Harmony Unleashed: Equestria Campus Supremacy

*Consulting Directors:*
 Robert Cullen (S3-S5)
 Masahiko Otsuka (S3-S5)

*Supervising Directors:*
Hiroyuki Imaishi (S1A/S3-3 [collaborative])
 Atsushi Nishigori (S1B-S2B)
 Jayson Thiessen (S1)
 Rob Renzetti (S2)
 Asaph Fipke (S3-S5)
 Akira Amemiya (S3-S5)

*Producers:*
Devon Cody (S1-S3)
 Kimberly Small (S3B-S5)
 Peter Lewis (S3-S5)
 Aaron Baiers (S3B-S5)

 Hiroe Tsukamoto
 Sawako Furuya (S4-S5)

*Animation:*
 Rui Kuroki
 Masahiko Otsuka
 Ben Kalina
 Anne Tweedy (S3-S5)
 Winnie Chaffee (S3-S5)

## Chronology

### Successor

The Crusadin' Years: A Harmony Unleashed: Equestria Campus Supremacy Story  (sequel spin-off)
 Harmony Unleashed: Equestria Campus Genesis Edge  (direct sequel)

***Harmony Unleashed: Equestria Campus Supremacy*** (ハーモニーアンリーシュド エクエストリアキャンパススプレマシー, Hāmonīanrīshudo: ekuesutoriakyanpasusupuremashī) is an American-Japanese animated television series produced by Hasbro Studios, DHX Media, Aniplex, and Hollowfox Television Animation, with animation provided by Titmouse, Trigger and Production I.G.

The show is a spin-off of the Anthro Bunraku animated series based on the Equestria Girls universe taking place in an alternate reality that diverges a bit from the original source material and it shares the same universe as the Anthro Bunraku universe, as part of the Hasbro/Hollowfox Humanoidverse. The series is developed by Aaron Montalvo and Greg Weisman and it started on April 3, 2015, with a 115-minute full-length pilot telefilm on AM-Pony (and a Japanese theatrical release in May 2nd, 2014) alongside the Anthro Bunraku series finale films and a series premiere set to release in June 19 of the same year with an order of 26 episodes. The series ran for five seasons from June 19, 2015 to January 22, 2021.

The Japanese version is set to release the same day as North America as it is produced by Aniplex, Kadokawa, Bushiroad, and Takara Tomy and it will air on TV Tokyo, AT-X, BS Japan, and TV Aichi. The dub will also stream on Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, and Crunchyroll as co-licensed by Aniplex of America, which it also involves in the English version with both the TV Voicebox dub and the Streaming Bang Zoom! Dub.

The series is rated TV-MA for pervasive language, strong violence, sexual themes, and mature situations.

Amid the end of the series, a spin-off starring the Young Six and Cutie Mark crusaders, named The Crusadin' Years, will be airing on Montalvo Allspark in October 8, 2021. Alongside the spin-off, two sequel series, one based on the children of the characters and other based on My Little Pony's fifth generation (which is connected to Generation Four) is in the works, knowing to name Equestria Campus Supremacy the first installment of the Humanoidverse's Equestria Campus Saga.

## About the Show

Due to the success of the Anthro Bunraku/Equestria Girls crossover mini-series, Hollowfox Entertainment and Hasbro Studios talked about a spin-off to the Anthro Bunraku series in the Equestria Girls Universe with the same crew that worked on the Anthro Bunraku animated series. Production I.G's Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and Arad Production's Avi Arad (who is also chairman of the American Production I.G branch) proposed Trigger X Titmouse to collaborate with them. Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci will be involved in the staff as writers and executive producers alongside Montalvo, Weisman and Arad. During development, Montalvo thought that Kurtzman and Orci's friendship died when they split up in the film industry, but Orci helped him realize that they are keeping their friendship alive by working together on TV shows such as Matador, Hawaii Five-O and Sleepy Hollow. Which the latter was his older brother's favorite show according to Montalvo, and he is glad that their friendship didn't die at all.

