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'''(Note: As all of the below are by definition in an Anime Style, and almost all of it is fan-art created for the web, they have been sorted by the source material they are based upon.)'''
==
* The notorious [[OS-tan]]s are moe versions of operating systems and programs; their boob size is often proportional to memory requirements. Windows ME is the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]], who became a popular character for her good intentions but decidedly unstable nature (and her cute [[Idiot Hair]]). Windows 2000 is the [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] type (strongly associated with [[Yuri]] [[Seme]] role), Windows XP has excellent [[Unusual Euphemism|graphical capabilities]], and Windows Vista has transparencies and [[Gag Boobs|even more memory requirements]] (except for Basic-tan who's a [[Tsundere]] loli). Windows 95 is a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] usually portrayed carrying a [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]], destroying Microsoft's PC competition once and for all, [[Pettanko|and eats very little memory]]. Norton Anti-Virus is portrayed as a lecherous, ghostly doctor who makes the girls strip naked even for the most minor ailments; McAfee as a faith healer; and AVG as a handsome student doctor. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io6fH9wJ7cM Also with theme song.]
** There are Linux-tans as well. Linux-tan herself is a bit of a [[Shrinking Violet]], and Slack-tan is a [[Wrench Wench]]. There are also Unix-tans, with UNIX-tan herself being somewhat a [[Tsundere]]. ([http://juzo-kun.deviantart.com/art/Linux-tan-Lineart-23093548 Here] is a pretty good lineup of the major ones.)
*** Now an [[Ascended Meme]], as Microsoft's got an official [[OS-tan]] for the Japanese release of Windows 7, [[Punny Name|Nanami Madobe]]. Not only that, she's voiced by [[Nana Mizuki]]. [[Seven Is Nana|See the pattern?]]
*** Microsoft just{{when}} released a mascot for Silverlight, [http://www.microsoft.com/taiwan/silverlight/default.htm Aizawa Hikaru.]{{dead link}}
** In Japan, a [http://www.animenewsnetwork.cc/news/2009-12-21/microsoft-bing-search-engine-enlists-japanese-voices campaign] run by Bing (MSN's search engine) from December 18, 2009-to January 18, 2010, which has closed on February 18, had five mascots: Nanae, Nana, Nanako, another Nanami, and Nanao.
* ''[[Akikan]]!'' does this for soda cans. These soda girls need carbon dioxide infusions (through kissing) to live. Japan really can make anything ''moe''.
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* [http://danbooru.donmai.us/pool/show/324 Habanero-tan] is a cute loli pepper thing based on a habanero-flavored snack chip. There is also Jalapeño-tan, [[Cool Big Sis|Habanero-neesan]], and [[Gag Boobs|Milk-san]]. Jolokia-tan, the hottest pepper in the world, is the [[Alpha Bitch]].
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Kämpfer]]'' does this in its [[eyecatch]]es for the [[Creepy Doll]]s that grant the heroines their powers. While in doll form they look like cute animals that just committed suicide in a variety of ways, in human form they look like [[Petting Zoo People]], focusing more on the cute than the creepy.
* ''[[Binchou Tan]]'' is an anime about Anthropomorphic '''charcoal''' in the form of chibi girls.
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** {{spoiler|Tabris is a female Kaworu Nagisa.}}
* ''[[Koihime Musou]]'' for [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]].
* ''[[Gundam]]'' has ''MS Girl'' or ''MS Shojo'', published in the ''Gundam Ace'' monthly magazine since 1982 by [[Mika Akitaka]], making them the origin of mecha musume. The first collection artbook was released in 1994.
** In 1985, Bandai released the Armored Lady Original Characters for ''Z-Gundam'' and ''Macross'', Mecha Musume that predates the 1994 artbook. [http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/483223952_59b7f47b24.jpg\]
** Cute anthropomorphism fan art of the giant mecha from the various ''[[Gundam]]'' continuities is common enough for Pixiv to have the "[https://www.pixiv.net/en/tags/MS%E5%B0%91%E5%A5%B3 #ms girl]" category tag for it. The girl is occasionally a character from a completely different series, such as [https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/17122491 this crossover] between ''Gundam'' and ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]''. (Call her "Railgundam", perhaps.)
