Moe (Slang)
Moe (萌え, [ mo'e ], literally: budding ) is a Japanese slang term for affection for characters in video games, anime or manga. The term frequently occurs in conjunction with stereotypic characteristics. So眼鏡っ娘 萌え( meganekko - moe, glasses girl - Moe ) describes the property, characters with glasses (see also: Meganekko ) find attractive.
The term is also used as an attribute for mangas that involve particularly cute figures and describes these figures itself It is usually used in the context of manga for male audience, but is increasingly also in shōjo manga. In terms of Anime-/Manga-Figuren the term can be used interchangeably for Kawaii.
Characteristics of Moe
There are mainly referred to as moe female characters who meet certain characteristic and visual criteria. Most of them are young, innocent, cute ( kawaii ) and possess certain bizarre or strange behavior or habits. Typical representatives of this type are, for example, the anime adaptations of Kyoto Animation. A larger part of it is based on Ren'ai Adventures of Key in which at least one of the protagonists has a type of speech impediment. In conversations therefore Ayu Tsukimiya used from canon (2006) again the masculine personal pronoun boku (仆, dt "I " ) when speaking of himself. To their unusual language is joined by the sound Ugu (うぐぅ). Those Ayu used as an expression of oppressive feeling as frustration or fear, but she used so often that he comes close to a speech impediment. Similar characters are also found in Air or Clannad, which are also concerns adaptations of Key. But also in several other works, these stereotypes find. In The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, also adapted by Kyoto Animation, Mikuru Asahina and find yourself with Yuki Nagato two other forms. While Mikuru plays the cute innocence in the form of a shy girl with sincere personality, Yuki Nagato almost any clichés of a closed Meganekko is justified. This was increased in the highly successful series K -On! Where all the five female main characters are the Moe schema requirements. So they are really adorable, but all have some varying degrees of weakness. So they are partly over-anxious, naive, sleepy or turned up. Course are Figures of this kind also in numerous other anime studios and manga different authors.
Source
- Ga - netchû! The Manga Anime Syndrome. S. 268, Henschel Verlag, 2008.
- Anime
- Manga