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Strawberry Shortcake

From: Strawberry Shortcake(2009)

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To be completely honest, I like everybody quite a lot...except Honey Pie Pony. No shade to anyone who likes her! She just got on my nerves in the earlier episodes (especially the one where she got an injury and was bossing everyone around) and never did anything after that to change my opinion of her.

Like, Peppermint Fizz acts like a jerk quite often, but she's also written very sympathetically. To me, she reads as a kid who assumes (possibly based on some past experience before moving to Strawberryland) that social interactions are based on hierarchy and being "better" than everyone else, and it takes a while for it to sink in that the other kids really do want to be her friends, no strings attached. Once she realizes that, she becomes far happier and more genuine, albeit still a bit insecure, and her earnest participation in the friend group is quite endearing.

strawberry shortcake runs a baking-focused social media account and is the proud owner of several dozen pinterest boards with an ungodly amount of pins. she crochets her own clothes and liked the lirika matoshi strawberry dress before it was cool (she cannot afford it and would not have a good opportunity to wear it, but she dreams nevertheless). she plays minecraft with all the mizuno 16 packs. actually goes outside.

blueberry muffin is a book smart 'honors student' type, and is well-versed in classic literature. she also stays up way too late on ao3. she got onto the internet when she was way too young and was the type to very innocently warn her friends not to search up whatever horrors she saw (only for them to search up the horrors). she's spent way too much money on gacha games, but she tends to her garden to 'touch grass' and balance that out. she also thinks about stealing her neighbour's fruit, but don't tell anyone about that.

orange blossom got into art because she was super obsessed with minecraft animations as a kid and learned how to draw in the hopes of becoming an animator one day. she holds very strong opinions about bevelled minecraft character rigs, and is mildly tired of people irl constantly referring to her art as 'anime'. she travelled around europe in her early childhood but remembers absolutely nothing of it (this makes her so sad. she wants to go back one day to appreciate the art museums and architecture). she taught strawberry how to crochet and is a huge fan of sustainable fashion. she dabbles in pottery.

angel cake comes across as a rather straight-laced and sensible young lady- she sleeps at a reasonable time, does yoga, balances her duties and social life, stays hydrated, and performs well academically (she likes math). however she is hopelessly addicted to online drama. she doesn't necessarily participate unless she's feeling particularly spicy, and while her heart is in the right place, she is often overcome with the very human desire to Dunk. she follows the conversation intensely and knows all the who-did-whats and who-you-should-avoids.

plum puddin is genderfluid (she/they/he) and a biochem/genetics/microbio stem girlie. she's mildly snarky and 100% down to play the part of the mad scientist with wildly flexible morals. she likes to dance and watch video essays about queer sociology and feminist theory. they're online friends with tn honey but when they talk about her irl they refer to her as their 'overseas colleague'. they taught blueberry how pirate stuff off the internet when they were younger and she used that power to make anime amvs. he could probably stand to pop a multivitamin.

lemon meringue is a mildly successful fashion blogger who uses her platform for political activism- queer rights, climate justice, decolonisation, etc. most of her clothes are thrifted or handmade and she is disgusted at quite a few of her private school peers who buy things from shein. she's dating her childhood friend raspberry torte and has the privilege of being passenger princess when she misses her train.

Everyone else felt just as bland. I love what they did with Strawberry herself to hell and back. But everyone else really blends in with one another. Like, they took the model for Strawberry, recolored her and made a few tweaks to the model. Sometimes I can't tell who's who just by looking at a picture from far away. To be fair, the same can kind of be said for previous shows at times. But BBA is the strongest example of this