Bakuman, written and drawn by the same guys who gave us Deathnote, a very good series. But Bakuman is terrible.
Bakuman is about two young guys who decide to make a manga, and maybe its my inner egomaniac, but i love series about people who make comics. It makes me feel inspired. The male characters in this are varied and interesting. There are female characters. EVERY female character is written terribly.

There's the main characters girlfriend, Azuki, who is incredibly beautiful and wants to be a voice actress, she is timid and pure and virginal. and BORING. She's the ideal angel intangible on a pedestal girl. She doesn't even want to touch the main character until they are married.

Then there is Miyoshi, who is the other characters girlfriend. she has no goals in life other than being a wife. and specifically says out loud her only dream is her boyfriends success


Then there is Aoi. She is only other manga artist who is a female. She is shown to be stuck up and rude, she has an inability to draw shonen manga. She completely changes her ways after being humbled by the main characters, then only becomes successful after BEGGING a male character to teach her to draw panty shots.

Do the writers not know what they are doing? This stuff RUINS the manga for me. Its not even the blatant all the girls are in a bikini kind of sexism its worse. The girls are either props, or worshipers. Or they need be humbled by the noble males into changing their ways and acting more male.

Here's the most telling line in the series to me
"Men have dreams that women just don't understand."
ARGH