I have no idea how accurate this claim is (it’s a survey on a random news site) especially because in most anime women are indeed very sexualized. But I wouldn’t be super surprised. I think part of it is that anime artists just drop realism and like to draw idealized versions of women and men, whatever makes the most interesting story. And maybe women being the heroes and doing everything is a lot more interesting than men, at least to the writers.
I have no idea how accurate this claim is (it’s a survey on a random news site) especially because in most anime women are indeed very sexualized. But I wouldn’t be super surprised. I think part of it is that anime artists just drop realism and like to draw idealized versions of women and men, whatever makes the most interesting story. And maybe women being the heroes and doing everything is a lot more interesting than men, at least to the writers.