History YMMV / FillyFuntasia

*** The OriginStory of how Rose met the rest of the Filly Five, and even how ''they'' met each other.[[note]]Thanks to the AnachronicOrder of this series, the first episode of season two actually answers the former.. sort of.[[/note]]

** The show itself may not look polished, but the concept art is [[http://www.funtasiadaily.com/2015/07/filly-funtasia-early-development_7.html#idc-container absolutely]] [[http://www.funtasiadaily.com/2015/03/filly-funtasia-scenery-concept-art_9.html gorgeous]].

** "NO FROM [[Franchise/TheLionKing SIMBA]]!"[[note]]Viva Reverie made a [[https://youtu.be/Ho3LPdJ7soA video]] making fun of a German toy commercial for ''Filly''. It's also a popular joke to point out that the distributor for the toyline (who is sometimes mistaken for creating it) [[NamesTheSame shares the same name]] with [[Characters/TheLionKingFirstFilm Simba]] from ''Franchise/TheLionKing''.[[/note]]

** It finally properly debuted in America March 2022 mere months before the latest [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyMakeYourMark MLP series]], having a surprising number of similarities (an AllCGICartoon about multicolored magic horses featuring an episodic dark, powerful villain who is unbeknowest to our main characters, gives off a cheesy [=90's=] cartoon vibe, and needs to be aided by their pushover MinionWithAnFInEvil who has a huge soft side, of whom the main characters ''are'' aware of but do not know that they are working for the side of evil) despite being announced nearly nine years prior.

* MoralEventHorizon: Wranglum was sealed away because he crossed it long before the show began, either by his invasion of Aquatica that nearly caused their extinction or by lying to Farina the Dragon that the fillies are the villains in order to get her on his side of the battle.

** It finally properly debuted in America March 2022 mere months before the latest [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyMakeYourMark MLP series]], having a surprising number of similarities (an AllCGICartoon about multicolored magic horses feachering an episodic dark, powerful villain who is unbeknowest to our main characters, gives off a cheesy [=90's=] cartoon vibe, needs to be aided by their pushover MinionWithAnFInEvil who has a huge soft side, of whom the main characters ''are'' aware of but do not know that they are working for the side of evil) despite being announced nearly nine years prior.

* BileFascination: '''Big time.''' After the first trailer had dropped out of nowhere, many bronies were genuinely curious about what they had initially perceived as some foreign ''Friendship Is Magic'' knockoff. After it actually came out, as it proved more than just a knockoff and garnered genuine fans.

* BileFascination: '''Big time.''' After the first trailer had dropped out of nowhere, many bronies were genuinely curious about what they had initially perceived as some foreign ''Friendship Is Magic'' knockoff. Downplayed after it actually came out, as it proved more than just a knockoff and garnered genuine fans.

** While Principal Sparkle already sounds [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTwilightSparkle familiar to a certain purple alicorn we all know]], in season 8 of that show, Twilight Sparkle [[spoiler:actually becomes a teacher, and at least most the season is dedicated to a school setting.]] Go figure.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** The animation of season one was rough due to TroubledProduction, and it was the focus of many complaints from bronies. The animation of season two is more polished.
** The original English dub, consisting of three random episodes, featured poor voice acting and lip syncing, among other glaring issues. When the series was eventually released in English properly in Singapore, it aired with a much more improved and finalized dub, with all 26 episodes. The former English dub was most likely a demo.
** The episodes being aired OutOfOrder was a source of confusion. The Singapore airing restores them to a proper order.

** It's purely coincidental, but Fabian actually predates [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicManeFamilyMembers Maud Pie]] by at least one year. Both are misunderstood [[{{Nerd}} nerd-type]] ponies that have a fascination with rocks.[[note]]Well, specifically geology and mineralogy in Fabian's case, but [[YouSayTomato same thing]].[[/note]]

* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: A show about incredibly cute horses having fun and being friends in their school is bound to be this in ''spades'' (much like the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic show it's usually compared to]]). However, unlike that show, even the ''villains'' in the show (both being [[UglyCute adorably]] [[{{Moe}} cute]] in their own ways) retain a cheesy 90's cartoon feel, as does the show itself, and one can always feel comfort in the fact that they lose in the silliest of ways. Some might even say that the show downright borders on TastesLikeDiabetes. [[BrokenBase How good or bad that is depends]].

** A necessity for [[SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel a show]] [[TastesLikeDiabetes like this]], all of the Fillys look adorable despite the somewhat unpolished CGI animation. But [[TheCutie Bella]] ''especially'' qualifies.

*** Similarly, jokes about the Italian dub of the show being canon.

* LostInMediasRes: The show ''immediately'' thrusts you into this magical academy attended by colorful equine friends who already know each other (the main one of which is only shown in the ThemeTune to be a new student in such), and a weird tree creature trapped inside a mirror with his bat assistant trying to take over said academy... for 13 episodes. The first episode is about Bella accidentally eating one of her friends' cupcakes, much to the confusion of so many people who were just starting the show. It isn't until the ''second season'', the first episode of which acts out as the first episode of the show (no flashbacks involved), that some kind of explanation for a few things is given: Rose, along with the rest of her friends who she's apparently already known at this point, move into the academy, and a proper enough introduction to the series villain Wranglum is shown. Though it should be obvious by now that this wasn't deliberate, the show's major TroubledProduction caused for the show's episode order to be incredibly messed up.
** This has since been fixed when Singapore started airing all 26 episodes in their own, uniform order.

** While not praised as much as the Italian dub is, the second English version that was released in Singapore was much better receieved than the first, as it is more polished, offered more than just three episodes (with all 26 of them being released in a uniform order), and has better voices for the characters than the first.

