I really thought Miho and Shinji were a cute couple, and as usual, it ends in tragedy. :disappoin
But if we're talking about female leads as in series leads, then it has gotta be Mana and Ozawa for me, definitely made their presence felt without forcing it, and their story and character development were great.
Yeah, Miho and Shinji did look like a very nice couple. I wished that there was more of her, but she's just in the movie. There's no specification limiting the best female lead to a TV series, so she definitely is one of my favorite leads.
One girl: Sumiko Ozawa. Seriously, she made the G3 suit, plus, who is the only chick who can drink chugs of beer and create the G3-X suit with one hell of an AI?
How is "Let me be like Hana and keep an unfunny running gag alive" Natsumi the best at anything other than, well, keeping unfunny running gags alive? >.>