Most of it is. One coming out oriented towards a male audience vs at least three (one Toei/Precure one and one or two others from other studios, usually manga adaptations) every season that's oriented towards female. Toei has had constant production of shoujo-marketed series of this genre since the 70s. There will never not be a majority of shoujo-marketed magical girl anime because of this. The only difference between now and the pre-2000s is that Toei has consolidated all of its magical girl production to a single franchise, Pretty Cure, vs starting with fresh ideas every year, which was obviously becoming a strain on them.
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(Anonymous) 2015-02-22 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)