User blog comment:Right-leftbud/Hello!/@comment-1031724-20170215184337

I am a straight man too and this is one of my favorite shows, for the following reasons:

I also have a tendency to be attracted to shows with a set of female protagonists (provided they're my kind of show, as Winx Club is) due to feeling bad about having misjudged such shows, like Sailor Moon, which I had previously seen when I was younger (and been a little weirded out by Neflite's gory death), until I had a dream that reminded me everything I loved about it, did some research and saw that that view was wrong. (yet a lot of people seemed to not learn from Sailor Moon OR MLP, and I bet if Glitter Force becomes known people will hate it for the same reason) Doesn't mean I don't like the shows with mostly male protagonists as well, or half and half like Inuyasha, I just don't judge based on the protagonists' gender
 * 1) I really like Bloom and Stella. They're really cool and I also find them really attractive (in a clean way of course), Bloom being one of the two characters who directly led me to Winx Club, on the DVD case at the video store.
 * 2) Favorite villains: Darkar, Duman, Gantlos, and Valtor. (Darkar being the other character that led me to the show coz his name sounds cool and he's the first main villain to die)
 * 3) On that note, this show isn't afraid to kill the main villains (aside from the Trix) like many shows today are. Darkar, Valtor, and Duman for sure, and I'm pretty sure Ogron, Anagan, and Gantlos fell to their deaths after being frozen. And since Season 4 was the end of the Cinelume dub nothing can say otherwise for that universe. It just seems the more climactic ending and shows that it doesn't try to be too childish.
 * 4) The references to stuff like Sailor Moon, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings
 * 5) There's a leprechaun

Note: When I say Winx Club is one of my favorite shows, I'm referring to the Cinelume dub. It does the voices right, and it has the only seasons I care for, 1-4. 4Kids doesn't have Season 4, and Nick ruins the voices, plus I've heard nothing but bad about Seasons 5 and 6 (which are Nick-exclusive), that they were childish and full of plot holes. ("Remember back in Season 1 when it actually had a story?" or "Compare this to Season 6!")

I wish it was more popular. People reject it for the stupidest of reasons