Talk:Love Is In Bloom/International versions/@comment-15629929-20140520200505/@comment-5288784-20140522091139

"the Japanese dub is the only international dub I follow"

I'm hardly surprised. I guess this is the most followed international dubbing among people, whose primary language is English (for other languages speakers, I would guess it would be placed second after native language if it exist, especially if it's good).

It owes a lot to the fact, that USA and Japan are two biggest cartoon exporters; if you watch a randomly chosen cartoon on TV that's not from from North America, then it's probably from Japan (I guess the third spot would go to cartoons from your country). The hype created by fan sites also helped a lot, even going as far as to spotlight new episodes every week (which probably no other dubbing could hope for) – and that's even before it was proven to be good, so if it turned out to be awful, other languages good dubbings would surely be requested, and some of them premieres daily (with yearly gaps between seasons, of course)! On the contrary, a similar attempt of creating weekly posts on one particular Polish MLP blog have been met with criticism. The visitors didn't feel any other language beside English (the original) and Polish (native) deserved so much attention, so only few first episodes got their own posts. Instead, from time to time there are posts (written by Pluszcz) that spotlight entire dubbings as a whole, pointing out specific interesting moments both good and bad. I think I got a little derailed.

Anyway, while I can see why this dubbing is favored in general, I don't think there is a need for its special treatment. It's a wiki, and wikis should be as objective as possible. I think I'm fine with leaving the subtitled song here (those are official, after all) with optional note (subtitles only) and putting it with "Other languages". Or… I would be also fine, (well, much more than just fine) with completely revamping those pages for something like this. Maybe it would be a little over the top (I'd like it, though), but it doesn't favor any language over the other.