Friendship is Card Games: Twilight's Seven · 11:13am Apr 21st, 2019
The two hundredth episode! Such wonder! Such promise!
Of course I had to go get my car’s brakes replaced that morning!
The two hundredth episode! Such wonder! Such promise!
Of course I had to go get my car’s brakes replaced that morning!
We return to the Legends of Magic miniseries, with the other two "Campfire Tales" lead-up issues. Let's see what tales lie forgotten.
In this final week before we go back to long-form animation for a while, we conclude the story of the young trainer Stygian as he tries to assemble a Ponymon team capable of taking on a legendary trio.
What? He is putting together a group of six.
This week, we’re branching out a little, to a library under a tree and the story that the RCL very scientifically determined was the best story on the site. Spoilers ahead for TEL and the early bits of TEK.
Before we cover the OEL manga, let’s look at one from Japan. You can actually find most of this one at varying levels of translation on Derpibooru, but that’s no reason not to dig into it. Let’s begin.
Just because I’ve found Pony Life deeper than expected doesn’t mean I’m going to put other media aside. I’m absolutely finishing off Friendship is Forever, and I just started that manga storyline. We have a triple rotation for the next few months, and next up is the Rainbow Dash clip show.
When last we left the manga, Pinkie hadn’t quite grasped that she was in a time loop, opting for the far more logical conclusion that the entire town was pranking her. Let’s see what it takes to disabuse her of that notion.
As promised, this week I present a collection of cards based on the entries to the second Imposing Sovereigns contest. As with last time, the name of each card links to the story that inspired it. See here for an easier to scan breakdown. Now, let’s get right to the cards.
Ah, the abridged series, LittleKuriboh’s gift to fandoms everywhere. And when it comes to ponies, the first name that comes to mind is Sherclop Pones’s Friendship is Witchcraft. Or the Mentally Advanced Series. Or…
Look, we’re covering the birthplace of Sweetie Bot.
I'm working away at a story, and I had a related idea I can't fit into it. That means it's random headcanon time! Quasi-spoilers for "Grannies Gone Wild" if you haven't yet seen it.
So. Not only have the comics still not come out, issue #97 has been pushed back to May. Fine then. We’ll push the next manga chapter up two weeks. (How do I deliver more consistently in my job than these people?)
This week we reach the final full episode of Friendship is Witchcraft, though far from the last FiW content I have to work with. We’ll get to that in time, but for now, who remembers Babs Seed?
We may be out of animated FiW content, but that doesn’t mean we’ve exhausted the well. There are still a few installments left, between the side projects and the live reading we’re looking at today.
Thank you for patience; between EFNW ’21 and a day largely lost to air travel and time zones, I didn’t have the time to put together cards. Thankfully, it’s a fairly light week; we’re doing a roundup of the side shorts and suchlike of Friendship is Witchcraft.
It’s time for more from Trailblazer, and this time the story’s really getting into high gear.
Pony Life has yet to emerge from the primordial ooze, so this week we’ll close out the first volume of the OEL manga. Let’s see what there is to be seen.
At least, I think that’s the name of this storyline. The PDF I’m reading from doesn’t actually name it; it just gives chapter headings. In any case, the second comic storyline delves into another lingering question of the show: What is the Nightmare?
We’re not quite done with IDW yet. This week, we look at what may technically be part of G5. After all, what else do you get when you add G1 and G4?
A bit under two years after we saw the sun set on Equestria (and putting aside the fever dream of an interlude,) it is finally time to see how the golden age of Twilight tarnished into a long, dark night of Equestria’s soul… and the rise of a new Sunny era. Let’s begin.