{"id":252,"date":"2007-08-16T10:04:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T15:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2007\/08\/16\/quirky-cutesy-strangely-dressed\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T10:04:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T15:04:33","slug":"quirky-cutesy-strangely-dressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/quirky-cutesy-strangely-dressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Quirky, cutesy, strangely dressed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only kind of “moe” I really understand is Moe Howard. I’ve been trying to get a handle on moe<\/a><\/em> as the term is used in the otakusphere, and I have been following Avatar<\/a>‘s reporting on this year’s Saimoe tournament, but I’m not sure that I grasp the concept (or that there is a concept there worth grasping<\/a>). Let’s see if I have this right.<\/p>\n

oedomoe03.jpg<\/p>\n

Moe.<\/p>\n

oe20.jpg<\/p>\n

Not moe. (From Oh! Edo Rocket<\/em><\/strong>)<\/center><\/p>\n

Let’s try a subtler distinction.<\/p>\n

yasokomoe.jpg<\/p>\n

Perhaps.<\/p>\n

dennoisako02.jpg<\/p>\n

Probably not. (From Denno Coil<\/em><\/strong>)<\/center><\/p>\n

Isako is possibly the most interesting character in any current series, but I think that she’s probably too intimidating to be truly moe.<\/p>\n

Let’s see how far we can push the concept.<\/p>\n


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hillary-clinton.jpg<\/p>\n

Definitely not moe.<\/p>\n

john-edwards.jpg<\/p>\n

Hmmm<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The only kind of “moe” I really understand is Moe Howard. I’ve been trying to get a handle on moe as the term is used in the otakusphere, and I have been following Avatar‘s reporting on this year’s Saimoe tournament, but I’m not sure that I grasp the concept (or that there is a concept … Continue reading “Quirky, cutesy, strangely dressed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[659,422],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","tag-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","tag-otakusphere"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-44","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}