Having nothing better to do, and having recently added the channel to my TV package, I watched a couple of episodes. Yes, the storylines do include a moral without being too heavy-handed (as far as this is possible, anyway) and would be OK for little kids, but I don't see the appeal of it for grown-ass men. FYI, these men are known as "bronies" (portmanteau of "bro" and ponies, singular "brony"), and some of them apparently get into it far beyond just being fans of the show. A hilarious send-up of bronies is the Bob's Burgers episode "The Equestranauts." There they call themselves "equesticles."

yeah, I dont get it either. the search engine even returned a con they had called bronycon.

I've got 3 girls, so I've seen a bit of MLP.
I don't at all understand it as an adult male [or at all] obsession.
Cute show for kids, though, I suppose.

Seems a good storyline is worth watching no matter where it comes from.

I had to sit for a few kids while their parents were away. They seemed to like MLP. I had brought up that the ponies had a crossover with the Transformers and one of them transforms to a horse (and another is unicorn-ish).

Long story short, I had started them on Sailor Moon. There were other series that I thought about, but that one fit the bill.

Their folks started off with 'What's a Sailor Moon?'.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
Seems a good storyline is worth watching no matter where it comes from.

I had to sit for a few kids while their parents were away. They seemed to like MLP. I had brought up that the ponies had a crossover with the Transformers and one of them transforms to a horse (and another is unicorn-ish).

Long story short, I had started them on Sailor Moon. There were other series that I thought about, but that one fit the bill.

Their folks started off with 'What's a Sailor Moon?'.

I am almost old, and struggle with Anime,

never watched more than a minute or less of MLP

my closest thing to Anime was Starblazers, and Voltron (5 lions version)
only because they were on in the afternoon when I got home from work, I could catch an episode or 2 a few days a week whilst fixin supper before the wife got home (she never learned to cook, I did )


there are some ''modern'' toons I do like, like Courage the Dog, Ren & Stimpy and a few others,
but never got into proper anime,

Just a guess, maybe an escape from the general bullshit of the world?

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Originally posted by lyman:
I am almost old, and struggle with Anime,
my closest thing to Anime was Starblazers, and Voltron

Yes!

I liked Starblazers. It was a well rounded storyline and grounded in reality (as much as flying a battleship through outer space is realistic).

Voltron was more of a closed episode kind of show, but it is hard to go wrong with gigantic robots cutting each other in half. A whole new castle came from nowhere?

Were you able to check out Robotech? If you were looking to find the best show on TV at the time, there wasn't a plot, storyline, soundtrack, or reality based fiction series that ever came close.

I think the closest thing since then was Neon Genesis Evangelion, but I didn't think it was up to me to introduce such a series to younger kids that weren't mine

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Originally posted by .38supersig:

I think the closest thing since then was Neon Genesis Evangelion, but I didn't think it was up to me to introduce such a series to younger kids that weren't mine

Might be a bit heavy, especiallythe later seasons & movies, depending on the ages. Big fan in my college days.