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Originally Posted by Maveric
At the end of the episode (afk 19:30), Konata says "That was what you call an element of turning people on."
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afk used the same phrase to describe
moe in Haruhi, it's a rather narrow definition which fitted the Haruhi case where she was talking about Mikuru's moe attributes but like Anh_Minh says
moe isn't necessarily about sexiness, in fact there is no universally accepted definition of the term
moe, it means many things to many people in various subcultures. That it arises from two homophones, "budding" and "burning" (萌え and 燃え), is about all that can be said without too much fear of contradiction.
All Kona-chan means when she says "good job" is that Miyuki is living up to the
moe sterotype that Kona-chan has of her. Personally I'd never considered klutziness to be a significant aspect of
moe, but it's clear from Kona-chan's ramblings about Miyuki that some people do, presumably because it can confer an endearing quality of vulnerability that makes people feel protective about that person. However not every klutzy person is moe by a long chalk, and in fact I don't regard Miyuki as moe myself, I think Tsukasa is the real
moe character. Miyuki is the "tick box"
moe character, like others have said she's a parody: on paper she has all the attributes required of a
moe character yet they don't combine to give a real feeling of
moe (I probably just pissed off a lot of Miyuki fans there....)
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