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For the debut post of Dissecting Fandom, I will cover the Moe fan. This is a psychological understanding of this type of fan.


To understand this fan, we must first look at his adolescence. There was one point in this person's life where something traumatic happened involving a person of a strong character. It could be rejection or humiliation of some form permanently hurting his ego. Now, if we go even deeper when psychosexual development(see Sigmund Freud) was at the Latency stage, this person's oedipus complex never dissolved and ended up in the unconscious mind. With these 2 factors, the Moe fan goes for anime characters who are sexually non-threatening to them.

I will have to say that there are 2 types of Moe fans. I will label them as type A and type B. Type A is devoted to a single character. This person loves this character and shows it by buying and collecting any form of merchandise with this characters image. All sexual desire will be focused on this single character as if they were in a relationship.

Type B is the more common of Moe fan. Type B will have the same habits as type A except, they view the character as an object of sex and once bored with said character, they will move on to another. The interesting thing, while they are satisfying unconscious sexual desires, they are psychologically evolving. However they regress back to how they once were when they move on to a new character.

So, what are your opinions or theories on this post?

There is something that has been annoying me lately. It's the constant blaming of each other saying that a certain subsection of fandom is the reason why anime is dying. After getting inspiration from someone on twitter I came up with, Dissecting Fandom.

Dissecting Fandom is going to be like a small project. I will be looking at different subsections of anime fandom and will try to break it down to its core. I will analyze the psychology behind these people and bring it to light. I will show the negatives and positives of these fandoms. The reason why I'm doing this is to show that we are all equal. There will be times that I may spark controversy and may get backlash but I'm prepared for it.

Just to make sure, I will not cover Subtitle only fans, Dub only fans, and Cosplayers. Also, I will not target specific people, it is a waste of time and only children do that. So, if there are any subsections of anime fandom that you want me to cover, just tell me in a comment below.