Campus Anime Convention, and Well-contributed Character Artist Portfolio?!

    Welcome to the second week of the regular format entry! For this Monday, Hibiki is finding website that is a meta of anime. So tell what you found!
    Haisai! Today I decided to give these two websites for you to explore. Those two aren't directly related to anime, it's the fans and creators behind them. Without babbling on, here is what I discovered! I present you...

1. cpac.moe - Castle Point Anime Convention Official Site!

Love Live! Themed Coding Blog, and Dedicated Anime and Tech Admiration Website?!

    Welcome to the first regular Friday entry of the exploration! Once again Hibiki dig a bit further and found two more .moe websites. Tell what you found!
    Haisai! Here is what I discovered! I present you...

1. nekohand.moe - A coding blog, wrapped in Love Live!

A Dedicated Akiba Tour Site, and Official Moe Franchise Page?!

    Welcome to the very first entry in the new blog format! We have a new host; Hibiki! She have dove and explored the first interesting bunches of .moe website. Tell what you found!
    Haisai! As the first entry in the series, I'm ready to give a best shot at finding a new .moe website! Here is what I discovered! I present you...

1. adt.moe - Dedicated Akiba Tour Guide!

kotorichan.moe - The Place That Lists School Idol Festival Cards At Once!

Fully cataloged list of cards of those moe characters!

The Love Live! School Idol Festival Card List is like a companion app that lists all but the Normal cards in School Idol Festival rhythm action game for iOS and Android. This website is created for use in School Idol Festival subreddit, but of course it is unrestricted. It is created by reddit user saymunZz.

rosin.moe - Indie Visual Novel Studio Going Under Moe Label!

Main news page of Rosin Entertainment, featuring moe VN characters!

Rosin Entertainment is an indie visual novel development group. This group has created a short visual novel Pretty and is currently developing Starswirl Academy since 2012 with no set release date, but the demo is available for download. Both visual novels has and is being created with Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine. Rosin also has its development blog which uses Tumblr platform. Now, before continuing on to my first impressions, the main characters of Starswirl Academy is directly inspired by My Little Pony's Mane 6 (Main 6 pony characters). Is that a deal breaker? If that is fine with you, which is the case for me, then read on!

hpt.moe - This Fan Group Is Aimed For Growing THE iDOLM@STER Fan Base!

The main menu of the HPT responsive design website! Moe idols!

According to the website, Houkago P Time is an international group of devoted iDOLM@STER fans with the objective of spreading the love and support of iM@S all over the world. In my own words, this group seems to be quite established and also is quite a major group I found that make sure the iM@S franchise is still going strong. They have social media presence on Twitter. The rest of the details is plenty. Have a read at its introduction post!

fps.moe - Figure Photo Studio Does Moe Introduction!

Instantly greeting you with superb work of moe figure photoshoots!

Here comes the introduction page of FPS. It is an Indonesian circle consisting of figure photographers called JF, Vixion, Allgroassai, nikicorny, and Kixkillradio. According to the site, its inception begins during Anime Festival Asia Indonesia on September 1-2, 2012 when they shared their photos to other attendees. Since then, FPS was present in several of Southeast Asian anime conventions. This is the only its introduction website found, perhaps they've moved to this new domain to take the opportunity of the .moe gTLD. FPS' main online presence is on Facebock.

castanet-doujin.moe - Doujin Circle Now Have Their Most Suitable Place!

It pans, pans, and pans. When we could see the most moe view?

This third website is being constructed (at the time of this writing) by Castanet Doujin, a character artist Doujin circle consisted of 3 people whose members are Xeph, Peach and Kaho. This circle is specialized in drawing characters from either other anime series that you might know, or from their original design. They draws in quite a wide range of suitability, from SFW to strong Ecchi. And their fully drawn works looks like those from standard anime studios!

Present-day overseas otaku culture and society that could affect the popularity of .moe domain

Even in the year 2014, the trend of moe still continues on without much trouble in the anime industry. However, the same thing could not be said for otaku culture and society of the overseas, especially Western otaku culture. In the last 5 years, the moe trend were still widely accepted among the otaku, but nowadays, the acceptance is quietly decreasing. One of the most popular or successful anime series don't have any aspect that could be associated with moe. Here are the two reasons I could think of that would affect the ultimate popularity of the .moe domain.

1. The most popular or successful anime series in 2013

Is it moe? Just forget it, it definitely isn't.

You would already recall Attack on Titan anime series which had swept deep into the majority of the otaku society. The anime is really, really exciting to watch, it is such a popular and successful anime in the large epic scale. But AoT does not intend to have any aspect of moe at all. Yes, it is totally true that the anime series can forgoes cuteness and still proves to be able to become popular or successful.

Who would be having the upcoming .moe domain?

Just from the gTLD name alone, which is .moe, you can already tell that this domain is definitely aimed to put together websites that will have anything related to anime or otherwise cute Japanese culture and stuff. But, who would likely be the people who wanted to have their new .moe domain up and running the most? Let my imagination and theory run just beyond this passage! Don't forget to read the gTLD Periods page to know how each phase is. I don't think anyone has explored this yet, so let's move on!

Phase 1 | During the Sunrise Period

During this period, it is most likely that the companies, especially Japanese animation studios, would be the one who would be quick to get their new official website with .moe domain name registered and have their trademarks secured. The chance of registering under .moe domain could be much higher if the animation studio are specialized in providing cute and lighthearted moe anime series to the industry.