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alt title(s): Moe Moe
Mikuru: Conversion to perfect Moe-blob 92% complete.

(pronounced "mo-eh")

"Moe" (萌え, also spelled moé) is an ill-defined otaku term that means, amongst others, "cute", "huggable", "endearing". While it's sometimes used to describe a series, it's more about a specific kind of character. Can also incorporate sexiness, to some. Or So I Heard.

Traditionally, these sorts of characters grew organically from 'regular' stories, especially those of young heroines. While some audiences grow irritated and dislike a male character for being conflicted, whiny, or less manly, these traits seem inherently tolerated in heroines, with the audience more likely to be sympathetic or at least dismiss them as 'girly' moments, especially if the child is a growing and awkward teenager. Moe can be thought as a step up from that: vulnerable or innocent qualities that are endearing to the viewer. Well, to some viewers.

Moe characters are cute. This is usually the specific aim, even over sexiness. Moe characters are implicitly youthful, congregating to high school age and below. Adult female characters who qualify are almost always in their low twenties. Any characters older than that have this fact unmentioned, or the character's appearance is altered as little as possible.

If this can't technically be done, the personality will reflect an 'innocent' outlook on something vital. A popular one is about romance. This is sometimes handwaved by the character being shy , but can befall even gorgeous characters. A related implication is that moe characters are implicitly virgins, even if this occasionally changes during the story. Related to this is all Moe characters have at least one overwhelming character flaw, invoking the 'love for imperfect things' philosophy, which should hopefully make them endearing.

Moe characters are quirky, and rely on Costume Inertia, odd language, strange hobbies and the like to make them seem unique and noticeable. Occasionally, these traits are completely unrelated and seem a bit disjointed. If a character is plain, they are 'loudly plain' in the way Hollywood Homely characters are 'ugly'; sometimes they're just more moderate than the rest of the cast, and the writers implicitly suggest the audience is kind for liking the character for being plain.

An interesting result of this is some moe characters are quasi-Animated Actors; the series they star are need not be related at all, being only devices to enable the viewer to enjoy the character. Many of them feature in Gag Series, and only the merchandise for the series shows off its intended and occasionally creepy roots.

As might be guessed, Moe characters are not liked by everyone. Ones directly created as such are often disliked for being gimmicky, childish, and appealing to all the stereotypical desires of geeky fandom, including sexist or youth-obsessive themes.

Interestingly, male characters can also be moe characters to a female audience, and figure prominently in Shoujo and Josei. Most of the time they aren't considered such simply because of the lower (or just different) implications of romance to that demographic or because desirable traits of males are slightly different. The closest equivalents tend to exist in Boys Love stories, and the Uke tends to fill most of these traits.

Or to put it another way, Moe is the ability of a character to instill in the audience an irrational desire to hug them.

If the character proves not to be quite as, uh, pliant as initially assumed, congratulations, you've just encountered the Badass Adorable. While they may inspire the same feelings of protectiveness, they are quite capable of taking care of themselves, thank you very much.

See also Moe Anthropomorphism, Moe Couplet, Manic Pixie Dream Girl Stare; compare The Woobie.

Moe characters:

