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Originally Posted by Reckoner

Well before we get carried away here, the contention about moe being related to a sort of "checklist" of entertainment is not entirely unfounded.

I think when Cyth references a show with a tsundere/yandere/genki/etc. girl all featured in it, it goes to show what the clear approach of the show is. They want to offer an array of common personality archetypes to try and appeal to the audience with bishoujo girls. Does this qualify as a moe show? For all intensive purposes, I really do think it does.

Doesn't every anime show have characters that have "moe personalities" or "moe appearances" trying to appeal to the (most of the time otaku-) audience ?
In fact i can't think of any show that is not trying to, unless the show was deliberately using all of it's characters as cardboard cutouts or as "fresh meat" to get killed off (like most American slasher movies or these socalled "torture porn movies").

Originally Posted by Reckoner

There is this idea that a male audience will grow attached to these girls. This attachment can be formed in different ways, but I think this attachment is what basically amounts to a moe focused show. They expect their audience to feel a certain way about the girls being presented, and when they come prepackaged in predefined popular archetypes, selling them to their audience is that much easier.

Growing attached to a character is more a direct result of how much you can relate with the characters, usually by empathy or sympathy. Personally i think "moe" is just one factor to this, because you can relate to characters without always needing "moe"