INTERNATIONAL MY LITTLE PONY DUBS: a deep(ish) dive 

Hey! I'm an admin of the Dubbing Database and a huge MLP dub researcher, so much that practically all the MLP: FIM pages on the wiki were supervised and heavily expanded by me. I appreciate so much that you used the wiki as a source! Especially because I'm huge Shunks fan, so wasn't expecting this video, truly. I have toooo much dub knowledge when it comes to ponies, but if you wanted to know anything about what you left out or didn't elaborate on, I have you covered: - As with many TV shows, there are of course 'unauthorized dubs' - essentially, the dubs that Hasbro gave no permission to exist but they do, sometimes because of how loose the copyright system in the country can be. Of the MLP dubs that fall into this category, two big ones are Albanian (the first dub by "Jess"), and the 3 Persian dubs that exist (yes, it is common for one piece of media to receive multiple dubs in Iran specifically). The Albanian dub is infamous for constantly changing characters' names and using unofficial M&E grabbed from random sources, since obviously they can't receive that from Hasbro - the latter is also common within the Persian dubs but especially Persian Toon, who decided it was an amazing idea to use Ren and Stimpy background music during some scenes. - Sometimes related to censorship, some dubs would outright skip episodes or outright seasons of the show. Some even dubbed the show at a random point, like Macedonia and Bosnia randomly jumping to season 3 (which as you can imagine, does tend to cause continuity errors that these dubs do not care about). In the Hebrew dub, the network that originally broadcasted the show (Hop!) was very bad with this, *skipping* season 3 of the show entirely and heading right into season 4 with no explanation as to how Twilight got wings, and they've skipped so many episodes sporadically. - When it comes to the genders of the ponies, as you've said, some dubs have changed some relatively minor characters' genders, and a few even retracted their decisions when the gender of any specific character became more clear to the voice directors. However, it's so important to note the big one: Rainbow Dash and Applejack are **canonically** males in the Macedonian dub. They are referred to with he/him pronouns and both are voiced by male VAs. The reason for this is unknown, but we support trans gay ponies here - Pony dubs are truly a pain when it comes to voice consistency, oh boy. One character can have about 7 voice actors for so many reasons, including discrepancies in voice direction, it's especially bad in the Albanian dub. Though of course these dubs are particularly awful when it comes to the songs. Especially Hungarian, which was notable for being a sloppy dub in its first few seasons, and by the end started hiring random male singers to sing the parts of female characters. Not to say he didn't slay the part There are also some truly weird situations that I can think of, like the Indonesian dub hiring Malaysian singers in the first season to perform all the songs (though they wouldn't change the opening theme itself until seasons later), or the Japanese dub switching over to using South Korean voice talents beginning season 5, which was met with mixed feelings but it ultimately got the job done. - Speaking of Hungarian, Minimax in all of Central and Eastern Europe opted out of airing season 9 of the show, taking the Czech, Romanian, Serbian, and Slovene dubs down with it, as well. Czechia in particular has aired the show on many channels outside of Minimax, but they were just never allowed to air season 9 due to this rule. Despite this, the Czech dub still did dub the season, it's just being gatekept by Hasbro and may possibly not see release until the near future. As well, the TV specials and Pony Life were still allowed to air on the network and be dubbed in these languages just fine. Just S9 was affected. Weird, I know. - A BIG ONE you missed out on explaining are the demo DVDs! In some places of Europe, before the show was being rolled out on TV in many countries, they were selling DVDs of the third episode "The Ticket Master" being dubbed in several languages, as a demo test. They were sold in August 2011, and some dubs ended up took interesting approaches in the finalized version when it came to adapting the show. The voice casts in these demo dubs were different depending on the dub, some voice switches here and there happened, and in a few of them the finalized version is completely different, such as Romanian being dubbed in Bucharest in the demo, while being recorded in Oradea in the finalized version. There were Bulgarian, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian dubs of these demos too, which did not happen with their finalized versions as they produced voice-overs for these languages instead (a brief run down on what that is: imagine the original version but now some monotone man or lady is reading the script in a different language over the footage. Bam, that's a voice-over). - There's a lot of lost media when it comes to MLP dubs too, of course. Like that mysterious Khmer dub where only a low quality recorded clip and some of the first episode ever surfaced online, and the title of the show reads "Ponies Are About Love". Or the Amharic dub... Or the hotly debated Albanian and Macedonian dubs that only tackled season 4 and aired for only merely a month on the kids channel Pikaboo, before being taken off air, while nobody in the community had reported on this, or was even aware of this until it was far too late. - I should also mention that there are a lot of multi-dub situations with MLP, two particularly odd ones: There are two Dutch dubs, the second of which was produced in 2016 and aired for a brief while on JimJam and nowhere else, with the only major difference being that it was produced solely in Netherlands, while the first and main dub was a co-prod between the Netherlands and Belgium. And there are also two Czech dubs, the second is technically a partial redub *of sorts* that aired in 2016, they only dubbed season 6. It was made because at the time Hasbro sent out 3 episodes of season six to various European distributors, and so the main Czech dub only did those 3 episodes and none other in the season, leaving another studio to redub those eps and finish the job for them. Okay, sooo that was a lot to take in, I know, and that's not even talking about G5. I like being a nerd. Hope you or anyone else interested in MLP dubs liked reading up on this! And I enjoyed the video lots! ❤❤

