Samurai Deeper Kyo (a rather cracked-out historical fantasy series about a semi-demonic swordsman and a magically powerful clan with a plan to take over Japan) and Kekkaishi (a modern-day fantasy series about teens who are members of rival demon-hunting families).
I also nominated C.J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe, which is multi-planet-spanning SF with not as many characters of color as I believe it could have, but there are a couple of awesome ones, specifically female asteroid miner Soheila "Sal" Aboujib (in the novels Heavy Time and Hellburner)and the terrifyingly intelligent starship captain Edmund Porey (Hellburner and Downbelow Station). Porey's cast as a villain but there's more to him than that.
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Nominated two manga series:
Samurai Deeper Kyo (a rather cracked-out historical fantasy series about a semi-demonic swordsman and a magically powerful clan with a plan to take over Japan) and Kekkaishi (a modern-day fantasy series about teens who are members of rival demon-hunting families).
I also nominated C.J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe, which is multi-planet-spanning SF with not as many characters of color as I believe it could have, but there are a couple of awesome ones, specifically female asteroid miner Soheila "Sal" Aboujib (in the novels Heavy Time and Hellburner)and the terrifyingly intelligent starship captain Edmund Porey (Hellburner and Downbelow Station). Porey's cast as a villain but there's more to him than that.