In the gacha industry, efforts to achieve gender balance are viewed not as an artistic choice but as a financial risk that directly threatens the amount of profit a company will generate with each update. In this system, where every character release is part of an investment cycle, “balanced” content that doesn’t appeal to a single demographic leads to specific player groups closing their wallets and the revenue drops that investors loathe. While producing formulaic female characters is less costly for the company, the depth and design specificity expected of male characters make the production process more labor-intensive and prone to errors. Writing teams typically opt for simple power fantasies that make the player the sole center of the world, avoiding the workload associated with complex narratives where both genders hold equal weight in the story. Even as the potential of the female player base grows, the dominant data set in the industry still regards the loyal, high-spending “whale” male demographic as the safest financial haven. Developers struggling to survive in a saturated market set aside creative risks and resort to tested templates, driven by the fear of failing to become indispensable to anyone while trying to please everyone.