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07/14/10(Wed)06:54 No.37783999>>37782251
>"moe" has been around since the dawn of time. It's also not a genre, but a character attribute. Shows can't be moe, characters can be moe. And whether a character is moe or not depends a lot on the viewer's preferences.
Don't get me started. Obviously you don't know anything about genres, first of all, most are marked by common features and characteristics, something you would find in the moe genre. Second, a genre can be based on almost any feature of the product, some genres are defined by the time period that they came out in (Baroque music for instance), others by their quality (classical literature), some by audience (hipster), some by atmosphere (goth) and so on etc. etc.
Genres are classifications of content with similar features. They don't exist in nature, they're arbitrary and can be as specific or as inspecific as people like. There are no canonical genres since you can always imagine a culture that wouldn't have or organise it's art into those genres, and most genres are created by critics, i.e. single individuals, but find popular acceptance. Critics have no legislative power on the matter of genres, nor any divine creative potential, so anyone can create a genre classification, or more accurately, diagnose one, so moe is a valid genre.
The question is whether it is a worthwhile distinction, Since it helps a lot of people on /a/ divide moe shows from others, and both people who like and dislike the genre use the term, I would say it is worthwhile. |
