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.
Release Credits and Info:
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.
