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On its own, the premise is fairly simple: it's the My Little Pony characters, except they're alternate universe humans in high school who go on magical girl adventures. Well, there's also one unique major character, Sunset Shimmer, a former villain who comes from the pony dimension. Things get surprisingly convoluted if you include other crossover characters from the pony dimension, and try to figure out the timeline and everything, but this web series should be pretty self contained.
The Equestria Girls spinoff first appeared back in 2013 as a direct to video movie (that got some theatrical screenings). It was aimed at a slightly older audience than the main TV show, tween girls, and proved to be a big hit with them; less so with adult men at first, who found the high school setting unappealing, but it grew on many of them. As a result, it has gotten a movie every year until this one, when it instead got three TV specials. People were expecting a series ever since the very first movie, so this is a big case of "what took so long?" The answer probably lies with Hasbro finding some success with their other YouTube animated series, Hanazuki, and the upcoming reboot of the doll toyline.
This web series is made up of shorts of varying length. It's unclear what exactly that means, but it's safe to assume that some shorts will be less than 5 minutes, like previous Equestria Girls shorts, while others will be in the 11 minute range, like Hanazuki.
Note that discussion for this series is expected to remain in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic OT. This is just intended to announce the series.
(Already has all this written out last week)
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