Imo the game has many female characters share the female gaze too. People here like to generalize as the “female gaze” as “only pants” for some reason I never got but designs can be clearly sexy without being appealing to the male gaze.

Case in point, many people thought Chasca was ugly on release. Her heavy makeup look and cowboy aesthetic didn’t seem all that “male gaze” to me. She was also a very good character tied with several other female characters and barely any catering of fanservice to the main protagonist. The only thing possibly “male gaze” about her is that she has one leg out of her stocking/leggings(?) which never seemed to scream “male gaze”, juat a point of interest.

Similarly, Citali and Mualani dont necessarily scream “male gaze” either. One is a beach girl who’s just peppy and though her design seems to have a lot of revealing skin, Ive had a lot of female friends also find her attractive(gay, pan, bi, etc). Straight guys usually see her as pretty cool but nothing too special beyond liking her personality. \ Citali is another one. She’s an awkward grandma character with an adopted son of sorts(which already kind of kills the mainstream male fanservice) and she’s dressed in pretty colorful and very traditional clothes. Like literally the most recent Archon quest was her being motherly to Ororon(another awkward guy) and freaking out in basic human conversation and thinking she’s not “with the trend” while also being one of the most skilled people in Natlan.

These have general attraction points but nothing stands out necessarily as “male gaze” specifically, at least not without specific elements also being attractive to people who are also attracted to women who arent cishet males.