What Japan thinks of MLP01

Emlan linked me to the Japanese fansub of MLP:FiM Ep101 - The Mare in the Moon 1, subbed by Chashu on niconico doga. Since it might be a waste to translate the comments just for her, I’ll post them here as well!

[Edit: The video got deleted by the uploader, but the comments are still intact. For a newer sub of the first episode, please refer back to the WJTOMLP Masterpost]

Uploader’s Comment:

A new american TV anime series, that got revamped by the creator of Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends since 2010.

Worth of special mention is that the original video on Youtube was most popular among the following groups:

Male age 25-34

Male age 18-24

Male age 35-44

Tags: Anime, My_Little_Pony, Foreign Anime, Japanese Subtitles, Mai ritoru poni, Cartoon, Furry, Link to first episodes, MLP with Japanese subtitles masterlink, deleted video





All the videos got deleted from Youtube

The second season just started! They’re all getting uploaded on Youtube!

“My Little Pony” is a line of horse figurines for young girls that’s been sold since 1982 by famous toy maker Hasbro Inc. who also made Mr. Potatohead or G.I. Joe

Whyyy…

Man this is totally like Panty & Stocking ww Both shows were even broadcast around the same time

I laffed at the viewer ratio wwwwwwww

god anime kitaaaa*

There truly are no real children among the audience www

wktk*

Aaah, why did it get deleted…

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeee

I’VE BEEN WAITING ALL THIS TIME

Kitaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa



This is pretty interesting w

The image quality is amazing~

Grats for getting a 2nd season~~~

It stretches foreveeeeeeeeeeer wwwwww

Makes me think of the Ponypuff Princess

This is too cute I’m dying

Ain’t a single child in that viewer ratio

I’ve been worrying about that all this time!

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

When it comes to furry animes for children, we only have Jewelpets in Japan. But that one has humans in it too

This quality www

Using this as listening training w

wwwwwwwww

I came here to watch in order to study English because the Youtube 00:27 Cute!

Cute w

Bronies, even HERE…!

Oh man, I KNEW there’d be people who’d translate this. Thanks!



Too many feelings

God Anime

What is even

Go for it!



What a…

Cuuuute w

Sooo coool w

But Luna-sama is so cute…

[The narration of Equestria’s creation myth switches over to Twilight who was reading about it in a book]

Oh so it was just a story

Awesome

Cute!

Cute

Won’t this ever get broadcast in Japan??



Stocking!

But… why horses…?

Hint: toys

Cuuuuuuuuuuute

[Opening theme ♪]

^^ Nice song…

Everybody is my wife

Why you little…!

It’s good because it’s like Happy Tree Friends

I like this opening way too much

So cute w

It’s so cute I’m gonna cry

Cuuuuute

Well it would be nice if they imported some children stuff like THIS for a change

The blue filly is cute w

wwwwww

I just wonder why this became so popular on Youtube

Cute

Ain’t it cuuuuuuteeee

So cuuuuuuuute

The Anime for the Furries of the World

Could it be-… there’s only females?

This is too cute!

Really so cuteee

I became a fan INSTANTLY

[The scene resumes with Twilight getting intercepted by three fillies on the way back to her apartment in Canterlot]

Stocking

“Moondancer”

What freshness that all the characters are quadruped w

Pretty Cure, but with Furries

More like K-On

Now that I rewatch it, there’s nothing but unicorns in this area

Well maybe the Imperial Princess’ school is a School for Magic

You don’t use “imperial” for royals.

Woops, I used the wrong kanji, sorry

So cuuute

[Twilight knocks Spike over upon her return back home]

Spike is so cuuute

What part of him???



Everybody: Regard fondly. w

Wasn’t Spike from some other game…?

That’s SPYRO

Oh it’s “Spyro”, sorry!

[Twi is pulling out books with her magic]

Well, that’s handy!

In the West i heard that the MLP fandom is somewhat akin to our anime otakus… the endeavours of Furries sure are strong, huh.

