In a recent article published on We Remember Love, Pontifus considered the confusing contradictions that appear throughout Ookami-san and pondered whether they indicated a statement on moe, or perhaps even a meta-reaction to it. He took it one step further by bringing up the question of whether a moe in conflict with itself (as appears in Ookami-san) is sustainable, and likened the moe genre as a whole to a dodongo who’d just swallowed a bomb. Art movements, as he rightly pointed out, don’t explode though… they shift. The most important question he asked dealt with the future of moe, and he speculated that moe might go through something of an upheaval… maybe now, maybe not til five years time.

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Post tags: Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi, Post-Modernism, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

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My wife. This picture does not objectify women. This is a picture of a woman, and an extremely beautiful woman at that.

…and so wrong, for that matter?

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Post tags: Aesthetics, Critiques of Anime, Critiques of Literature, Epistomology, Post-Modernism, Post-Structural Linguistics, Saigyouji Yuyuko, SHAFT, Structuralism, Theories of Discourse

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