* ''[[Ark Angels]]'' features [[Petting Zoo People|personified versions of various endangered animals]] as well as of the planets of our solar system (plus Earth's moon).
* [[Gender Swap]] a few character from ''[[Saint Seiya]]''... and voila! [https://web.archive.org/web/20101231131359/http://www.projectharuhi.net/?p=2470 Moe versions] of the western zodiac signs!
* [[Equippable Ally|The Seven Sisters of Purgatory]] from [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]] are demonic stakes given the form of [[Older Than They Look|teenage girls.]] Plus, they are each an [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the [[Seven Deadly Sins]]. Nightmare Fuel for most, Fetish Fuel for some, including Battler, who refers to them as "the ass nee-chans."
* [[
* Nase Yamato's ''[[Chinko no Tsubuyaki]]'' makes ''penises'' cute. Sentient talking penises possessed by other male spirits. Yeah. They're actually pretty cute.
* Sentou Yousei Shoujo Tasukete! Mave-chan is an entire show based upon Moe Anthropomorphisms of the aircraft from the anime ''[[Sentou Yousei Yukikaze]].''
== [[Film]] ==
* As depicted above, even the ''[[Star Wars|Death Star]]''—along with the [http://www.projectharuhi.net/?p=1249 X-Wing and TIE fighters]—can be moe.
* The [[J.J. Abrams]] ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' movie has given us [http://www.projectharuhi.net/?p=1249 Enterprise-tan and Narada-tan]. [[Evil Is Sexy|Oh,]] ''[[Whip It Good|my]].''
** Maiden Voyage, indeed.
* Almost half of the ''[[WALL-E]]'' fanart on [[Deviant ART]] makes them into humans, or at least androids. And they usually manage to make even ''AUTO'' look [http://schiffercake.deviantart.com/art/Human-WALL-E-Characters-94599797 cute].
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** The same can be said for ''[[Finding Nemo]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Haiyore! Nyaruko-san]] does this for [[H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraftian]] [[Eldritch Abomination]]s [[media:nyarko-san.jpg|Nyarlathotep and Cthugga]]. Also [[Cute Shotaro Boy|Hastur]] and Shantak.
** Doll/model kit company Volks has cute anime-style Barbie-sized dolls based on [https://web.archive.org/web/20100328015644/http://www.volks.co.jp/en/lostangelsstory/doll/cthulhu/index.html Cthulhu], [https://web.archive.org/web/20100327225612/http://www.volks.co.jp/en/lostangelsstory/doll/nyarlathotep/index.html Nyarlathotep], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090826214734/http://www.volks.co.jp/en/lostangelsstory/doll/hastur/index.html Hastur] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20100327230335/http://www.volks.co.jp/en/lostangelsstory/doll/ithaqua/index.html Ithaqua].
** Seems Japan loves to do this to the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] ([[Naughty Tentacles|must be the tentacles...]]). Not only did they do it with [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|the Necronomicon and a few other Mythos books]] in ''[[Demonbane]]'', there's now also the ([[NSFW]]) ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120828091304/http://www.jlist.com/product/PAB844 Moe Moe Cthulhu Encyclopedia]'', where pretty much '''''every major Mythos entity or race''''' is represented as a [[Cute Monster Girl]]. Seriously, there's Hastur, a Shantak, and a Gug among the example pics. You just can't make up that kind of thing.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Kamen Rider]]'', mostly Heisei series, spawn [https://web.archive.org/web/20110210002335/http://www.lolibaka.com/image/post/list/rider-tan/1 Rider-tan].
* Another Toku example ''[[Tomica Hero Rescue Fire]]'''s [http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9878/4921127.jpg Qsuke-Tan]
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*** And then, of course, {{spoiler|this comes full circle in "The Doctor's Wife" when we meet Idris, a literal humanization of the TARDIS. And the results are ''epic.''}}
== [[Music]] ==
* "German Bold Italic": [[Kylie Minogue]] playing a... font?
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], [[Myth, Legend and Folklore|Myths and Legends]] ==
* Various deities from religions around the world are personification of certain concepts or locations. Not all of them are cute, though.
* Egyptian gods are occasionally depicted as trees or normally inanimate objects with human arms or heads attached.
* ''Entaku Seitokai'' (''Round Table Student Council'') does this for the King Arthur legends. Heroic knights of old turned into the cute girls of today. A liberal amount of [[Gender Flip]] is also applied in this instance.
