It's better than the 80s show. Strong characterization, but the plot doesn't do much to make it work.

Rating: ☆☆

>>215139

>plot

Are you talking about the two-episode pilot thing?
Not sure if you watched any of the other episodes, but all of those are stand-alone stories. I think those make it work quite nicely.

I'm down with it.

Although it might be a little too popular with the over 20 male demographic. Just a tiny bit creepy.

Haven't seen it. My cable tier doesn't carry the channel it runs on.

But the fanbase can be incredibly annoying.

>>215142
Internet.
All the episodes are on YouTube and there's several Synchtube channels dedicated to watching the series together.

>>215141
I'm starting to think said demographic is getting tired of the of the "throw some sex and violence together and you're good." type material.

HARMONY HARMONY OH LOVE!

>>215142
I can't imagine how so. Then again, I don't exactly hang around children cartoon forums, or watch much television at all.

I'm flabbergasted at the activity and capacity for organization of the fanbase (see ponychan's links. really ? two "www/.com" domains ?). I wonder if that's what happens with all moderately successful shows, or just this one.
I like it and watch every episode, but then again I'm not really an /azu/ dweller, more like a regular lurker. I don't participate in the fanbase or the threads.

>>215141

Sounds like most girls' anime in Japan (these are, supposedly, the Pretty Cure audience broken down by age and gender).

>>215141
Compensation for a lack of social interaction. Learning by proxy.

Gay show for ponyfags.

>>215158
so why do you think being gay is a bad thing?

It's annoying enough that at least 3 forums I go to have started banning people for posting about it outside of their specified thread-ghettos.

And as I prefer Wakfu, I propose steak de cheval grillée avec de l'oignon et l'ail.

>>215162
As a janitor-helper I'll exercise my itty-bitty muscle and say as long as it's on "topic" it can prosper.

>>215160
I /am/ gay.

>>215174
so you're okay with contributing to the normalization of homophobia?

>>215176
I don't think he ever implied that being gay was a bad thing. He just said the show was gay.

>>215177
yes, that is totally how the connotation and the juxtaposition of the words in that sentence work.

>>215178
It works the same way when blacks say nigga, I guess.

>>215179
yea, I think so. From what I can gather from the gays I know, they can call themselves fags as much as they want, but if a straight guy does it they're just an asshole.

>>215183
I'm of the Southpark/Louis C.K. frame of mind that being gay doesn't make you a fag. Acting like a fag makes you a fag.

>>215141
Don't worry, the majority of the brony community doesn't perv out over this show.
(Because come on, they're freaking horses.)

There's actually a strange effect where this show decreases people's need to fap. Several people have reported that.

>>215186
so what's wrong with being a "fag"?

>>215192
It generally denotes obnoxious, irritating, or otherwise undesirable personality traits.

That's like asking what's wrong with being a "douche."

>>215194
Not really. I have never heard 'fag' used without the homosexual connotation. It's an insult that pretty much just means 'gay' these days, with the implication of undesirable personality traits being irrelevant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(slang)

Whereas a douche is any unpleasant person, a fag is any gay person, with the implication that being gay is 'bad enough'.

>>215197
I strongly disagree.
I'm not saying that has never been the case, and I'm not saying people don't still use it to disparage gay people, but in general usage it's come to indicate obnoxious behavior regardless of sexual orientation.
In other words, this is how I've always defined the word:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-otAJrtY-w

>>215197

Stop being such a fag.

This is quickly becoming an incredibly terrible thread.

>>215200

>becoming

Oh wait, I'm green texting again.

It's a great show. I was a little reluctant to watch it at first, but once I gave it a shot, I did not regret it. It really reminds me of Azumanga in its ability to lift my spirits.

Some of the fans are kind of weird, but I'm pretty used to that by this point.

>>215201
you opened the door for threads like this when you started posting IM here. you could have posted it in /a/ where it would be quickly buried under the endless sling spam or you could have asked nigger druid for an IM board. there is even an ichigo themed URL in the network. you could have posted it in /b/, but no, you had post off thread after off topic thread and look what it results in. others followed your lead and now azu content made up less than half of the active threads.
fag

>>215205
After being here for at least a good six years this is far, FAR from the worst. (with misha being involved in a good deal of them)
It's also good to have some outlet, truthfully.

>>215205
You're right, the IM threads don't belong here.
I'm open to posting them in another location from now on if we (that is to say, those here who follow it) can agree on a board (preferably in the wakachan/iichan family) where they'll get decent exposure and not get buried in spam.

Also

>there is even an ichigo themed URL in the network

Where is this?