As a native german speaker, the little pony straight up cussing had me rolling on the floor

I like how they barely animated Twilight for the Little Pony TV segments, they just used some stock art and had only her mouth move

Fun fact about the Brazilian Portuguese dub: Rainbow Dash frequently refers to other female characters by calling them "babe". It's to the point where in It's Not The Mane Thing About You (S07E19), when Rarity gets a punk rock new look, Rainbow reacts saying "What a babe!" instead of just saying "Awesome!" like in the original audio. Which is kinda funny to me idk why. Also she wasn't changed to a guy around here, her actress just played her with a somewhat boyish voice. Spitfire was voiced by a man in her first appearance though, but they fixed that later.

I'm Polish. After the scene where Twilight turns into an alicorn the first thing Rarity said was like "You're an alicorn? I didn't know they existed" Even as a kid I was like wtf Rarity. Years later I learnd that it was a translation mistake.

I love how many countries censored or forbid the cider episode while in the Czech dub they literally translate it as apple wine and have no problem with it.

How G4 was handled in Japan in general is incredibly interesting imo. They were still actively running *official* social media accounts for MLP G4 as late as last year in 2022 lol.

The name "Princess universe" goes hard

The Italian version of the 80s MLP doesn't shy away of being this hard.

As a Hungarian child who never knew what Babs Seed's gender was, it was such a shock when I later found out she was a girl!! That was basically a universal experience in Hungary for kids who watched the show, most of us assumed she was a boy for various reasons (for example, throughout my childhood, I assumed she was a boy because of how she was introduced as a bully and I associated that with boys)

Also in the Croatian dub they named Rainbow Dash Duga Jurić. Which would be fine, bc it can translate to fast rainbow, but Jurić is also the name they gave Lightning Mcqueen over here, which kinda makes it funny.

As a Polish person, I love Polish dubbing of MLP:FIM and so far I've seen a lot of polish bronies loved it too. There's youtube channel called "Widzę głosy" in which famous Polish voice actors talk about their roles and there's a few about MLP! I especially love the Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash episodes cause Pinkie's va you can see that she really loves voicing Pinkie and RD va talked about how she once got invited to a small brony convention and one of the fans noticed that in some episode she might have catch a cold cause her voice sounded kinda different. I think it's really cute

The design for Tang Bao (I definitely spelled that wrong) in the Chinese MLP show is really really good. Genuinely looks like a chracter who would be in the show.

My favorite part about the Japanese dub is that Takehito Koyasu voices prince blueblood Aka Dio’s Voice actor

Dubbing Database admin here! Thanks for featuring our Wiki ❤ Don't have much to add to the video, it's pretty well made. I'd mention how some dubs have some crazy lore, like the Japanese dub resuming after years of not airing any episodes... completely changing the cast because it is now recorded in South Korea for no apparent reason, or the Bosnian dub that has such a vague translation for the theme song that it seems like Twilight is singing in first person about loving her hypothetical boyfriend. Cheers!

I'm from Brazil and our dub is really amazing and well-done, unfortunately they changed the VAs on some EG shorts tho, and on the new Pony Life show. It really isn't the same thing Also the woman who voices Twilight here (Bianca Alencar) also voices Mabel from Gravity Falls

One of my favorite facts about the french dub is that " Changeling " was appropriately translated as " Changelins " for the entirety of the series....Except in season 6 for some reason, where they decided to call them.....Impostors...... Also, remember that part from the episode " Flutter Brutter " where Fluttershy says she's peeved and everypony around her is in shock? Well in the french dub, she says " J'ai les boules ", a slang expression that has a similar meaning to being peeved, but literally translates to " having the balls ". Yes, THOSE balls. The french dub of My Little Pony aknowledges the existance of testicles and the fact the mention comes from Fluttershy out of all characters makes the scene even funnier than the original dub in my opinion. Wonder how they got away with that.

The polish dub mentioning murder and satan is a common thing in Eastern Europe. There are a lot of kids storied about demons and gruesome stuff here, so it’s no big deal. Also rainbow dash said “satan” in a way to over exaggerate. Not in like an evil way lol

Damn I was unaware of the German version actually containing vulgar words, I should really rewatch it in German it's gonna be hilarious

Russian dub was probably the most controversial, from really weird word choices via literal translations or some lines literally left untranslated to the characters' names being butchered and translated literally too (Nightmare Moon's name was literally said twice in that scene where Twilight calls her out as the Mare on the Moon, that was just glorious). It was so bad that one of the voice actresses actually agreed to re-record her lines for the first several episodes, but the studio declined this version and it's only available online. If I remember correctly fans even faked (?) a TV channel hijack with a parody dub over a very gruesome and infamous scene of a man hanging himself, alongside another one with a creepy Pinkie doll. So yeah, people were pretty unhappy...