** The visual novels ''Knight Carnival!'' and ''12+'' also provide moe versions of Arhurian legends.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* This is popular with ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' races and characters, including [http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7692/40ktansiy5.jpg Kroot-chan, Tau-chan, and Vespid-chan.]
** And of course, [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Unyuufex Unyuufex], a [[Woobie]] who only wants to hug people, but [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]]...
* This is how the [[Magic: The Gathering]] webcomic ''Lotus Cobra is Evil'' portrays...well, almost everything. The most impressive is Primeval Titan, which looks like [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=205027 this] in the game and [http://mtgcolorpie.com/2010/08/01/lotus-cobra-is-evil-so-i-married-primeval-titan…/ this] in the comic.
** That's less an anthropomorphisation and more replacing the character design with [[Touhou|Ibuki Suika]].
== Toys ==
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* There is [http://biogijinka.deviantart.com/ a group] on [[Deviant ART]] devoted to anthropomorphizing [[Bionicle]] characters
== [[Video Games]] ==
=== Based on Video Games ===
* The various [[Video Game]] consoles have moe anthropomorphisms as well—360-tan, Wii-tan, [[Play Station 3]]-tan, N64-tan, DS-tan, etc.
* [[Mega Man (video game)|Roll]] in the [[Halo|Covenant Hunter Suit]] from ''[[Mushroom Kingdom Fusion]]''.
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* Not even [[Chrono Trigger|Lavos]] can avoid this. Here's the [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/373595/brown_eyes-chicago-x-chrono_trigger-covering-gradi first form] and the [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/359555/blush-chicago-x-chrono_trigger-covering-covering_b second form].
=== In Video Games ===
* There's an [[Eroge]] called ''MonoGokoro MonoMusume'' that has moe-anthropomorphized objects as most of its principal cast. Objects turned into cute girls include a computer, a pillow, a [[Humongous Mecha]] toy, a washing machine, and a pair of panties.
* A good portion of ''[[Touhou]]'' characters feature this to some degree or another, with characters like Letty being the personification of Winter, Nitori, a Kappa, having the turtle shell and head plate of the actual mythological beast turning into a backpack and a cap, or Yamame, a giant spider monster, being a girl with no monstrous features except for design elements of the dress she wears.
** Some of the girls, like Medicine and Kogasa are [[wikipedia:Tsukumogami|tsukumogami]], which are basically personifications of inanimate objects, so they are kind of this in-universe as well as out.
* There's also the free-to-play MMO TPS ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131026101821/http://www.cosmicbreak.com/home
* The Triggerhearts from [[Triggerheart Exelica]] are design to resemble mecha musume.
* All of the [[Real Robot]] series in ''[[Super Cosplay Wars Ultra]]'' is done by a girl with
* The whole point of ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]''. Moe versions of the [[Wii|big]] [[Play Station 3|three]] [[Xbox 360|consoles]], among others.
* There's humanised versions of the romanceable birds in ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'', visible in a brief portrait when you first meet them.
* ''[[Don Pachi|Dododonpachi Saidai Oujou]]'': Ladies and gentlemen--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gTqnQdmDJU&t=3m20s meet] {{spoiler|[[Fan Nickname|Lolibachi]]}}.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]'': Mab, queen of cute things, is a fan of the webcomic ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]''. Those familiar with both comics will know this could not possibly end well. Thus, we get [https://web.archive.org/web/20120624012926/http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=1546 Mab's Chibi Hell], which is, according to various sources, adorable, awesome, an offense against all that is good and right, or all of the above. Or, to quote the author:
{{quote|"She has chibified the unchibifiable. [[Complete Monster|Drip]] is undeserving of ever looking this innocent."}}
* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Fan Web Comic]] ''[
* One ''[[PvP]]'' arc features the lolbat ([[Batman]] + [[Fountain of Memes]]) getting a new sidekick, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130828015806/http://www.pvponline.com/2010/03/01/urit/ ReTweet], who is clearly based on [[Twitter]].
* In addition to all of the examples in ''Touhou'' canon (see above), ''[[Touhou Nekokayou]]'' adds [[Original Character]] [[Mushroom Man|Masha Kinoko]], a [[wikipedia:Amanita muscaria|fly agaric mushroom]] [[Youkai]] and absolute [[moe]]blob.
