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Excellent choices, all! Of course, it is kind of impossible to find non-awesome women in that series, and kind of impossible to choose just 3!

And you give me a very hard choice! I shall choose a few who I feel deserve more love (not that Nina, Yukiji, or Uran do not deserve love! but I think they get it fairly often).

From Monster, we have Lotte! Because more Lotte is needed. I love her smarts, her mad research skills, and the fact that she does really cool things simply because she likes people and wants to help them out, whether they realize they need the help or not! She can be sneaky, sly, and mischievous, but all in the name of good things like making sure a massive fortune goes to the rightful heir! And the way she falls for Karl is really sweet and I know they eventually end up together because anything else is unacceptable.

From 20th Century Boys, we have Koizumi Kyoko! ...And because my copy of volume 6 is lent out, I don't know if you've met her yet or not. But I love Kyoko! She is a ditzy teenager who does things like miss large amounts of class because she is an incurable groupie for an awful band. Because of this, everyone, including Kyoko, thinks that she is not all that bright. But she is pretty bright! Just kind of clueless about it. Which means that she's smart enough to notice things that others don't, and clueless enough to say that she notices said things and thus end up in huge amounts of trouble. And she keeps this wonderful sanity, which results in "ohmygod this is so messed up why do I have to deal with this oh FINE I'll take care of it in as straightforward a way as I can." Also, she is tied with Chouno in the MOST HILARIOUS FACES category, which is great fun.

From Pluto, we have Helena! Helena is, all things considered, pretty minor. She's the wife of the main character, Gesicht. But in a lot of ways, she's among the most human of the robot characters. A lot of the "imitation of humans" that robots do seems to come pretty naturally to her. She manages to come through a lot of things while keeping huge reserves of kindness and compassion, and has the ability to make large sacrifices simply because she knows it's both the right thing to do and a necessary thing. (Also: fiction needs more happily married couples, and she is part of one! I love happily married couples.)

Honorary mention goes to the series Yawara!, which I do not yet have firsthand knowledge of but which I understand is full of awesome ladies, many of whom know judo!

(Do I get to ask you for another? Because if I do, I choose Otherland.)