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That's it. I'm calling Discord Disorderly from now on. I really love it when dubs get creative with jokes that wouldn't work if it was literally translated, like that old French one. ... And then there's Turkish that translates everything literally and loses all sense.

As someone from Mexico (where Latin-American dubbing was done and consumed) I can add a few things. 3:02 In my country dubbing is usually kind of a serious matter (even the fans sometimes take it way more seriously than they should), but in general, my country puts a lot of effort in the dubbing, for what I have observed, the acting is rarely bad and if a dubbing is bad it's usually because of the translation, so having big names in it makes sense, and I'm thankful for it, because I love this dubbing, from MLP and in general. 3:07 Interestinglly, the voice she originally had in the dubbing pilot was from the VA Elsa Covián who in the final product voices Rarity, this was for having continuty from the G3.5 and also the reason why in said pilot Rainbow Dash has the voice of Fluttershy from Maggie Vera, who aslo directs the dubbing of the series itself. 3:11 I don't think there were a better voice actress in this whole country that fit the character better than Meli G, so changing the voices from the pilot was definitively the best idea. 3:51 I can gurantee you that in real life Melissa, at one point in her life, sang "Dale, dale, dale" even before G3 came out, it's THE song that sort of HAVE TO be sang when hitting a pinata in a party. 7:30 Well yeah, basically tonto = fool, "estupido" (the corresct translation) sound too harsh here. Other curious stuff I can add: - The voice of the parents of Twilight are from the real life parents of her actrees, Carla Castañeda. - In epidodes from 14 to 21 Twilight changes voice, and is never changed again, nor the episodes were re-dubbed. - All of the Mane 6 keep their respective voice actress when they sing. - Every EG short since "I'm on a Yatch" was never dubbed in latin-american spanish, I read once that it's told that they were in fact dubbed, but never released. - Altought I'm not the intented audience (at this point, it shouldn't something new to me), I really liked the European Spanish dubbing, and it's sadly is incomplete, the season 7 and 9 are simply not dubbed, and apparently the European Portuguese also lacks season 8 and 9 apparently (I thought it was also 7, check the response of this comment)

10:41 That intro is actually fan-made. It was uploaded on Equestria Daily as a troll back in 2014. Japan wouldn’t actually dub the third season of MLP until 2019.

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Speaking of Croatian dub and making some characters male, I remember that happening in Polish dub to Spitfire in the original Grand Galloping Gala episode, if I remember correctly. I was surprised as a kid, because Spitfire had a mare model and had a voice of a stallion. That was fixed in another appearances of Wonder Bolts, but that led me to believe for years that Spitfire was a femboy.

The Piñata song is such a huge part of birthdays in latino america and some heavily Hispanic places here in the US! Seeing English dub Pinke sing "Dale dale dale! No pierdas el tino, porqué sí lo pierdes, pierdes el camino!" Was SUCH a huge joy to hear. I remember showing it to my family :)

9:15 The polish reference to Satan in that wonderbolts line is a common expression, saying someone is a Satan at something just means that they're extremely good at it

12:48 GRANDPA CHINESE DRAGON DISORDERLY 💀

wait i wanna watch the german dub now, watching cozy shout "ARE YOU SHITTING ME" was probably the best thing i've seen come out of season 9

Apparently in Japan, the series went on a hiatus after season 2 which lasted until 2019. When it continued with season 3 onward, it was dubbed by a different company.

The arabic version (spacetoon) changes the title name from my little pony friendship is magic to my little pony friendship is awesome cause magic is forbidden in islam. the Arabic CN version is still the same as the original english one i think

Hi i just wanted to share how much i LOVE Discord's voice in the Polish dub. It's equally as good as, if not - dare i say - arguably better than the original. For anyone slightly curious please go check out the first scenes he appears in. He sounds fantastic fr

wonderful rush japanese intro is actually fanmade! wonderful rush is μ’s fifth single, but suzuko mimori is part of μ’s., so i understand the confusion.

02:09 In russian dub of G3 they kept all the pony names same as they were in the original, but in russian dub of G4 they translated half of names, creating a mild confusion.

The arabic dub was on point in the early seasons but they stopped producing for a while,, when the first movie dropped I couldn't watch it because CN was banned from our house and I discovered that the arabic dub didn't air until a few years later.. I remember 8 - 6 years ago when the show got rumored to get banned soon from KSA because of twilight's cutie mark, I even made fanart based off the edited version of her mark thinking that's how it's actually supposed to look like lol,my mom's whatsapp was full with misinformation about the show me, my brother and my bsf just switched to watching the English version (where the episodes get cut into like 11 parts💀)

It's so funny rewatching the MLP Japanese dub as a weeb adult after watching it as a kid who knew nothing about anime other than Sailor Moon at the time. When I saw the Little Pony TV segment pop up when the video loaded I was like "Wait a damn minute IS THAT MIMORIN?????" Suzuko Mimori is probably one of the most famous voice actress Jpop idols of the 2010's (she was Umi in Love Live and Hiyoko in Danganronpa) so finding out she was the Japanese voice of Pinkie Pie after all this time blew my goddamn mind. Edit: WHAT THE FUCK THAT'S LITERALLY ME FROM 2016 (Shimmering Sparkler) IN A SCREENGRAB OF THE VIDEO I WROTE THAT POST IN MY FRESHMAN YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL OH MY GOD Edit 2: I don't know if you were aware but the "Season 3" Japanese OP you used for the video is not an actual OP gjkdghjkdfjkg it was a fanmade PMV video based off of (yet again) Love Live, with the song Wonderful Rush being used.

