What Japan thinks of MLP02

What’s that you want more? Oh aren’t you the cutest anons!



Japanese comments from MLP:FiM Ep102 - The Mare in the Moon with Japanese fansubs on Niconico Doga

I would like to see all episodes subtitled-! Absolutely!

Continued from episode 1~

These ponies are way too cute, but I think I’ll be able to handle it somehow

Could it be the day I go moe for horses is coming…

This time the opening is subtitled in english, that’s good!

These colors or so pretty

Thanks for the english subs!

[Spike wakes up as if this all had just been a nightmare, Twilight calmly puts him back to sleep]

Eh? lol

…… oh? It was all just a dream!? lol

- is what I thought, but I was wrong

lol you thought this was gonna be a Just A Dream joke!

[Out of nowhere Rainbow clashes her forehead against Twilight]

Colliding that way is kinda dangerous with the horn…

Round bookshelves, nice

If this was the Japanese dub, Buttercup’s VA would fit pretty well

So the whole cast is female? Just like Precure

[Twilight tackles Pinkie away from the bookshelf]

That’s terrible lol

That there’s a user’s manual for a mystic treasure…

Terrible

Whelp that was easy

[Twi: “The sixth is a complete mystery”]

IT’S COURAAAAAAAGEEEE [in huge red font]

red font…

Yo lol

If this was an anime for boys they definitely would’ve said “courage” here, amirite lol

[Subtitles “The Undying Forest!”]

The original “Everfree Forest” means Unreturning Forest. However the adaption really fits the atmosphere more.

The tension’s pretty high huh

I like that kinda dramaturgy lol

Shugakyubu = Sugarcube = a snack for horses

That nickname’s kinda like “Honey”.

I see.

Wow, really?

Yknow if this was done with humans, the screen’d be full of girls

[Nightmare Moon’s cloud jets into an ominous shadow]

That silhouette looks somewhat like a manticore

“Looped around and BAM”

Rainbow’s a kewtie

Rainbow kawaii

[Enter the manticore]

Rariti-san, you’re so cool!

The real thing! [<- some sorta K-On ref]

Suddenly a battle? lol

[Manticore is soothed by Fluttershy’s kindness]

Kawaiiiiiii

What, are you Tsurugi Momotaro!? [<- from Otokojuku]

lick lick

eeeeeeeeeeeeeh

cute

Reset your hairstyle!! lollll

Pretty funky hairstyle huh

QB even at a place like this loll

[Fluttershy screams at the mud on AJ’s hoof]

I don’t get it lol

Well it’s pretty rare to see Rainbow and AJ screaming

Pinkie’s cuuute lol

This is where Pinkie’s song starts…

[Subs: “When I was a little tomboy (otemba) and the sun was going down”]

In this case, “filly” doesn’t mean tomboy. It’s a female baby horse.

Though I think tomboy kinda fits here

It’s a “wild horse” (jajauma)

Makes me think of Totoro

What is this cute

Ahh dammit everyone’s so cute

cuuute

Pinkie’s VA-san is simply too awesome lol

[The gay dragon uses archaic thus overdramatic grammar (zamasu) and commenters lol over that]

Head cut off by the screen lol

Steven Magnets

To be cut off like that…

What a noisy fella lol

I see! lol So that’s why the zamasu eh lol

Will Spike be that way too when he grows up?

Why did kill she him [<- nico meme phrase]

Rariti awesooooooome

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Zamasu is an excellent translation lolll awesome

So it’s still pretty even though it’s a different color….?

Rariti so kind

[Rar: “Besides, it’ll grow back” - RD: “So would the mustache…”]

Truly lolll

But so cool!

[Nightmare Moon is calling out to Rainbow]

Kappei or whoever, give it a rest already lolll

[“Really? I mean oh yeah, ME!”]

Really??

She’s so cute, damn

[“It’s them, or us!”]

