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[skygiants]

Am I ever going to pass up an opportunity to babble extensively about AWESOME LADIES? The answer is: no, I most certainly am not!

Therefore, stolen from in_the_blue and a few other people by now: name a canon you know I know, and I'll tell you (in no particular order) my three favorite females and why. And then I'll name a canon for you, because I'm just as curious as I am eager to share.

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[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

The Chrestomanci series. Just to be difficult different.

[skygiants]

The problem is, I am going to be referencing Witch Week extensively, which as far as I know you have not yet read! OH WELL more motivation for you guys to get around to it. :D

Estelle Green: Estelle is a knitting chatterbox who seems like nothing more than a spineless hanger-on of the boarding school's popular crowd. BUT WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW is that Estelle's mom is in prison for smuggling condemned witches out of the country, and Estelle is determined to secretly keeping watch on the whole school in case someone eventually needs rescuing. Which doesn't stop her from being genuinely sweet and bubbly and chattery, which I love too, but there are such hidden depths under there. <3333

Nan Pilgrim: Another Witch Week girl, Nan is dumpy and plain but has a secret gift (well, aside from the witchcraft): she can describe things amazingly. Sometimes she gets so caught up in describing things that she can't stop, which is kind of a problem at the lunch table when she is going on about how the tinned tomatoes look like skinned mice. >.> At the start, she's sort of the school punching bag, but throughout the story she finds her spine and her voice, and it's a hell of a voice. I love her a lot.

Millie: I love Millie in all stages of life! As a cranky goddess, kind of scared for her life, but also just bored and longing for a life like she reads about in books; as a sensible and far-too-stubborn teenager, mocking Christopher mercilessly and occasionally getting into scrapes she can't quite get out of; as an extremely sensible adult witch and mother, with how powerful she is hidden under a layer of ordinariness that you have to squint to see past. She is amazing at every stage!

For you . . . Samurai Champloo!

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

It's about frickin' time one of you sons of bitches asked me about this show!

*shoves Mugen aside*

There are some great female characters in this show. For me, Fuu isn't one of them and so I give you this trio instead:

Sara (episodes 20 & 21). In a world that keeps wanting to marginalize and prostitute its women, she stands out as a beacon of strength and as an embodiment of dedicated motherhood. She's strong, she's skilled, she's deadly, and she does it all for love... of her son. It doesn't hurt that she's a completely kick-ass fighter who never lets her blindness get in her way at all for any reason.

Yatsuha (Who? episode 15). I bet in all the time she worked undercover in that brothel, she never once let a single customer lay a hand on her. And considering her "competition," that's got to take some skill. She held her own fighting against Mugen, and that's not easy to do, and stayed focused on her job the whole time, did what she needed to do, and got the hell out of there relatively unscathed. She fared a lot better than her (male) partner, too, and I like her whimsical last line about how Mugen's the man she's going to marry some day. I wouldn't put it past her.

Shino (episode 11). There was so much chemistry between her and Jin, but that's not why I like her. She stands as one of my favorite Champloo characters because she's got such quiet strength even though she's faced with this ridiculous adversity. From her introductory last night of freedom to the weight being lifted from her eyes and shoulders as she makes her getaway via boat to Enkiri Dera. Only someone with an abundance of inner strength could endure what she did and still hold any hope in her heart.

Runner-up: Hotaru (episode 2), just because she's awesome in an evil way.

(Also, will now probably have to read Witch Week.)

[skygiants]

I like Fuu a lot, but the reason I asked is because I really do think all the one-off (or two-off) female characters in the show were pretty amazing as well! YATSUHA IS FABULOUS. By the way. I saw the episode with her . . . last week? Or the week before? Anyway, it was the same time as the Sara episodes.

(I've forgotten who Hotaru is, though. *sheepish*)

(IT IS MY FAVORITE CHRESTOMANCI.)

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Hotaru is the Wendee Lee-voiced gorgeous woman who seduces then poisons Mugen with a deadly mushroom through a kiss in the second episode. I always get so excited to hear Faye no matter how she's... uh... embodied.