Hi!For a project, I've been looking for webcomics with a female protagonist who looks like a boy (for example she wears masculine clothing, has short hair...) She shouldn't be disguised as a boy though, it should just be her personal style. The only one I currently know about is The 101st Heroine for the moment.Thanks
There's this one that I know of:
This one comes to mind! Scotty has a very boyish appearance but iirc isn't intentionally trying to pass off as one.
I'd recommend taking a look at Psychteria. The lead is a female but she has a very boyish nature to her. She does have long hair, but so do most of the men in the story as well.
the running gag on mine is that Aceline the MC is constantly mistaken for a boy, it’s a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but it isn’t as far into the story as the novel. She’s not hiding tho, she’s just a blacksmith so wearing dresses and corsets isn’t always practical.
One of the protags in my comic is very butch, if you're interested:
Keeping an eye on this thread because I wanna see more masculine-presenting women like me in media
Sounds like my protagonist could fit in your description. however, i try to not totally suppress all of her femininity.
Thank you!!! Yesssss I also wanna see more masculine presenting women like me as well, I'm sad there hardly aren't any in mainstream media You're in luck though because for my project I managed to find some cool ones (i was actually very passionate about this project, i must have spent maybe hundreds of hours finding all these asdfghjkl XD T-T)Most of these are actually on the website Equalimedia which is a hella awesome website i recommend you check out. in the meantime here are some media I recommend with females who are masculine presenting: (i put the character i'm thinking of in square brackets so you can look up if you want! maybe its not very important to do this cause most of them are the main character anyway but ya never mind XD) btw sorry i didn't have time to hyperlink each media so you'll have to copy paste them to check them out sorry!!!------- List of masculine-presenting female protagonists in media -------Animes:* Kurau Phantom Memory [kurau amami]* Ouran High School Host Club [haruhi fujioka]* Aoharu x machinegun [tachibana hotaru]* When Marnie was there [anna]* the promised neverland [emma]* Somali and the forest spirit [somali] (not thaaat masculine presenting but has boyish short hair)* girl beats boys [Hinako Nakayama]* cowboy bebop [edward]* rod the tv [maggie]* patlabor [noa izumi]* ronja robbers daughter [ronja](not thaaat masculine presenting but has boyish short hair)* the girl who leapt through time [makoto](not thaaat masculine presenting but has boyish short hair)Films (not animated i mean with people ya know') (some of them aren't particularly masculine presenting but have boyish short hair and are awesome and i think you may like them as i did )* we are the best! [all 3 main characters are like this!!!](i LOVE this film asdfhjkl!!!)* the old guard [andy]* terminator: dark fate* princess blade (main is so amazing!!!)* mad max: fury road [imperator furiosa]* girl interrupted [susanna]* alien 3 [ripley. and vasquez]* jalpari:the desert mermaid [jalpari]* next gen [mai]* black panther (i think it fits cause there are several badass women with short hair in there!!)* joan of arc the messenger [joan of arc]* babysitters guide to monster hunting [liz]* mortal engines [anna]* (not a film but a series. i havent watched yet but seems cool) halt and catch fire [cameron]* (oh and again not a film but series. kinda masculine presenting in s1 and s2 cause short hair but the hair wasn't her choice though [eleven]) stranger things* (ok last one its not a film again lol but yeah) andi mack [andi]
western animated series:* carmen sandiego [dr bellum]* the owl house [luz. well, kinda.]* infinity train (season 2 mostly [lake ]. but the protag of season 1 and 3 are cool too!!)* she-ra [catra. well, kinda.]* glitch techs (wait until season 2 for ridley, she's awesome!)* voltron [pidge]* the dragon prince [amaya. well, kinda.]* the legend of korra/atla (none have short hair but some hella badass and visibly muscular ones[korra] so i guess maybe?)* kipo [a couple but i can't remember names rn whoops! ]* the dark knight returns (the robin is female and shes THE BEST!!)bands* exist trace (all female band. THEY ARE AMAZING I LOVE THEM)* valshe* 96neko* christine and the queens* skunk anansie* eurythmics* otep* kd lang* ael* the hoopers* amber liu* grace jones* acrush/fanxyred* the internet* la roux* big thief (thanks @Teddy-stonehilll!!!!! :D)youtube animation shortsi just remember i had found a playlist of short animation films i found on youtube by pure chance, with as lead characters masculine-presenting females so you can check it out if you are interested!!! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbg9VLCO3I4hqHBMbouiS4o8oWV2xwy9Awebcomics (forgot to add it originally whoops! i added some some people proposed just now )* the knight and her emperor (ITS AMAZING!!!!!!!!)* uriah* symphony knights* it's mine* the 101st heroine* sword interval* bakaphin* vitamin c vitamin d* remember (acc 2 webcomics exist that are called remember and both have female leads who look masculine!!!)* castle swimmer(the 2 mains are a male couple but there are many other characters who are mains who are masculine females. its really awesome, i recommend)* mirror monster
(((ok well it seems i got carried away on this post sorry haha)))((((((>>>Feel free to totally copy-paste this list in other places btw, It'd be a shame otherwise cause spend so much time writing this lmaoo ik i rly got carried away XD)))))I hope you'll enjoy the media i proposed above as much as i did have a nice day!!!
wow i love it its absolutely amazing thank you so much!!!!!!!!!
No problem haha
My friend's manga Remember has a protagonist who's pretty masculine-looking! I haven't read far enough to know why, but I know that I was confused for a hot minute when I first started reading. I don't think that she is disguised as a boy (not 100% sure, since I'm not caught up yet), I think that's just her style.
https://tapas.io/series/Remembermanga
OHH this is a really nice list, thank you!!!!!!!!!!
the main character of my comic is pretty much a tomboy, but she still has somewhat long hair, so idk how much she fits the description
you're welcome btw i just realised i had left out webcomics whoops!! so i added some that i found out about here, and on reddit too (i asked the same question there and found out about a couple other good ones so i added them to the list above!)
wow she looks so cool thank you so much!!!!
It's a novel rather than a comic, but my novel has a butch protagonist.
Also, if you're interested in finding more media with masculine-presenting women, here are some more suggestions, off the top of my head:
AnimeGekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
MoviesCloudburst The Watermelon WomanYes or NoRafiki
Live-Action TV ShowsVidaThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
BandsBig Thief (the lead singer, Adrianne Lenker)Mount Moriah (Also the lead singer, H.C. McEntire, recently released a solo album)
Wow, thank you so much for all these propositions!!! the band Big Thief especially they are so amazing thank you so much for this amazing discovery!!! I'll definitely check out your webcomic too!!!
No problem! Great comic all around, 'tis unfortunate it's on an indefinite hiatus but... sometimes it be like that with webcomics lol
