2013-01-26, 17:04 | Link #81 | |
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Seems like a rather counterproductive goal to me... Just because somebody somewhere says Mortal Kombat is moe (good grief...) does not make it so.
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2013-01-26, 17:11 | Link #82 | |
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Perhaps that wasnt such a good idea after all. My original goal was to see a few other opinions on how moe felt to them. I have no intention of defining, or seeing anyone else try to define, what "moe" is. All I want to know is how different people differently perceive it, so Id be very surprised if people were in the same ballpark. |
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2013-01-26, 17:16 | Link #83 | |
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That is IMO just as pointless as asking what others think of other words that convey a certain emotion like "cool", "awesome" or "badass" |
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2013-01-26, 17:21 | Link #84 |
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I'm something of a black and white person that chases after more concrete answers to things.
To me, moe is cuteness; which, while subjective, can be shown as a facet of attractiveness that illicits a "caregiving" response from a typical person. Babies, kittens and puppies are the easiest to reference, in usual settings they bring about a hormonal response from people to feed and shelter them, to "care" for them. Anime moe does have a propensity to be sexualized, but my opinion is that the underlying response evoked from viewers is the same as watching kitten videos on youtube. While subjective, I would expect any given, typical group of individuals to rate a given material roughly the same in regards to how cute, or moe, a work may be. Or some such. . .
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2013-01-26, 17:25 | Link #85 | ||
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All I wanted to know was how moe affected people differently. Can you explain to me what is wrong with wanting to know that? This isnt about the word, it is about the emotion. Quote:
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2013-01-26, 17:31 | Link #86 | |
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As if my examples of using "cool", "awesome" and "badass" are not some kind of an emotion. |
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2013-01-26, 17:40 | Link #87 | |
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And for the word thing, I was referring to you talking about "definition", not your words. |
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2013-01-27, 12:17 | Link #89 | |
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I am a heterosexual male, and I am moe for Kaiji. ...Because I want to protect him from all of those terrible things out there!
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2013-01-27, 21:01 | Link #91 | |
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I believe I even saw Kotetsu described as Moe Ojisan
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2013-02-05, 19:49 | Link #96 |
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lol... From what I read here it seems i completly misunderstood the word "moe"...
until now I always thought that "moe" refers to a character that is "innocent" or had no "sex education" (don't mis-/overinterpret this) yet and seems cute because (s)he is so clueless about that.
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2013-02-06, 08:09 | Link #98 | |
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Characters having an innocent outlook, be that sexually, morally, or even across the board, is common. But it's not a must, and there's a lot more to the definition than just that aspect.
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