Moetan is a series of English lesson books which follow Nao, a high school student, and Ink-chan, an underdeveloped magical girl who is the subject of the moe content. The series combines bizarre, terrible Engrish with inappropriate-looking young girls to create something that is, of course, popular.While we are, of course, fairly disgusted with the depictions of the girls in here (magical girl transformation scenes in particular are always off-putting), we're more worried about what passes for English teaching. Just as in the books and anime, the English text is far from native-speaker quality. An example sentence found in Moetan DS: "They say lunatic people are making the English word book."
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5-27-2008 @ 4:13PM
Char6296 said...
Magical Girl transformations... that sounds wrong... An English word book... that's a dictionary, right? And what kind of name's Ink-chan!? Even for a Japanese name that is WEIRD.
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5-27-2008 @ 4:13PM
Ken Shammy said...
From here, the katakana (i think) kinda looks like it's spelling out 'Tiths'
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5-27-2008 @ 4:20PM
PyrosNine said...
MoeTan corner is the sh#T!
This isn't meant to actually be a learning course, except maybe for rough beginners of learning English.
It's actually meant as a joke series and Edutainment, as it does teach english, but the sentences and words are intentionally comical for people who know English or Japanese fluently. I don't know if it's still on youtube, but there were these "Moe-Tan Corners" which gave out "Helpful phrases" in english and Japanese, like:
"The animation team always goes over the top on the first and last episodes."
"I like you, come home with me and f*ck my sister!" (a movie quote)
The point is, it's not meant to be taken seriously, though it does look like it's cashing in on the educational DS games out there.
Must BUY THIS!
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5-27-2008 @ 6:04PM
DG10050 said...
I'd swear there was a loli anime called Moetan. :\
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5-27-2008 @ 6:57PM
rislim said...
There was an anime for it last year.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8034
5-28-2008 @ 2:08AM
Yan said...
theres about 7 subbed episodes so far. 5 more to go! though we really need the uncut uncensored dvd episodes in subs like kodomo no jikan
5-27-2008 @ 8:44PM
rikki said...
"...magical girl transformation scenes in particular are always off-putting"
wtf! You guys must never have watched Sailor Moon or anything as kids.
The transformation sequences are pretty much the only watchable part of the show for 99% of magical girl anime. The rest of it is generally badly-animated love triangle crap.
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5-28-2008 @ 3:45AM
shaoron said...
you guys should've seen the anime
it was so wrong, if it was in the US, FEDs would've brought in the "4chan party van"
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