Moe book

A moe book (萌え本) is a type of instructional book using bishōjo characters for tutorial purposes, with some illustrated in comic book format.

A close American counterpart would be the M16 instruction manual issued during Vietnam War.

History

The oldest known moe book was the Copyright and legal guide for computer user (コンピュータユーザのための著作権&法律ガイド), published in 2002-9.

In Moeru Eitango Moetan, published in 2003-11, full visual was added. English words examples are heavily inspired by ACG, resulting in over 200,000 books sold.

Later, Shuwa System, Eagle Publishing joined the moe book business.

In 2006-2, Enterbrain published Moeken, which explicitly targeted fans of moe. Also, Ikaros started to publish moe books.

List of moe books and publishers

Mainichi Communications Inc.

• Copyright and legal guide for computer user (コンピュータユーザのための著作権&法律ガイド)

SansaiBooks Co., Ltd.

• Moeru Eitango Moetan
• moetan II
• moetan 3

Shuwa System Co., Ltd.

• <poe-lina/> (ぽえりな)
• Magical Tunnel SoftEther (魔法のトンネル SoftEther)

Eagle Publishing

• Moemoe series ()

JTB Publishing Inc.

• Moerurubu (もえるるぶ東京案内)

MicroMagazine Corporation

Core Magazine

• Moeru diet Go! Go! moe diet! (萌えるダイエット Go! Go! moe diet!)

Ikaros Publications Ltd.

Enterbrain

• MOE×DIET=MOET (MOE×DIET=MOET 萌えて燃やして「もえっと」!!)
• moe uranai (萌え占い)

Eichi Publishing Inc.

• Love Yoga (ラブ・ヨガ 萌える『ヨガ教則本』!!)

Online ebooks

• Manga Guide to Lisp

See also

• User guide