>>215205
Lies! Go eat a dick you fag.

>>215204
Can I get a pic of Yotsuba riding a dinosaur please?

Can't we all just get along? I like the IM thread being here. It makes things convenient for everyone involved. Maybe the recent spate of "This series reminds me of Azumanga" would have been better if similarly corralled, but there's really no reason for people to get upset.

The way this thread has gone downhill so quickly reminds me why I sometimes hate the Internet.

/me pops open another 40 and gets back to watching MLP

I have never watched this show. But if watching it will make me someone that spams this show in every single board I go to, I'll avoid it like the plague.

Seriously, good for you to enjoy it, but keep it to yourself and your board.

>>215229
It's just one thread, that's hardly spamming.
But I guess there's just something about this show that makes people want to share the magical friendship happiness with everypony.

(Courtesy sage.)

>>215212
the negima board used to be on softstrawberry.com, but it looks like it moved a while ago.

>>215198
this is a stupid and disingenuous position. the word fag is inextricable from homosexuality. there are a lot of other words that can be used to describe obnoxiousness that don't have a homophobic connotation. if you don't think that homosexuality is a bad thing, why do you have to use a word that is used to disparage and hurt homosexuals to describe something ostensibly unrelated?

>>215199
>>215205
>>215214

it's cool that when you try to get people to examine the language they use that all the kids come out of the woodwork tossing around kneejerk slurs for spite. no, you're not actually offending me, you know, you're just coming off as dumb assholes.

>>215237

>>215238
And then Hank was a pony.

The day the earthquakes and tsunamis laid waste to northern Japan and created a potential nuclear disaster: A black day for mankind.

The day America beat the Japanese at their own moe game with freakin' ponies: A date which will live...in infamy.

>>215258
Anyone else read that last line in an FDR voice?

>>215265

>>215266
I read everything in Harry S. Plinkett's voice these days.

>>215266
stop using that macro on this board

>>215258
These ponies ain't got nothin' against true cuteness.

And I'm not digging this excesive "hey everyone! I found this series that vaguely resembles [Azuma's work/broad generalization of AD/Y& content], isn't it nice?" craze.

TBH, I have no interest in IM but I would far rather have threads on IM, and S.S. Astro, and YYK, and MLP, and everything that someone thinks has an Azuma-like feel than have the sort of hateful viciousness we saw in >>215205 be accepted as normal behavior on /azu/.

>>215307

Like I said, I'm completely open to finding a more appropriate place for the IM threads (I mention it because the new issue should be available soon).

Otherwise I'll just keep it in the same thread as last month's issue.

>>215343

So what's the best place to start if you want to find out if you'll like IM?

>>215344
Just ignore those stupid fucking "/azu/ used to be good" faggots. IM is fine and dandy here.

kaorin's mom looks pretty hot in the maid gear, but she fails hard at moe. i'd hate to walk into a maid cafe with her working in it.

>>215343
"Genetic endpoint"? I think Kaorin's mom just blew her mother's day gift.

This thread is now officially Azu related.

>>215346

Agreed. /azu/ is still good and I think IM being posted here is fine - It mostly gets compared to Azuma's works anyways.

>>215346
/azu/ is good but it used to be a lot better, shitsucker

>>215403

I would've expected Tomo to be Pinkie's buddy.

>>215411

Can you draw a picture demonstrating its former awesomeness?

>>215417

Osaka = Pinkie Pie
Tomo = Rainbow Dash
Kagura = Applejack
Sakaki = Fluttershy

>>215425
Pinkie pie has to much energy to be Osaka.

>>215427

Yeah, I don't think there's a Pony version of Osaka. Big O is just too unique.

>>215428

Derpy Hooves = Osaka!

>>215425
Chiyo = Filly Twilight
Osaka = Derpy
Nyamo = Celestia
Yukari = Nightmare Moon?
Rachel Handlebars = Lyra
Kimura = The fanbase

Pinkie Pie is Osaka on meth.

i think that we all need to be aware - and not just here, but everywhere - that over the past few months 4chan was instituted a much, much stricter ban policy and that as a result of this all of the type of people that they are trying to rid themselves of are being unfairly foisted on the rest of us.

>>215461
Op here. Are you >implying I'm only here because I've been banned from the 4chons for posting poni?
I haven't. Furthermore, there's at least one chan dedicated entirely to ponies, so if we needed a refugee camp, we'd go there.

>>215461
Deal with it you drama causing faggot. Just ignore the fucking thread if you don't like it, or, I don't know, make some better threads or something. I also hate the pony bullshit and see them as only one step above furries, but god damn man, move the fuck on.