Michael Pinto, generally calm, collected, and even erudite, speaks with the voice of rage. His rage is directed at those who carry on in abject ignorance of the history of American fandom.
At first blush we are sympathetic to Mr. Pinto – without the pioneers, the American fandom would be very different or might not even exist. However, without excusing this conduct in any way, I want to suggest that Mr. Pinto has missed something very important: the postmodernist streak of anime fandom.
Since we've shifted the frame to talking about people, as opposed to moe characters, I've extended the visual metaphor.
I’ve never liked Moe Check. This isn’t to say that I hated it or anything, but more that it failed to fully elicit any sort of severe response in any direction. I didn’t hate it, and I didn’t like it; I was just not interested in it.
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