Category C
- Are there two named female characters?
- Who have a conversation?
- Not about men?
- Does this happen frequently?
- Is the conversation non-trivial?
For a Garo show this sure wasn’t about the Garo. He was just Sophie’s muscle. Which is great. You don’t get many shows about muscle headed badass knights actually being about a little girl. That’s pretty empowering. The fact that Sophie only got to be an alchemist and not a knight at the end is pretty disappointing though. By the end she honestly looked tougher than Luke and he got to be a knight. Not that his story isn’t also disappointing – he never even comes close to beating his dad. The armour is pretty much handed to him by Sword and his hair doesn’t grow back. I would go on a journey all by myself too if my story arc went that badly. To be honest, doesn’t he kind of get the usual anime girl storyline? He gets saved by the protagonist all the time, he doesn’t get to achieve his own goals, but gets handed a victory by the male protagonist and gets a haircut at an angsty moment to show how much he’s grown… Gina’s introduction and Sword’s incessant obsession with boobs were pretty creepy too. On balance some great stuff and some not so great stuff. Cancels out to a C to match the infrequency of the female-female interactions.
More data:
Author gender: male
No. of female protagonists/all protagonists: ½
Year of airing: 2017
Bechdel Anime 
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