/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>Moé, of course, is slang used to describe the warm, fuzzy feeling otaku get from characters, situations, costumes, etc. As illustrator Noizi Ito told me, there's no real way to define moé because it's different things for different people. But for many Japanese otaku, glasses (and the girls that wear them) are definitely moé. And glasses-wearing characters, like Mari Illustrious Makinami were brought in to otaku-friendly franchises to capitalize on meganekko appeal.

Now the real question /jp/?

Why is it called Meganeko?

MEGA CAT? What does the word actually mean in japanese is it a combination of two words or something?

This is something I've been always wondering about.