![]() Of course, it’s not sickly and asininely sweet, where the schmaltz is laid on so think you could drown pastel-coloured horses in it and sell the remains as glue. A feel-good show that makes you happier by watching it. There are enough shows elsewhere on TV that are incredibly serious and take great pleasure in putting its characters through the ringer, Friendship is Magic acts like an antidote to that. It loves its characters and its world and is endlessly optimistic about what each new day brings. ![]() Speaking from experience, I’d have to hazard a guess that it’s down to how nice the show is, by which I mean the tone. ![]() But as to how it’s become so popular, popular enough to spawn a giant fanbase with their own slightly off-putting nickname (“Brony”, which is at least seven-million miles better than “Avatard”), a vast network of artists, animators, writers, VAs and musicians that pump out so much brand-new fan-made content every day that the leading fan website, Equestria Daily, has to put most of them in separate roundup posts, a convention program that stretches all over America and the calendar year and is a large enough periphery demographic that the show’s network, The Hub, and the show itself has actually started pandering and selling to it (whilst, key factor here, never once losing sight of the original demographic)… that remains a relative mystery. ![]() If you watch an episode of the show and are able to get on its wavelength, it makes perfect sense as to why it became popular: it’s a damn, damn great show that appeals to the older animation fan just as the cartoon-loving kids it’s targeted at. Trying to explain exactly why My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is so popular is one of life’s great mysterious paradoxes. ![]()
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