That video is made of win, but having a bunch of gamer guy friends who happened to be Starcraft fans and showed me the orginal trailer, my remaining favorite mash-up would still have to be Ponycraft 2.
Take your time with the SE!NOT recaps and doujin scanning (Though I am very much looking forward to both), by all means, too.
The article also got me thinking about when I first got into MLP. I recommended it to my closest friends after sitting through pretty much half of season 1, but all they gave me were weird looks. Mom too. When I recommended it to my geeky Otaku/Star Trekkie band teacher (seriously, next years marching show is to Star Trek music) and a couple of my less-than popular gamer pals who regularly check out The Escapist, however, they took to it right away. There is abosolutely no reason why something being pinkish and girly means it's not going to be a good show. I don't judge a show by how it looks at the start; I judge it by it's amount of character development, it's messages, and the overall atmosphere to it. This is why My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic succeeded where Madoka Magica failed miserably. My Little Pony was a show that, while G1 was good (BUSHWOOLIES IN SEASON 2 PLEEEEASE), had the following generations sucking pretty badly. This generation series has a good team behind it and had an incredible director. Madoka Magica is basically a mash-up of everything that's been done before and labeled with TRAGIC to attract male otakus as basic over-glorified anime that most certainly does not deserve it's hype. It's weirdly reversed now, MLP being a series that had not-so-good shows before and now it's awesome, and magical girl animes such as Sailor Moon, Mermaid Melody, Card Captor Sakura, ect. being older and better, and is now being compared and put down by people who think Madoka Magica did everything else first. The internet is a very fickle thing.
Also, couple of quick questions: Have you ever been to Anime Expo? Is it worth the time and money? If so, what is there available for buying? I ask these cause when Dad and I were discussing commercialism and when I brought up an interesting fact of products sold in conventions such as Expo and the success of Vocaloids (Not to mention the recent Toyota Corolla promoted with Hatsune Miku and her live concert in L.A) he immediately asked me if I wanted to go this year, even offered to drive me and back me finacially. Do dad's just have some kind of tuning with someone's inner otaku? O.o
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Take your time with the SE!NOT recaps and doujin scanning (Though I am very much looking forward to both), by all means, too.
The article also got me thinking about when I first got into MLP. I recommended it to my closest friends after sitting through pretty much half of season 1, but all they gave me were weird looks. Mom too. When I recommended it to my geeky Otaku/Star Trekkie band teacher (seriously, next years marching show is to Star Trek music) and a couple of my less-than popular gamer pals who regularly check out The Escapist, however, they took to it right away. There is abosolutely no reason why something being pinkish and girly means it's not going to be a good show. I don't judge a show by how it looks at the start; I judge it by it's amount of character development, it's messages, and the overall atmosphere to it. This is why My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic succeeded where Madoka Magica failed miserably. My Little Pony was a show that, while G1 was good (BUSHWOOLIES IN SEASON 2 PLEEEEASE), had the following generations sucking pretty badly. This generation series has a good team behind it and had an incredible director. Madoka Magica is basically a mash-up of everything that's been done before and labeled with TRAGIC to attract male otakus as basic over-glorified anime that most certainly does not deserve it's hype. It's weirdly reversed now, MLP being a series that had not-so-good shows before and now it's awesome, and magical girl animes such as Sailor Moon, Mermaid Melody, Card Captor Sakura, ect. being older and better, and is now being compared and put down by people who think Madoka Magica did everything else first. The internet is a very fickle thing.
Also, couple of quick questions: Have you ever been to Anime Expo? Is it worth the time and money? If so, what is there available for buying? I ask these cause when Dad and I were discussing commercialism and when I brought up an interesting fact of products sold in conventions such as Expo and the success of Vocaloids (Not to mention the recent Toyota Corolla promoted with Hatsune Miku and her live concert in L.A) he immediately asked me if I wanted to go this year, even offered to drive me and back me finacially. Do dad's just have some kind of tuning with someone's inner otaku? O.o
Long comment is long. I apologize.