, with only two exceptions. Said exceptions, Areus and Tenniel (of the Alice & Tenniel pair) [[spoiler:aren't actually men either despite having male character designs; Areus has NoBiologicalSex and Tenniel is an illusion based on Alice's brother, so the exact amount of male partners is still zero.]] There is no in-game lore reason why this happens.
* Creator/OrangeJuice's various games, such as ''VideoGame/{{SUGURI}}'', ''VideoGame/QPShooting'', and ''VideoGame/FlyingRedBarrel'', have very few male characters between their games, at most featuring one or two male characters at most.

* ''Webcomic/AnecdoteOfError'' is an example. Despite Mityaitimai Tshetshume School being coed, the only male characters are [[NiceGuy Fulik]], Miak, a teacher who only appears in classroom scenes, and Kezaua, a member of Shimei’s GangOfBullies. Only Fulik is of any importance. This is particularly improbable considering that WordOfGod has said that the majority of girls become [[StayInTheKitchen housekeepers]] and don’t go to school.

* Many of the ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'' DirectToVideo movies border on this. Although they are usually adaptations of fairy tales with female protagonists, many of the villains and secondary characters end up female as well.

* The only confirmed male unique character in ''VideoGame/MuseDash'' is Mio Sir, an Elfin (assist character). Otherwise, the entire playable cast and every guest character is female, and every Elfin besides Mio Sir and every boss are either female or of unknown gender. There are male common enemies in some of the settings, but not all of them.

* ''VideoGame/RabiRibi'', where the protagonist and sidekick, along with every ally, boss enemy, and even many of the mooks, are young women. The only male characters are mooks in the "Real World".

* ''Series/{{Intergalactic}}'': The show is an unusual example of a sci fi action adventure with a majority female cast, as seven of the ten are women (including the protagonist Ash) vs. just three men. Even a majority among supporting characters are female too.

* Creator/TheWB's ''Series/BirdsOfPrey'' series not only inherits the phenomenon from the comic books, it then amplifies it by having Harley Quinn as the BigBad with no Joker around. There are plenty of male love interests and stooges for them to interact with, though, because it's a WB show.

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has vastly more female than male cast members (e.g. the new library employees are all girls) with no plausible in-universe reason. This is apparently AuthorAppeal.

Closely related to WorldOfActionGirls, which facilitates the abundance of women. Any examples of casts made up exclusively of female characters (regardless of how improbable) fall under ChromosomeCasting. For when an entirely female society is used as a setting, see LadyLand. If the complete cast only ''looks'' female, you might have a case of OtokonokoGenre.

** You see that redhead at the bottom right of the ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers StrikerS]]'' page image? He is one of only three major male characters in the entirety of ''[=StrikerS=]'', and he gets the least amount of character development. And this was a season with so many characters that the character page had to be split in three. And the male characters from previous seasons were DemotedToExtra to boot.

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has few male characters, one appearing in a manga, one being a turtle, one being an angry [[RealMenWearPink pink]] [[MadeOfAir cloud]], and one in the [[CanonDiscontinuity PC-98 era]]. ZUN has stated that male {{youkai}} and magicians and whatnot do exist in Gensoukyo, but the stories just don't feature them. It's become a self-EnforcedTrope, at that, as ZUN originally intended the FinalBoss of ''[[VideoGame/TouhouSeirensenUndefinedFantasticObject Undefined Fantastic Object]]'' to be a man, but discarded that idea because he wasn't sure how well it would go over.

* This is in effect in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', at least in terms of the ponies. While there do exist competent and important males, all five members of the [[WingedUnicorn alicorn]] race (of which the four adults lead Equestria, partially by virtue of their race) are female, as are all six of the ponies that bonded with the artifacts used to save the world. This is much less true of other races, which have or had male leaders (dragons, griffons), or which have only had male examples (draconequi, diamond dogs).

* There are only ''two'' male playable characters in ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'', and even then both have to be downloaded - the base game roster is entirely composed of women.

* [=WB=]'s Series/BirdsOfPrey series, partially inheriting the phenomenon from the comic books, but then amplifying it by having Harley Quinn as the BigBad with no Joker around. There are plenty of male love interests and stooges for them to interact with, though, because it's a [=WB=] show.

* ''LightNovel/OthersidePicnic'' is partially set at a university in Tokyo, partially in another world, and partially at a research facility known as DS Labs. Of eight regularly appearing characters, only one is male.
* It's mentioned in passing at the start of ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'' that Kuoh Academy has a disproportionate number of female students, thanks to being an all-girls school until it went co-ed three years ago. At first that's just the reason [[TheHero Issei]] and his two perverted buddies went for that high school in particular, but it also serves as foreshadowing: Occult Research Club President Rias Gremory actually [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil runs the place]] and had the school converted when she took over the surrounding territory three years ago so her male subordinates could attend with her.

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'' has the main character assembling herself an expansive and diverse family across the series, all of which are female.

* In the NextGenFic ''Fanfic/{{Paradoxus}}'':

* ''VideoGame/TofuTower'': As of the first 26 floors of more than 60, all gendered cards and monsters, are female. The only depicted characters that might be male, are the Scarecrow and Will o' Wisp monsters.

* While the main character Negi Springfield in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is male, he teaches an all-girls class. Of course, this is a HaremGenre series... Even at the very end of the series with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, the number of main male characters can be counted on one hand, contrasting the dozens of female characters.

* The only confirmed male unique character in ''VideoGame/MuseDash'' is Mio Sir, an Elfin (assist character). Otherwise, the entire playable cast and every guest character is female, and every Elfin besides Mio Sir and every boss are either female or of unknown gender. There are male common enemies in some of the settings, but not all of them.

* Justified in ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'' with Ousai Academy, which just switched over to being co-ed, meaning that only 28 of the 552 students are male.