Before I started watching MLP, I kinda have the same questions with you. So let me tell you a story.



I live in China, where the government blocked most western cultures. I only actually started to watch western cartoons in 2017. At first I rather to buy adult cartoons like Rick and Morty, Brickleberry & Robot Chicken on google play movies (I don't have western TV cable service). I don't mind all-age shows because I am majored in animation and film. So shows like Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, Gumball & a lot of others... I do have a fun time to watch them.



But, I do not have any interest on cartoons aimed only on little kids. So when google play recommend MLP to me... times and times... I didn't even bother to klick on it. I thought that is just google being stupid and crazy. However, I was watching a lot shows at once back then and you know cartoons took times to produce. Thus I was running low on choices sooner than I expected, and then I thought... MLP is a famous show after all, won't kill me if I just take a look.



The first few episodes arn't that impressive. Feels a little bit naive. But after I went through roughly half of a season. Sorry I forgot when exactly. I started to get hooked... I never thought it could happend. I thought I should hate this show or at least couldn't care less about it, but I don't. I began to enjoy every moment of it. The characters feels alive, stories become more and more interesting, the meaning kept going deeper. Everything is just so thoughtful. MLP is... not what I was expected. But so much MORE...



I thought maybe I understimated the potential of kids shows, so I bought more, and all of them fail to achieve what MLP has offer me, therefore soon they found themself eating dust in my library. I also watched more well-made shows and thought ingenuity and sophisticated production might be the key, but none of them is even close to let me care as much as MLP, at least not for long. There are something I don't understand about MLP. The only thing I know is that MLP isn't perfect, but when it's good, it's real good!!!



I never thought I would be here on DA, drawing MLP like it's everything in my life. I guses that's the magic of MLP. I donno if you found your answers in all of my nonsense. But I hope while you start to watch it. You can feel it too.