Past Performance is Always an Indicator of Future Results
With Space Dandy on the horizon, and the hype around Kill la Kill going strong, I’m reminded of Kids on the Slope, The Flowers of Evil, and Redline. While those three shows might have little in common...
View ArticleOn Archetypes and Heuristics
One of the major criticisms of moé is how common and endemic archetypes are to it. Anti-Moé Brigadiers argue that the prevalence of archetypes is shallow and that archetypical characters are built...
View ArticleOperation Shion Fujino Phase 4: The Vilification of Sexuality in Moe
Something has been afoot in the anime community for quite a while. While I’d hesitate to call it a “conspiracy,” it’s sort of like that, and, of course, its endgame involves the vilification of moé...
View ArticleType A, Type B
I’ve been seeing a resurgence of this kind of terminology recently, and that’s disappointing, because I had thought we had moved past this concept. Evidently, however, there are anime fans out there...
View ArticleMoé and Lolicon
The conflation of moé and lolicon happens a great deal more often than I’d like. Unsurprisingly, it’s almost always coming from someone who’s failed to actually grasp the concept of moé, but knows...
View Article“It’s Not Moé Because I Like It”
Puella Magi Madoka Magica took the anime community by storm when it aired in the beginning on 2011. It was being compared to Evangelion, and, to a certain extent, the comparisons were valid. The two...
View ArticleMoé and Lolicon Revisited: “Why?”
Drawingirl94 recently posted a fantastic article on her blog. She articulated in a way I never could things I’ve been saying for a long time about the subject of lolicon. Reading it has given me a...
View ArticleWillful Ignorance and The Anti-Moé Brigade
Let any given moé debate go on long enough and eventually, it’ll end up at a point where someone mentions how “hard to define” moé is, despite the fact that it had still been a debate about moé up to...
View ArticleAre Moé Fans Privilged?
Looking back at the Free! situation, an easy question to ask is “Why were the same people who advocate unity and decry hostility in the anime fandom so quick to laugh at the moé fandom and revel in...
View ArticleAll new content is on the new blog
Howdy! Just letting you know that if you’re looking for the most up-to-date SLC Anime content, it’s now at: http://sheslostcontrol.net/articles
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