** She even recieved the [[Fan Nickname]] Moeshroom.
* The ''Squiddles'' opening animation related to ''[[Homestuck]]'' shows some of them as anime girls.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can", Lisa Simpson dreams of the Seven Sisters colleges each personified by an attractive woman.
* [[media:Spongeloli.jpg|This]] picture of [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] and Patrick {{smallcaps|AS LOLIS!}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120906231940/http://nux.deviantart.com/art/SpongeBob-SquarePants-17451045 This] [http://anigirl5.deviantart.com/art/Much-luv-to-Spongebob-91655442 is] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120628112404/http://freakingarg.deviantart.com/art/Spongebob-Gang-Humanized-60173583 a] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120907084905/http://nikkinevermore.deviantart.com/art/Spongebob-and-Squidward-119709840 rather] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120907090817/http://saladbowl.deviantart.com/art/Human-SpongeBob-and-Patrick-88753930 popular] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120426135238/http://demitasse-lover.deviantart.com/art/Hello-neighbor-68311763 concept].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93lbXDsMr2k I'll say]
* There's a [[Transformers|Decepticon]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0SOfOKxNU0 Version] of the ''[[Lucky Star]]'' opening. They're the cutest evil robots ever.
** "Humanizing" Transformers is very common in fanart, with wildly varying levels of [[Moe Moe|moe]]. [[The Starscream|Starscream]] tends to be a smarmy pretty-boy. Which...actually
* As it is to be expected, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120718235607/http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/list/humanized/1 it's also happening] with characters from ''[[My Little Pony:
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* Someone has managed to [http://johnsu.deviantart.com/art/Maiden-Flash-78801692 personify] [[Adobe Flash]]. As in the animation program.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Wikipedia]] has [[c:Category:Wikipe-tan|Wikipe-tan]] (along with [[c:Category:Commons-tan|Commons-tan]] and [[c:Category:Wikiquote-tan|Quote-tan]]), [[TV Tropes]] has [[Trope-tan]] (whom All The Tropes has effectively inherited), [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] has AE-tan and [[Uncyclopedia]] has Uncyclo-tan.
** And Miraheze (ATT's wiki host) has [[c:File:Miraheze-tan.png|Miraheze-tan]], described as "MediaWiki-tan's younger sister and Wikipe-tan's half-sister".
* ''[[OverClocked Remix]]'' uses OCR-tan, with a new one for every forum version. The youngest, Ocr1-tan, is the first incarnation of the forum.
* Most of the boards of [[4chan]] have a moe anthropomorph. For example, /a/ is a [[Meganekko]] [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|under-age Trap]] with an [[Ahoge]].
* The CWCki Wiki of ''[[Sonichu]]'' has [
* The [http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Wiki Final Fantasy Wiki], there's [http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/User:Diablocon/FFWiki-tan FFWiki-tan], a Viera librarian that takes care of the Chocobo in the Wiki's logo.
* Firefox-ko, for the Firefox browser.
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* Fantendo now has their own [http://fantendo.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Sorastitch/Fan-tando Fan-Tan].
* One meme that came out in 2017 is [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/earth-chan Earth-chan]. A common running gag is her saying she isn't flat. She is often depicted as sick (because pollution and stuff).
== [[Real Life]] ==
=== Based on History ===
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' features countries in [[Moe]] form, [[Edutainment Show|educating us about history]] (sort of) with all the [[Meganekko|attendant]] [[Cute Shotaro Boy|tropes]] related to moe, and [[Ho Yay|then some]].
* [http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/11/27/national-moe/ this book] (site has some [[NSFW]] ads) about Moe countries, ''74 Countries Turned Into Bishoujo'', continues the ''Hetalia'' tradition, only all-female. And yes, North Korea is included.
** It's hilarious how England looks almost exactly like [[The Familiar of Zero|Louise]].
* ''[[Moe Moe Niji Taisen]]'' does this for [[World War Two]] ''planes'' and ''tanks''. They battle by causing [[Clothing Damage]].
