Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/rebeccamwrites.bsky.social/post/3m6a62btty226
Here’s the dataset and their website if you are interested, there’s more games beyond Final Fantasy that they’ve looked at.
Main findings
- 35% of words were spoken by female characters.
- 29% of characters were female, which suggests the imbalance is driven by a lack of female characters.
- 94% of games had more male dialogue than female dialogue.
Probably a combination of robots and monsters, in addition to Flea
Thanks for pulling this data btw! I guess 38% isn’t bad relative to other JRPGs but I would’ve thought it might be a bit higher given how many prominent female characters there are in that.
This is the next question I’ve got, maybe the bulk of the difference is in minor NPCs who have 1-3 lines of dialogue each.