Sailor Moon (1992)

Creator(s): Naoko Takeuchi
Air Dates: March 7th, 1992 - February 8th 1997 (Japanese); 1995 -1997 (English dub)
Seasons: 5
Episodes: 200
(source)

Sailor Moon is a magical girl anime about young girls that gain magical abilities (an cool costumes) and fight villains and monsters. It started out as a manga written by Naoko Takeuchi, and was given an anime that ran alongside it. I will be using the English names, with the Japanese names in parenthesis in this blog. I will mostly be talking about the original anime because I haven't seen the new Sailor Moon Crystal yet.

Sailor Moon is about a young schoolgirl named Serena (Usagi), who was just going about who normal life when a strange talking black cat named Luna. The cat gives her a locket that allows her to transform into Sailor Moon, and her job is to fight evil and find the Moon Princess and the Silver Crystal. She soon meets other girls who join her and become Sailor Scouts (Sailor Senshi), and she later meets Luna's partner Artemis. They also have an ally in Tuxedo Mask, a mysterious man who helps them out whenever they need help during battle.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010)

Creator(s): Lauren Faust/Hasbro, Inc.
Air Dates: October 10, 2010
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 119 (plus 24 more to come)
(no source since I know this stuff off the top of my head)

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a part of the fourth generation of the My Little Pony franchise. With the success of the Transformers movies, Hasbro wanted to revamp some of their other properties. So, Lauren Faust was hired to develop the new My Little Pony cartoon.