Chibi Maruko-chan: My Favorite Song (Watashi no Suki na Uta)
Released: December 19, 1992
When Maruko befriends a portrait artist who helps her with a class assignment to draw her favorite song, she’s swept along into the exciting world that exists in the borderline between art and music.
Chibi Maruko-chan: My Favorite Song is a movie that’s equal parts cute and charming, funny and amusing, touching and tearjerking, combined with inventive and creative animated musical segments. In short, this is a buried treasure that deserves to be seen by more people.
While this is based on the TV series Chibi Maruko-chan, you need not be familiar with the main series to enjoy this movie, as I’ve seen multiple people swept away by its charms who haven’t watched a single episode of the show. Of course, if you do develop an interest in watching the show afterwards, you can always watch my translations of it (shameless plug).
Movie Credits:
Directors: Yumiko Suda, Tsutomu Shibayama
Writer and Creator: Momoko Sakura
Animated Musical Segments handled by the following directors:
Drag Race 1969: Masaaki Yuasa
Dangdut Reggae: Hideyuki Funakoshi
Hiroshi’s Bathtime: Tsutomu Shibayama
Paraiso: Tsutomu Shibayama
Kaimono Boogie: Masaaki Yuasa
Hoshi wo Taberu: Tsuneo Kobayashi, Yuji Shigekuni
B-Kyuu Dancing: Tsuneo Kobayashi, Hideyuki Funakoshi
Release Credits and Info:
Encode by amicus (@Amicus_19)
QC: MrManager
All the other boring stuff: MaruChanSubs
Encoded from the JP BD.
Video: 1916 x 1036 H264
Audio: PCM
2 sub tracks, one with translated lyrics for all songs, the other with only plot-relevant translated lyrics (for those times you just want to soak in the animated musical segments but still want subs available for the other parts of the movie)
Notes:
This V2 is an attempt to make good by a movie that is near-and-dear to my heart. The V1 was the first translation I ever completed, with a sole intended audience of my girlfriend in mind. As such, it was full of TL errors, shoddy timing, doofy notes, and absolutely no style whatsoever. After I started working on the show itself, I started getting requests to work on the movies. Since I had this one sitting around already, I just set it free! It didn’t take long for this to start bothering me, as I feel this movie is the highlight of the whole Chibi Maruko-chan franchise, but my work on it was my worst effort. I’m happy to finally be able to rectify this. Cheers, and who knows, maybe I’ll put together a V3 in another 5 years.
Comments - 9
seth001
guysome11
It’s out! Woooo!!!
JackAssborn
Oooh! Thanks so much! 👍 Now replacing my old (1 Gb) from 2018 (which I’ve seen a couple of times together with all my folks) with this new one. It’s really a dear movie to us (just like the rest of all of Maruko-chan). Really appreciating your great job. ❤️
Rowri88
This is amazing thank you! hopefully one day you’ll do the BD for the first 1990 movie! thank you thank you!
alveifbklsiu249
Thanks for sharing!
H1mik
Thanks!!!
JackAssborn
@Rowri88 You mean the 1991-movie, right?
I have that as an .avi of 924 Mb with hard subs (translated by drvtech & MCKate).
I don’t remember where I got it from. Is there a better copy somewhere? I’ve been wondering too.
And surely, a better resolution (and soft subs) would be great.
Rowri88
@JackAssborn I dont think there is another version around
eli
legendary