Montalvo described the series as an "parallel universe" similar to Anthro Bunraku in the Equestria Girls universe due to the idea of Applejack and Rainbow Dash being genderswapped in terms of subtle pairing situations and as a solution to Flash Sentry and Sunset Shimmer's reinstated relationship in the series, unlike in the official Equestria Girls spin-off film series universe. Montalvo stated: "Like in the Anthro Bunraku media franchise, We decided to make it realistic, even though the setting based on Equestria Girls is very stereotypical for bronies who, no offense, are contradicting themselves if they liked Kill la Kill for its dystopian High School setting done right in a crazy way or Adventure Time for its romantic episodes that the next episode isn't a continuity of another and have realistic character and/or romantic development." The genderbent of Dash and Jack, could be the same reason as for the development of the Anthro Bunraku comic book and HPCS series due to his fear about homophobic bronies and their statement about Rainbow Dash not being a lesbian, canon or not.

Bang Zoom! Entertainment co-operates for the post production of the series alongside Voicebox Productions, and announced to have a different english dub exclusively for streaming services like Hulu and Netflix (also releasing the television dub uncensored) with Tara Strong, John De Lancie, Eric Bauza, Aaron Montalvo and other American/American-Canadian Voice Actors keeping their roles while it will include a new cast that consisted voice actors reprising roles from shows from Harmony Unleashed produced by either Studiopolis, NYAV Post or Bang Zoom! Studios.

Montalvo describes the series as:

*"Gintama meets Young Justice in terms of action comedies, Persona 4 meets Digimon Frontier in terms of romance, friendship and super powers, All meets Equestria Girls in terms of having an alternate reality with different writing, themes and pacing than the ones Bronies tend to lose faith in humanity for."*

After Season 1's production ended, Joss Whedon left the series to work on his own projects. Later in September, Hiroyuki Imaishi stepped down from his position as supervising director alongside Thiessen, while remaining consulting director and CG supervisor for Sanzigen, for the show after Episode 13, his reason is because of the untitled anime Imaishi works for Trigger as part of the Ultra Super Anime Time block airing on Tokyo MX in Japan. (Nope, Kiznaiver doesn't count. It is later revealed as Space Patrol Luluco) Gurren Lagann character designer and Idolmaster anime director Atsushi Nishigori will take Imaishi's place starting on episode 14 while he still remains as chief animator.

As of November 28, 2015, Jayson Thiessen stepped down as supervising director months after production ended and the season finale of Friendship Is Magic to work on the 2017 My Little Pony movie for Lionsgate and Hasbro Studios. Thiessen becomes executive creative consultant. As of Season 2, Atsushi Nishigori and Rob Renzetti become supervising directors with Rebecca Sugar to be the show's executive story editors for Season 2 and beyond. Sugar will temporarily work with the crew as she dedicated to develop characters and relationships on the show in both Steven Universe and the show. Renzetti takes Thiessen's place as executive producer and Rough Draft Studio will co-operate with Top Draw.

After the crew's re-position, The series has been renewed for a second season after the "Twilight/Sunset Double Episode" shift on AMPony. Montalvo explained how the series is renewed for another season as a way to "pull out the middlefinger" to executives who cancel every single show made by Weisman. Renzetti claimed that his position as director for a mature-audienced cartoon, it was his second try after working on Gravity Falls after Weirdmageddon and his directing works on Family Guy. Montalvo claims that they will try to take control of his work with Weisman, just like the latter takes control of his "Rain of the Ghosts" novels.

Due to Hasbro's acquiring of Irish animation studio Boulder Media on July 2016, they will take part on future seasons, including the movies and specials.

After Season 2 ended and the production for the miniseason "Siege on the Crystal District" ended, Renzetti left the series due to his committment on Disney Television Animation's DuckTales reboot and Country Club, but he would promise to remain as consultant alongside Montalvo if he could.