I'm from Turkey. I'm too lazy to explain everything, but I'm gonna say this In the very first episode of G4, when Twinkle Shine says " Here's Twilight ", in the Turkish translation they say " This place is Twilight " as in " this place is named Twilight " ( they probably used google translate and it messsed up the translation )... As a kid I always wondered why was that place called Twilight lmao. Then I learned English and understood what they were actually trying to say. IDK, it's kinda funny I guess.

I used to be obsessed with the Italian and Japanese OPs for FiM because of how unique they were. Lately I've been watching the French dub of FiM to help me get better with the language and I think the voices are really faithful to the original! aside from that though it doesn't really have anything that makes it stand out like Italy and Japan did.

Polish fan here! I actually *never* watched MLP in English. I grew up watching FiM on TV in Polish and it stuck with me till today. I may rewatch the series in English someday but the nostalgia for the dub is too powerful for me haha

I CANNOT let a mlp video about voice acting pass without mentioning the brazillian portuguese dub gen1 meme that PONEYLAND VAI SECAR E EXPLODIR! poneyland indeed will dry up and explode

Personally, the latin american spanish dub means a lot to me, I really love it, since it was the way I was introduced to the show. I've even only watched the complete series in that language, it's that good to me. And I'm not the only one, since the dub and all its work is very respected by fans from latin america. The art of dubbing is very interesting to me, so this is a really cool video, I loved it! Also, I never expected Shunks to talk about Melissa Gedeón but here we are. Now that I brought her up, she even has her own singing career nowadays under the name Meli G, she's extremely talented!

regarding the polish version, all these more violent references are pretty typical. also when i was growing up, peeling one's skin off was somewhat of a playground insult. like we never gave it much thought. so i guess we are just Like That. saying "like satan" is also very proverbial, but i guess considering this was airing on Mini-Mini, whose target demographic was kids whose age was still a single digit, i could see why it would sound off. also the "Hell" in Japanese, in many languages that aren't English, that isn't even a curse word. like its just a description of where sinners go, its not bad. in polish we say "what the devil" instead and even that would probably slide in a cartoon. considering japan isnt even christian country, saying Jigoku might as well be Hades or some other mythical world of terror. this was a very interesting video, i hope my comment doesnt sound like im trying to umactually you. just wanna Use My Knowledge.

I grew up with the mlp Japanese dub!! I'm so happy to see someone mentioned it! I ended up moving to America eventually and learning English and rewatched the whole show back in the original dub Which was so worth it cause to my knowledge, mlp in japanese never finished I did miss the pony TV at the end

THE ARABIC TRANSLATIONS OF THE MLP SONGS ARE LITERALLY SO GOOD BRO. And i also i love their voices and stuff ! Pretty good effort, bcz honestly sometimes arabic dubs suck so bad. 😭

Although Rainbow Dash sounds more masculine in the brazillian dub, she was voiced by a woman (Silvia Suzy) and all the characters refer to her with female pronouns. As for Spitfire, she was mistaken as a male pony in the great galloping gala episode, but in her later appearances the mistake was corrected and she has a female voice and female pronouns.

THAT GERMAN DUB CAUGHT ME SO OFF GUARD LMAO WHY DID THEY JUST FULLY LET HER SAY ASS??? 😂😂😂😂😂

I think its funny Canada wont let characters say loser. Thats the country that made Total Drama lol

OMG INTERNET MICRO CELEBRITY SHUNKS POSTED AGAIN!!!

The Japanese ending reminds me of the US ending of 90's Sailor Moon with "Sailor Moon Says!". I miss those kind of cheesy but cute additions.

4:50 Hey, Brazillian here! If anyone is curious Rainbow Dash is voiced by Silvia Suzy who naturally has a “tomboyish” voice! Dash is still treated as female. (Also she usually refers to other female characters as “gata”, meaning “beautiful” in this context which i find cute skskksksksjdj)

Croatian person here! Yeah the Croatian dub is a travesty, I remember being excited for when the Croatian dub would drop for years and then it did... and it was so bad little me was genuenly so upset 😭

7:03 I don’t know why people dislike this dub, this scene alone makes it one of the best dubs ever

Brazilian here! The dub was definitely something. it wasn't horrible, but after a few seasons it became very inconsistent. In Season 4, they for some reason changed the Cutie Mark's name from "Bela Marca" to just Cutie Mark, and made other bizarre name changes along those lines. Voice actors would change out of nowhere (some for understandable reasons and some for no reason at all). And yes, I really thought Rainbow Dash was a guy for a long time...

