The General Anime Thread...

[otakukid96]

So much commonsense is lost in anime, it's almost painful.

 

[AOS-]

You're watching a lot of crummy shows anyway. Watch cool shows

 

[Loliblade ver2]

Moé show and you didn't recommend it to me? Are you sure that when you really were you when you gave me that list?

Just because you love moe, doesn't mean I have to hand you bad moe shows. I gave you good stuff. So be happy.

Well, there's also Yosuga no Sora in that list, which is really worth it for the last episodes :3

 

[nk4e]

You're watching a lot of crummy shows anyway. Watch cool shows

Before more cool shows come out.

 

[otakukid96]

Finished Natsuiro Kiseki. It was good. Is A-Channel or Kill Me Baby any good? I saw a few clips of them and they seem pretty funny.

 

[Sephy]

Kill Me Baby is absolutely terrible.

 

[AOS-]

Is A-Channel or Kill Me Baby any good? I saw a few clips of them and they seem pretty funny.

Please stop falling for these crummy shows!

Watch Another. I know you are sold by moe pretty easily, so do Another, Guilty Crown, Higurashi, Gosick, or Toaru Majutsu no Index (followed by Kaguka no Railgun).

Somebody tell him. This guy never listens to me.

 

[Loliblade ver2]

Skip Another, go for Guilty Crown, Gosick and the Toaru Majutsu no Index series and hold off on Higurashi until you start to accept srsly messed up 🤬

 

[salanos]

 

[Endless-Wilso]

Skip Another

 

[nk4e]

Skip Another, go for Guilty Crown, Gosick and the Toaru Majutsu no Index series and hold off on Higurashi until you start to accept srsly messed up 🤬

Don't collect 200 bison dollars.

 

[otakukid96]

I'm debating between Gosick and Toaru Majutsu no Index. It's too hard to decided. The first seems interesting, but the second seems more known. Also, this may seem weird for me to ask, but what exactly is moé?

 

[Hei]

Gosick. I love my cute little detective Loli sucking a pipe. No tobacco in the show because kids smoking is just wrong by today's standards

 

[Techy]

I think Gosick is pretty good. It's kind of like a detective show except that it technically isn't, so expect the characters to think quite a bit around various situations. I dunno about Index though.

 

[Hei]

How could any Moe aficionado resist a cute loli with gorgeous long hair in Victorian outfits. Who?!

 

[AOS-]

Also, this may seem weird for me to ask, but what exactly is moé?

It's not weird since you haven't experienced enough shows that don't contain any of that content for you to know what it is. Moe has become two sorts of terms that are usually associated with each other.

You can think of it as an art style even though it's not trademarked by one artist anymore. For example, here is a picture of Revy in how she is originally depicted as:

Take note on the facial features; eyes, nose, face shape.

And here is Revy depicted in a moe style (specifcally Chibi in this case):

Ignoring the obvious body size, moe styles tend to use ginormous eyes, small noses and mouth to make them look all cute and adorable. Heads are usually big and round. These are the main things that people will use to identify moe art styles.

So to burn that into your memory, I'll show examples of non-moe characters, and moe characters, starting with the former:

And this is moe:

Noticed how they all got very similar art styles than the former set of images? The big eyes and small noses? Yeah, that's the visuals of moe essentially.

You can use the term "moe" to describe that one fetish one person may have. Catgirl-moe, glasses-moe, sailor uniform-moe, striped panties-moe, etc.. It's not limited to objects however; it can extend to commonly used actions and behaviours people usually find cute and charming. Examples of these include cat faces :3, meowing like cats, and talking adorably like a little girl. I don't think you'll get it right now. But if you want to truly understand what isn't moe, you need to see shows that don't contain any, or at least significantly less than what you've already been watching. You'll notice that the "moe shows" then to employ the same things they give to characters and you should be able to notice how similar some characters are (happy girls), the settings (like school... with happy girls), the relationships the girls have with the male protagonist (this is a very specific example, but is almost always an occurring one).

Bottom line is, if you truly want to understand what moe is, watch other shows other than the shows with the same art style you are particularly attracted to.

 

[otakukid96]

Ok, I think I understand the whole art style aspect, but not the rest of if.

Bottom line is, if you truly want to understand what moe is, watch other shows other than the shows with the same art style you are particularly attracted to.

This part confused me more.

 

[AOS-]

You'll understand the rest when you watched more moe shows more critically, where you spend more time analyzing what you see rather than being swept away by the plot. As for the latter bit, you know have a better idea of what "moe" looks like. Now if you so choose to avoid watching those shows temporarily (not just for one show, but a couple), you should be able to understand that bit of the post with the help of wiki.

 

[otakukid96]

Ok. Think I'll do that after I'm done with Gosick. Already started it so I might as well finish it.

 

[Hei]

Do not care if repost.

 

[Loliblade ver2]

I'm debating between Gosick and Toaru Majutsu no Index. It's too hard to decided. The first seems interesting, but the second seems more known. Also, this may seem weird for me to ask, but what exactly is moé?

Gosick is good. Victorique is THE greatest tsundere loli EVER. One of the best tsunderes anyway, actually.

Index is good, more action-oriented. Also, why you no watch Iroha?!

Gosick. I love my cute little detective Loli sucking a pipe.

Stick to your K-On, everyone knows I'm the biggest Victorique fan here, silly JC.

 

[Hei]

Andy, @ DtB SAO. I knew I wasn't the only one who thought Kirito reminds them of Hei.

 

[Loliblade ver2]

That's not Kirito, that's Kyousuke from Oreimo and beside him is Kirino.

 

[TheCorvette]

It's not weird since you haven't experienced enough shows that don't contain any of that content for you to know what it is. Moe has become two sorts of terms that are usually associated with each other.






Bottom line is, if you truly want to understand what moe is, watch other shows other than the shows with the same art style you are particularly attracted to.

Ganta is moe? WTF is this 🤬?!!!

Index is good, more action-oriented.

About how much action-oriented? Is there so much it gets in the way of character development and story, resulting in my enjoyment being low? Action alone never really makes a good show.

 

[Hei]

That's not Kirito, that's Kyousuke from Oreimo and beside him is Kirino.

Wut?!

 

[Shinshiki]

*snip*

Those eyes...........

 

[Loliblade ver2]

About how much action-oriented? Is there so much it gets in the way of character development and story, resulting in my enjoyment being low? Action alone never really makes a good show.

The character development, story and action are all better than Shana's. Good enough of an explanation?

Wut?!

Kirito's hair isn't like that and neither is Asuna's. Plus, Kirino is an otaku so it's not surprising for her to cosplay. There's plenty of Kirino cosplay pics.

 

[Hei]

 

[uMadson?]

having plans of watching Sankarea and Hyouka.

Blame KENZZ.

Also I'm so busy I don't have the time to watch animu :|

 

[nk4e]

Stuck on watching Samurai Champloo.