  • One of the ur-prototypes for the modern type is widely agreed to be Neon Genesis Evangelion's Rei Ayanami; exotically beautiful, physically and emotionally vulnerable (even if it isn't obvious at first), in utterly pitiable circumstances once you discover what that is, coolly logical where others are uncertain... and, well, occasionally shown bandaged up. An absolutely staggering amount of what constitutes the modern trope has its origins in Rei, which is particularly hilarious when you consider that the creator was trying to make Rei disturbing. Talk about swing and a miss.
    • Shinji himself at times.
  • Amelia from The Slayers seems to be another somewhat-prototype for the trope (having been around since before the trope was really identified at large). Although much (much) more go-getting, positive, and active than most modern characters who fall under the banner, she is the youngest of the four cast members, is very naive, possesses a rather impressive chest for her supposed age (14 in the first season!), comes from a fairly chaste background and religious city-state, and is often used as a punching bag by the villains to show how evil they are, which seems intended to produce an extremely sympathetic and protective feeling from the audience. It doesn't seem a coincidence that a larger number of shows like this began airing in the years following Slayers going off the air.
    • Which makes it kind of weird that if you watch The Slayers now, Amelia could easily qualify as a parody or subversion of the trope, as the very qualities that make her Moe are also exaggerated to such Beyond The Impossible degrees that they're actually a little unnerving, and her naivete has sometimes put her in genuinely dangerous situations.
    • There's also episode 15 of Slayers TRY, where Lina is transported to an Alice In Wonderland-esque bizarro-world, complete with costume. She's absolutely adorable.
  • Sailors Mercury and Saturn in Sailor Moon are also prototype cases - in fact, there's a theory that the term Moe was originally derived from Saturn's civilian name, Tomoe Hotaru.
  • Chihiro and Fuuka from Persona 3 qualify. Both are relatively plain compared to other female characters, tend towards shyness, and Chihiro herself is 14 and afraid of men.
  • Ayane from Persona 4 is even more so, as, in addition to being shy and unthreatening, she's mistaken for the main character's younger sister at the festival, has a perpetual blush, and just tries...so hard...to get better at the trombone, even though it's big for her, to catch up with the rest of the band.
    • And then there's Nanako. Just try not to fall in love with her. (Er...not that way.)
  • Shiki from Tsukihime tends to have a love of moe traits among the girls in the games. The doujins take this to whole new levels, creating his infamous line "So moe...I'm gonna die~!"
    • The female cast of the game are all quite moe; some just more than others.
    • Akiha, Arcueid, Hisui, Satsuki, and Len; arguably the most moe characters out of the lot.
  • 7 year old Son Goten of Dragonball Z is a male example of this trope. He is basically the happy, sweet, innocent, considerate, well-mannered, kind-hearted, cute and huggable little brother that we all wish we had, who is simply too good to ever be true outside a 1950's sitcom.
    • And then in Dragonball GT he grows up to be a lazy good-for-nothing horndog. Even assholes were cute once.
  • One of the major themes parodied in Ouran High School Host Club, where the Host Club members each cultivate an exaggerated trait/fetish for their female guests, and their self-elected consultant Renge frequently monologues her opinion of what is moe to girls. More satirically, Club President Tamaki views his feelings towards Haruhi as moe (protective and fatherly) even though his classmates realize it's unusually thick-headed way of dealing with actually being attracted to her despite her not really being impressed by him.
  • Mikuru Asahina from Suzumiya Haruhi is recruited for the S.O.S. Brigade specifically because Haruhi decides that there needs to be a moe mascot character (specifically a short, babyfaced girl with huge boobs). She then tries to make Mikuru even more moe by forcing her into a maid outfit and glasses, and constantly molests her to get sympathy points. Some fans have coined the term "Moe-blob" for her (and characters like her), because to a casual watcher, all she actually does in the series is stand around and be moe, and oh yeah, serve tea.
  • Mai-HiME skewered the concept in a Post Episode Trailer (where a lot of things did indeed "burn") as well as foreshadowing the show's darker themes much later.