As a polish person I loved polish dub as a kid, especially discord's

I have international dub autism so thank you so much for making this video 🫡 I'm Italian and when i was 5 years old i remember i would watch subtitled episodes of season 1 on youtube before it got dubbed, i was on italian brony forums (YES at that young, with my parents' supervision) and a pretty big thing for me at the time (AGAIN I WAS LIKE 5-7) was my mom calling a chocolate easter egg manufacturing place to ask them if theyd make MLP easter eggs for easter 2011 or 2012 like the previous year so i could tell the forum ppl about it (in a blog post they even shouted her out as "Elisa's mom". Magical times truly). I stopped following the show at around season 4 but it was my deepest special interest for YEARS, i loved to collect all the different "brushable" figures i saw at the store, i would download images from all over the internet and categorize them in such specific ways (when i finally try for an autism diagnosis i will just show them my hard drive from when i was in elementary school) and MLP is probably what got me to learn english because i was watching so many fan videos online without really understanding what they were saying! You mentioned this in the video, but a confusing thing growing up about the italian dub was the complete removal of the episode where the flim flam brothers debut. I always thought that was so sad, i dont think ive ever seen the original episode to this day! Also, the italian dub does have that AMAZING original Cristina D'Avena theme song for season 1, but somewhere down the line it was replaced by this really shallow cover of the FiM theme, probably after complaints by fans but i cant know that. SAD! I feel like i should add that b4 G4 (lol) i was familiar with my little pony as a franchise and my parents would go crazy trying to get me g3 (I THINK) and g3.5 toys on ebay, i knew the "vooooolaaaa mio mini pony" theme song even if i dont actually remember watching the older shows, and my parents would also get me these CD ROM games of older generations :D pretty cool. Oh and while it might seem obvious those talking celestia and cadence toys (LETS FLY TO THE CASTLE) had their voice lines translated in italian. Sorry for such a long comment but i wanted to say SOO much, again thank you for this video its always great to hear people talk about these things outside of the dubbing community!! 🥹 EDIT: I forgot to add this but it was the entire reason i decided to make this comment. When i was a little older, like 10 or 11, i was following an MLP magazine that held drawing contests and whoever got featured on the magazine would get a figure sent to them. So basically a few times i would put in my all and compete against 5 year olds with my Advanced Art Skillz, its pretty funny looking back but i did win once u_u they sent me a twilight figure...

I was a Russian kid, around 9-10 years old, when I got into MLP. I was also spending an unhealthy amount of time on the Internet, which is where I found out about the show, not on TV, funnily enough. And as a Russian, one of the first things you get bombarded with trying to get into MLP is "DO NOT WATCH THE DUB, JUST DON'T." So I didn't lmao What do I think of a dub now as an adult? I mean, it's still not the best quality, might even call it shitty, but I wouldn't call it the end of the world as some bronies did. It was the same as any other russian dub of children media for TV, they never have the best quality (maybe from the lack of funding?) unlike most cinema level dubs. Yeah, the voices are noticably more sqeaky and annoying, there are awkward intonations (although, from what I heard they changed some voices in later seasons, so they sound much more natural), but there are also some things I don't agree with anymore, like the hate for name translations, which I despised as a kid just because everyone else did without thinking much of it. I'm sorry, but at the end of the day it's a cartoon for KIDS, kids will have a hard time remembering smth like "Twilight Sparkle", it sounds like jumble of words to a russian speaker, you gotta translate the name, it's not like they turned some John into Ivan, it's a purple horse. Anyway, I'm still kinda grateful for the hate I guess 'cause it helped me with learning English? 👍 I'd watch it with subtitles first, then I wouldn't have the patience to wait for subtitles for newer episodes and watch them in English, and the I'd be like hey, I actually understand what's hapenning anyway, cool

Hey!! Brazilian here. The claim that they made Rainbow Dash and Spitfire guys is false. They sound very masculine, but they are refered to with female pronouns and adjectives. So yep, they're still girls!

I'm polish and I never saw rhymes from Halloween Luna episode as too scary or vulgar. HOWEVER Rainbow Dash mentioning flying as fast as Satan?! That made me spit my coffee out XD Implication of Satan's existence in MLP is hilarious. (It may be just me, but if they used ,,fast as devil" it wouldn't be as funny, because this phrasing is more common.) ANYWAY, great video I love small touches and differences between different languages. This was really interesting!

I'm a native russian speaker, and I remember how the russian fandom used to hate the russian dub's name changes. And they're... I don't hate them, I think they're cute, but they're kinda weird? They only fully changed Twilight's name (she was just Twilight Sparkle, but translated literally into russian), and Rainbow Dash got half-translated for some reason. They changed "Rainbow" to the russian word for it, but left "Dash" as is.