*** It's important to note that it didn't start there, however, as people were even displeased by the English ''trailers'' that were released much before any official English version came out. The [[https://vimeo.com/359568880 last trailer]] to come out featuring clips of the first dub was the most polarizing, with people fearing these wouldn't be the finalized voices. Wranglum's voice in this version was met especially with the most criticism, making him sound much more adolescent, scratchy, and whiny than in any other dub.

** People vastly preferred the Italian dub of the show, supported mostly by the fact that it is the first version of the show that ever surfaced. The acting and fitting voices for the characters was heavily praised, and enhanced by an active fandom ready to subtitle these episodes, and many jokes about how the Italian dub is canon was made. When any trace of an official English dub finally came out, people were not pleased by [[HongKongDub the results]] (unenthused voice acting, lackluster script, lip syncing not matching or in some cases missing lines entirely), claiming that the Italian version will always be better.

** Due to being the first dub we ever officially got, plus the voices generally being better (namely Wranglum's), people vastly preferred the Italian dub to the English version simply based on the latter's ''[[https://vimeo.com/359568880 trailer]]''. People weren't fond of the older English trailers either. Those that have grown accustomed to the Italian dub dreaded the day we ever got a full English version, especially with ''those'' voices. Turns out they might have been justified, as the actual English version ended up sounding a lot more like a poor placeholder, with missing lines and unenthused voices, making it sound very unprofessional.
** The Singapore dub has a completely new English dub that is far superior to the original. It's also actually aired in the original intended order.

* {{Narm}}: In the English dub, Wranglum's Pirahna minions first introduced in Episode 11 are called Jaw Jaws. For a scary-looking bunch of evil henchmen that are supposed to be taken seriously, the name Jaw Jaws just doesn't fit. Why is this the most prominent example from the English Dub? Even the much more improved dub from Singapore calls them that.

* AngstWhatAngst: In "Farina, the Fire Dragon", Rose finally learns that [[spoiler:her great-grandmother Lilly was the one who made the all powerful Dark Crystal by means of ThePowerOfHate, which inavertently aided [[BigBad Wranglum]], all because she got her heart broken. After a lot of self-doubt and crying at just about any mention of what wrongdoing Lilly did, she then learns that her great-grandmother [[TheAtoner atoned for her actions]] by helping Farina the Dragon get back to health.]] However, this still doesn't really excuse anything that she did prior to that, only just implying that she regretted doing it, but Rose surprisingly gets over her dilemma ''too'' quickly by the end of the episode. Not helping is that all of this ''only'' came up in this episode and not before, despite how it feels like it should've been a longer CharacterArc.

* UglyCute: Wranglum's real form might somewhat qualify to some, but his "mirror face" is this trope in ''spades'', being very expressive (even ''moreso'' than Wranglum's ''real'' face) and pulling a lot of comical, or outright ''cute'' expressions. This is enhanced by his voice in the English dub, which makes him sound a lot more soft and adolescent than one would expect from such a threatening villain.

* LostInMediasRes: The show ''immediately'' thrusts you into this magical academy attended by colorful equine friends who already know each other (the main one of which is only shown in the ThemeTune to be a new student in such), and a weird tree creature trapped inside a mirror with his bat assistant trying to take over said academy... for 13 episodes. The first episode is about Bella accidentally eating one of her friends' cupcakes, much to the confusion of so many people who were just starting the show. It isn't until the ''second season'', the first episode of which acts out as the first episode of the show (no flashbacks involved), that some kind of explanation for a few things is given: Rose, along with the rest of her friends who she's apparently already known at this point, move into the academy, and a proper enough introduction to the series villain Wranglum is shown. Though it should be obvious by now that this wasn't deliberate, the show's major TroubledProduction caused for the show's episode order to be incredibly messed up. The official english release actually airs them in the intended order, with proper first episode.

** Season 1's animation was rough due to TroubledProduction. Season 2 was much more polished. This is even more this trope, as all the episodes were produced at the same time, so this would've been done after season 1 was aired.
** The original English dub was very poor. When the series was eventually released in English properly in Singapore, it was with a much improved dub.
** The episodes being aired out of order was a source of confusion. The Singapore airing restores them to the proper order.

* LostInMediasRes: The show ''immediately'' thrusts you into this magical academy attended by colorful equine friends who already know each other (the main one of which is only shown in the ThemeTune to be a new student in such), and a weird tree creature trapped inside a mirror with his bat assistant trying to take over said academy... for 13 episodes. The first episode is about Bella accidently eating one of her friends' cupcakes, much to the confusion of so many people who were just starting the show. It isn't until the ''second season'', the first episode of which acts out as the first episode of the show (no flashbacks involved), that some kind of explanation for a few things is given: Rose, along with the rest of her friends who she's apparently already known at this point, move into the academy, and a proper enough introduction to the series villain Wranglum is shown. Though it should be obvious by now that this wasn't deliberate, the show's major TroubledProduction caused for the show's episode order to be incredibly messed up. The official english release actually airs them in the intended order, with proper first episode.

* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: Due to being the first dub we ever officially got, plus the voices generally being better (namely Wranglum's), people vastly preferred the Italian dub to the English version simply based on the latter's ''[[https://vimeo.com/359568880 trailer]]''. People weren't fond of the older English trailers either. Those that have grown accustomed to the Italian dub dreaded the day we ever got a full English version, especially with ''those'' voices. Turns out they might have been justified, as the actual English version ended up sounding a lot more like a poor placeholder, with missing lines and unenthused voices, making it sound very unprofessional.