  • One episode of Keroro Gunsou features a one-shot character rife with disjointed moe characteristics: a cute, pale, spacey, soft-spoken, transfer student prone to bad luck who's interested in the occult. When Fuyuki takes a shine to her, his secret admirer Momoka outright describes her as a "retarded moe character."
  • Speaking of retarded moe characters: Japanese model/actress Kikouden Misa makes occasional TV appearances as Hakyuun, an airheaded strange-speaking Meido. She comes off (and intentionally so) as a goofy, exaggerated Kawaiiko.
  • In Lucky Star, when Miyuki talks about how absentminded and clumsy she is, Konata tells her that "these are not faults, but elements of moe". And then subverts the dojikko elements by dismissing them as something cute in anime, but annoying in real life.
    • Also, Tsukasa.
    • And Yutaka. Especially in the dub — her voice actress is Hynden Walch, voice of Starfire and young Nia.
    • Let's set the record straight here. Miyuki and Yutaka were outright called "walking moe points" by Konata. And, what's more, the manga called themselves moe-yonkoma— the genre of yonkoma that started with Azumanga Daioh, and hence maybe should be listed below with Hidamari Sketch etc...
  • Mahou Sensei Negima's Setsuna is an interesting case, as her friendship with Konoka was essentially a mechanism to show off her moe traits, until it was emphasized into a romantic feeling.
  • Subverted in Welcome To The NHK by creating a character that combines as many moe aspects as possible, with creepy results◊ (though the anime version◊ scales it back enough to actually be moe).
    • The novel version is WORSE. Visualizing it is impossible, however, as the traits contradict!
    • Specifically, she is a childhood friend who is a Meido robot, Ill Girl, an apparition, alien, and a Kitsune.
    • The protagonist Satou would qualify as moe if he wasn't a creepy nerd in his twenties.
  • In Seto No Hanayome, a horrific episode of men crossdressing as schoolgirls and catgirls and trying to play off moe stereotypes culminates in San suddenly wearing cat ears—something everyone agrees is incredibly moe (before being sent flying).
  • Much of the show Girls Bravo revolves around this, especially with the main character Miharu, who is completely oblivious to her own attractiveness.
  • Going by the series timeline, glasses-wearing nerd Yomiko Readman should be about thirty years old during R.O.D. the TV. But unlike Nenene, Yomiko looks exactly the same as she did in early stories.
  • Likewise, Fate's adopted mom in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha doesn't seem to age after the timeskip.
  • Despite anyone watching the show probably not having a problem with an older lead female, Mizuho's age in Onegai Teacher is discretely never mentioned. Adding to the problem is that the plot treats her position as Kei's teacher as being the illicit detail, and not apparently an age gap. She seems to inhabit a magical twenties-something spot that is also somehow young enough to give her a little sister and a first kiss during the show's run. Mizuho's mother is no help, as she REALLY has no problem with Kei being younger...
    • Mizuho is listed as 23 years old on several sites, making her five or eight years older than Kei, depending on whether you use Kei's mental or physical age.
  • Nyu from Elfen Lied. Also, Kisaragi with the bonus of being a dojikko, despite which she doesn't last very long.
  • The first two seasons of Da Capo feature a character actually named Moe. Given her large breasts, easygoing personality and way of speaking, she is indeed what many would consider moe.
  • El Goonish Shive shows us how not to do it.
  • The appropriately named Moe Katsuragi in Risky Safety.
  • In a rare Live Action Lampshade Hanging in Ultraman Mebius, one of the guys' crew, Teppei Kuze, is the son of a rich family who has a maid named "Moe", complete with a short skirt and glasses.
  • Ilyana from the ninth and tenth Fire Emblem games is not only incredibly cute, but has an absolutely insatiable hunger. Several of the characters have reported her using her cute face and vulnerable appearance to swipe unsuspecting men's food.
  • Ibis Douglas from Super Robot Wars. She's not as moeblob obvious like Kusuha, but she actually becomes the champion of moe characters in the Saimoe contest. Maybe there's something to do with her Pettanko status?
  • Every teenaged female character from Hayate The Combat Butler. Hell, Hayate himself falls into this during his crossdressing moment(s); so much so that Maria and Nagi feel uncomfortable, and Klaus, unaware it is Hayate, is instantly smitten.
