Tomo and Chiyo

"Hi Tomo! Come on in."

"Hey Chiyo. Is your computer on? There's a tv show I want to show you." Tomo sat down at the computer and started typing. "It's called 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'."

"Tomo, I'm too old for that kind of stuff!" Chiyo said with all the weight of her twelve years.

"Yeah, yeah. That's what I thought at first but you've gotta give it a chance. I heard about it from that group of boys that are really into anime and they're all older than you. Now where's that Japanese sub? Oh, here it is."

Chiyo turned the tv to the computer input and they sat down to watch.

The show was bright and colorful to appeal to young girls. Chiyo liked it immediately and she was relieved to find that the stories and characters were well written so it was okay to like it. Tomo stayed late into the evening and they watched most of the episodes.

"Hey, Twilight's a little nerd just like you!" Tomo laughed.

"Well you're a spaz like Pinkie!"

"And proud of it!" Tomo got up and bounced across the room to get another soda. "Kagura is Rainbow Dash."

"Yeah, and Sakaki's Fluttershy."

"So that makes Yomi Rarity and Osaka Applejack."

"Hmm, she doesn't really like hard work."

"Yeah, but she's got the goofy accent. Hey! We should all dress up and go to the anime convention next weekend!"

"I don't know. Osaka might go but I don't know if we could talk the others into it."

"Sure we can." Tomo's eyes turned watery with emotion. "We'll just tell them what great friends they are and how much we love them!" She grinned wickedly. "You know, guilt!"

Chiyo rolled her eyes but giggled. "You sure have learned a lot from this show."

Meanwhile in Equestria…

"Hi Twilight!"

"Oh, hi Pinkie."

"Hey, you like books so I wanted to show you this one!"

Twilight floated the book over and opened it. "This is just a comic book." She turned the page and giggled. She started turning pages, laughing all the while.

"I know, right? It's sooo funny!" Pinkie bounced around, reading over her shoulder.

"What does 'Azumanga Daioh' mean?"

"Dunno, I thought you might know. And aren't those ponies funny looking?"

"I don't think they're ponies. They're some kind of imaginary creatures, I guess."

"What? Like aliens or something?"

"Maybe."

"Oooh, scaaaary!" She giggled. "No, not really. I'd like to meet some aliens. That would be really fun! Did you notice that there's six of them and six of us?"

"Yeah, that's pretty funny. They're a lot like us."

"Hey! We should have a party and get Rarity to make us some funny uniforms like them! I have some balloons that kind of look like that weird yellow guy."

"Sure, sounds like fun!"