So spring of drowned Pinkie Pie? Because otherwise, I just can't see the mentality change unless the spring had that specific aspect. Since just because it was the spring of drowned pony doesn't mean Ranma still can't be himself.
And then there are people like me still clinging to the MLP series origins.
See, I don't think I can ever really enjoy the original series all that much. Sure, I can respect it and like it to some degree, but whenever I look at Gen 1, I just can't get beyond the designs of how they look. The art style and designs just throw me off.
I was at the Brony panel at Diversicon yesterday. (It felt rather like a support group meeting.) I may or may not go Brony (or Pegasister) but if I do, I find myself strangely attracted to garb not unlike a raging Ursa Minor.
I view myself as a Ponyholic. I am not a Brony or a Pegasis, for I refuse those words, they sound like a plague upon my tongue and make me wretch whenever I try to say them. I am a Ponyholic, for I am Konoko, and I forge my OWN path. The Konoko Way!