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Anime bad.  
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Do people gatekeep pervious generations?  
I’ve only heard of pony life getting blasted by fans.

By the way I just want to get it out there that I respect all generations of fans of MLP and I think gatekeeping the fandom to try to keep it to only FiM fans is counterproductive and selfish. It’s not so much a problem anymore, but when Friendship is Magic fandom was first starting it sure as hell was a big issue, that and keeping out and marginalizing women and children (the intended audience). G4 fandom in the first few years was largely a boys club and I’m kind of ashamed of that even though I didn’t contribute to any of the gatekeeping.

To be honest… G1 is the greatest time that we rarely remember.  
But G4 had some issues regarding how the writers did on the characters… Which is a little bit messed up in a way…  
Also Pony life is just G4 but more weird… And yeah… I highly doubt that Pony life wasn’t gonna last long.
 
And I was hoping for a G1 remake because that time when G1 started was awesome.
 
 
(P.S. About the movies the G1 movie is a whole lot better than the G4 one…)

@Philosofur  
Science!
 
This is actually starting to sound like a plot for a movie …

@Ciaran  

You know, it’s entirely likely we’ll end up with something like that anyway. Reaction videos are still a thing, after all. Probably not quite as scientific, but they can at least convey the basic emotional responses.
 
Well, possibly anyway.

@Philosofur  
Yeah, I think you are very right.
 
There’s also going to be some families sitting down to watch the first episode where the parents have a lot of expectations because they watched G4, and then their kids are going to be watching G5 with them …
 
I almost want to set up a family doing that for the first time in a room with cameras and scientists in lab coats watching … that sounds like a great opportunity for SCIENCE!

@Ciaran  

It strikes me as worth pointing out (despite the relative obviousness in doing so) that the “infrastructure and expectation” difference you excellently illustrated will also exist on the fan side as well. Lauren’s (fairly) well known pre-launch defense of the show aside, the audience waiting to receive G4 was substantially different from the one that will exist when G5 finally emerges, and the mechanisms of the “Brony” fandom that didn’t exist in any form when Friendship is Magic first started capturing people’s attention will have already spent a considerable amount of time dissecting everything about the next generation (songs, story, characters, art, voices, message, etc.) that could be gleaned from the first official announcements onward.
 
One thing’s for sure, it will definitely be interesting to see what the changes on both sides bring about as we get closer to finding out what they have in store.

For me, the biggest difference between G4 and G5 is going to be infrastructure and expectations.
 
With G4, Hasbro saw a chance to maybe reboot a dead series that had been driven into the ground, so giving Lauren Faust the show seemed safe both from a “She can’t fuck it up worse than it already is” and a “We’re not going to really give her enough money or even any office space for this, so what’s the harm?”
 
With G5, there are Directors Of Global Marketing specifically for this show, with staffs of hundreds of people who need to make their next car payment, and ‘These are not forward looking statements’ in the investors’ brochures and filings explaining how this show is going to continue to be a global earnings juggernaut.
 
So where G4 was one woman’s attempt to recreate her love of a show from her childhood and a chance to take all of her personal stories about the ponies and bring them to the screen with nowhere near enough money, people, or time, G5 is almost certainly going to be the result of years worth of committee meetings and financial projections that embraces Hasbro’s core messages of inclusion and diversity.
 
So … “G5 will be Different”, I think is what I’m trying to say here.

Currently rewatching: Kaguya-sama  
Currently watching: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (not sure if this is anime-influenced enough)
 
Just finished Brand New Animal:  
I think that, overall, it was good but not excelent, the setting had potential, but I think that Nazuna is a weird charachter, since she appears to be antagonistic at first, but then she ends up being on “the good side” in an unnatural way, or maybe it’s just me failing at interpreting that

Finished Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions.
 
This show was incredible from start to finish and is now very high up on my favourites list, with the movie being especially high up. It’s been a while since I’ve seen an anime romance that felt this natural.
 
Next up is Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet.

I just started watching BNA on Netflix. I am also caught up now on the Beastars Manga, and looking forward to season 2.

I’m watching Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions right now and it’s soooooo good. It’s easily one of my all time favourites already.

Waifu Labs is awesome

@TeamBlueplant  

 
>:c

@Seraphiel  
blame weeblordyuri
 
the levels of degenerancy of the lad knowns no bounds :P

Anime Thread on Furry site!?
 
WHAT IS THIS SORCERY?!

@ParallelLines  
All valid points. I was familiar with the source material, so when they announced the season will be only 13 episodes I knew it will end about halfway through the story, and even I got a little disappointed by the way they ended it.

@Yuri  
I admit that part of my disapointment comes from having too high expectations (since Madoka Magica is my favorite mahou shoujo anime), but aside from the things you already mentioned like Iroha’s story not progressing, another thing that I wasn’t prepared for was that the season was inconclusive.
 
By the end onf Madoka Magica everything was resolved and only has one season, so I was expecting a similar situation for Magia Record, I wasn’t expecting a “see you next season”
 
I compare it to another two anime, “houseki no kuni (Land of the Lustrous)” and “beastars” both are entertaining, but the first one ends with Phos determined to get some answers, which leaves a feeling of “there is definitely gonna be a second season” but there are no hints at that season happening, while beastars literally says that there will be a second season, and even without that, the arc in the first season feels conclusive.
 
I’m not saying that stories that need more than one season to finish are bad, is just that I prefer the ones that doesn’t leave cliffhangers between seasons.

@ParallelLines  
I loved them both (though I play the Magia Record mobile game too so I might be biased), but MagiReco definitely had issues.
 
The first season only adapted half of the game’s story, which is a problem considering that there wasn’t much plot progression in the first half of the game’s story. The anime also had pacing issues because of the sheer volume of content they had to adapt.
 
Also, I’m not the biggest fan of some of the story changes (like removing Madoka and Homura).
 
I still loved it, though, and I hope the second season will be better.

One word: Dragon Ball. That is all.

Watched Madoka Magica, masterpiece.  
Watched it’s side story Magia Record, disappointed

I’m currently rewatching Love Live and K-ON (both are some of my favourites, btw, and everyone should watch them).
 
@FoxMcCloud97  
I have it on my PTW list and heard good things about it.

G5 could be good or could be bad, who knows? We’ll see