It’s no use… no matter how much I look at it, I can only see HTF ww

That you’d pigeonhole it together with such a macabre anime…

That’s the way of writing the ‘horse’ kanji www

[Spike stands precariously on top of the ladder putting the books back into the shelves]

Dat balance



Even though the ladder fell to the right, it’s back to where it was before w

She’s kinda gentle

“Precipice”



Pay attention now

Oooh…

Totally wouldn’t have noticed it without the comment w

The sound of her footsteps is cute

I only noticed it after my umpteenth rewatch. That the stone statue through the hourglass turns into…

What a complicated way of speaking that is! w

You may think it’s for children, but then it’s surprisingly deep…

It kinda felt like an educational cartoon when she gradually went from complicated to simple expressions for the letter

Something like that is vital yknow, like they establish her character by making her use so many words?



*smug*

Her haircolour is exactly like Stocking

I wonder just how long the boom will last over there in the West

They haven’t specifically mentioned this about the canon yet, but is that kid the one in charge of the mail?

The subtitles are too faaaaast…

[Twilight and Spike are riding a pegasus carriage to Ponyville]

Total hicktown

Would be nice if we got a little break here

It’s fast?

My chest hurts…

There’s Big Macintosh

Is he all alone…?

Just from listening to the English I already understand it pretty well!



Why aren’t those guys talking?

They’re domestic animals w

Pinkie’s first appearance!

She’s like THAT you know, just like Cheese from Anpanman

Huhuhuhu



wwwwww

w

?

wwwwww

Pinkie, why? w

[Twi and Spike enter Sweet Apple Acres]

AJ KITAAA!

Applejack kitaaaaaaaaa

So cuuutee

Applejack!!

Envy?

w

AJ!

Appurujackuuu





Panty and Stocking

Yer in such good mood, Appuru!

She a fine country lass

She’s a cowgirl even though she’s a horse

Damn, so cute

S-so cuuuute

This gal is sooo cute

[AJ: “Soup’s on everypony!”]

“SOUP’S ON” w

“Soup’s on” reeks so oldfashioned. w

So she’s designed a little bit after old western movies huh

[AJ: “This here’s Apple Fritter, Apple Bumpkin, Red Gala, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Caramel Apple, Apple Strudel, Apple Tart, Baked Apples, Apple Brioche, Apple Cinnamon Crisp, Big Macintosh, Apple Bloom aaand Granny Smith.”]

Those names sound delish ww

Bloom gets introduced so nonchalantly w

wwwww

It squeaks when Granny walks w

Granny’s tail is so cute

Don’t barf it out www



Awwwwwwwwww

Uuu, she’s cute without even trying

SOCUUUUUUUUUUTE

Cuuuuuuuuute!!!

Cuuuuuuuuuuuteeeeeeeeee

Cute…

Too cute

Applebloom

Gyaaaah so cuuuuuute

This is too cute, it’s becoming dangerous

So the Apple clan is this big, huh

However, this is an anime with a pretty color scheme

Big Friends* are watching this ww

Aren’t Japanese Big Friends watching Pretty Cure though

I wanna live there

Big Friends w

Well the audience ratio is obviously bonkers

[Spike: “There’s supposed to be a Pegasus Pony named Rainbow Dash clearing the clouds.”

Twi: “Well, she’s not doing a very good job, is she.”

*instantly gets run over by Rainbow Dash*]

How did she know that it’s a “she” before meeting her though?

RD!!

wwwwww

She’s kinda like a punk w

wwwwwwwww

That voice is good

Don’t just give me an “Excuse me”! w

A boku-girl*!!!!

Boku-girl!!

Boku-girl!!! Nice translation!

So Rainbow is a boku-girl… I thought she’d be an Ore-girl.

Rainbow is so cute, Rainbow!



Just like Pinkie w

“BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

It really seems like this was made for Bigfriends amirite. It’s on the same level as things like K-On and Madoka

Feels like a main character roll call, huh

BAHAHAHAHA!

This character is exactly like she was 30 years ago? That makes me so happy for her (´；ω；｀)

This filly’s voice is cute

Don’t just go with the afro…!

[Rainbow: “Hey, I can clear the sky in ten seconds flat!” - Twi: “Prove it.”]

