Interesting that you should bring that up...  A friend of mine and I 
were discussing the same subject when I noted something else.  If you 
look at shojo anime, like Marmalade Boy and Fuushigi Yuugi, the lead 
female roles are rather mundane, normal, everyday people, with Miaka 
pushing a bit towards the Bitch side, yet everybody falls in love with 
them...  I think the creators intend for that to add to the appeal of 
the anime/manga.  'Look, if this normal, everyday, grungy guy/bitchy 
girl can get this ultrahot, supersexy, babe for their girl/boyfriend, 
then there is hope for you yet!' is the message....

(Granted in Marmalade Boy, this is a bit different.  Everybody loves 
somebody besides the one that they are with.  Yuu and Miki are the 
notable exception.  It's the only anime that I needed to write down the 
different romantic relationships as multivariable quadratic equations in 
order to make any sense of the damn thing... Triangles?  Polyhedrons is 
more like it.....)
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