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Originally Posted by TF-Viewer
I always thought it was because of the poorly done time-skip that left a huge hole between season 1 and 2 that was to be bridged with a video game, only the game was both bad and delayed so that it didn't come out on time, in fact coming out after the show was canned. Perhaps more the money lost on that game's development than this "too popular with girls" bullshit.
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Actually, Words of God from the shows's creators(as in, the actual creative team, not the corporate folks that funds the series and development of video games) apparently showed that there indeed was a lot of pressure from corporates on cartoons they've worked on to do stuff like demanding female characters being put "just one step behind the boys" so they aren't too prominent and that kind of stuff doesn't promote the female characters as much as the guys whom boys could "relate" to and then later buy the toys of, etc.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...Female-Viewers
Note this is the comments of admittedly the member of only one animation team, about one very specific(and possibly biased and/or skewed source of information) personal sets of experience with shows from possibly 2 years or more ago(the show that replaced the Tower Prep project they worked on started in 2012).