Fanfic Recommendations: The Next Generation

[Bob Schroeck]

"No, Simmy, no orbital friendship cannons. Where did you even learn about those?"

[Anime!]

"You watch cartoons?" Taylor asked as she started walking towards the park again.

[Not Cartoons. Anime.]

"What's the difference?"

[Exasperation.]

... but the Orbital Friendship Cannon meme is from MLP:FIM, making it explicirtly cortoons, not anime, at least in the context of that kind of conversation. Sure, defeat mens freindship is a long standing anime trope, but the OFC formulation specifically is from the Sonic Rainboom episode.

KYM link

Well, it might originate there, but it's pretty clear it has roots in Lyrical Nanoha as well.

I will note, by the way, that the Simurgh isn't just screwing with people here. She actually built the Orbital Friendship Cannon, and fired it (by Taylor's command) at a raging Lung in a later chapter. One thing we don't find out until then is that the Orbit is around the Moon... and just how deep the beam burns into the earth even from there. (And the effect it has on Lung is hilarious.)

I have to add as a footnote that the story stops abruptly in the middle of its Tournament Arc and hasn't been touched since something like 2018. But until then it is vastly entertaining.