Now, don’t get me wrong here, Motoko Kusangi is beautiful.
Number two is because she would wipe the floor with each and every one of them if they did. You know why? Number one is because she picked a team of respectful professionals who ain’t gonna try to make a body pillow out of her. She hand-picked her all-male task force based on their individual skills, and yet none of those guys make any attempt to sexualize her or denigrate her because she’s a woman.
She’s a tactical genius, a charismatic leader, and a force of all-out destruction on the battlefield. And main characters are sexy by default, capiche? She’s the commander of an elite military unit called Section 9, which is responsible for defending Japan against cyber-terrorists and espionage from foreign governments. Why? Well for one, in a medium that often reduces women to supporting roles, she’s unequivocally the main character. She might be the sexiest lady in anime history. Listen, you can’t go wrong with Motoko Kusanagi.
