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So far My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the latest show in the long running. The show incorporates self aware humor, a streamlined art style and strong characterization. The show begins with a two parter in which the main character Twilight Sparkle an asocial bookworm pony that comes out of her shell and bonds with other ponies to use the power of friendship to overcome prophecy of doom. After saving the world with magic of power of friendship the show takes on an episodic adventure format. The Twilight relays weekly reports to her mentor on how friendship helps her friends and her. The first season was helmed by Laureen Faust an accomplished Emmy Award nominated animator; she was the director and writer of the powerful girls. Friendship is magic is her attempt of rescuing genre of girls of cartoons through presenting a clever show with strong and diverst female characters that are not preoccupied by boys and fashion. Her main objective was creating an amazing show for girls, boys and grownups could watch without shooting themselves. Following the success of re envisioning of the transformers franchise and brought animator Lauren Faust as creative developer for the show, Faust was also given a task of creating new tie in the show to provide programming for its new cable network. Faust has worked with several former co writers from her previous shows and directors at DHX media. My little pony: Friendship is magic was received well by parents but it found another unexpected target audience online, 4 chain. Quickly expanding online the fandom came to use the term brony in describing themselves. The brony is fandom is mainly attributed to Faust and her creative team for including strong characters, cultural references, the show expressive flash based animation and ability of the show runners to communicate and reciprocate with the fandom like including fan derived elements in the show. Hasbro was caught off guard by this surprise demographic but have come to embrace it. Thou the show was received well by fandom, there are other people who felt that it focused so much on certain aspects of fandom and it ignored other facets this includes lack of criticism of fandom by others.
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