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NEWS: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Has Manga in the Works

I guess it depends on what you consider a Brony. I appreciate the show and find it amusing and well made. I don't buy the merchandise or get desktop wallpaper of it or run around talking about it or anything or drawing fan art or reading/writing fan fic or any of that. I just think it's a good show and I don't see how that is a problem or hard to understand. So in the grand scheme of the fandom I'm pretty low tier, but do I like the show? Sure.

Heck, I frankly find some of the fanbase to be overzealous and outright annoying, but that doesn't detract from my own appreciation of the show and its qualities. Heck, I often feel the same way about many anime/manga fans and the even more extreme Japanophiles amongst them. Any major fanbase has that highly visible excessive sub-group that tends to cast a shadow over the whole fanbase.

I personally like seeing that the show is expanding to other markets and mediums, and I really don't get some of the hate that is cast its way. Just because the show has a large fanbase and someone might not personally like the show doesn't really justify some of the hate and venom. If you don't like it, simply don't watch it (or read it in this case), it isn't going to cause you any harm by existing.

My Little Pony Can't Be This Rage-Inducing!, coming this Spring!

Why do they have to make a manga about it? Can't they just make an American comic?

My Two Subcultures Couldn't Be More Similar While Not Realizing It!

penguintruth wrote:

My Little Pony Can't Be This Rage-Inducing!, coming this Spring!

My Two Subcultures Couldn't Be More Similar While Not Realizing It!

I've got a question that I'd like answered. Could someone please tell me what a "brony" is? I have no idea what that is and I've seen it mentioned often here.

There's no good/fair reason why US/international comics bomb in Japan, while in France manga is a huge part of their comic industry

'Mature' and 'Down-To-Earth'? Clannad billabongs between manipulatively fetishized innocence and tragedy porn without any of the narrative structure of a tragedy to justify such. It's heavily Pathos over Logos (though it does have Ethos with regards to how to make a Moe series attractive to the people who'd enjoy it, dirty or no). Let's not pretend like Key is Takako Shimura here. CLANNAD is aimed at the type of anime fan who's squeamish about women to the point that they bury themselves in dating sims and tissue boxes to avoid feeling 'unclean'.

zeo1fan wrote:

They're both pretty sexist genres for the most part.

I don't see how "moe" and "ecchi" are somehow "sexist."

For me, sexism is when REAL women are denied REAL opportunities in the work force or are looked down and denied equal treatment because they are female, NOT because of what they wear or how 2D females are portrayed in a fictional animated series. How they fictional characters are portrayed in shows and series of any medium has nothing to do with "equality" and distorts the original goal of REAL equality between the genders in the REAL world we all had in mind.

Also, there are many female Anime fans I know in Tumblr who enjoy "moe", "ecchi" and/or "hentai" series regularly? Are they being "sexist" to themselves? Obviously not. They just enjoy their good dose just like some of us guys do and thats that.

Its almost like me saying how "yaoi" is somehow a "sexist" genre girls indulge into because some of the sexually suggestive oneshots, doujins and manga, and how some men are portrayed. Obviously, there is nothing wrong with girls indulging in the genre, because its a FICTIONAL genre that portrays their desires and nothing more. There is no sexism in "Yaoi" and neither there is in "moe", "ecchi", "fanservice", and yes, "hentai", because there are merely fantasy that some of us enjoy.

Keonyn wrote:

I guess it depends on what you consider a Brony. I appreciate the show and find it amusing and well made. I don't buy the merchandise or get desktop wallpaper of it or run around talking about it or anything or drawing fan art or reading/writing fan fic or any of that. I just think it's a good show and I don't see how that is a problem or hard to understand. So in the grand scheme of the fandom I'm pretty low tier, but do I like the show? Sure. Heck, I frankly find some of the fanbase to be overzealous and outright annoying, but that doesn't detract from my own appreciation of the show and its qualities. Heck, I often feel the same way about many anime/manga fans and the even more extreme Japanophiles amongst them. Any major fanbase has that highly visible excessive sub-group that tends to cast a shadow over the whole fanbase. I personally like seeing that the show is expanding to other markets and mediums, and I really don't get some of the hate that is cast its way. Just because the show has a large fanbase and someone might not personally like the show doesn't really justify some of the hate and venom. If you don't like it, simply don't watch it (or read it in this case), it isn't going to cause you any harm by existing.

Well, fans are fans. You'll have overzelous fans in just about every fandom.

I honestly don't have a problem with MLP existing and never said I did. I never said I "hated" any of ya, and never criticized the show myself. However, I just think some of the "Bronies" should try to calm down a bit. They are really acting like some of the extreme Anime fans that were a decade ago by shoving their fandom down in other people's throats. Above all, I don't see why "Bronies" should get any more leeway than "Japanophiles." Sure they are some amongst both who are nice people and keep it too themselves but damn.

Remember that "Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony" they made? I honestly fail to see a good reason why it was created, why its somehow a "good" thing and why we ought to learn about the "Fandom." I'd rather learn about the "production qualities" of the show than the fans themselves.

I liken the Brony documentary to "America's Greatest Otaku." They both show us their "fans" and try to give us a reason to accept them. I think that's a really bad strategy if you Bronies seek "acceptance." There's a better way to do so: just keep it to yourself and you're good to go. Only introduce your favorite series when someone's willing to hear it(or are "open-minded" to do so).