Horse Women: The Anime

[Nordstern]

‘Spring Breakdown’. Not that good, eh?

Looking back, it had potential, but that potential was squandered. I wonder how much content got cut.

[Verite Rendition]

‘Spring Breakdown’. Not that good, eh?

Looking back, it had potential, but that potential was squandered. I wonder how much content got cut.

In a cartoon? Likely extremely little. Those things are intricately planned out at the storyboarding stage.

[Nordstern]

‘Spring Breakdown’. Not that good, eh?

Looking back, it had potential, but that potential was squandered. I wonder how much content got cut.

In a cartoon? Likely extremely little. Those things are intricately planned out at the storyboarding stage.

Hasbro does odd things with their writing and editing. For example, the following shot was cut from the 44-minute TV version, but appears in one of the 10-minute YouTube segments.



Wow. You do a double-take, but don't say anything or come back? What's up with that?

The second thing that comes to mind was the copious amounts of Rarijack in Rollercoaster of Friendship, which appears to have been intentional. This leads to my third observation.

After RoF, we don't see any Rarijack. Instead, we get the two fawning over their Rule 63 counterparts.

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That's too much to be just a coincidence. It's as if Hasbro was afraid of making it official.

There are a bunch of other things that seem like they were going somewhere, but they never get followed up on. I don't know if this is the staff trying to sneak things in, or Hasbro saying "nope, it's too long, cut something".

[Nordstern]

The finale is a string of 5-6 related shorts. Some good jokes in there. Flash Sentry proved slightly useful, but still got blown off bu SuShi. After it was all done, I was left saying "...wait, that's it?"

There is no closure. At all.

[Nordstern]