GO 11:11

STOP 11:20

10 seconds



( ﾟдﾟ)pokaaaan

Woah that’s totally her face!

wwwww

she

What, it’s “she”? I thought it was “he” orz*

The main characters are all female

“She”, HUH w

[Twi and Spike proceed to check the decorations inside Townhall]

Will she have this hairstyle forever?

Still hasn’t fixed it?

Her hair in that state ww

Rarity kitaaa

Rarity ktkr*!

That voice is pretty sexy

What the- isn’t that MAJESTY!?!?

Eh, that’s her real hair?

Cuuute



That’s kinda erotic

There are quite a lot of pushy girls in here, that’s so American

Sure that’s gonna be tight, after you’ve eaten so many pies!! www

[Rarity: “We are gonna be the best of friends, you and I~”]

In a yuri-kind of meaning www

Everybody is so damned cute!

[Twi and Spike find Fluttershy auditioning a bird orchestra]

Kita!!!!!

my wife KITAAAAAA ww

Ah there’s birds w

Even the birds are cute

Furry moe is the mainstream abroad, huh

her voice is too cute

Isn’t the Furry-rate of Japan not so far behind America’s though?

Her voice is too cute

Cute

There’s so many good characters

'mericans can’t grasp the concept of moe

There’s a word for folks who project their nae* onto other people’s moe… and that is “shutup cocksucker” w

Nah, it’s just that Japan has different types of moe

Hey I count myself a furry too!



Those droopy eyes are so cute

Cute

Dammit is this cute

So cute ww

Man, this is so cute

It’s no use! Even if the Japanese voiceacting supremacy tried dubbing this with all its might, I don’t think it could surpass THIS quality

Fluttershy is so niiice

kawaii

So cute

She’s too shy w

^^ kawaii!

The dangling tail together with her droopy eyes is way too cute!

She simply too cute ww

Flutteryshy’s cute ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Goddammit, this is seriously dangerous

wwwwww

awww~

Cute wwwwwww

Uwah, so cute

Cute

This is too much!

wwwww

Fuck! w

This girl is cute ww

Cute www

I shall always submit to this Fluttershy w

[Flutter: “A DRAGON??? Oh, I’ve never seen a baby dragon before! He’s sooo cute!”]

What, he was a DRAGON?

Are you for real ww

“Oira”* w

[Spike: “What do you want to know?”

Flutter: “Absolutely. EVERYTHING!”]

www

Wasn’t that just a love confession!? w

These glaring colours

www

Their back-and-forth arguing here doesn’t really seem all that little girl-friendly w

[When the lights turn on, a huge surprise party is waiting for Twilight in the library]

Fluttershy is so cuute

Derpy-san’s first appearance

Hey she said “Crazy Pony”, I heard it loud and clear ww

Pinkie Pie is pretty bright w

[Pinkie Pie explains her thought process in great detail and quick pace]

The subtitles are a real lifesaver here w

What a fast-talker w

That high-speed talking wwwwwww

Her dialogue lines are LONGGG



In the background ww

Dervy is- wwww

The horse in the back has- wwww

Wha- wwww

You guys wwww in the back wwwww

She’s a good girl ww Even if she’s annoying w

DERPY!

Duffy [sic] is cute w

Gatcha! ☆

wwwww

If it was dubbed into Japanese, Tomoko Kawakami would suit her [Pinkie] pretty well

VA-san is incredible



And then she was a Rapidash

wwwwwwwww

www

Rapidash www

[Pinkie eats a cupcake with hot sauce]

What a perverse sense of taste wwwwwwww

She must be fond of alcohol! Or possibly born without the sense of taste! [The words for alcohol and spicy were the same in this case]

Arrgh

Rapidash ww

In hindsight, I think her tolerance level must be just pretty high

Fond of ALCOHOL!?

Taste-deaf?

[In Japanese, Spike comes in and announces that Pinkie “started a game”, not mentioning which specific game (like “pin the pony tail” in the original)]

Spike Harem up in here

Everyone’s CRAZY w

SHUTUUUUUP! IT’S LIKE 5AM!