  • Subverted hard and fast in The Daughter Of Twenty Faces; main character Chiko first appears to be weak, defenseless, naive and spoiled, but by the end of the first episode we've already learned how clever and perceptive she is and by the sixth episode she can easily hold her own physically against The Dragon of the first narrative arc - and in all her flipping around still manages to avoid any trace of a Zettai Ryouiki. Chiko is the embodiment of what happens when an Action Girl decides to go "the hell with moe".
  • Rika and Satoko from Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni. The show then goes on to royally mess them up, time and time again. By the time the second season rolls around Rika stops being moe, but Hanyuu more than makes up for it.
    • Rena is plenty moe as well, she just has a far less emphasis on loli moeness. At one point she plays this up in order to fluster Keiichi long enough to win one of their club's games of tag.
  • Kaylee Frye from Firefly. Whedon likes his anime.
    • Goes double for River. On top of being very Moe, she's also 125% woobie.
      • And as long as we're talking about Summer Glau, Cameron. The girl plays the Moe to maximum effect.
    • If we're talking about Joss Whedon shows, Willow, when she's not, y'know, evil. This is especially noticeable in the first few seasons.
    • Also Fred, especially with her ability too put more words in 3 seconds than any other person in the whole planet.
  • Starfire from Teen Titans. Murakami likes his anime. Glorious, friends!
  • Jack Spicer of Xiaolin Showdown certainly qualifies as a rare western male example. Only enhanced in fanon.
  • Sakuno Ryuzaki and Tomoka Osakada from The Prince Of Tennis.
  • Maylene from Kuroshitsuji is clumsy, bespectacled, and blushes easily. She's also a maid. And we love her for it. She's also a crack sniper, but that's just a bonus!
  • In No More Heroes, Travis comments on a poster in his home - "Moe~".
  • Played half-seriously, half for laughs in Yu-Gi-Oh GX. In her first appearance, Rei/Blair is a 12-year-old girl who not only fills in the moe charm after being "uncovered" (she had pulled a Sweet Polly Oliver first), but has in her first deck a card named "Maiden In Love", whose monster form is the one of a very moe girl who uses her charm to gain the favor of other monsters... as long as they're males. The moment Judai summons a female monster (who looks like a Hot Amazon), she snaps the "guys" out of it.
    • She also fits the mold when she returns in season 3, particularly once hospitalized.
  • Nia Teppelin from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is very, very moe. Actually well used, as she counterweights Yoko's Stripperifficness and Simon's Hot Blood.
    • It doesn't hurt that she seems to be completely fearless. See her interactions with Kittan and Adiane in her first two episodes.
    • Disturbingly: Viral. Sure he's Estrogen Brigade Bait, and sympathetic, but that only really applies after the timeskip (particularly after the Lotus Eater Machine). Before that he was treated as moe by the Estrogen Brigade because of his Villain Decay of all things. Why fangirls, why?
    • The Guren Gakuenhen manga parodies the concept when Kamina gets a little confused as to what "Moe" is supposed to convey.
  • Sara Smith of Bliss Stage fame.
  • Didn't think Metal Gear Solid could be moe? Think again.
    • And then there's Sunny in the actual series...
      • Horribly enough, the reason the moe-figures work is because the male characters have surprisingly moe personalities. Snake alone is a aloof/warm-type Tsundere Ill Girl who makes nonsense vocalisations, is dedicated to his best friend, and gets a lot of Panty Shots. Otacon is so moe it hurts.
    • Emma from Metal Gear Solid 2 also qualifies.
  • Webcomic example: Hanners of Questionable Content.
  • Played straight, but taken to goofy extremes, in Penguin Musume Heart, where Sakura goes into fangirl rage over one of her classmates who manages to hit just about every moe category short of having animal ears.
  • Sierra Manning in Survival Of The Fittest, a cute emotional girl whose cuteness is only amplified by her lisp.
  • Tessa in Full Metal Panic, highlighted in the OVA after The Second Raid. Of course, she also happens to be an extremely intelligent Captain of an extremely powerful submarine and Special Forces Badasses. Her orders are often phrased as suggestions.
  • Tamaki-chan from Bamboo Blade is so moe it hurts.
  • In the Touhou fandom, many jokes have been made about Yuyuko Saigyouji's power of absolute mastery of death and moe.
  • The first Dresden Files comic, Welcome to the Jungle features Willamena "Will" Rodgers. Meganekko glasses: check. Twin braids: check. Deer in the headlights look: check. Wants to be under the hero's protection: check.