Speculations for a produced miniseason and plans for a third season led to the series been renewed for a third season, with series writer Dan Harmon and Asaph Fipke replacing Renzetti as story editor (for the former, alongside Alex Hirsch and Dan Sterling), supervising director (for the latter) and executive producer (for both) alongside Weisman, Montalvo, Arad, Kurtzman and Orci, with Weisman now acting as executive story editor. Imaishi is set to return as supervising director alongside Fipke with Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja director Shaun Cashman replacing Ishi Rudell as series director while Juno Lee still remaining as series director and Trigger, Titmouse, Production I.G will co-operate with Boulder Media and Rough Draft Studio in place of Top Draw Animation.

In September 2016, David X. Cohen will be contributing to the series as a co-writer and third executive story editor alongside Dan Harmon, Alex Hirsch and Greg Weisman.

On November 7, 2016, due to the announcement of Young Justice's long-hoped renewal for a third season by Warner Bros. Animation, Weisman stepped down as executive producer and story editor after writing a few episodes for next year's miniseason "Siege on the Crystal District", season three and the planned feature film's story likely due to his return to commitment towards the former show. However, he will stay in touch as story editor consultant and partially a writer in a few episodes.

The third season will have its first half premiered in 2017 alongside the miniseason, which the latter will air on the first weekend of January as a full hour 3-night event. Its second half premiered in July 2017 for a few weekends with the exception of the season finale, which it is set for a January 2018 airing. DHX Media member Kimberly Small will produce the series and Shu Nishimoto will be replacing Goto as executive producer due to the latter promoted for a role at Aniplex Japan.

The series is now expanded for yet another season as the series is now planned for six seasons. Roberto Orci, is announced to step down as executive producer to work on Transformers: CrossAnthrophy, However, Alex Kurtzman is still involved as an executive producer and writer and his production company, Secret Hideout will be producing the series starting with the season 3 finale in 2018. Aaron Baiers will be involved as a producer alongside Small, Bland and Tsukamoto.

Prior to the season finale, due to alleged sexual harassment accusations, episode writer Andrew Kreisberg is considered suspended after his accusation. Montalvo and Harmon expressed disappointment towards the news. A year later, sexual harassment allegations against Vic Mignogna has been surfaced and had agreements in public opinion to go against him, and because of this, Mignogna was replaced by Griffin Burns for the Aniplex dub as Flash Sentry's new voice. Despite this, Montalvo agrees with the allegations being false.

In 2020, a sequel series and a spin-off series have been teased through social media alongside the details for the final miniseason "Age of Darkness" and an epilogue film. It has been later confirmed.

### Differences from Equestria Girls

* + Female characters like Applejack and Rainbow Dash are genderswapped, as similar to Anthro Bunraku. Reasons were because of people's overwhelming distaste over Yaoi and Yuri on the internet, while being mistakenly compared to Shonen-ai and Shojo-ai.
	+ Spike are two separate species, Human and Dog, the former specie is a teenager being around the same age as the Mane 9, while the latter is Spike's pet instead of Twilight's.
	+ Twilight Sparkle is born in this universe, except she won't be studying at Crystal Prep Academy, nor won't be a deuteroganist/antagonist as she was in Friendship Games.
	+ The universe is bigger than the Equestria Girls one. As similar to any country in the world.
	+ Wizardry is allowed in the country of Equestrian States and other countries besides it.
	+ As similar to Steven Universe and Young Justice, Character development equality is allowed in the show, as in developing both male and female characters. (That means more character development for Flash Sentry to be more than a love interest)
	+ Cadance will be the president of the Crystal District instead of a dean at Crystal Prep Academy (which is located in the same district).
	+ In Crystal Prep Academy, Abacus Cinch is currently replaced by Fleur De Lis and Fancy Pants as principals. (Cinch will still lead the Shadowbolts Team as rogues)
	+ Friendships will not break over relationship, while vice versa, relationships will not break over friendships. (aka Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer's friendship not being ruined over the latter's love for Flash Sentry)
	+ Like Anthro Bunraku: The Animation, The show has adult content as well as mature humor. (Which it could probably save adult animation)
	+ This is the first Greg Weisman-involved show to have Tara Strong voicing an important/main character, as shows like Young Justice had Tara Strong in the background or minor roles or no role at all.