6:47 It's curious that in the Latin America dub we didn't censor "cider" (cidra), at least in the first version, because then it was changed to "jugo" (juice), so it's like a mandela effect if you ask to the spanish fandom Also, in the intro, the "A beautiful heart" and "Faithful and strong" parts are switched up, maybe to make it rhyme, so you have Rarity saying "Es fuerte y fiel" (It's strong and loyal) and Applejack saying "De gran corazón" (With a big heart) Which, it doesn't change anything, and it can be taken naturally, but I got really confused when I notice this listening to the english version

Brazillian here! Our dub sadly also had quite a lot of translation errors. I was never able to find any documentation on this, but I know for a fact there are many. They also couldn't decide on whether to call cutiemarks by their original name or to translate it, so the name changes pretty much every episode they're mentioned, which I imagine probably made a lot of brazillians confused.

In Brazil, the brand wasn't very treated as something more than a regular cartoon, most promotions here were the same as other countries, the most notable thing here is the dub. Most VAs here are well known, like Twilight's, Pinkie's and Applejack's, but like any other dubs, we had lots of voice changes, even in the mane 6, sometimes they were understandable, like some voice actresses were pregnant, but we had problems at the start at season 1, where we only had 2 singers, none of that fit any characters,. Luckily this changed, except for the first EG movie. At the 2017 movie, Applejack's voice actress was changed, but this happened again in some EG shorts, and definitely at the web series, but the cartoon one was the same from the start, but starting from rollercoaster of friendship, we had a full on recast. The Rainbow Dash and Spitfire situation were some direction errors, Rainbow's actress made her voice more feminine while the series went one and they just changed Spitfire's VA. We had some dub errors, like male characters being referred as feminine, mainly Shinning Armor, which fun fact, his voice actor and Cadance's voice actresses, the main ones (some changes), are the same as Goku's and Chichi's from Dragon Ball. We had a weird censorship, the cartoon was mainly transmitted by Discovery Kids, but during season 9, they cut some scenes out of the blue, mainly for time for commercials, like Yona burping in She's All Yak, but two episodes weren't never broadcasted, The Last Crusade and The Last Problem, and Twilight's VA confirmed they were dubbed, they should've been transmitted at 2020, but we only got them available in August last year by a Brazil exclusive streaming service, we don't know why, but probably by the subtended Sapphic couples in the episodes, not because the channel had something against it, but mainly to avoid being harrassed by conservative parents, which is weird, but luckily we have 100% of the show dubbed available. Last facts: we had a pilot version of the dub the was available by the episode The Third Ticket, where only Rarity and AJ's Actresses where the same, and to the promotional material, the earliest ones were dubbed by Starlight's voice, but she said Equestria in a weird way, and the rest were by Sunset's voice, the same for beta Twilight. Here are some fun casting: Twilight's Va is the same as Mabel from Gravity Falls, Rainbow's beta voice became Pinkie's singing voice and even sang Rainbow in the May the Best Pet Win, Nami in One Piece was dubbed both by Pinkie and AJ, Netflix and 4kids respectively, and Pinkie is the same from May fom Pokémon. During season 4 and Friendship games, Fluttershy's actress was pregnant and were changed, equal to Pinkie during 4 episodes of seaon five, and funnily, the first episode where Pinkie had a full presence after her original VA was back was The One Where Pinkie knows, just a fun coincidence. (Thanks for all the feedback and corrections)

Don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet but in the latin-american dub the song "smile" for some reason doesn't include the chorus with the town's ponies singing alongside Pinkie, idk why cuz the dub had done background chorus before like the in The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 LMFAO

10:42 isn't this the fanmade mlp Japanese opening with the song wonderful rush from love live, another series that had mimori Suzuko? Lol

Ah yes, my favorite character. Disorderly.

I can confirm the Japanese dub. That's pretty cool. And yes, Mirai Start! and Vola e Vai go HARD. One bit I liked from my own Danish dub, is how we don't really have a word for egghead here, so Rainbow Dash calls Twilight "bookworm" instead in the racing episode. EDIT: I gave the 80s version a listen, and recognised Cristina D'Avena immediately, the theme song singer for countless animes, like Kirby Right Back At Ya!, Calimero, Moominvalley, and every Sailor Moon series. The two first are my favourite version I've found of those series. They have a lovely high and bouncy energy to them.

fun fact: applebloom in the japanese dub has the same voice as pikachu

i watched the polish dub as a kid and didnt bat an eye at the more violent phrasing. reading the translations though... yeah its not the most kid friendly is it XD