Easy

What a nice story

[Inside the ruins]

↓ Count the spheres on the pedestal.

That’s some unexpectedly fast progress, wonder if it’s gonna be okay

[“Applejack, who reassured me when I was in doubt, represents the spirit of honesty!”]

Dat face lol

[The crystals float around the girls]

Reminds me of FF5 lol

So coooool

What’s with the speed of this progress lollll [Japan was obviously bracing for an epic season-long quest]

This is totes FF5!!!

Stop it! I’m gonna cry!!

Just as expected of main chars who don’t have special powers, come at me bro

So this is already the finale…?

Welll, since main char is very knowledgable she must be clever too

This development really feels like final episode lol

TASTE THER RAINBOW MOTHERFUCKER

That was a nice finale

It was God’s finale

This climax is fitting of the finale

Nice ending

It was a good ending

[Celestia appears]

KITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

orz

Twilight is a cheatchara [I see this person is playing “Fighting is magic” huh B^y]

Because I saw a fanmade flash animation before watching this I got some mad iwakans here lol

Byewtiful…

[Celestia explains that sending Twilight out to make new friends was aaaall part of her plan]

No waaay lol

Oh my!

[Luna and Celestia]

Oh my, kawaii lol

Luna-tan kawaii lolll

She may say “together”, but this pitiful imoto wasn’t granted any more screentime for the entirety of season 1

Quarrel between sisters

[Pinkie snorts while the royal sisters are still on screen]

They breaking or what

Luna-sama is too cute!

KY lolll

[“You know what this calls for? …. A party!”]

Ehhh~

Derpy spotted!

You really do like parties, dontcha lolll

Too nice of a tempo lollllll

Wha- what did you sayyyy

A party after all lol

I really didn’t expect them to have a conclusion as early as episode 2 lolllllll

Luna so tinyyy

This aint the finale at all!! lol

Luna is so small

What is it with this development lol

This is totallythe finale lolllll

Come on now! You didn’t cry at all?!

Too much of a finale lollll

The studies of popopopo~n, huh

That was a good ending

Our battle starts here!

Thank you for this pleasurful read (abbreviated.)

I see, so this is how it’ll continue?

Are you Porky or what lol

That was a nice ending

What a nice story… ;_;

Pink is cute lol

That was generally kinda digest-like lol

Please bring us subs for ep 3 too!

It seems that this would appeal to little Japanese girls too huh

Wouldn’t this also work well as a movie lol

So cute

This aint the finale right

Uploader… thank you so much

Fuck loll I’ve been making fun of this but I want to see the continuation so SUPER much lolll

I’ve been looking for subs! Thank you uploader!

Seriously, thank you for the subs!!

Well done!!

I am truly grateful that you did the translation for us!

Translator & Uploader GJ! Really grateful!

This is really interesting!

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I’ve seen a few people mention they didn’t get all the references last time, so I guess I’ll put in notes for the more intricate stuff at the end.

Tomboy: Otemba comes from the Dutch “ontembaar” which both means “wild horse” and “unmanageable woman”. See: “Taming of the Shrew” = jap. “Jajauma narashi”

Kita: literally “it came”. Basically an outcry of joy when something good comes up, for example when you’ve been looking forward to it happening. See: ktkr = abbreviation of “kita kore” = “it came, this one!”

orz: Japanese emoticon depicting a person on their hands and knees. Mostly used to symbolise depression, defeat, etc.

Iwakan: The feeling that something isn’t right. It’s just shorter saying iwakan so DWI

KY: Kuuki yomenai = can’t read the atmosphere. KY refers to people who always say inappropriate things or act inappropriately in serious/sad/whatever situations. The essence of Pinkie Pie.

Popopopo~n: A magic phrase from NGO “AC Japan”’s commercial “The magic of greeting”, a psa to enforce people being more friendly to each other. The idea is, everytime you greet somebody you make a new friend, so let’s learn the fun of greeting.