I'm rising up and being a defendant of moe/lolicon/echhi/hentai all that good stuff.
If anyone reads this, I want your honest opinion on the subject of moe and why you like it or hate it.
Seriously, people need to chill out about it since it's all a fictional material anyway.
We're full of moral panic alarmists here in the U.S.
If hate these, you have no soul.
VZ-The Moe Martyr
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I have to agree with you! There are too many people trying to run others lives that are infested with the "cartoons are only for kids" disease!
I like anime because its not bounded by the codes of honor that many super heroes shows are, which I find more appealing since the character in many occasions is just an average guy. Also, not making the "bad guys" as purely evil makes the story interesting in many cases. I like "bad guys" to have deeper personalities and that their goals are beyond just greed and power.
Regarding the erotic approach of it, I can't hide my fascination with this aspect of the genre and I don't find it to be such a horrible thing since not every character is portrayed just as a sex object, though sometimes they tend to be so scantly clad.
Regarding the lolis, I think they're cute and interesting characters. If people fantasize with them, fine, long as they leave the neighbor's daughter alone. This reminds me of a reply I post on Deviant Art regarding the erotic/nude drawings of characters like Kim Possible and how people are too technical in regards of the characters age. In my opinion people should not be so technical since its a fictitious character and many times she's drawn much older than the actual character, so why so much issue regarding this?
You ask for opinions, but then promptly go onto a rant about how anyone who disagrees with you is a 'moral alarmist'
Hmmmmm.....
...but since I love being Captain Contrary, I'll tell you why I don't like moe.
It's not so much moral compunction (but lolicon does scare the shit out of me), as that I find it rather unappealing. It's such a manufactured form of cute (I understand all anime is manufactured, but whatever), so saccharine and designed to appeal to the lonely nerd, that it gives me a headache. The 'cute' voices, the 'innocence' .... the entire moe concept is created to make a female character as nonthreatening to a male viewer as possible, thereby stripping her of any possible threat to the viewer's masculinity. And these characters are a dime-a-dozen these days, and I feel that they oftentimes detract from programs when they're just shoehorned in...
For example, I wanted to like Real Drive and watch it past three episodes, but they focused more on the 'moe' girl, instead of the awesome old guy with the cool voice who was set up to be the protagonist. Or the android (she's too old looking (IE: Over 18) to be moe!). Or the cyborg martial artist. Or the whole virtual reality thing. Nope. We instead get to experience the cute antics of schoolgirls!
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