As a Latin American who watched the whole series in English (To elude spoilers, networks take even months to premiere an episode), but never re-watched them dubbed. It's still awkward to me to hear the dubbing xD When the movie premiered there wasn't subbed version available, so I had to watch it dubbed. It's weird to have the overly-hyped Andrea Libman's Pinkie Pie replaced by the same voice of Chibiusa and Sakura Kinomoto... Welp, at least Chibiusa in pink too, but Sakura is just too calm to me xD - I wonder if they swear in the Spaniard dub, for some reason they love to pour "mierda" (sh*t) and "culo" (ass) even in kids' show dubs

i grew up with tv shows mostly in english but sometimes in german. i have seen a few episodes of mlp:fim in german for fun. the dub is a mixed bag with some voices more accurate than others; out of the mane 6, rarity and pinkie pie have the best german voices, while i really wish applejack was more similar to her english voice. i do really like what they do with most of the songs (except a changeling can change). they have creative new lyrics that give the songs a lot of new meaning! also i am very very happy you included cozy glow's legendary line, "willst du mich verarschen?!"

from Latvia and i used to watch the latvian dubbed version of mlp. of course i never payed attention to it because i was a kid and everything seemed normal, tho now noticing the pony names translated into my language is actually hilarious to look at. most of the names kind of fit the characters but fluttershy for some reason is named "melody". they didn't change a lot, most words were hard to translate especially the names but overall it's a pretty decent dub with no issues

8:10 FUNFACT about the Arabic translation as someone who grew up with it, the censorship would actually change depending on which channel your watching! CN would censor , while on the other hand SPACETOON would censor everything that is deemed “wrong” yet would also censor the random parts ( in the fairy odd parents they coloured Vickys stomach green to much her shirt even though you could tell she’s wearing a crop top, btw no other Arabic channels every did that ) or even cut the entire part out And how I found out was by this weird hiatuses that BOTH CN and SPACETOON had, where SPACETOON would air season 1 then go on a hiatus, while that happens CN would also air season 1 ( at that time I realised some changes in the script and missing parts of episodes), and when CN airs all of season 1 they get into a hiatus while SPACETOON airs season 2 and it keeps on going till CN stops airing MLP

Fun fact: The Japanese voice actress for Twilight in the Japanese dub also voices Kurapika from Hunter x Hunter(A really famous anime), and the Japanese voice actress for Cheerilee voices Gon(the main character of Hunter x Hunter).The Japanese voice actress of Amy(from Sonic the Hedgehog) voices Sweetie Belle.

Suzuko mimori is actually a voice actress in love live! Which is an idol anime so no suprise that she sings the intro in Japanese

If there were dubs of MLP, I could only imagine one that was like DBZ’s Big Green dub or Akira’s first English dub from the 80’s.

I watch the swedish dub of fim and I love it! wonderful to hear some of these other dubs be talked about! ^^💖

In the Latin America dub twilight is voiced by Carla Castañeda, daughter of Mario castañeda… the voice of goku in Latin America, so there are many jokes about twilight being daughter of goku in the community. The thing I love is that in the episode where the father of twilight had spoken dialogue he was voiced by Mario Castañeda. So yeah, twilight sparkle is daughter of goku, at least in Latin America.

they edited out words like "stupid" in canada? 😭 LMAOO ISNT THE SHOW LITERALLY CANADIAN??

about the latin american dub, i dont know if u already found out about this or if someone told u already, but the voice actors were interviewed (about their experience, etc) and all of it is on youtube. flash sentry's va is included too, so it released sometime after the eg movie but before s4 still. sometimes as they answered the questions, they did their respective character's voice too. so we got stuff like spike saying he likes to play mortal kombat thanks to that XD

Oh extra thing about the PTBR Dub The way that the mane 6 reffers to each other changes a bit in the translation RD refers to them (and some other ponies) as "gatas" which in a normal context would translate to some kind of flirt like "sweetie" or "babe". But Dash doesnt always say it in a lovingly way, its more like calling someone a "dude" or "bro" but with a word used for flirt And Applejack reffers to some ponies as "docinho" which is like a softer version of "sweetie" or "dear". She says it in a lovingly and intimate way. The one she calls "docinho" the most is Twilight, specially when she is anxious. Its probably used replacing "sugarcube"

I have grown up in a Baltic country called Estonia. Over here we speak Estonian so mlp is dubbed . I don’t really remember the show because i watched it while in kindergarten, but i can translate some of the characters names. Rarity is Haruldus ( rarity), Pinkie Pie is Roosa ( pink), Twilight Sparkle is Videvikusära ( twilight glow), Applejack is Õunarüüp (apple ?sip?), Fluttershy is Võbelus (tremble), Rainbow dash is Vikerkaar (rainbow) and Spike is called Astel (spike). During 2005-2010 my sister was a big fan of mlp and had a lot of mlp toys, so toys were sold ower here too. Nowadays mlp doesn’t have a lot of publicity and is a filler show on kids networks.

