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I dislike works with an inbalanced cast of genders in the cast, so I avoid most harems, reverse harems, and all-male and all-female stories. List here your most liked Anime, Manga and Light Novels with a gender balanced cast. My Top 3 are these :

1. Darling in the Franxx ( Anime ) :

Mecha anime. 5 boys and 5 girls in MC's group including the MC. Gender balanced cast of characters with a few interesting side couples. I like this anime very much and this is my number 1 anime so far.

Not harem genre too, as there's only 2 and not 3 of the opposite gender that is romantically interested/linked to the MC. ( This is not a spoiler since some people stay away from harem genres like the plague, so it is important to mention if there's harem elements or not to convince anti-harem people to watch the show.)

2. Tensei Shoujo no Rirekisho ( Light Novel )

Female protagonist, Isekai reincarnation, fantasy. MC has both male and female characters in his group of friends/comrades, so it has a gender balanced cast. There's both Bishoujos and Ikemens in her group of friends, but it's neither reverse harem or yuri harem, since there's only one boy that has clear and strong romantic feelings for the MC.

I love the MC very much, as she is very funny and interesting with her internal monologues and Tsukkomis that reminds me of Ani from Dame x Prince Anime Caravan. However unlike Ani, this MC is much more capable in fighting, though not as good her other comrades, which are one girl knight trainee, an elder boy knight trainee, a classy noble girl mage and 2 noble boy mages in her circle of friends. Wait a minute, most of the MC's closest friends here are from noble families, with only a few to zero commoner friends....where have I seen this setting before??? Oh yeah, the one I will mention below.

3. Kenja no Mago ( Light Novel )

Similar settings as the one above.

1. Only one love interest for the protagonist and no harem.
2. MC has a good balance of female and male comrades in his group. Gender balanced cast of characters.
3. MC's closest friends including his love interest are all from familes of high social status, from both nobility or royalty. Kinda like our lucky MC from the novel mentioned above. However, he does have a few friends from commoner families, though his closest male friend is not a commoner. And the girl with most closest relationship with him ( love interest ) is also not a commoner, so in other words, the MC here is a Riajuu with friends in high places, similar to Tensei Shoujo's MC. Best thing is that those MCs doesn't have a harem, which is a nice change of pace from most Isekai novels that features harems for a majority of them.
4. This MC also has an interesting personality, as he does show a wide variety of emotions like the female MC above, so you can say that he's not your typical overly bland self-insert MC like is most harem and reverse harem works.
5. This novel also has a Magic School element, same as the novel above. Coincidentally, I find both of them very entertaining, just like Harry Potter, which I've watched the movies a few years ago. Maybe I just like fantasy stories with the magic school element in it ?

So that's my most liked Top 3 list of works from Japan, from all of those 3 mediums that features a gender balanced cast of characters.

I also like DBZ and Yuyu Hakusho, but I didn't included them in the list, as the majority of the main cast are all males with so few females. Bleach, which has a more balanced gender cast, had more strong and badass female characters in the cast than the previous 2, but I only rank Bleach in my Top 10 list and not Top 3 so i didn't want to mention it here to save space for others to post here. What are yours ?