If kawaii, or the aesthetic of cute, is
the longing for the freedom and innocence of youth, manifesting in the
junior and high school girl in uniform (Kinsella 1995), then moe is
the longing for the purity of characters pre-person, manifesting in
androgynous semi and demi human forms. This is called 'jingai,' or
outside human, and examples include robots, aliens, dolls and
anthropomorphized animals, all stock characters in the moe
pantheon. A specific example would be nekomimi, or cat-eared
characters. More generally, in order to achieve the desired affect, moe
characters are reduced to tiny deformed 'little girl' images with
emotive, pupil-less animal eyes
Transformative Works and Cultures - 1 views
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"Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works. TWC publishes articles about transformative works, broadly conceived; articles about media studies; and articles about the fan community. We invite papers in all areas, including fan fiction, fan vids, film, TV, anime, comic books, fan community, video games, and machinima. We encourage a variety of critical approaches, including feminism, gender studies, queer theory, postcolonial theory, audience theory, reader-response theory, literary criticism, film studies, and posthumanism. We also encourage authors to consider writing personal essays integrated with scholarship; hyperlinked articles; or other forms that test the limits of the genre of academic writing."
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This online journal is opened to work on anime and manga fandom, so I thought this would be of interest to this group!
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Moe and the Potential of Fantasy in Post-Millenial Japan - 2 views
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I argue fantasy characters offer virtual possibilities and affect
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Moe is also used by fujoshi, zealous female fans of yaoi, a genre of manga featuring male homosexual romance. However, the word moe indicates a response to fantasy characters, not a specific style, character type or relational pattern. While some things are more likely than others to inspire moe, this paper will focus mainly on the response itself rather than the forms that inspire it.
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