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

@opn your mean ecchi I bash ecchi not moe . But I usually wait till I watch the first ep . And yeah bad fans ruin everything. I've met so many bad/crazy anime fans, bronies, gamers etc I'm surprised I can still like anything at all...but meh whatcha gonna do.

StormSky92 wrote:

I'm thinking more along the lines of why are they tainting anime/manga with the filth that is MLP.

It terrifies me to think that My Little Pony will technically be on topic for anime/manga forums all over the internet now.

Anyway i saw a episode of MLP a while back and thought it was decent but the shows fanbase makes me dislike it.

I like the show too, but I'll never hold back on criticizing the rabid fans, they do make themselves easy and impulsive targets. I won't tell people I like the show in real life, not because I'm afraid I'll be judged for watching MLP, but that I'll associated with any of the vocal fandoms.

It reflects a more prominent need in society today to belong to a group (any group). For example, a large number of beliebers who consistently claim that Justin Bieber 'saves them', hiding the real person behind an ideal they want to project themselves onto and then getting hurt when he 'betrays' them by demonstrating he's a real human being, which let's them create a false, one-sided intimacy so as to consolidate their belonging even further. Poor guy is caught between his fanatical fans and his fanatical haters with very few rational people in the mix.

It reflects a more prominent need in society today to belong to a group (any group). For example, a large number of beliebers who consistently claim that Justin Bieber 'saves them', hiding the real person behind an ideal they want to project themselves onto and then getting hurt when he 'betrays' them by demonstrating he's a real human being, which lets them create a false, one-sided intimacy so as to consolidate their belonging even further. Poor guy is caught between his fanatical fans and his fanatical haters with very few rational people in the mix.

einhorn303 wrote:

Tolkein-esque plots

>_> If Tolkien wasn't spinning in his grave already he is now with this comparison.

EVEN THE ANN's MODS ARE BRONIES TOO!? Seriously? What?

Crispy45 wrote:

einhorn303 wrote: Tolkein-esque plots >_> If Tolkien wasn't spinning in his grave already he is now with this comparison.

Tolkein considered his works to be stories for children (especially The Hobbit) and was pleased to see them gain an adult fanbase outside the originally intended audience.

Sound familiar?

I'd say JRR would be pleased to see that this sort of phenomenon still happens.

Incidentally, MLP really does follow that heroic quest outline in a lot of story arcs. Heck, the first two episodes are essentially about the main character forming a fellowship to help fight a dark lord. It's just that in this case, everyone is a funny talking horse. Plus, one location on MLP is directly based on Gondor from Lord of the Rings.

A lot of people used to look down on adults who read The Hobbit, too.
I guess things never change.

(And no, I'm not insinuating that MLP is anywhere near as great a work as Tolkein's Middle Earth stories, I'm just saying strong similarities exist.)

Wyvern wrote:

(And no, I'm not insinuating that MLP is anywhere near as great a work as Tolkein's Middle Earth stories, I'm just saying strong similarities exist.)

What do you think a gollum pony would look like?

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

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.