Seven Seas FiM manga- Story discussion (Spoilers)

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Okay, I guess.
Well, since the FiM Manga is being published by a different company, I decided to make this thread to discuss the Seven Seas Manga here, and keep the IDW Comic thread less confusing.
 
Just mark your spoilers, keep it civil, and all that stuff, please.
 
Doctor Hooves and Derpy being a time traveling couple is an ascended fandom meme officially approved by Hasbro now. Wheee.  
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Anonycat
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Okay, I guess.
@E-123  
For the ones wondering, this manga volume includes eight different stories, separated as individual chapters but with some continuity among them.
 
Chapter one: While Twilight is using a magic mirror to contact her alternate self from another dimension, Pinkie Pie secretely tries to use it to contact her own alternate self, but she ends up being lost in an Equestria ravaged by a zombie apocalypse, so a panicked Twilight sends Spike on a series of controled jumps between alternate reallities to try finding and rescuing Pinkie Pie before it’s too late. However, everyone would end up receiving help from two very special ponies from yet another paralel dimension.
 
Chapter two: When a botched spell temporally turns Twilight and Spike into stone just when Celestia is scheduled to drop by to visit Ponyville, Pinkie Pie decides to be Celestia’s host for the day, which turns out being a good thing, since Celestia enjoys a lot Pinkie’s bizarre tour which includes, but it’s not limited to, sharing with Celestia her personal paranoia about how a local mare called Star Dancer might be a pony from outer space.
 
Chapter three: Spike delivers a letter to Rarity, which informs her that Celestia herself is sending a very important dignatary to her boutique to request a custom made formal suit. If the customer is pleased, this might be Rarity’s chance to open a new store at an exclusive location, so she immediately asks Spike and Sweetie Belle to spruce up her store to receive this super special customer in an extravagant way. Problem is, the customer turns out to be the Smooze.
 
Chapter four: It’s Ponyville’s Critter Appreciation Day, so Mayor Mare has appointed Fluttershy to give the keynote speech, being the town’s expert at all. Problem is, the idea of having the entire town’s attention focused on her triggers Fluttershy’s scenic panic on high gear and so she locks herself in her shed, and her friends’s attempts to convince her to leave and deliver her speech only make her fears worse and worse.
 
Chapter Five: It’s the Apple Family’s Zap Apple Jam Extraordinarie, an event where they sell their finest apple-based products to an expecting Ponyville. Problem is, the Flim and Flam Brothers drop by with an exotic fruit festival of their own to snatch their customers away, and things take a turn for the worse when one of the brother’s exotic fruits turns out to be more than what the brothers thought in the first place.
 
Chapter Six: It’s Ponyville’s annual Flea Market, an event full of stands offering the weirdest items for sale, but everyone shudder in terror when Derpy drops by and her clumsiness makes her start destroying goods and stands, so a guilty Derpy tries asking Zecora for a good luck charm that could help her with her clumsiness so she wouldn’t annoy other ponies anymore. Of course, Derpy ends up finding and picking a cursed wish granting dragon claw, which Zecora was keeping hidden and urges Derpy to not use, because while the dragon claw really grants wishes, the price to pay for them is very, very high. Problem, is, Zecora’s warning arrives too late as Derpy casually comments she wishes she could fly like Rainbow Dash.
 
 
Chapter Seven: The CMC use a disguise to sneak in Ponyville’s theather to watch a scary sci-fi movie they really shouldn’t watch. During the film, the girls overhear Pinkie Pie and Star Dancer (remember her?) discussion about how Star Dancer might be a space pony, and between that and the scary movie, the girls fear that Star Dancer might be a real space pony preparing the way for an alien invasion, so they decide to tail her to learn the truth about her, without knowing that Star Dancer has some real secrets of her own.
 
Chapter Eight: Discord overhears a conversation between Twilight and Pinkie Pie about how everything looks different than usual (because they are in a Manga) so he decides to use his reality altering powers to make things funnier by turning Equestria into a real high school-esque anime pastiche that uses all kind of clichés and shoutouts from popular animes. Meanwhile, and as far Twilight and company are concerned, their world always has been an Anime pastiche like that, including the part about a legendary heroine fated to one day show up just in time to save everyone from a giant beast.
 
The manga looks and reads wonderfully, as the art is gorgeous and the stories are fun and concise- the problems seen on practically all of IDWs comics are nowhere to be seen here.
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I’ve only read the first two chapters, but what I’ve seen so far impressed me enough that I ordered it. I very rarely buy the official books anymore.
 
Where was this manga years ago when the show was young?
Anonycat
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Okay, I guess.
@kleptomage  
If this manga had appeared during 2012, everyone would have lost their heads about it becuse it’s exactly what everyone wanted back then. If weren’t for Spike’s wings and The Smooze, this manga could have perfectly passed as another set of S02 stories.
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They also reference cookie zombies from 28 Pranks Later, which i’d normally that consider a strike against it, but that’s just personal pettiness rather than an actual criticism, especially since it’s actually funny here :p
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I’m going to say no.
 
Anyway, the manga came today and I finished reading it. This manga is a treat: great art, concise storytelling, and good humor. This blows anything IDW has done recently out of the water.
 
It is disappointing that we have to wait until next year to get volume 2 but, you know, it’s eight chapters of about 20 pages each and a regular issue of the comics is 22 pages. So the manga is like getting eight months worth of comics in one book.
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So are all the current images we have (aside from >>2069099) from issue #1? I want to create a tag for each issue like we have for the IDW comics. Probably just spoiler:g4manga1, spoiler:g4manga2, etc.which imply spoiler:manga
Ardashir
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This manga sounds amazing, it really does.
 
And Discord doing classic manga cliches with the ponies, well thankfully he didn’t decide to use a manga like Berserk or Devilman!
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We now have several relevant tags for managing these:
 
spoiler:manga (implies Seven Seas and My Little Pony: The Manga)  
spoiler:manga1 (implies the above plus spoiler:manga)  
Spoiler:manga2 (same)  
Seven Seas (equivalent to the IDW tag)  
My Little Pony: The Manga (implies Seven Seas)
 
So if uploading you really only need to tag spoiler:manga1 or spoiler:manga2 and it will apply all the other tags automatically.
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You something weird about Derpy in the Dash story? She’s never referred to by name in any moment in that story.
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Good news: I heard a rumor that there will be an MLP anime coming out soon that will be based on the Manga and have the same writers. It will pick up where Season 9 leaves off and will have the regular voice actors doing the voices.
 
Is it true? I don’t know, but this is my theory/somebody told me this could possibly be true. What do you guys think of that?
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Hopefully true, though. I heard it because the Japanese dub of MLP is coming back with Season 3 very soon, so they may be getting ready to finally continue the show themselves once it’s all aired in Japanese. Could be true.
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I think you overestimating and expecting too much with the manga, like considering it as the last salvation of the series, but in reality, the main series of MLP is basically nothing inside of Japan, which proves why the dub only lasted two seasons.
Anonycat
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Okay, I guess.
Well, the second volume is finally out and it was crazy good, but not without some things that might not suit everyone’s taste- the manga abandoned it’s individual chapters format and now dedicates the entire volume to follow s single story about Pinkie Pie dealing with an eternal time loop, but at least the story was good and easy to follow, mostly because it was clearly divided on 4 “acts” and used the just amount of characters instead of dumping a truckload of them.
 
Also, when Doctor Hooves said that Pinkie Pie was a multidimensional constant of time and space trouble, boy he wasn’t kidding- in fact, that makes the backbone of the second volume.
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