Kuchu Buranko trailer is out.

Why are all of Kuchu Buranko's protags male? In an anime about people's psychological issues, having all male protagonists sends a clear message that women's problems don't matter, and that you don't think anyone would want to watch a show about women and their problems, not even for a single episode.

They're doing this thing with the protagonists of each episode - they're all designed to look like the (very popular) voice actors playing them. I think that's pretty nifty, but there are plenty of wildly popular female seiyuu they could have done this with as well. It's not like only male seiyuu are popular. Yet they went so far as to switch a couple of characters who were female in the books to male in the anime.

One of wonderful things about Mononoke was the feminism. So why, why all male protags in this one? It doesn't even seem like the kind of show that's targeting the fangirl hordes or anything, so it seems unlikely the decision was for that reason.

I'm still excited to see it - I mean, it looks like a pure acid trip, and you all know how I am when it comes to surreal imagery - but I'm really disappointed by the all male protags thing.