Talk:My Little Pony Friendship is Magic/@comment-9250155-20131007205455/@comment-4531340-20131007231538

Well, actually, DBZ was 291 episodes; it's just that because of the butchered English dub for the first 53 episodes (that run was 67 in Japan), the count was reduced to 276 (though later restored to 291 in DVD releases).

And for Pokemon, I'm pretty sure that Japan only discounts the presence of the Porygon episode; any of the other skipped episodes can be traced back to the English dubbers (first 4Kids, and then TPCI), since all the versions of the show outside of Japan (with the exception of the Korean dub, I believe) are based on the English dub of the show, rather than the Japanese original (so that's why you see the Pokemon Theme and its English successors dubbed into many different languages, rather than Mesaze Pokemon Master, the original Japanese theme, and the rest of the Japanese openings, as well as the original closing themes, haha). Wow, did I just ramble on on an unrelated topic? Probably.

But I digress; while it would be nice to kind of see ponies become a cultural institution like The Simpsons here in the US, or Saeze-san in Japan (which has been airing new episodes in Japan since 1969 - that's 44 years), I also think it would be better to have a satisfying conclusion to the show, so we never have to do that thing of "Oh, seasons 1-4 are pretty good, 5 and 6 are meh, 7's pretty good, skip season 8 at all costs, etc, etc".