  • Yuko, from XXXHolic, has a small monologue on moe in the book xxxHOLiC: Anotherholic:
    "If someone has flaws or defects, but that is exactly what draws you to them, people call it moe. It's different from 'like,' where you're drawn to their good points, their strengths. 'Like' doesn't care for defects or flaws. Moe is the opposite of 'like' or 'dislike'....."
  • In the Harry Potter books and movies, Luna "Loony" Lovegood is considered by some to be moe, even causing Anonymous to have the unusual reaction of "I want to date her and meet her parents" rather than "I want to have violent, squicky sex with her, then kill her"
  • Nakoruru and Rimururu of the Samurai Shodown series are very much siblings made of pure concentrated moe. Nakoruru moreso, as she somehow got herself recognition as one of Japan's most moe characters.
  • Suzuhara Misaki from the manga version of Angelic Layer.
  • Suzie Wong, from Digimon Tamers, manages to overcome the semi-religious programming of one of the Devas and turn her against her own faction with the power of sheer concentrated moe.
  • Polka from Eternal Sonata.
  • Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga from Azumanga Daioh is incredibly moe and cute.
  • Eve from Applegeeks is a robot. She is also very innocent and very cute. "What kind of cat would you want?" "I want a lolcat!"
  • Hazumu of Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~ is a strong example, being prone to bouts of tears. Almost a male example, as we see flashbacks of his childhood, before he became a she. (Gender-swapped by aliens. No, seriously.)
  • Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre. No, seriously. One of the first Knight Templar Woobies on record.
    • Especially◊ in fanart. Admit it. If not for the Reign of Terror, you would totally go "d'aww" too.
  • If Robespierre counts as moe, Wilfred Owen certainly qualifies.
  • Kaiji often gets called moe or even a moeblob, as part of Memetic Mutation. Of course, he is both male and not really moe, but the sheer amount of woobieness makes him look moe in the eyes of fans.
  • When you think about it, this guy◊ from The Simpsons is very "moe."
  • In R2 of Code Geass, C.C.descends into this after she loses her memories. She gets better, though.
  • Admit it. Coraline is moe. Just look at her.◊
  • The Warhammer 40000 fan-character Cultist-chan turned into this once she got de-aged. Yes, a cultist of Chaos.
  • In the episode "The Privileged" (Missing Hearts) of Ghost In The Shell, a cute little girl in the hospital is actually named Moe, according to the script excerpt on the title card.
  • Crona from Soul Eater. Cute, huggable, emotionally vulnerable and a massive woobie.
  • Ty Lee from Avatar the Last Airbender. Peppy and childish with large eyes and even larger breasts!
  • If you think about it, US Senator Mary Landrieu◊, Democrat of Louisiana. Say what you will about her policies, but oh, she's such a cutie.
  • Glitch from the Tin Man miniseries has moe qualities for many fans, due to the combination of his adorably quirky personality and traumatic backstory.
  • Tsubaki, the storehouse keeper from Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja.
  • Cute characters such as Bridget (Guilty Gear), Mizuho (Otome Wa Boku Ni Koishiteru), and Jun Watarase (Happiness!) are often considered moe. The fact they are all guys is incidental.
  • Eileen from Virtua Fighter.
  • Another real life example - Regina Spektor. She's tiny, quirky, blue-eyed, and adorable. And one time she came to a concert inexplicably dressed as Zorro.
  • Himeko in Kannazuki no Miko. Blonde, clumsy, helpless, and oh so rapeable.
  • Aerie from Baldur's Gate II. Like her or not, she has all the markings of one.
  • No matter how much Zelos disputed in the Gummi-Skits, Colette Brunel from Tales Of Symphonia is moe.
  • Chekov, from the 2009 Star Trek movie. He's developed quite the female following, myself included.
  • Mana Khemia Alchemists Of Al Revis has Pamela, a very cute Ghost Girl. No male or Mon could resist her charms.
  • Zettai Karen Children: Kaoru loves to see how much moe she can squeeze out of the other girls (she's the one who insisted on pleated skirts for their uniforms), especially when she sees that one of her school friends is not only moe, but dojikko as well. Two other characters love moe anime too, but these Otaku are looked upon as weirdos.
  • Sakura's mom in Code: Breaker is a true Moe Blob: she's the size of a small child and loooooves playing dress up since she's Sakura's adopted mom, who knows how old she is. There's also Sakura's classmate Nenene, who is also very tiny (yet two years older then Sakura), has glasses (and Boat Lights), and loves groping Sakura's breasts (she even names them).

