May
9th
2022
Epiphany at the Schoolyard · 12:29pm May 9th, 2022
Horrific realization of the day: The Student Six comprise a harem anime cast.
Details below.
You have:
The messy-haired protagonist with little personality of his own, so the audience can project themselves on him.
The big, loud foreigner who doesn’t understand the local culture because she’s a big, loud foreigner.
The adorably shy bookworm who learns to come out of her shell.
The rough-and-tumble tomboy who learns to appreciate her softer side
The genki girl with a troubled past
And the tsundere with an even more troubled past.
If I have to be cursed with this insight, so do you. Though I wouldn't be surprised if I were far from the first to see this.
Yak understand local culture good, but yak rather SMASH!
Thank you for this cursed sight. My vengeance shall be swift and painful
Isn't Catbird also a male?
so true
I hate how correct this is.
Absolutely perfect.
I fail to see how this is a curse. It's a blessing! Well, except for you calling Sandbar the "protagonist".
5656280 tsundere is not a female-only definition. Just used more often with female characters.
I don't know if that's "harem anime cast" so much as it is "common character tropes" in general. I mean, yeah, a lot of harem anime have these characters, but these characters can show up in any genre anyway, so...
Blessed. Absolutely blessed. All Sandbar needs is a childhood best friend with an unrequited crush to round out the cast.
Then he can figure out how to let the girls down easy and go for the best, catbirdiest ending.
Cursed and also illegal.
I am talking to the admins about taking away your privileges.
This... yeah, this is accurate.
cursed indeed, how dare you but also understandable
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Technically they're all childhood best friends, since I'm pretty sure the student six are meant to be children in the series (at least I assume so, scaling them to Cozy, Spike, and the Crusaders).
Damnit, now a scene with Gallus saying “b-baka” to Sandbar is playing on repeat in my brain.
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I personally believe they're all around college aged, but this is also a fine take.
That's all you've got? Hell was put into my eyes years ago, FoMA. You'll have to try harder than that if you want to curse me. This is blursed at worst.
Ha!
You've cracked the code
Thanks FoME, I didn't need this realization in my life.
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This. Yak glad to talk about local culture and ceasing to smash when local culture stops having Timberwolf problem.
5656278
Yaks best at intercultural exchange!
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Glad to make your day a little more blursed.
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Interesting point. Who do you feel is the protagonist, then?
5656285
The "#silliness" tag is there for a reason. All in good fun.
5656286
My word, you've found a viable backstory for Cozy Glow. Even better, she can be the yandere childhood best friend who Sandbar completely forgot about. That's a harem trope Triple Word Score!
5656293
I read them as adolescents, which makes the genre comparison all the more apt. (Of course, if the Crusaders had been allowed to physically age, that might have cleared things up a touch...)
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Choose one or both —
• You're welcome
• I'm sorry
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Ponies come to understand superiority of smash in time. Am Yak's Burden to enlighten smashless masses.
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Things that cannot be unseen.
5656286
Nice work. Now, you've made 'em even more powerful than before.
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Or mentally age, for that matter.
Now make Sandbar actually be from the Equestria Girls universe and you've got an Isekai harem.
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He's there for the yaoi doujinshi.
For maximum harem energy, you'd need to make Gallus female and then have Sandbar be the only male creature at the school for some contrived reason.
LETS GOOOOOOO
Well, there’s a reason the Student 6 polycule ship is super popular.
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Nevermind I don't want this anymore. If Cozy Glow is allowed in this polycule, I'm throwing the whole ship away.
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Ah, so this is what greets me on one of my (recently infrequent) jaunts back through Pone-world.
I've either been away far too long or not long enough.
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Man the torpedoes!
Desu desu~
To further your theory, I also note their teachers are all attractive, quirky women with magic powers.
I already knew the Student 6 had some real mediocrity in it. iirc it's helpful to have the trouble diagnosed by someone who's relatively expert about many media.
Oh no what have you done
Huh.
I always just felt like:
1. There are two guys.
2. At most two of the girls have shown interest in Sandbar.
3. Only one girl has shown interest in Gallus.
Maybe it's got the cast, but it's not going to stick in my head as a harem thing. I'm immune to your brain worm!
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As far as attractiveness goes, we only really know for sure about Rarity (puts way too much effort into her looks and there's no reason to suspect it's compensating for anything other than a low-class upbringing) and Fluttershy (left the supermodel life due to the toxic culture rather than any loss of looks).
Bruh the Mane 6 was deliberately made with classic character archetypes. This is nothing new.
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Trenderhoof fell for Applejack hard. But it's not clear if that's due to AJ's natural good looks or if Trenderhoof has a type.
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UMMM
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I'll let it go just this once but you're on thin ice, mister.
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That's just, like, your opinion, man. Fluttershy being insanely hot is plot-relevant to an early episode, and nopony would put as much effort into their looks as Rarity does unless they actually had some to start with. Applejack, in-universe, has one stallion whose taste is called into question by everything else he ever says. And maybe Rainbow Dash, depending on who you ask about the post-timeskip stuff. (She's also the closest thing to an actual adult in the Mane 6, so take that as you will)
I have been advocating for a bi Gallus topping Smolder while being topped by Sandbar since forever. The other girls can be there too I guess. Yona is the one Sandbar ends up with after all.
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bad news, gallus is a malewife
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Too long
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First attempt at posting got eaten by an internet connection so spotty I think Miss Deville is trying to scalp it. Anyway: piffle at that your harem cast revelation, too. You want a real mind-twister?
Technically speaking, Pokémon is a sports anime.
You're welcome.
Goddamnnit FOME!
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Welcome to the 21st century!
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He tried edibles for the first time, wandered into the portal, and has assumed everything has been a hallucination ever since. The fact that he hit the same quirk of earth pony thaumobiology as Tree Hugger and is now producing his own cannabinoids doesn't help.
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(considers your stories)
Huh. I didn't mean to make a blog custom-tailored for you, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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Similar logic as the Mane 6 omniship, really.
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Could be both. Just don't ask me how that works.
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NO ARA ARA
$500 FINE
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Trope saturation need not equal mediocrity. The Student Six do present a lot of interesting storytelling opportunities. It's more that Season 8 was the nadir of the series.
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Laid bare what was always in front of us.
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Hence my specifying "harem anime cast." The romantic shenanigans portion of the equation never manifested. Heck, Sandbar should actually be disqualified from messy-haired protagonisthood by virtue of actually making a choice before the series finale.