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Crisostomo-Ibarra [2018-11-17 14:22:04 +0000 UTC]

Now, I'm gonna go into a long rant about this and you don't have to take my word for it if you don't agree. So, forgive me if I sound a little bit unfair with this, okay?

Tl;dr, honestly, I can't help but laugh at this picture, because it's just ridiculous IMO. Fluttershy is not the type of pony who would just appear in an anime universe just to bash two strangers. I think it's a little bit out-of-character for her. Also, I can't believe you dislike Your Lie in April, it's a great anime, but if you don't like it, that's fine, but I know it's a fact that the exploration and flaws of those characters made people love them. I know it sucks that Tsubaki and Kaori pressured Kosei to keep playing the piano for circumstances that called for it, but Kaori apologized in the end and they realized their mistakes. And maybe confronting the past and fear of playing the piano with their help is part of Kosei's character arc. And are you gonna blame the two for abusing Kosei, yet not blame Kosei himself for his own past and his own failures? Hell, even calling it "abuse" is a bit unfair. Everyone in the anime is not perfect, but they are very likable. I like Kosei, Kaori and Tsubaki for who they are.

First of all, out of all the characters you could've picked to call out Kaori and Tsubaki for making him play a piano, if you'll call that a sin, you went with Fluttershy and that's pretty much one of the last characters I thought when it comes to interacting with the two anime teen girls. It's like Freddy Fazbear chasing down Makoto Itou with a chainsaw; it's just preposterous! I know you are a hardcore brony and think MLP is the "greatest show evar", but you could've put in… say, Hinata from Naruto or Orihime from Bleach. Hell, even Princess Peach is a better choice than a pony who is not Pinkie Pie who could somehow travel through universes without a problem for crying out loud!

Second, being a former brony who now only watches the cartoon from time to time, Fluttershy could muster up some strength to call other ponies, or even a dragon, as seen in "Dragon Shy", out for their bullshit, but why would she be involved or rant in a scenario that she has 0% involvement to begin? Why would she scold two strangers in an environment and world she knows nothing about? I know this is all just satire and I'm just being nitpicky here, but I can't help but find this scene a bit farfetched and nonsensical. The most likely scenario would be that after Fluttershy hears about what Kosei went through, she would feel pity for everyone involved, whisper things like, "Oh, dear, I didn't realize what you had to go through. I hope this all gets better..." and that would just be it and move on. She's not one to go berserk or aggressive on bad people; she only does it when the situation calls for it or forces her to do so, and even then, it happens rarely, especially after that disaster of an episode where Fluttershy decided she would never be floormat again and be assertive. Hell, in "Power Ponies", Fluttershy (as Saddle Rager) never wanted to fight especially when her friends are in grave danger, and only unleashed her true power and saved the day because Mane-iac hurt a fly! (Or a bird or whatever; I don't really remember since it's been so long since I last watched that episode.) Are you fucking kidding me?! To quote Dim432 in a comment below: “she's a shy stereotype”. I'm not bashing on the character, in fact, I like her enough as she is, even as a former brony, but it's just that I cringed a bit looking at this drawing every time.

Third and this is the part that I'm most serious about, why do you hate Your Lie in April so much, especially Kaori and Tsubaki? I know you have your reason, which is that they persuade Kosei to play the piano. Now, I have watched the entire anime to just to see if it warrants the praise of being one of the greatest anime ever made, and after watching through the end and failing to keep to myself from crying, I can say that I find your claim bullshit. Now, as I said, this is just my opinion and you're free to disagree with me. I'm just letting it all out. Being forced to play the piano is the extent of his "abuse" from Kaori and Tsubaki and even some other people, if you can even call it that. And even then, it's not their fault that Kosei can sometimes come off like an annoying crybaby or a tool at times. And in the end, they regretted the mistakes they've done to him and apologized and were willing to change, which is already enough to give sympathy for our protagonists, unlike Love Hina, where the girls friggin' beat up poor Keitaro for no reason and never even thought of a "sorry". In fact, My Little Pony shows that even bad people like Diamond Tiara, Trixie, Discord and Starlight Glimmer can redeem themselves. Since you are a brony, I'm sure you understand that by now, that we're all not perfect, we're just human and we make mistakes, but we learn from them and everybody deserves a second chance. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “hate the sin, but not the sinner”. What happened to Kosei sucks, sure, but why pin the blame on people who don't deserve it, at least not 100%?

