MLP hits Japan!!!

[sailorstitch]

Fluttershy just became 20% more adorable singing in JAPANESE!!!!
Link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9-aGbyOZto



Also, this may be weird, but the ponies look so natural speaking in Japanese like they were meant to. Oh well, I guess that's because the FiM ponies were designed to look "anime" in the first place.

That was TOO CUTE!!!!! Don't tell Fluttershy that her singing freaked my cat out.

sailorstitch

[TrixieStix]

Oh my golly!!!  Cuuuuute~ Thanks for posting the link, this show is gonna be tons of fun in Japanese

[Summerlycoris]

Really, this sounds like it will very great, especially if My Little Pony becomes popular in Japan as well. It would be great to see how the franchise is taken in Japan toy-wise: Whether they'd go in a completely different direction like they did in the 80's or whether they'd stay close to the western designs.
Either way it should be interesting.

[Sugar]

Japanese pony merch???? Yes please!!!

^^ This.  I wanna see kawaii ponies!!  Of all gens, please!

[rosierjay]

is it sad that i learned more about mlp in that 30 mins than i'd learned in 30 years.

and yeah i'm totally buying the dvd release of that. probably cost a few hundred dollars, but totally worth it.

[DazzleKitty]

Fluttershy's Japanese voice is definitely spot-on.

[tootie_tails]

I foresee MLP gashapon 

Some things I spotted:

In the character presentation-
The word genki is uttered and camera focuses on Pinki Pie, lol.
A few seconds later, repeated with focus on Rainbow Dash.

and this-

tomodachi wa mahou (トモダチは魔法)
"friends are magic"

[josiekat]

Well, if super cute Japanese merchandise is going to start rolling out, I may be emailing my friend in Okinawa to start picking things up for me.

[StarSwirl05]

Fluttershy's Japanese voice is definitely spot-on.

Yeah, it sounds just like Andrea Libman. That's how it should be IMO.

[HavACrumpet452]

As long as they stick to G4's I'm thrilled. Japan has much more of a throw-away culture than we do so I guarantee you most of those ponies are going in the trash when they get tired of them. They don't save hand-me-downs or even have hoards of thrift stores so much as the good ole US. There's no room to save stuff in a tiny country with a huge population.

[rosierjay]

i went to some to the recycle shops there.
they were really nice.
and a lot more in the kansai area than i would have thought.
and it really depends on the person. the group of friend i have at the church were always giving toys and clothes to new mothers etc.