If your only example is fictional women, that proves the point
Haikyuu!!
Blake Gutierrez
Matthew Perry
Took me a second to realize that not only did she kick it into her goal, but the red teamate tried to stop the goalie as well.
Ethan Rodriguez
All I want is a Yuri Volleyball manga with hotblooded and angry girls who want to win. If Haikyuu did it for the fujos then it should do the same for yuri.
Ethan Bennett
>to stupid to see she broke her nose on purpose to confuse the enemy team
Jonathan Brooks
This.
Lincoln Peterson
Honestly it just has to be WELL-written sport animes with an all-girls cast and people will flock to it. For every 50 shitty male sports manga there are maybe 2 that are actually good. There are maybe even 50 or so modern female sports manga out there and I can't say with confidence that any of them are actually good the same way Haikyuu, Slam Dunk, or Eyeshield 21 are. Cross Manage was mediocre and was canned early, Farewell My Dear Cramer lacks focus and meaningful character arcs, Teppu's characters barely had depth and the art was in an ambiguous area of not appealing to men or women, and Hanebado is closest to being good, but even then it would have been canned early in WSJ much like that recent ping pong manga Full Drive was depsite being just "okay".
Evan Hernandez
Haikyuu is that
Isaac Morgan
If anything Haikyuu's art is a little too cutesy to for it to become the cultural phenomenon Slam Dunk was. Remember Slam Dunk was one of the rare series that actually helped sell the Shonen Jump magazine itself back in the day, and a lot of it was thanks to the art that appealed to men (looked slick as fuck) and women (the characters basically came straight out of fashion magazines). There's no doubt Haikyuu's mangaka has a passion for volleyball and in my opinion the story and characters are better than Slam Dunk's, but it just doesn't have the same edge that Slam Dunk had that appeals to an extremely broad audience.
David Bell
>Too bad they would exist just to be sexualized.
Like the men in male sports series. Nothing wrong it with anyway.
Luke Williams
Something like Gurazeni is sports for adults. It is way better than Haikyuu anyway. If you want to appeal to everybody you are going to miss out on themes and plots.