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* [[My Little Pony (Pucchigumi manga)|''My Little Pony'' (Pucchigumi manga)]]: It's pretty far removed from everything else, but it has a charm of its own. The sheer wackiness and silliness with its manga aesthetics lends itself surprisingly nicely to the tone of FIM and the characters all play off each other wonderfully. It has a nice warmth that's similar to the tone of the first season, but isn't as sentimental.

===''Equestria Girls''===

* ''[[My Little Pony: Equestria Girls]]'': Gets a bad rep, but I think it's actually better than Rainbow Rocks...seriously. The story is far more structured and it's one of the few times we really get to see such earnest interactions between Twily and Spikey, not to mention it's one of the few times where we get to see Spike do something really cool that is in no ways played for laughs (when he defended Fluttershy from Sunny), which shows how kind our favorite baby dragon really is. The music is great, the animation is great, I love all the little slice-of-life scenes like when we see the girls eat at the [[Sweet Shoppe]], I love the slapstick nature of the comedy, which was starting to die out in the franchise when this movie came out, so it feels like a "last hurrah" of the sense of humor found in earlier G4. Overall, I'd recommend you go back to this movie, it's a ton of fun!

* ''[[Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks]]'': My least favorite of the main Equestria Girls films...seriously. I still really like it, but it's the one I've gone back to the least. I just don't find it nearly as fun as the original, a lot of the comedy and whimsy is gone, the ''constant'' [[to sell toys|toy ads]] really gets in the way of the story* and I just don't find the three baddies very interesting. Plot is a lot more loose too, wouldn't doubt if it's because of the toy ads I mentioned before and we don't get as much fun slice-of-life scenes. Still, a fun film, but not my favorite.

* ''[[Equestria Girls: Friendship Games]]'': I often forget this one exists, despite it being the most "important" film in the series asides from the first. That's not to say it's bad or anything, but the overall plot isn't as memorable. Sci-Twi is an ''amazing'' character, she's different enough from Princess Twilight to be a distinct character, but also similar enough to where she feels like a different version of her. I think later media really has her shine as a character, but I love her quiet nerdiness and awkwardness in this movie.

* ''[[Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree]]'': Probably my favorite of the films, it's when the characterization of everyone really starts to set in. We get to see a more casual, and romantic(!!!) Twilight Sparkle, a more heroic Sunny, and a more good-natured Snips and Snails, as opposed to their weirdly thuggish personalities in the first film. The two new characters, [[Gloriosa Daisy]] and [[Timber Spruce]] are also a ton of fun and great additions to the series, though sadly Daisy has only had cameo appearances since. The camp atmosphere is taken full advantage of, we get to see a ''ton'' of new places all throughout Everfree Forest, which makes the film the most visually impressive.

* ''[[Equestria Girls: Better Together]]'': Probably my favorite bit of Equestria Girls media! But mostly the first season...Every episode in the first season feels like a complete story, despite them only being 3 minutes long, with beginning, middles and ends, with bright, colorful and really heartfelt little one-shot stories. The second season isn't nearly as good. Instead of feeling like entire stories, each episode feels more like a comedy sketch, they're not bad or anything, but it felt like a downgrade in comparison to the first season.

* ''[[Equestria Girls: Rollercoaster of Friendship]]'': It's good. Aside from ''Holiday's Unwrapped'', I think it has the best "slice of life" aspects, we get to see characters in the background constantly doing stuff together and develop friendships, while the foreground plot never becomes distracted by this. The setting is awesome, a themepark for the girls to fool around in, with a nicely dramatic mainplot to reel in the silliness.

* ''[[Equestria Girls: Spring Breakdown]]'': Second favorite of the specials. The ''[[Lux Delxue]]'' is a cool setting and I love how it felt almost like a culmination of several little mini-storylines, we get to see [[Lily Pad]] with her family, and [[Curly Winds]] gets to do some heroic stuff where he saves his <s>boyfriend</s> "friend" [[Wiz Kid]] from drowning. The character interactions are all great, the places are exciting and the drama is probably the most tense since...ever, really.

* ''[[Equestria Girls: Sunset Shimmer's Backstage Pass]]'': Man. This is one of the very few pieces of media I actually think is just kinda bad. The setting is really boring, which is a shame since it's pretty unique, an entire concert akin to [[Woodstock]] for the girls to have hijinks in. But it just fails at it. The time-travel gimmick means we see the same places and characters over and over again, which makes the comedy incredibly tedious as we essentially see the same jokes over and over again, only with slightly different twists. The slice-of-life aspect of the girls living together in an RV for a few days is just wasted, we get very few good interactions with them and the entire movie is hyper focused on Sunny and Pinkie, who just don't have as much chemistry with one another as other the girls. Pinkie herself is a character best left in small doses, not an entire 44m special. The villains are dull, the music is really underwhelming, the new characters don't do much, and to top it all off, it's just an adaptation of a book that wasn't very good to begin with, so if you already read it...you just have the entire story already, nothing new to discover.

* ''[[Equestria Girls: Holidays Unwrapped]]'': Favorite special! Like ''Rollercoaster of Friendship'', theirs always something to see in the background, but you're never distracted by that*. The anthology style of the special is a great change of pace, instead of trying to stretch a potentially iffy story for 44 minutes, it instead gives us a handful of 8m long minis that are just filled with everything you want from this series. Great comedy, super cute, sentimental, exploring love in its many forms, great character interactions and just so very energetic and busy. One weird thing I want to praise is how the special isn't a white Christmas, it's kinda refreshing to see a Christmas story where it's not snowing and is just kinda cold. Also, seeing the Equestria Girls being involved with a charity event is really cute.

<nowiki>*</nowiki> I know ''Equestria Girls'' was entirely made to push a new line of human dolls, but still. The other films are far more subtle about it than ''Rainbow Rocks'' and don't get in the way nearly as much.