I think the saddest thing about this is that Trigger did this rather than a full series for Little Witch Academia. We wouldn't even be having these discussions had they gone for that, instead.
You do know that studios don't just get to make whatever the hell they want, right? Projects have to be greenlit, often at the behest of networks or other corporate interests. That's where the funding for the projects come from. The fact that they had to shop out Little Witch Academia 2 to kickstarter says a lot that no networks/companies were going to go in to sponsor a full television series of that.
It was moe, but not in the way that seems to be appealing. Male moe fans want their affection targets to be helpless bumbling idiots, not the obviously badass gals in LWA.
Isn't that a bit of a generalization? I agree that that's typically the case, but there's still plenty of otaku-favorite characters regarded to be moe that aren't "helpless" and are badass fighters. (For example: the girls in NGE, the girls from the Pretty Cure series, Madoka in Madoka Magica, etc.)
Rei, the moe prototype, doesn't actually do a lot of fighting and Shinji and Asuka mostly act in her place. Pretty Cure doesn't so much attract a moe-fan following as its own monster brand of perverted neckbeards that I've noticed, and most of the fighting in Madoka isn't actually done by moe fan darling Madoka, but by the other girls.
that being said, you are right that it's not a universal thing, but I think "moe" series that portray their girls as having agency and aggression all around tend to be overlooked.
Does it matter that Madoka doesn't fight as much as the other girls? The other girls are all much, much more helpless than Madoka in their situations. Putting a gun in someone's hand doesn't make them strong. (Which is why I didn't mention the others, even though Homura is arguably more 'moe' than Madoka is.)
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(Anonymous) 2013-10-19 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)Maybe the characters weren't sexualized enough for the otaku market or something.
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(Anonymous) 2013-10-20 03:17 am (UTC)(link)that being said, you are right that it's not a universal thing, but I think "moe" series that portray their girls as having agency and aggression all around tend to be overlooked.
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