* Along the lines of ''Axis Powers Hetalia'' the [[Web Comic|webmanga]] and web novel series ''Miracle Train [[Chūō-sen e Yōkoso]]'' about the [http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2372.html Japan Railways Chuo Train Line] has five of its major stations (Zero '''Tokyo''', Shintaro '''Shinjuku''', Riku '''Nakano''', Takuto '''Kichijōji''', and Luna '''Tachikawa''') personified as [[Bishonen]]. We're not kidding, official site [http://miracletrain.jp/comic/index.html here] and Anime News Network report [http://www.animenewsnetwork.cc/news/2009-03-02/tokyo-chuo-train-line-made-into-moe-boy-characters here]. The characters have even been given voice actors.
** There's also an anime called [[Miracle Train]], though it focuses on the Oedo line instead of the Chuo line.
* [[Strike Witches]]: Probably the most well-known example for military Moe Anthropomorphism.
* There's a bunch of models for AP'd [[WW 2]] planes as little girls with the appropriate national costumes and plane parts as clothes/prosthetic limbs. Surprisingly not very moe, or at least their eyes aren't.
** On a related note, there's a moe version of the Battleship Bismark around the internet somewhere. A link cold not be found, but it's somewhere around [[Deviant ART]].
*** The Bismarck was probably from Mitternacht Marine.
* ''[[Afganisu-tan]]'', a Japanese [[Web Comic|online]] [[Yonkoma]] about the history of Afghanistan. Infamous for presenting the September 11th attacks as a rogue [[Cats Are Mean|cat]] ([[Karma Houdini|Al-Nyada]]) biting [[Eagle Land|Meriken]].
* Green Dam, the Chinese censorship/nanny tool once said to be a mandatory installation on all the country's new computers (until the government apparently backed down), was Moefied as a protest. Mildly [[NSFW]] link [https://web.archive.org/web/20090616095921/http://www.danwei.org/net_nanny_follies/green_dam_girl.php here].
* The [[Kaiju Defense Force|Japan Self-Defense Force]] even had their own [http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/11/kaizoku01_01.jpg moe mascots]{{Dead link}}. So much for fighting lolis.
** Connected with that is [http://maiwaifu.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/maritan2.jpg Mari-tan], the personification of the U.S. Marine.
* There was some fanart floating around that moe'd several [http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/018/e/3/Lucky_Nazi_by_Sunahime.png WorldWarII]{{Dead link}} figures.
** [http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwPnNvZhqtwlSJNP3sAXn1_KVS49l5tE2e5pGWt Adolf]{{Dead link}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20160329170625/http://inciclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Archivo:Hitler_Moe_cb6.png Hitler].
*** [http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/150/i/2010/120/3/f/Josef_Mengele__Angel_of_Death_by_ZexionNoVI.jpg ''Josef Mengele'']{{Dead link}}. Note the [[Cute Little Fangs]] and [[Hair Decorations|scalpel barrettes]].
* Moe Hayabusa space probe! [http://www.nekomagic.com/?p=13486 Yes.]
* Just to prove that yes, ''nothing'' can avoid moe anthropomorphism, we present you with [http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/10/28/japan-fights-china-with-moe-china-crushed/ Japanese-made gijinka of a Chinese slur for the Japanese] (ads and much of the other parts of this site are '''NSFW''').
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130724062538/http://nocturna.noor.jp/n-n/noctnavy.htm Japanisches Kaiserriech Mitternacht Marine] is a webcomic revoving around the various personifications of [[World War Two]] weaponary, like planes and tanks.
=== Based on Military Aircraft ===
* The F-22 Raptor earned the nickname "[[Mary Sue]] With Wings" on [[TV Tropes]]. [[Fetish Fuel|Can we stop]] [[Perverse Sexual Lust|referring to]] the F-22 as a [http://g.imagehost.org/0249/1231317099520.jpg Mary Sue With wings?]{{Dead link}} '''''[[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant|Please?!]]'''''
** Even the quote for the [[Cool Plane]] page says, "If Kim Basinger was a plane, this is what she'd be." [[Invoked Trope|Thanks, Tom Clancy!]]
=== Based on Sports ===
* There's a sorta-popular Pixiv tag for "Anthropomorphic club". Basically, it's [[The Beautiful Game|soccer/football clubs]] turned into schoolgirls. For instance, here is [http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=22121842 Manchester United] and [http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=25864470 Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal]
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