Seriously, they are. This is by far the most important issue, if they made their asses fatter it would improve viewership. If they made the ponies thicc prudes would complain, which would only draw in even more viewers. Twilight Sparkle, the protagonist of the series has a fat ass, and her teacher Princess Celestia, who's ass is even fatter.
The main reason is uncanny valley. When something looks human but not quite. A perfect example would be a robot trying to mimic being human, it looks unsettling. It's somewhat insulting towards the ponies, you have Twilight Sparkle there a beautiful unicorn and you can't embrace her just because she's not fully in human shape, even though she has all the qualifications to be a sapient-minded
I am sorry about this blog, but anime as in japanese cartoons made in japan are under attack by western moral puritans, because it doesn't adhere to their moral standards. This strikes me as a very imperialistic mindset, not everyone has to adhere to our values.
No if only because the show never tried to make us dislike him generally. The writers just badly flubbed his episodes constantly. I consider the real zoidberg view as being an amalgamation of fan dislike of spike eps and that one Friendship is Witchcraft thing from early in the fandom. I consider that as being the main work responsible for the whole ‘useless spike we’re supposed to laugh at meme’ becoming a mainline accepted tenant in the fandom.
Granted, I don’t think that’s even a widespread opinion in the fandom, at least not now, but it is just present enough to be noticable.
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No if only because the show never tried to make us dislike him generally. The writers just badly flubbed his episodes constantly. I consider the real zoidberg view as being an amalgamation of fan dislike of spike eps and that one Friendship is Witchcraft thing from early in the fandom. I consider that as being the main work responsible for the whole ‘useless spike we’re supposed to laugh at meme’ becoming a mainline accepted tenant in the fandom.
Granted, I don’t think that’s even a widespread opinion in the fandom, at least not now, but it is just present enough to be noticable.
I never saw Spike that way.