>>109624042This may be based on my own personal anicdotal observations but a large problem I have seen in western writing with female characters is that in order to make them strong, they make the men around them bumbling incompetents. That is to say, they simply dont write them as strong females because they are starting at a base idea that, "women are weak so we must make the men around them look weaker."
Another issue is that the characters arnt allowed to grow and be real people. In sailor moon you get to grow with the characters and watch them mature.