### Premise

Taking place in a parallel universe separate from, but similar to the Equestria Girls universe and shared with the Anthro Bunraku universe (hence a spin-off from the AB series), The new student, Jasper Geronimo, who was a young teenager coming from a hispanic state known as Equinedor (a ponified version of Aaron’s birth home country, Ecuador) enters Canterlot High School and meets new friends who reminds him of the Mane Six. Twilight Sparkle, a smart girl and a studious, friendly and determined person, Applejack, a dependable, honest, hard-working but sometimes stubborn and hotheaded farm boy, Rainbow Blitz, a radical athlete (yet being an anti-jock) and loyal guy, Pinkie Pie, an energetic and hyperactive party-loving, fun-loving and cake-making girl, Rarity, a lady-like fashionista and the generous type, Fluttershy, a sweet and kind girl who cares about animals and the environment, and Spike, Twilight Sparkle’s adoptive brother with a pet as a puppy of the same name and same personality of a clueless, often self-centered, and yet friendly and noble person. As Principal Celestia knows the truth behind the magic, as Jasper found out about its magical powers, she might fear that chaos will affect Canterlot High School because some certain evil found out too, she assembles Jasper and his friends to be the protectors of the Equestrian States. While living everyday lives as normal teenagers and high school students, they are dedicated to use weapons within their magic to defeat evil.

## Cast

### Genderswapped Cast

* [†]The sign says that the VA has been deceased.

## Episodes

Main article: Harmony Unleashed: Equestria Campus Supremacy/Episodes
There will be a total of 26 episodes per season. In SDCC'14 on the Harmony Unleashed Showcase Panel, Montalvo confirmed that the show's project will start in April of 2015 with a movie releasing in North America in the week of Easter/Spring Break and in Japan during Golden Week. In 2015, the crew plans for a miniseason between seasons 2 and 3 and another one to end the series after the fourth season, as a result of five seasons. However, in 2017, it has expanded into yet another season with the fifth planned to be the last and a miniseason after it.

### International Airings

AM-Networks International, with the distribution partnership of Entertainment One, airs the show in many countries with AM-Pony, AM-Atomix and AM-Bushidox in North America, AM-Bushidox in Japan, AM-Spark in North America, AM-Zone in South Asia, AM-97 in Australia, New Zealand, PonyCanal in Latin America and AM-Atomix in all of Europe.

### Streaming

In streaming services worldwide, Hulu, Crunchyroll and AM-Stream simulcast the series, while Netflix releases all episodes per season.

On 2018, due to a controversy regarding an anime-inspired cartoon named "High Guardian Spice", Crunchyroll and Hasbro decided to remove all of the Japanese and English dubs of ECS and Blythe X due to the art style not being anime. However, they made a deal to move the shows to VRV under VRV select, with both languages and both versions of the English Dub with the Aniplex airing.

On the same year until 2022, Netflix streams all seasons of Equestria Campus Supremacy exclusively with HCN+/MontalVue co-streaming the show first since 2019. Since then, Hulu no longer streams the show and Crunchyroll/VRV only streams the Aniplex dub. In 2022, Amazon bought Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after its announcement of both the buyout and the new deal with Montalvo in 2021, and as part of the deal, Netflix removes the series alongside all Humanoidverse content, moving it to Prime Video with future installments being set to stream on Prime Video worldwide.

## Media

### Spin-offs

#### Anime Anthology Series

At Licensing Expo, Hasbro and Aniplex announced three anime spin-off miniseries named "Harmony Unleashed Equestria Campus Supremacy R&R", "Harmony Unleashed Equestria Campus Supremacy DXZ" and "Harmony Unleashed Equestria Campus Supremacy Magicast" set for a Fall 2019 Release on HolCom Networks and later on Netflix and HCN+ under a partnership deal in association with MGM, Allspark Animation and Aniplex of America.

