What makes a good vs a bad female lead?

Why?
When you make male characters you can make them just useless and incompetent. After all, you story might need this kind of character.
But with female characters they must always be competent, otherwise feminists and simps start bitching. This attitude heavily limits the possibilites of female characters.

Just look at Sakura and Ochako. Useless femmcs are really common

Agency. That's it. If you have a lead character (that's either a girl or a boy) that doesn't do shit, then your character is shit.

1. Having a personality

Good: Actual character; example: winry, rukia
Bad: Created specifically to occupy female slot so the manga main group isn't a sausage part or created specifically to be main character girlfriend; example: Sakura, Asuna

All of those are side characters, not lead characters

Someone who has goals and attempts to achieve them throughout the story.

Good: badass and/or not overly annoying, example: Revy Lee, Faye Valentine, Cynthia Moore, Popuko, Pipimin
Bad: overly-annoying, mary-sue, and/or being included just for a forced-romance plot, example: Asuna, Atsuko Kagari, Aqua, Mari Makinami Illustrious

You just need one competent female lead in a story where the leads aren't all incompetent for comedy. Shonen stories struggle with just the fucking one.

Good: competent but boner-inducing with her shares of fanservice, which includes, but not limited to, pantyshots
Bad: boner-inducing with her shares of fanservice , but incompetent

Good: farts and poops
Bad: doesn't fart and poop

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>Screentime, relevance, and competency
screentime aside, these don't particularly make for a good character, especially competency. What is this shitty meme? Plenty of great male characters that are downright incompetent but female characters should always make the right decisions to be considered good for some reason.

I'm no scatfag but I do appreciate it when a girl needs to use the bathroom like a normal human being.

Ochako is the same as most other side characters in that series, male or female. Naruto is really the only bad example.

Sure, if the only shounen you've seen is Naruto.

Is it a coincidence that Ochako and Akko share similar syllables in their names and that both are incompetent?

OP is talking about female leads. Relevancy is important, this shouldn't need to be explained. As for competency, yes, they shouldn't need to style over the dumb and silly boys and shit. However they do need to be good at something, contribute something, out of their own efforts. Otherwise their value comes from only their role, and not the character themselves.

At least Cowboy Bebop did it right with Faye.

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What if midway through or at the end of the series she loses her virginity?

Being useless and incompetent is not the same as being irrelevant, in most examples both of those happen at the same time, then you have shows like heroaca where the female cast is not really incompetent but pretty irrelevant to most important events.

Anyways, what makes a good female lead is the same that makes a good male lead, things like personality, goals, flaws, etc. Being competent and perfect all the time would backfire and end up becoming a mary sue more often than not.

Has some characterization or aspects of her life that are initially hidden from the MC and matter to the story or character dynamics. Fanservice.