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Last year, we reported on a trailer for the second season of Filly Funtasia possibly dropping during 2023. It has now been almost a year and a half since our last post, yet no word has been heard on when exactly Filly Funtasia will be continuing. We're past halfway through the fourth consecutive year with no new episodes, has the show been dropped? Let's go over what we know about the elusive Season 2 (or 3) of Filly Funtasia.
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| With such power, the future promises many things... |
What better way to kick off 2023 in Funtasia Daily than with the first major Filly Funtasia news in a while?
It's been a little over two years since episodes 13-26 released in China. Now, after a long time with little to no news regarding the future of the series, it seems like 2023 will be bringing some answers to the questions left from the first season.
But, before we delve further, a little extra context on Filly Funtasia's history of delayed releases.
In my last post, I talked about the new Filly Magazine releasing in Germany. Since then, more pictures have been shared with me that I would now like to share with you!
More after the break.
In our last post, I briefly wrote about the discontinuation of the Filly Magazine published by Blue Ocean. The magazine ran monthly since 2009 and was the last remainder of classic Filly outside of China. Its last issue was released in October 2021, before it got replaced by the Lissy magazine. Subscribers to the magazine got a letter from Blue Ocean suggesting to switch to a different subscription.
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| Months prior to the discontinuation, Filly Magazine began to be labelled as Großer PONY-Spaß (Great pony fun) as opposed to the usual Filly-specific headlines. |
Two months ago I wrote about Filly Funtasia making its English debut in Singapore. Now it's the turn for two more languages to join the roster of FF dubs.
It's been a while since the last time FuD got to report about anything behind-the-scenes!
Back in 2019, we wrote about a storyboard reel by storyboard artist Estefania Pizarro. The animatic later turned out to be from the then-unreleased episode Art of Magic. The video has since been deleted from the artist's Vimeo, though reuploads exist elsewhere.
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| Rose, Cedric and Bella in Estefania's storyboard and in the final animation. |
Well, aren't these well anticipated news!
For those who have been keeping up with Filly Funtasia news, you might be familiar with the three episodes that were released in English a year ago. Now, with the third anniversary of the show's debut in Italian television just around the corner, we're seeing some exciting news!
Quite some time has passed since the premiere of the second half of Filly Funtasia season 1. During that time, news regarding the show have emerged, some major, some minor, some in-between. In this post, we will list them off.
More news, more Filly!
New episodes of Filly Funtasia are just around the corner, and we're getting more and more new stuff from them. This time we have a sort of a sequel to the previous "season 2" trailer.
This new 30 second long video contains a plethora of short clips from the upcoming episodes, and as far as I can tell, all of them are new - there are no repeating clips from the previous trailer, although some of the clips seem to be taken from the same scenes, giving more context to them.
That said, this trailer is obviously full of spoilers for the upcoming episodes - this time including seemingly pretty major spoilers. Please keep that in mind when you decide whether to watch this trailer or not, and, of course, when you discuss its contents with others. The episodes are premiering in mere days, so should you decide against watching, the wait isn't going to be that long!
Find the trailer below:
It's a Christmas miracle! Another Weibo post by the official Filly Funtasia account has appeared, and this time it brings us an official date, 25th of December, for what it calls the second season of Filly Funtasia. (Which is very likely to be the same episodes that will start airing on Minimax in January but is being called the second half of the first season there.)
Yes, on Christmas Day, the new episodes are coming to iQIYI, a Chinese online video platform. The episodes will likely be split up into 26 half-length episodes like the first episodes were. There's as of yet no word about a television airing in China like for season 1, but last time it took a few months after the episodes became available on iQIYI.
The Weibo post also had this poster for the second season - besides the familiar main characters from the old episodes, we've also got Amor, an Angel Filly. We've already seen another Angel Filly in the season 2 trailer, so it seems like we might see quite a lot more of the Angels in the new episodes!
It seems the new Filly Funtasia episodes are coming to more countries!
We've previously reported that the official Filly Funtasia Weibo account stated that the second season of Filly Funtasia is planned to come in December and that this would likely be the remaining thirteen episodes that were planned for first season. It's December now, and we haven't seen those episodes yet, but we've now gotten more news: Minimax is apparently planning to air "season 1 ep. 14-26"! And unlike the Chinese announcement, this one comes with a specific date: the 27th of January.
We've currently got the air date for two countries - it's stated to be "27 January" in both Serbia and Slovenia.
Yesterday, the official Filly Funtasia account on Weibo made this post:
The post translates to "The second season is coming, wait another month". It seems we can expect season 2 to air in China in December! (Presumably, this is likely the 13 remaining episodes of the originally planned to be 26 episode season 1, which will likely be split up into 26 "half-episodes" just like when the first 13 aired in China.)
It was also accompanied by a trailer, featuring some never before seen scenes! In general, this trailer is some of the most high quality Filly Funtasia footage we've seen so far. Note that the video and the commentary below may contain spoilers for future episodes:
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Hey!
It's October! Time for yet another one of these articles to mark another year since the creation of this obscure little website.