The series will have Atsushi Nishigori as chief director at Trigger, CloverWorks and Production I.G, but both spin-offs will be directed by three directors, Kazuya Murata (Fullmetal Alchemist: Sacred Star of Milos, Code Geass, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet) will direct R&R, while Itsuro Kawasaki (Transformers: CrossAnthrophy, Cardfight Vanguard G) will direct DXZ and Hiroshi Ikehata (Robot Girls Z, Akiba's Trip The Animation) will direct Magicast.

Aaron Montalvo will be an executive producer and creative consultant with Dan Sterling, Erica Rivinoja (The Last Man on Earth), Josh Hamilton, May Chan (Voltron: Legendary Defender, MLP: Friendship is Magic) as story supervisors and James W. Bates (Power Rangers, Sailor Moon) will be an executive story editor alongside Yoji Enokido (FLCL, Bungo Stray Dogs) and Yasuyuki Mutou (Gundam UC, Rolling Girls). Nishigori and Shigeto Koyama will provide character designs as supervisor and will join Asako Nishida (LoveLive!, Active Raid), Masaru Sakamoto (SSSS.Gridman) and Satoshi Kadowaki (Attack on Titan, Seraph of the End) as character designer, Koyama also as art director and Sushio and Chikashi Kubota as animation director. Koichi Hatsumi will be an assistant director and Hiroyuki Imaishi will be a chief supervisor.

#### The Crusadin' Years

A spin-off series animated by Boulder Media and Trigger is in development at eOne Animation and Hollowfox Television Animation set to be aired on Montalvo Allspark. The series will be centered around the Cutie Mark Crusaders and the Young Six in their years in Canterlot High School.

The series will be developed by Aaron Montalvo and Christopher Amick & Ben Mekler, with Mekler and Amick as story editors, showrunners and executive producers. Joining the EPs will be eOne's Haven Alexander and Mike Lombardo, original series developers Aaron Montalvo and Greg Weisman, Arad Productions' Avi Arad and Ari Arad, and Starburns Industries' James A. Fino and Joe Russo II. Co-executive producers will be supervising director Paul O'Flanagan, Hollowfox's Brian Ash, Aniplex's Shu Nishimoto and eOne's Mikiel Houser.

### Comics & Manga

Oni Press will collaborate with Hollowfox Entertainment and Hasbro to publish the comics for Equestria Campus Supremacy. The show's writing crew will collaborate with Joe Kelly from the Man of Action crew and Katie Cook from the MLP comics with illustrations by Rob "Robaato" Porter from the Bravo-chan portion of the Bravoman webcomics by ShiftyLook. The comics will be launched in August 2015.

A seinen manga adaptation illustrated by Atsushi Nishigori and written by Kazuki Nakashima and Aaron Montalvo will be published in Young Ace at Kadokawa Shoten in August 2015 alongside the Japanese version's release. Kadokawa will also translate the Oni Press/Hasbro comic book series. Greg Weisman promised spin-off comics from the series as well as crossovers after the announcement of continuing the Anthro Bunraku series with prequels to a possible sequel and alternate universes by other people (except the animated series' creative team) despite the animated series' ending.

## Music

* Music Composed by: Bear McCreary, Mick Gordon
* Music Supervisor/Executive Producers: Steffan Andrews, William Anderson
* Music Work: Aniplex, Sparks and Shadows
* Music Co-operation: TV Tokyo Music

### Japanese Opening Themes

* Season 1
	+ Opening Theme 1: Precious by ViVID
* Season 2
* Miniseason 1
* Season 3
* Miniseason 2
* Season 4
* Season 5
* Miniseason 3
	+ Opening Theme 1:
	+ Opening Theme 2: Seasons by Alisa Takigawa (from The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of the Commandments)
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