Guy produced a great answer (http://ask.fm/Geekorner/answer/126887291357)#_=_), and to personally add to that great answer is my just how I approach characters in anime and shows in general. Personally, I don't think we should frame our engagement with shows and the characters within them through a narrow definition of something being labeled feminist. Though as Frog-kun points out, a feminist lens is a no-less valued perspective (http://ask.fm/Frogkun/answer/128978283380), and people tend to reduce feminism into something which is not only anyway. Only a particular school of feminism (radical feminism) really attempts to frame the core of social relations within a predominantly gender paradigm. The more reasonable (in my opinion) schools focus on the intersectionality of various social factors in addition to gender (which has been otherwise ignored or marginalized as a dynamic of consideration for the longest time).

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We should, first and foremost, approach them in terms of how they relate and resonate with the complexities of the human condition and experience, fraught as it is with systems of oppression. We should approach shows and the characters within them by the ways they not only accommodate or resist structures of social stratification (like gender), but how they navigate and negotiate with them as well.