I'm sorry soleron but no. No adult should view the show as having good character development. Give me an example of some character development from it that isn't a simple tale you would teach your children like 'Being yourself is the most important thing, don't worry about what other people think'
Catchy music yea fine but so is Hannah Montana.
Fan art surely this is separate from the show. I don't see how it influences you to like the show.
Animation puts the rest of the industry to shame..... simply no. Only if you for some strange reason you decided to completely ignore Japanese output. Even just compared to other Western cartoons I would say it is very good but not the best. It has very simplistic character design and very simple animation with not a lot of nuances etc. Even if we say good animation I don't think that's a reason for a grown man to like a young girls tv show.
I mean people forget that MLP:FIM is basically 4chan trolling the internet. The entire like for the show was simply created to annoy someone who wrote a not really controversial piece about how cartoons were moving back to be based on franchises, toys etc. Parts of 4chan decided to like it to annoy him and when other people disliked it to, hey presto! It is the strangest thing, it has to be 4chan's greatest joke on the internet yet.
It's a good cartoon for young girls but that's about it. It keeps the simplistic jokes, simple moral messages, bright simple animation, very safe comedy etc of the industry.







