A question that plagues the best and brightest of animeGAF.
Getting a good answer here is something not even worth thinking about.
Actually, the two definitions linked were pretty good IMO.
Annie is not "moe", a pissed girl that's a badass is not moe at all. I guess Minette can be considered moe because of her design and supposed personality.
Not like I have any problem with moe crap, I just want any of them in the game
The way I see it, anything can be considered "moe". But nothing is
inherently "moe". You as a viewer see a character and possibly make that decision, if that's something you're interested in doing.
I mean, there's the marketing/common artstyle traits of characters where the artist is
intending for you to hopefully find said character(s) "moe", but it's always going subjective based on the viewer.
By the same token, character art merely intended to have certain traits i.e. "cute" can now be interpreted as the artist possibly intending for you the viewer to find the character "moe" if you're into that sort of thing, and it's understandable if people are turned off by that. But they're not mutually inclusive.
Even considering all of that, people can just not like the stuff commonly used to sell a character as "moe" in the first place. I think that's where Chindogg is coming from.
