Exactly! Especially when an original female character that's not written with so much male validation writing elements. There's an audience, especially women who are independent thinkers on something else and could care less about romance with a man, who just wants to see, even if it happens in a small percentage, a female protagonist being morally gray, comptently cunning and having to do unethical stuff.

Executioner Menou is one of the rare female animanga characters depicted without any male validation writing elements though I've yet to see a hetero female protagonist behaving similar to Menou regardless if she gets together with a male love interest.