Brazilian here, they didn't change the ponies genders due to their masculine voices, they're still girls

I grew up with the LATAM dub AND STILL FRIKING LOVE IT, even now i prefer see it in spanish bc is just soooo good, all the actors interpret amazingly their characters and is insanely close to the original. I rrly like it

I've been learning Swedish for a while, and one thing I like to do occassionally is watch the Swedish dub of MLP to sorta help practice. It's a good dub as far as I can tell.

just fyi the intro at 10:50 was fanmade by the guy who uploaded it on youtube, they didn't actually use original graphics for it

The russian dub was seriously overhated and I'm gonna defend it at all cost. Most of the problems were in the first season. The season 2-4 era is considered to be the peak of quality, later they changed the dubbing studio and things became even more controversal. And in season 6 they started to give songs to the different studio who often experimented too much with auto-tune. Still, to sum up, the dub was good. Not perfect, but good anyway. Because of that voice actresses are still sometimes invited to some brony festivities. P.S. But if you need information about the dub for this series or even G1 and G3 you can ask right away: dubbing it's my speciality and I can provide some useful information you won't find in dubwiki.

As an italian, thank you for the shout out about the openings😂 I have to say that the Italian version after season 1 changed studio and channel the show aired on and the new channel started censoring some stuff especially in the newer episodes (like in Luna's nightmare when she swaps cutie mark with celestia, the scene where she loses teeth is cut)

Honestly, sometimes the dubs have more flavour

Hi there! A friend just informed me that you included part of my video (currently unlisted but still available through a playlist I made and wherever the video is posted) to talk about the Croatian dub. The first Croatian dub of MLP:FiM certainly had a whole assortment of problems, with the voice acting being of least concern (even though it is still mostly comprised of duds in my honest opinion). The absolute worst problem with it, besides the occasional terrible singing, was the audio editing - the example you've shown is far from the only one and one of the more severe. An extremely common issue was line recordings looping for no good reason and/or playing where they don't belong. I still feel sad that the only official Croatian version of This Day Aria is in this dub. The new dub never dubbed the second or third season despite the latter being officially announced. Both me and another person made our own version of TDA because the official version is abysmal.

i grew up watching the french version of mlp and remember like when twilight brings an owl at her house it says hoo and like twilight understands who. The thing is that in french, the owl says hoo too but french twilight understands où which means where.

I’m really interested in international dubs, so really thanks to talk about this 💜

In our polish dubbing Applejack's voice actor is also the voice of Sandy Cheeks from SpongeBob. When you think about it those two characters are quite similar in some ways.

I'm Ukrainian. MLP:FiM was airing on ukrainian top cartoon channel "Plus Plus" ("Плюс Плюс"), there were all popular cartoons of early 2010's, like: Gravity Falls, Phineas and Ferb, Ninjago and other, and they all got really good ukrainian dub too. When I was starting to watch mlp I also tried to watch it in their dub, but songs were ruining whole experience, so I almost imideately decided to watch in English. I don't know circumstances, but they had a huge problem with vocals and lyrics translations. It seems like they didn't have money to hire real singers and made actors sing (this song is good example of what I'm talking: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JGxweeYbBgA.html .I agree with this guy on 5:17. But in the end, apparently, dub improved, I listened to some season 5 songs in our translation and they're pretty descent, though I really can't telll anything about acting and other things, because I watched the whole show in English after that try with dub.

Hello I am from Kazakhstan and wanted to mention that some post Soviet countries had( may still have not sure tho) exclusive MLP merch ,a lot of it tbh especially Russia ,Russian mlp fandom was really big btw they held Bronycons too (the countries I am talking about are Russia ,Kazakhstan and possibly Ukraine since it was not uncommon in 2000x-2010x to have exclusive cartoon merch for these countries usually in magazines with a little toy )

The Finnish dub is really high quality and I even prefer it over the English one. The voice cast stays the same throughout almost the whole series, including Equestria Girls, Pony Life and G5. The only characters I remember having different voice actors for brief moments are Twilight in season 7, Applejack in season 9 and Rainbow Dash in Best Gift Ever. The original voice actors did always end up returning afterwards though. The availability of this dub is my only problem with it. There's no single place where one can watch all episodes (seasons 3-5 can't even be streamed anymore and must be bought individually) and some things like the Equestria Girls movies and Best Gift Ever are no longer officially available anywhere after being removed from Netflix.

as a Saudi Arabian i don't remember about the twilight cutie mark censor since i used to pause the tv and draw them all and their cutie marks in detail. i still have the 10+ year old drawings and all of them have her cutie mark right so this is a surprise unless if its censored in other middle eastern countries?? idk but i definitely remember censors here and there around crushing and lovey-dovey stuff because of cultural difference though there wasn't a lot of these moments to censor anyway, started watching mlp in english around s3/s4 and noticed the difference. and for the arabic dub i thought it would be bad but after checking it out it actually still holds up as for quality and sounding like the og voices (except for twilight vc i hated it and still hate it) + theme song still slaps :)

VOLA MIO MINI PONY Si sono italiana e confermo che le sigle italiane sono stupende

I liked the Dutch dub a lot but I was a kid back when it aired. I think a lot of bronies at the time didn't like that it was half in Flemish half in "Netherlands" Dutch. There are actually 2 completely different Dutch dubs, with the second version for example having the actress that was Rainbow in the first one playing Applejack in the second dub. They also dropped the subtitle and it was just called "My Little Pony".

7:21 The way Shunks says "tonto" just makes me happy