MLP is a tricky borderline case but at the moment I'm excluding it because the canon forms in the show are mostly not of real animals. They are 'ponies' and if they were just ponies it would be furry but there are also dragons, unicorns, pegasus etc which are not anthro because they have no non-anthro form in our world. So I think it's probably better to lump the non-special ponies with those characters.
That canon feature is why excluding MLP doesn't affect as much as you think. Watership Down, Lady and the Tramp and Bambi all have characters that have a non-anthro version in our world. That's what's lacking for unicorns, pegasus and dragons. The majority of the things in MLP are completely fictional. Because they are fictional they haven't been anthropomorphised.
If you really wanted to disagree with that then perhaps argue that the original conception of a dragon or unicorn will act as the non-anthro form and then MLP dragons and unicorns are anthro with respect to that. That would be discussion that could move the definition forward. Just saying ponies are anthropomorphised is not helpful because in the main characters only Applejack and Pinkie Pie are ponies with real world equivalents. That's 2/7 of the main characters that are furry.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
MLP is a tricky borderline case but at the moment I'm excluding it because the canon forms in the show are mostly not of real animals. They are 'ponies' and if they were just ponies it would be furry but there are also dragons, unicorns, pegasus etc which are not anthro because they have no non-anthro form in our world. So I think it's probably better to lump the non-special ponies with those characters.
That canon feature is why excluding MLP doesn't affect as much as you think. Watership Down, Lady and the Tramp and Bambi all have characters that have a non-anthro version in our world. That's what's lacking for unicorns, pegasus and dragons. The majority of the things in MLP are completely fictional. Because they are fictional they haven't been anthropomorphised.
If you really wanted to disagree with that then perhaps argue that the original conception of a dragon or unicorn will act as the non-anthro form and then MLP dragons and unicorns are anthro with respect to that. That would be discussion that could move the definition forward. Just saying ponies are anthropomorphised is not helpful because in the main characters only Applejack and Pinkie Pie are ponies with real world equivalents. That's 2/7 of the main characters that are furry.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~