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From "Marioman":

From Ronald Huffine:

From Kayla Milner:

Since I'm the kind of girl who can't pick just ONE fav. anime, this is a fairly hard decision for me to make. But in all honesty, of all of the animes I've watched over the years I would hands down want to live in the world of IGPX. When I first the previewed the show IGPX I called it the "Futuristic Version of Speed Racer" and considered watching it. Once I started to watch the first three episodes I was in love with the show for three reasons, 1: it's set in the future, how cool is that? (Yes, Bebop is set in the future but I'm terrified of outer space. But the show in general is awesome.) I mean the show's got everything that I imagined what life would be like in the future, if not ten times better. There's the really cool houses and the really cool futuristic version of a Nintendo DS. (My own personal joke.) You can even communicate with your pet in a way, that's something that I always wished that I was able to do.

2: A totally wickedly awesome futuristic sport, the Immortal Grand Prix. I for one, am not that big of a sports nut, but watching this show changed my entire outlook on sports. It actually made me wish that I was in a sport, despite my atheletic handicap. Another reason that I find it totally awesome is the mechanics that went into the whole series of IGPX. At first I thought that machinery as a whole was a boring hobby and a complete waste of time, after I watched the show my whole attitude towards mechanics and machinery changed. I actually learned that it can be an interesting and unique hobby, if you take the time to understand it.

As for the final reason? I liked how the animation made the future seem more clean and livable, unlike the current world we're living in today. It seemed to give a sense of hope of our planet being restored to its formal glory, unlike some shows that are set in the future where Earth is too toxic to live upon. Maybe I'm just being a hopeless environmental enthusiast who's delusional and needs to wake up and realize that things are never going to get better? Maybe so, but like I've said time and time again (amongst my social circle): A girl can dream.

From "Slacker Magee":

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From R.A.:

From Peter LaLiberte:

Have I felt moe for a real person? Yes, and so has everyone else. Like emo, moe is a word that has lost its meaning due to constant and improper use. Moe is slang, and like most slang it's a cut down version of an actual word. Moe is short for moeru, which means 'to burn.' It's meant to describe that warm and fuzzy feeling you get inside. This feeling is akin to a fire in your chest, hense the 'burning.' It doesn't even have to be sexual in nature. Thus, 'moe' can apply to many things. It can be felt while looking at Answerman's cute animal pictures, and it can be felt by seeing a hot girl/guy walking down the street. Your milage will vary. So when you see that special some one you like, and your heart beats faster and your face heats up, know that that is moe.

From Maggie:

Have I ever felt moe for a real person? Yes... and I had it bad. In my senior year of high school, I was sort of just getting past my extreme, life-long denial of my homosexuality and embracing the fact that I liked girls--- a lot. Generally speaking, I liked athletic, tall girls with dark hair and big noses (don't ask) but there was a girl who defied my "type" with whom I took the bus every day to school. I can only describe her as a real life "moe" girl. She was easily a foot shorter than me, with long blonde hair and adorable bangs, big green eyes and always wore cute clothes. Suffice it to say, I was smitten immediately.

Since moe is a term for burning, I can agreeably say I burned for her-- or at least my face did every day when she would board the bus we both took to school. I constantly dreamed of being her "onee-sama" and having a very Maria-sama Ga Miteru "sempai-kohai" relationship. It was really stupid, I know, and I'm not usually like this, but her moe-ness changed me into a bumbling idiot... I'm usually not shy or awkward, but she really rattled me up... in fact, the first time we really spoke was when I was invited to her suprise birthday party by her sister (who I was actually friends with.) I bought her a stuffed sheep as a present, basically because it was cute and she was cute... and she loved it! Snuggling up to it, she was the most moe thing I had ever seen! If nosebleeds from cute were possible, I would have had one.

Now that we are actually friends, I've sort of tried to calm my moe-love of her to a slight smouldering as opposed to a raging inferno. I hope that the next time I meet a truly moe person, I will be prepared... and my brain won't turn to mush!

From Numinor29:

I have. "Moe" is, of course, a very difficult term to describe exactly, but one that most people seem to agree with is that things that are "moe" turn on Otaku. It also tends, in my experience, to gravitate towards young and cute rather than older and busty (the girl next door over the school nurse, for example). Despite the oft-mentioned lack of interest many otaku have in "real" girls, not all of us are completely hopeless. One girl I know in real life is, to me, extremely moe. The sort of girl you want to literally tackle-glomp and kidnap for being almost illegally cute. Not beautiful, mind you, but cute. Moe does indeed occur in real life. And no, I'm not planning to kidnap her...

Finally, from Charles Dawson:

Moe is a Japanese slang word originally referring to fetish for or love for characters in video games or anime and manga.

The answer is NO, as your question is oxymoronic.

Sorry, Charles. This one's for you.