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Soundmonkey44
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You misudnerstand me, I was speaking of past incarnations of MLP, they truly were horrid. Yes there are & have always been GOOD female-oriented entertainment, but like media in general there has also arguably been just as much if not more BAD media. This happens with media aimed at males too, but its just not always as annoying. Out of the past generation of MLP Generation 3 was HORRID! I wouldn't even show that to my worst enemy. Given the 2 before that were only guilty of being 80's cheese akin to G1 Transformers & G.I. Joe so they arn't that bad. But yes G3 was a flat out monstrosity!!! But yes as you stated there are and have been good female oriented animations over the years, G3 of MLP just wasn't one of them though, if that makes sense. |
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dandelion_rose
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Anime fandom, post-2010s, is not egalitarian. I doubt it ever was. Maybe in the West, but I feel that the driving market force behind anime in Japan have always been males, and anyway it is very obvious now with what producers choose to make.
@Myaow - if it makes you feel better, I prefer the older My Little Ponies over the newer incarnation. |
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Myaow
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Ohhhh, okay, we're cool then! Sorry for the misunderstanding, buddy!
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Flower Metal
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Hell Yeah!
I am a Brony Fluttershy is my Waifu |
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Soundmonkey44
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@Myaow: LOL, don't worry, its S'all Good
@DR: I'm inclined to agree, Although I would personally argue anime has been increasingly less egalitarian since 2005 not just 2010. Also I will admit, the origional 80's MLP did have better villians at times *I love Discord & Night Mare Moon, but Tyrak is deffinantly one of the best villians in MLP history, if not one of the top 10 cartoon villians of the 80's I mean the guy was gonna use a rainbow of Darkness to turn ponies into evil looking dragons to add to his army, now thats bad a$$!* But yeah G3 the generation right before this one, it was HORRID! *It also had a pony that had a very creepy sock fetish, you know, FOR KIDS!  * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSRp6wlgbEM
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dandelion_rose
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I don't see a pony with a sock fetish, I see a cartoon pony singing a kids' song about socks.
Actually I don't remember much of older MLP's plot. I just liked the design of the older ponies better. They were chubbier. |
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Soundmonkey44
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You liked them chubby? Anywho yeah, that whole sock thing was mostly a joke, but the real problem with the third generation is that it was just a shameless toy commercial, which you could argue thats always what toyetic animation is, but at least some toyetic cartoons & anime at least try to tell a good story, heck G3 of the franchise was even a huge down-grade from the original 80's Generation as well as the second series Pony Tales. Because at least the original as cheesy as it was like the newer series tried to create a world and mythos around it, G3, all it tried to do was con kids and parents into buying an inferior product. I think, that in part though may be why G4 is so popular, not just with Bronies, but the intended demographic and older females as well, like its 80's counterpart it at least tries. And a bit random to mention but another big grab at least for me is the songs & the background music, the shows composer Danial Ingram is a genius! Seriously some of Friendship Is Magic's songs are almost comparable to those from Disney movies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzsxfO7dBlA Edit: @ Flower_Metal, you have it backwards, your Fluttershy's waif. *Don't make her use "THE STARE" On you. 
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dandelion_rose
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Animals tend to look cuter chubby. Fat cats, fat penguins, etc.
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Agent355
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I was definitely referring to the Western anime fandom. In Japan anime fandom and industry skews male, but at least there is manga for literally everybody! I don't remember MLP cartoons from the past. I remember the toys, but that's about it. I loved the Care Bears as a kid, though. Wonder how that holds up... (*is afraid to check youtube*) |
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Soundmonkey44
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OK ..... I'll give you that one, Penquins are pretty cute little cusses 
@Agent: True the U.S. Anime fan base is more egalitarian then its Japanese counterpart. Hmm, maybe we should invite some female otaku to move to the U.S. .... Yes, that would be quite nice. 
Also theres actually a NEW Care Bears Cartoon on the same network as MLP, its.... OK, but its CGI so the human kids look pretty creepy .
As for the origional, can't say how it would hold up, as I too have not seen it since I was a kid. I do remember the movies though, the one with that evil talking book with a woman's face freaked me out!
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Snomaster1
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I've got a question. What does "brony" mean? I've seen that in a lot of the posts here but I have no idea what it means.
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dandelion_rose
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Heh, I posted that fat small penguin on my Facebook about a month back.
It's honestly a little weird to see this level of obsessiveness about a kiddy cartoon with talking animals in it, haha. The closest I got to that was when I was really into Pinky and the Brain before I got into Sailormoon (which meant I got into it early...maybe 12? 13?). I'd like to think that my thing for The Brain was because he was channeling Orson Welles, though. At least, that's what I tell myself. |
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Soundmonkey44
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Hey, Pinkie & The Brain was far from Kiddy, *seriously its one of the few cartoons I could get my parents to watch with me back in the day *
And I agree, Brains Voice Actor sounded a lot like Orson Welles. Infact he actually voiced Orson Welles in the animated series "The Critic" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA As for people obsessing over kiddy cartoons, no different overall then obsessing over Pokemon, Case Closed, One Piece, etc, which are considered kids &/or all ages cartoons in Japan *or In Pokemon's Case World Wide* But i'm bias as i'm one of those weird people that as they grow older increasingly cares less about categories, ratings, etc. I like to take each work for what it is, anything can be gold or garbage, thats my motto. And again i'd go back to the fact a lot of 90's kids, such as myself grew up with a lot of cartoons that were similar to either visuals or writing. * Again a lot of MLP's staff are also people that worked on Power Puff Girls &/or Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends* So... yeah its kind of taking a familiar style and franchise and making something new of it.... if that makes any sense. Edit @Sno Brony is a mixture of the words Bro and Pony, Basically Bro's that like My Little Pony, Bronies! Of course older female fans can use the term as well, but some female fans prefer the term "Pegasister" |
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11G4GUNOT
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LOL My Little Pony X Milky Holmes
Tv Tokyo > YTV > The HUB |
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HeeroTX
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If you want to know why anime fans are sick of MLP, I present soundmonkey44 as exhibit "a". At the time of this post the thread had exactly 100 posts, of those just under TWENTY PERCENT are from soundmonkey44. If you tell me something you love is awesome, fine. If you're my friend and you talk about it often, ok. But if you're someone I don't know and you're CONSTANTLY in my face ranting about the amazingness of something it's only going to tick me off and turn me AGAINST the show that makes you so annoying. (if you think I'm an anime weaboo, fans of: Utena, Trigun and (to an extent) Cowboy Bebop have ALL managed the exact same feat)
You know what's really annoying and stupid? When college kids were tromping around in Akatsuki robes at say school or in the mall and screaming lines from the show. You know what's JUST AS ANNOYING 20-30 somethings (male or female) continuously shoving neon horses in my face. If the show is as good as you say, it can stand on its own and doesn't NEED constant defense (or evangelism). State your point, and then let others decide. |
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