Maid Sama!

The main character, Misaki Ayuzawa, is the female student council president at a predominantly male institution. This detail pokes at romance because of the high male appearance. She has a secret about working at a maid cafe, which one of the male characters, Takumi Usui, discovers and teases her about. This creates a form of superiority where her secret has been exposed to Takumi, who now has control over her. She dressed in a maid outfit, which is deemed a fetish and possibly sexual. Misaki has to protect her secret, so she needs to give herself to Takumi, where she is inferior to him. 

Kiss Him, Not Me!

The main character, Kae Serinuma, is obsessed with boy love and fantasizes about her male classmates falling for each other. With this information alone, it's obvious this is a romance anime and should have plenty of romantic scenes. Four male boys are obsessed with her after she loses weight. She was initially overweight but lost weight due to a quick one-week depression because of her favorite character in a show dying. This is a concerning theme to show young girls, making them think boys will only like them if they are skinny. Along with assuming depression is positive because it will make them slim. She dressed in the typical school uniform, something that is also deemed as a fetish and attractive to some watchers.

Say "I Love You."

The main character, Mei Tachibana, falls in love with Yamato Kurosawa. This is a typical love story. Mei is super shy and rarely interacts with others because of an incident in grade school. Yamato finds her intriguing and pushes to become her friend. They slowly grow closer, even if Mei is pushing him away. Suddenly, a situation brings them close, and they begin their love story. Mei's shyness and awkwardness can be seen through her school uniform; the skirt is long, and the shirt is regular. This is the typical shojo theme of romance, which puts situations into viewers’ heads.

Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon is a name plenty of people know and are aware of—the magic girl theme, and it being for the Shojo demographic towards young girls. Usagi Tsukino saves a cat with a crescent moon on its head, which is why she is destined to become Sailor Moon. This one lacks the strong romance theme of the last three, but gives girls the superiority mindset back. Sailor Moon is meant to protect the Earth, which makes girls feel empowered and heroic. While this anime is much different from the other three, it comes down to how she dresses. The skirt is relatively short and unnecessary for the plot. Lacking any tights or such to give her a more innocent look. This gives young girls an idea of how to dress and what to be like Sailor Moon. 

Domestic Girlfriend

The main character, Natsuo Fuiji, falls in love and is entranced by his school teacher. Later, he had relations with a girl in his grade who became his teacher’s daughter. Who later marries his father, making the girl he had sexual relations with his step sister. This anime is targeted towards adolescent boys; the ideas shared through this anime are highly sexual and inappropriate. The plot is a situation with a slim possibility of happening, but I feel there is no need to make that story. One that makes it seem having relations with your teachers is alright. Another fact is how it’s school-related, so there is the school uniform. Which is a fetish to some, and can be deemed more sexual by the length of the skirt.  

My Hero Academia

My Hero Academia is an anime about the action-packed theme and wanting to become a hero. The main character is Izuku Midoriya, a boy who has wanted to be a hero since childhood. While this is one of many action-packed, hero, victory, and fighting-themed anime, there is a character I will focus on later. Momo, one of the many heroes who trains alongside Izuku, is 15, and her outfit choice and body are hypersexualized for a child, along with other female characters who are given extreme secondary feminine features, which seem to be unnecessary for their ages. 

Rent-a-Girlfriend

The main character, Kazuya Kinoshita, has a wonderful girlfriend who suddenly breaks up with him, breaking his heart. So he decided to find a new girlfriend through an app that lets you rent a girlfriend and rate them. This anime can seem funny and harmless to some people, but I feel it could have a more profound meaning. It objectifies women, making them seem to be at a man’s disposal to fill a void in them. Where the man can rate this girlfriend, and the girlfriend he picks is said to be hot-tempered. After watching the short trailer on the website for this anime, I noticed that there are also shots of the girlfriend under her skirt and on her chest. These make it seem that these are essential features to a girlfriend, sexualizing them. 

Heaven's Lost Property Forte

Sakurai Tomoki has settled into a life with two angeloids who seem to be the females in the anime cover above. After watching the trailer provided, this whole anime is a cross between an adventure trying to figure out these angeloids, but also hypersexualizing them. The shots under the girl’s skirts in the trailer and the focus on her chest. This is labeled to be aimed at the shonen demographic. It paves a path into wanting to consume more anime that show such nudity, affecting the view of women in reality and their bodies.