Garo armor, why the gender restriction...

[Zojha]

With the all the complaints with gender exclusion one would think someone would speak up for creator rights to present their vision of their creation.

And I'm very sure nobody would have minded if they had presented that vision on their respective blogs. In fact, I'm sure people don't even mind the gender restriction in the series. In general, people take no issue with creators presenting their visions, they take issue when they are supposed to abide by them. Take name generation for example: Nobody bats an eye at the fact that every race has its own naming habits and that those are presented all throughout the game. Strange no? It's because you don't have to abide by it - you can take any name you like. And therein lies quite an important difference.

So nobody is actually trying to infringe on the rights of creators and that argument really is a strawman.

[Alacran]

And I'm very sure nobody would have minded if they had presented that vision on their respective blogs. In fact, I'm sure people don't even mind the gender restriction in the series. In general, people take no issue with creators presenting their visions, they take issue when they are supposed to abide by them. Take name generation for example: Nobody bats an eye at the fact that every race has its own naming habits and that those are presented all throughout the game. Strange no? It's because you don't have to abide by it - you can take any name you like. And therein lies quite an important difference.

So nobody is actually trying to infringe on the rights of creators and that argument really is a strawman.

In this sense, i mean to bring the fact that in the Garo mythos things are done a certain way. One may hate it, however in that world a female Maki Knight does not exist, pries and priestess are classified as such and have different sets of gear. That was what they envisioned for their creation.

It may just be a spin on the Mahou Shoujo ("magical girl") genre, but it is their IP all the same.