User blog comment:KillRoy231/Winx Club Hate Club - Why?/@comment-29197449-20161223182908

The first two complaints seem to be outdated. No one really complains about shows being "too girly" anymore, especially with My Little Pony's fanbase being made up of men in their twenties and thirties more than it is the target demographic, being little girls. Target audiences don't make up the show, series, game, etc. Pokemon still targets its 10yo audience much more, yet its fanbase is made more out of the 10-year-olds that grew up with Pokemon and are currently hitting twenty or are in their thirties. I remember being told by a group of girls in elementary that I wasn't supposed to like Pokemon because "it was for boys," but you know what I did? I told them that it wouldn't matter anyway because I'd still like Pokemon and I started hanging out with the boys more. Slapping labels on things just to say someone else can't like something is pretty dumb. It's like when people call things childish like adults suddenly can't even acknowledge it anymore; it's meaningless and, if anything, it makes that person weaker than those who wouldn't care.

As for the skimpy outfits, they aren't even that bad. Stella's outfit was changed to a less skimpy outfit in S2~3, where she starts wearing her green dress. Same for Musa; she quit sagging to wear a dress-like shirt and full jeans. Anyone who complains about their outfits being "too skimpy" is basically ignoring all the other outfits that aren't.

Honestly, every modern day Magical Girl show is drawing inspiration from Sailor Moon. If anyone's going to knock on Winx Club for being a "rip-off" of Sailor Moon, then they might as well knock on every other Magical Girl series where the creator openly admits to drawing inspiration from Sailor Moon. So goodbye Loli Rock, possibly the entire PreCure franchise, etc.

Bloom being a Mary Sue is actually a big problem. After S4, she's been getting everything she could ever want while all her friends' lives stay stagnant. Bloom gets the chance to resurrect her dead sister but Musa still has to accept her mom being dead. Stella has to deal with her parents never getting remarried while Bloom now has two sets of parents (three if you count Sky's since they'll be married). Heck, I could even count some parts of my favorite seasons where Bloom had more Mary Sue scenes than usual. In S3, Valtor could effortlessly dodge all of the Winx's attacks even after they all earned their Enchantix and yet, every time Bloom would throw an average fireball, Valtor would basically let himself get hit. Then, in S4, all of the Winx and Roxy were basically pushed aside so that Bloom could have some cool fight against Nebula. Then there's the fact that she's engaged to the only prince in the Magic Dimension (as far as we know), is the strongest fairy in the Magic Dimension despite seemingly getting weaker every season, and every season only adds onto her. Listing her defeats don't even matter here. Yeah, she was frozen by Icy, but she could always get out, she was corrupted by Darkar because he, a major villain in the series, was so fixated on her. Though, I'm mostly trying to say that she's become a Mary Sue post-S4. She had some parts where she'd suddenly get special attention but S5 through 7 just shoves Bloom in your face. Being the main character isn't even an excuse.

And who whines about Winx Club being unrealistic?? It's a modern twist on fairies and witches; it can't be realistic!