Also Conquest of Paradise for me! I had the tune randomly pop up in my head for well over a decade, probably close to two, without having any idea what it was. Every few years I tried finding out what it was, but to no avail. Online melody searches weren’t that good, and when I hummed the melody to people or played it on the piano, people either had no clue or, at best, were like “that sounds familiar but I have no idea what it is”. I even toyed with the idea that I had come up with the melody myself, though I did find it unlikely.

I can’t describe the happiness I felt when I finally discovered the actual song when I once again tried finding it, this time by humming into Google’s music search thing

To me “hydro line” sounds like a weird way to say “water pipe”.

Well, people misunderstand the terms when they see them applied to something and assume it denotes aspect A of that thing when it really refers to aspect B of it. Your explanation might be closer to how many Western otaku would use the term these days, but for me moe and sexuality are very different, even if there can be a degree of correlation between the two. Moe is very much about the daughter/protecc kind of energy. Like aww shit damn that is adorable!

Hiccough is a mistaken newer spelling based on the association with coughing, hiccup is the original.

Definitely available on Windows too, here: https://chromium.woolyss.com/#windows

When I started watching anime, the characters were my age. Now I’m significantly older, but I still like similar characters than I used to in a similar way than I used to.

I’ve also seen Japanese schoolkids in real life, and while I find them adorable the same way I find any kids adorable, I have absolutely zero interest in them in the way I do towards the fictional characters. They are two completely different things for me now.

And for the older audience, it is a form of escapism back to the days of their youth where all they had to worry about was their love life and school exams instead of taxes and toxic work culture and societal norms and their love life.