

Maretime Manor, Silver Shoals ( S9E26 onward) Tie-in media includes a mobile game, a comic series, the spinoff My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) (set between seasons 7 and 8), and My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip.Young Celestia on My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Issue #1 credits page Following the end of the first season, Faust stepped down as the show's executive producer, but she continued to work with the show as a consulting producer through production of the second season. As the substantial Periphery Demographic can attest, she seems to have succeeded. Her goal was to create an intelligent show for girls that boys and grown-ups could also watch without wanting to shoot themselves.

Friendship is Magic is her attempt to rescue the genre of girls' cartoons by presenting a clever show with a strong and diverse cast of female characters who aren't preoccupied with fashion and boys. The first season was helmed by Lauren Faust, a highly accomplished, Emmy Award-nominated animator - for example, she was the writer and director of The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. After saving the world with the magic of friendship, the show takes on an episodic adventure-of-the-week format, where Twilight relays weekly reports to her mentor on how friendship helps her and her friends. The show starts with a two-parter, in which main character Twilight Sparkle, an asocial bookworm pony, comes out of her shell and bonds with five other ponies in order to use The Power of Friendship to overcome a prophecy of doom. It lasted nine seasons, from 2010 to 2019. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was the flagship work in the fourth generation of the long-running My Little Pony franchise, incorporating self-aware humor, a more streamlined art style, and strong characterization.