They’re still at it huh w

Spike’s high w

[Twi imitates Spike]

“Bibibibibibibi…” www

“Silly”, you say - but aren’t you all horses anyway [Pun alert: “Silly” = baka-geta. “Baka” is written with the two kanjis for “horse” + “deer”]

www

Is it about 5am?

[Mayor: “Fillies and Gentlecolts!”]

The scene is thick with characters w

Glasses character ktkr

[Twi looks up to the moon on which the horse shaped shadow disappears]

That’s a flag*…

Gooooong

[Nightmare Moon’s first appearance]

There she is!

She looks SLICK

Sooo coool

What a beauty

Cool

So cool



If you look closely, the loli-trio is already showing up in this scene

Gorgeous

Kinda like a unicorn w

Is that VA Tara Strong?

Ahh, she’s Bubbles’ VA, right?

Tara-san is Twilight’s VA

She resembles Maleficent a little, you know

The “Mare” in “Nightmare” from Code Geass is the same “female horse” as this “Mare” right?



What is that… a mane?

Isn’t Twilight’s VA also doing that Billy boy!?

The plot developed pretty quickly!

[“To be continued…”]

And so it continues

Interesting

I wonder if Takara-Tomy won’t broadcast this in Japan~

This was interesting!

What, the VAs were the same!? @Ashley Ball & Andrea Libman both lending their voice to two main characters

Almost nothing but ♀ characters, huh

Pretty nice

The quality was so high!!!!!!!!

It’s pretty rare to have an American cartoon with a first episode that isn’t simple and concise

I wish they made a Japanese dub version…

It was funny!

Yes, it was funny!

It was so incredibly good! Thanks for the subs!

GJ on the subs. It was fun~

Yeah, pretty funny

So that’s why all the Otakus are getting into it

It was too cute

===TN Corner===

Kita: Literally “it came”. An outcry of joy when something good comes up, for example when you’ve been looking forward to it happening. See: ktkr.

wktk: Acronym for “wakuteka” which in turn is an amalgamation of “wakuwaku” (= excited) + “tekateka” = (gleaming). It’s used in sentences like “I am very excited for …”

Big Friend: A Big Friend is an adult fan of animes, that were originally made for children. It is implied that Big Friends are (male) otakus. Parents watching a show together with their children don’t count. E. g.: Bronies and adult fans of Pretty Cure are Big Fans.

Bokukko: Japanese has several first person pronouns that reflect not only the image a speaker has of himself but also who he is talking to in a certain situation. “Boku” is a generally polite male pronoun. Women don’t really use it in real life, but tomboyish anime characters do. As such, the Bokukko (-ko = girl) is a type of Moe character.

Orekko: Same as above, except that “ore” is a very uncouth, colloquial and exclusively male pronoun. No woman in her right mind would use this in real life. In animes, this would crank up your tomboy-levels to 11.

orz: Japanese emoticon depicting a person on their hands and knees. It’s used to symbolise depression or defeat. Alternate spelling: OTL.

ktkr: Acronym for “kita kore” = “it came, this one!”. See: Kita.

Moe: A (not explicitly sexual) turn-on. Literally: “to sprout/bloom”; Figuratively: something blooms inside your heart. Alternate spellings turn the meaning into “to burn” ⇒ Your heart burns for something.

Nae: A turn-off. Literally: “to wither/wilt”, it’s effectively the opposite of “moe”.

Oira: Another first person pronoun that is exclusive to men. It’s almost the same as “ore” but has a certain local flavor, almost like a country bumpkin. Issun from Okami is a prominent user of this pronoun (incidentally another small, cheeky companion of a magical fourlegged creature).

Flag: Originally Dating Sim lingo. The metaphorical flag that is being raised during a scene or a line of dialogue, when you can already smell that something (bad) is gonna happen. Works as an “in b4 …” equivalent. E. g.: “I can’t wait till this dangerous adventure is over and we can finally go back to our hometown, I miss the handmade pizza from the restaurant next to my house” is a pretty solid Death Flag. That character is totally gonna die any minute now.

Last Update: January 3rd, 2013.

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