Also, I'm very bothered that you dislike the anime, when it's considered to be one of the greatest, most critically-acclaimed and most beautiful anime series of all time, and I love it too. I'd be lying if I said there aren't things throughout the show that I don't like, but I can safely that Kaori and Tsubaki themselves are not among those things. As I said earlier, why take ALL the blame those two characters for their flaws and not once look at Kosei's? Because to be frank, everybody here is at fault and nobody is perfect. But that's what made the show so powerful, it made us focus more on the characters and their flaws. "Flaws" is the keyword here. We are made to care or at least sympathize with them, so that when something happens to them, in this case Kaori dies by the end of the series, there is an impact left both in-universe with the characters they are attached to and the consequences down the road, and the audiences who watched all the way to Episode 22. Kosei being pressured to play the piano gives way for his character arc where he has to confront his own inner demons that haunted him in the past, with the help of his friends, Tsubaki and Kaori included. He can learn to let go of the past and finally play the piano without fear, especially in memory of the late Kaori, the physically-frail but mentally-strong violinist who loved him. So the fact that you would dislike the two characters who are the closest and even love interests to the protagonist for doing the mistakes that they inadvertently made not of their own volition, and treat them like they're demons is just unsettling for me to stomach.

IMO, maybe you should take a break from kiddy cartoons that say the same repetitive morals over and over and go into more adult material that say something fresh, unique and mature. I don't want to offend you, but from what I looked in your gallery, I think you're similar to a strawman anime fan, the kind I've seen in many forums, who hates Evangelion and all of its characters with a burning passion, accusing Shinji for being a whiny spineless pussy, Asuka for being a selfish annoying bitch, Rei for never caring anything else in the world, Gendo for being a neglective manipulative dick, etc. or despises Tomoyo for not taking up the responsibility to raise Ushio after Nagisa died of childbirth in After Story. I find those accusations to be rubbish too. Again, the characters' flaws are what made shows like Evangelion, Clannad and Your Lie in April great! Unpopular opinions like yours are one thing, but those are the facts! We are able to know more about them and explore why this and that happening to the characters. Flawed characters are fun to analyze, because characters who are good all the time, could do no wrong or role models for all the right in-universe reasons are Mary Sue's/Gary Stu's and they are boring as fuck.

Please tell me, if you hate Kaori and Tsubaki just for forcing Kosei to play the piano and relive some of his worst days, even if they just assume that he's good music at face value like you or me or anybody else, and didn't know what would happen to him, to the point where you even said that Kaori deserved to die and Tsubaki should too, then do you hate Shinji for not "manning up" to save the remnants of mankind from Angels, whining that he won't run away every single time and dooming the world in End of Evangelion by his own volition, do you hate Tomoyo for running away from responsibility because he's depressed over the loss of the love of his life (which I'm pretty sure is what's happening to Kosei as well post-series), do you hate Lelouch for accidentally using his Geass to make his sister massacre the Japanese population, being forced to kill her and bringing things downhill from what was supposed to be his original plans as Zero and thought he deserved to die in the Zero Requiem for all what he had done, do you hate Simon for not bringing his newly-wedded wife, the woman he loved his whole life from childhood whose disappearance motivated him to take up the drill and fight during the anime's second half, back to life with his own powers despite the possible risks it could bring; do you just hate both the sin and sinners without seeing a justified reason in them? Do you prefer saint-like bland characters who spout the same shtick again and again over characters who are deeply complex and flawed in their own right to the point where it might rub you the wrong way of seeing them as downright unlikable without giving them a chance?

Anyway, this rant is becoming way too long for a single comment, so I should just end it. By the way, I like a lot of your drawings and I agree with the sentiments of some of them. In fact, I had fun seeing your gallery, your posts and your opinions on some situations, like your Love Hina drawings. It's just that this picture is not the best for me, given my opinions. And I hope you understand.

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ShegoXP [2018-10-20 20:48:02 +0000 UTC]

Whoa! Talk about having a lecture! Scary.

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Dim432 [2018-10-14 08:10:21 +0000 UTC]

Spoilers

She a shy stereotype 

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hubertberrum [2018-10-14 03:14:18 +0000 UTC]

DAMN you go fluttershy!

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