>>8017142Because G1 did a terrible job at fleshing out characters.
When you look at it, Starscream was the only guy with personality. Tell me about how complex Huffer or Sideswipe was?
If it was not Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Soundwave or Megatron. You didn't know shit outside of one line in an episode before their disappeared.
He was whiny, an asshole and crazy women like that kind of stuff. They like people that are mentally unstable like they are
As for fujoshis, in Japan, G1 Starscream was voiced Hirotaka Suzuoki, who also voiced Dragon Shinryu in Saint Seiya (Another Fujoshi staple show) along with Kuno from Ranma 1/2 and unlike our Chris Latta scratchy whiny voice, he was a smooth sexy guy. So his love in Japan by overweight single Japanese women in their 30s and 40s is different.
Japanese women love his sexy voice.
American women love that he is mentally ill like them.