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7/21/2025, 2:10:36 AM
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The explosion of moe anime in the 2000s was an extension of the popularity of moege (gal games, visual novels, dating sims, etc) in the late 90s and 2000s. For a while, until around the mid-2000s, 90% of "moe anime" were straight-up adaptions of visual novels until the trends started shifting to CGDCT in the late 2000s.
The origins of the word moe itself is really hard to pin down but it started showing up on online messageboards in the mid-90s in Japan.
I'm pretty sure that To Heart's anime adaption in 1999 is the first proper "moe anime". There's moe characters before To Heart but To Heart was the first TV anime of it's kind that was simply about hanging out with cute girls doing without any strong comedy, plot or drama moving things forward.
The explosion of moe anime in the 2000s was an extension of the popularity of moege (gal games, visual novels, dating sims, etc) in the late 90s and 2000s. For a while, until around the mid-2000s, 90% of "moe anime" were straight-up adaptions of visual novels until the trends started shifting to CGDCT in the late 2000s.
The origins of the word moe itself is really hard to pin down but it started showing up on online messageboards in the mid-90s in Japan.
I'm pretty sure that To Heart's anime adaption in 1999 is the first proper "moe anime". There's moe characters before To Heart but To Heart was the first TV anime of it's kind that was simply about hanging out with cute girls doing without any strong comedy, plot or drama moving things forward.
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