Entire series called moe:

  • Saki
  • The animation company M.O.E. is named after and produces many such shows; some have more fanservice than others.
  • Ichigo Mashimaro embodies this with all the subtlety of a thrown brick. It has four "younger sisters", all cutesy, strangely dressed, inexplicably endearing oddballs, although this is slightly subverted, as according to elder sister Nobue, Chika's only distinguishing trait is a lack of a distinguishing trait.
    • The author's deadpan delivery does keep the moe aspect within manageable bounds though, although the series certainly has its amounts of Squee — Miu and Nobue's intimate moment after Miu's open display of jealousy comes to mind.
  • Kamichu is an excellent example of the two different kinds of moe. Most of the show is based purely on the "protective feeling" school of moe, as the show is not "sexed up" in any way, and bears nary a hint of Fan Service. And then from left field comes the obligatory Beach Episode Lovers of the Sun. Gainaxing, Fanservice, and stretched-tight swimsuits suddenly leave the target audience at a loss. (Mumbles to self, "...was as disturbing as that Hello Kitty bondage doll ...")
    • The anime is mild compared to the manga that came after, which is at times quite fanservice-heavy. This often focuses on Matsuri, who is also depicted as much more well-endowed than in her anime-incarnation. The other girls get their fair share as well though, especially Yurie.
  • Moon Phase, on the other hand, will provide your daily required dosage of Loli Cat Girl Cute Monster Girl Vampire-chickage.
  • Magic Warrior-type Magical Girl shows aimed at an older male audience, such as Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.
    • Nanoha herself became even cuter by having a cute partner, one major reason for the strong Nano/Fate fandom despite its occasional vagueness. When Nanoha is older, the addition of Vivio lets her show off her big sister/motherly traits.
    • Vivio exists primarily to tug at the heartstrings.
  • The Japanese Transformers toy and manga series, "Kiss-Player", attempts to combine moe-type female characters with transforming robots. Reaction has been suitably mixed, with a large contingent declaring it the Worst. Thing. Ever. (It should be noted, though, that at least part of this reaction can be traced to the storyline, which involves evil robots with disturbingly phallic tongues who eat people.)
  • Another set of H-Games with actual plots and sympathetic characters is Key's works. Kanon and AIR have both been animated twice with all H-scenes removed and practically no fanservice, and didn't lose much; CLANNAD, which was also animated twice under the same contract, was completely clean in the first place.
  • Chobits.
  • Azumanga Daioh
  • Di Gi Charat
  • Gunslinger Girl
  • Uta Kata is a psychological analysis of human nature wrapped in a powerful, tear-jerking story of a tragic friendship. Oh, and there are various cute underage girls to look at along the way.
  • A Little Snow Fairy Sugar
  • Potemayo is about a boy and the titular, unspeakably cute, over-possessive, literal moe-blob he found in his fridge.
  • Kamichama Karin. Seriously, even the bishonen are moe.
  • Bottle Fairy.
  • Chis Sweet Home.
  • Chocotto Sister.
  • Hidamari Sketch. You will fear for your nutbladder.
  • Behold the latest Spin Off series of Gradius! Otomedius!
  • And of course, who can ignore Moetan?
  • Arcana Heart is widget-powered moe.
  • Mentioned in Shikabane Hime - after Ouri falls ill, Keisei ills his room with posters and collectibles from the series Moe Warrior Zenbunose Puchi-tto. Ouri is rather less than pleased.
  • Yotsuba&! by the same author as Azumanga Daioh.
  • Axis Powers Hetalia is stuffed to capacity with moe goodness, appropriately, as its huge cast of characters consists of moe anthropormorphisms of countries. You've got your standard-issue "Hetare" (Hetalia is a contraction of "Hetare Italy," referring to North Italy, but many other characters also qualify), Tsundere (Germany, South Italy, and most notably, England), Yandere (Russia, (arguably) Latvia, and Belarus), Cute Shotaro Boys (Sealand and Latvia), and various others. Listing all the Meganekko would take up half the page. England and Italy have been called tsundere and moe, respectively, in canon.
    • Also, Canada, WHY SO MOE?
    • There's only five meganekko, though: Austria, America, Canada, Sweden and Estonia. (Plus Thailand who has only appeared on sketches.)
  • Binchou-tan is the Moe Anthropomorphism of various Japanese charcoals and, for some reason, aloe. Heartbreaking poverty and loneliness, mind-blowing cuteness, and incredible Scenery Porn ensue. On a cuteness scale of 1 to 5, it's a solid 11.
  • K-On! The series description can be summed up thusly: Four moe-blobs form a rock band
    • The 4th episode may have hit a new peak in moe with Maid Mio.
    • And just when you think it can't be topped, Azusa arrives on stage.
  • Lucky Star lampshades moe characters regularly. The series as a whole is more of a parody of moe series, but can still be classified as moe due to it following high school girls who don't look a day older than 12 and are often portrayed as adorable (with the exception of the Tsundere Kagami... until she goes into deredere mode.)
  • Petite Princess Yucie has all these cute princess candidates, but the moe gets turned up to eleven the moment Beth's fairy assistant Belbel appears on screen.
  • Nerf Now is a moe version of Team Fortress 2. . While all the characters in TF 2 are male (probably), Nerf Now has male and female versions, and otherwise follows devotedly the Rule Of Cute.

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