Comments on: Is My Little Pony’s Crystal Empire inspired by Sailor Moon’s Crystal Tokyo?

By: Endymion

Endymion — Fri, 22 May 2015 00:28:14 +0000

I don’t care about if this is a copy story element. Still fun, and I still enjoy it. I like it from Sailor Moon, and from MLP too. If something is good, why do not use up again?

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By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:37:35 +0000

Hi Monica. I believe the original similarity to Crystal Tokyo is probably intentional, we just can’t be sure. I tried to make this clear in my post but I didn’t want to make any firm statement one way or the other as we can’t prove anything definitively. It’s mostly the other specifics that were mentioned in that viral image that I called into question as being coincidence and cherry picking.

I don’t think the comic appearance makes this similarity more or less likely, as that would be a somewhat isolated occurance of a Sailor Moon fan being contracted to draw a MLP comic. A lot of MLP staff are Sailor Moon fans so any similarity is understandable considering this, and I wouldn’t say one would necessarily be connected to another. The comic artist who put the Sailor Moon ponies in that one issue for example would not have had anything to do with this episode of the show.

We’ve not to my knowledge had any real confirmation that this inspiration was intentional though. We’ll see if that ever happens.

By: Monica

Monica — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 18:38:11 +0000

So… in hindsight of this (a couple years), and considering we saw actual Sailor Moon Ponies later in the comic, do you still think the design is just a coincidence, or an actual tribute or reference to Sailor Moon? Perhaps the stories were not meant to relate to each other, but I would have to argue that there was enough there to see what they were alluding to.

By: natalia

natalia — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:42:25 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:19:29 +0000

I don’t know, crystals have a very strong place in the center of the human unconscious that doesn’t change much from culture to culture. You will see similar effigies and architecture for that reason. I think the biggest difference though is that the citizens are the only ones capable of saving the empire because they power the crystal heart.

By: Julien Brightside

Julien Brightside — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:42:55 +0000

A good comparison article.

Yeah, I don’t think there’s a distinct link between the two either.

By: Oliver Lacota

Oliver Lacota — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:53:26 +0000

An interesting read. I liked several of the relevant comparisons which were then counterbalanced by pointing out that there’s WAY more Sailor Moon than there is Friendship is Magic (and thus, comparing material).