terabient

Earlier this year at Anime Boston, I attended a fan panel analyzing Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I enjoyed it, and agreed with most of what was said, but there were two ideas that I didn't agree with. The first was that PMMM served as a refutation or critique of moe culture; the second was that PMMM was a deconstruction of magical girl shows, in part because of its 'realistic' take on what a magical girl would experience and the general darkness of the series.

I'm still working out how I feel about Madoka as a deconstructionist work (short version: it's not; it's more like a celebration of the mahou shoujo genre), and hopefully I'll have that finished before the month is out. For today, I'm going to tackle one of the stickier subjects in anime culture: moe.

( cut because i have no idea how many people give a fuck about moe )

Man, I hope that made some kind of sense. Stuff from the Puella Magi Madoka Magica panel has been banging around my head for ages, and I haven't been able to get it out.