Definitely Kaylee (we throw on Firefly quite a lot when tv sucks too badly).
Hmmm, iffy on Leliana - probably because I actually found her annoying pretty quickly.

I don't know if you have tried watching NCIS: Los Angeles... I loathe the show but there's a new character who's basically a loli computer whiz. She certainly has the appearance and spunk but they rarely give her enough air time for a good judgment.

NCIS (original) forensics lab goth Abbey actually marks as 'moe' to me because the actress just funnels simultaneous beams of confident expertise and extreme vulnerability.

The fae/arasai in Everquest 2 are quirky moe I suppose.... trying to think of non-gaming examples though.

Wow.. this is pretty hard since much of 'western' tv uses what I consider an unpleasant "paris hilton or carmen electra" kind of ilk where japan uses cute and moe.

The *art* in Hana-saku looks gorgeous... what I've seen of the PVs has the animation looking a bit jerky. However.. I'm in for any slice'o'whatever like this.

I really like the picture you used in your signature Is it an original artwork or are there more where it came from?

Oh.. .yeah I've been MIA on the series threads for the most part of the series I'm watching (or at least collecting for later)... there's an air of obnoxious otaku-ism in some of them and I'd rather not start hurling brickbats while the story unfolds.

I didn't list a few others - I've got the first few episodes of IS and the Zombie Desu Ka series on queue for a probationary look. And of course, the Ore ni Imouto 'true route' is firing up so I'm following that. I dropped Dragon Crisis pretty fast and I don't know why several people thought I'd like Beelzebub O.o ... I don't think they're grokking my sense of interest. There's several others that might be interesting if I didn't just feel like they were rehashes of things I already have several excellent examples of. If its disposable entertainment, I have other things I can watch or do.

It took me a while in Dragon Age to realize that everyone was just standing around off-stage before my arrival would trigger events. I thought there was a Big Clock, so that was disappointing.

Yeah, there's no reason that there couldn't be a synchronized off-stage tracking of events that happen with or without you. It doesn't even have to be clock based, it could be 'turn step' based using some internal clock (so you can get up and go eat without fear of disaster or be able to pause/save/quit).

Once I figured that out, I was able to cavort all over the place and muck around in back corners of Dragon Age... took a lot of the tension away.

I vaguely remember a couple of rpgs back in the 90s there were actually clock-based but damn me if I can remember names. The 'nerfing' of MMOs and RPGs just rolls around as we bubble-wrap all the little slugs from failure or effort

Let me know when your 'catgirl heavy fantasy mythos' is funded... I suspect Saintess will trample me to be the first in line.

The Skyrim trailer is very pretty... but I must admit I never finished Oblivion - I'd always get to a certain point and then just kind of wander off.

I like the cat-girl avatar.

I think its in the same vein as those huge pointy hair bows that resemble cat ears (like my avatar Tomoko wears). Not explicitly nekomimimode but referential.

My anime watching has been almost nil the last month. I'm still downloading a bunch but the time has been spent gaming. The current MMO in the household is Everquest2 (a romp into nostalgia), and otherwise its been mah jong or sessions of Steam games (Alien Swarm, Greed Corp, L4D2, etc).

Currently archiving Magica, Hourou Musuko, Yumekei Merry, Kimi ni Todoke.... however, I still have a handful of series from *last* season I haven't finished yet.

I've seen mention of it, I believe... I try not to get too caught up in the undercurrents of that - I just like to enjoy the series and be surprised! No doubt, this is a re-telling of Faust in some ways - I'm fascinated by it intellectually but still not quite sold emotionally.

After watching eps 3 and 4 of Madoka Magica, I completely changed my reception of the show. It went from merely artistically interesting with a unfitting atmosphere/plot (for a magical girl show) to one of the best of the season. Looking very much forward to the next set of episodes.

Thanks for sharing the pic. I'm a bit surprised this pic has been done already, since Madoka hasn't even become a magical girl yet, but you're right that it was probably inevitable.

The pic itself is quite well-drawn.