Talk:My Little Pony Friendship is Magic/International edits/@comment-181516-20140329033717/@comment-5288784-20140329094539

Well, Japan air their episodes weekly, so they won't run out of episodes anyway, even if they start right now - not before the end of S4. 13 weeks from now Poland might be in its fourth season (those are at least current plans), and previously we aired new episodes daily. If they wanted to, Japan could show S3 now and still go into S4 right away.

The theory, which seems quite probable is that they want to show another 13 episodes of S1-2 now, so it would add up to another 52 with S3 and S4 - which is approximately another full year.