Betty Boop - A Language all my own - 1935

Betty flies to Japan to do a show, and sings the title number. She then dons a kimono, and sings it again in Japanese. -

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[crazedcatlady]

She can pilot a plane, she can speak Japanese, she’s as diverse as Barbie!
edit: congrats, you found a typo... -_- happy?

[Kazemahou]

Did anyone notice that when Betty looks through her goggles, the scene of Japan was a full model made of miniatures, carefully scroll-animated to give the effect of parallax? That was an amazing use of miniatures in an otherwise 2D cartoon!

[dancepiglover]

What a surprisingly positive cartoon made in that time period!

[choccocker]

Betty boop singing in Japanese is the cutest, sweetest thing I swear

[Butterstix]

5:06 Wow! She even does the slight “ng” sound for ga in arigatou! A slight little detail, but one that shows how much research and care went into this cartoon!

[chiaki_amami]

There's something just super sweet about this cartoon, just pure appreciation for Betty Boop's audience in Japan, no racist caricatures in the cartoon, in a time where racism in cartoons was incredibly normalized. It's really heartwarming, there was clearly so much love put into the cartoon, especially with translating the song into Japanese.

[elwoodziggurat]

The Japanese she's singing is actually pretty accurate! It's the same lyrics in english but translated ^^ so cute, Betty-chan~

[gone]

Betty Boop: sings in Japanese
Literally every Japanese person who has seen this: *impossible*

[otaking]

Betty Boop was an inspiration to Osamu Tezuka, the Godfather of Manga.

Without Betty, there would be no anime.

[clairewiley]

I was expecting some racist shit, but I am very happy that it isn’t. And hearing Betty sing in Japanese is cute AF!

[mrmangatwins]

Wow surprisingly not racist. Just super cute and she’s actually speaking ok Japanese especially for the time! The thought and consideration put into this!

[DaintyBouquet]

Ayo, her Japanese is spot on, what.

Apparently, from what I’ve heard, this was dedicated to the large audience of Japanese folks who enjoyed watching Betty Boop. They asked some Japanese students for translations and everything. I dunno if that’s true, but that is actually just really cool

[raydgreenwald]

This woman inspired the aesthetic of all anime

[SoraTrace]

This is qualifies more as anime than High Guardian Spice

[aiyannaboykins]

This was on some DVD of old cartoons I had as a kid. I loved this song so much.
Also I like the character designs of the japanese audience.
They don't look like those awful racist caricatures from the time period (squinty eyes and big buck teeth).

[covers]

Got a language of my own known in every foreign home.
You surely know it is
If you sing it when you’re sad it will always make you glad.
You surely know it is Boop-Oopy-Doop!
If you’re near or far doesn’t matter where you are.
Sung in every land or the ocean Bop! Boop-Oopy-Doop!
It’s a song for harmony if you’ll only sing with me.
A’ww, come on and join me with,


hitotsu daijina toteyo ki kotoba sore wa watashi no
Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
kokoro hisomeba naosara no koto utai odore!
Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
wakaretemo kokoro wa hitotsu mimi ni todomete!
Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
onajimi-samaya makoto wa mune ni sore de ii desho?


correct me if I made a mistake

[りか-jb]

I'm Japanese and this is really nice! It's culture Appreciation! ありがと !!

[Grapethegreat]

I'm genuinely surprised on how wholesome and sweet this is, considering the fact that cartoons were on the rise in 1920s-1930s and world war two was also active at the time so racism was very common even in cartoons, making this episode very heartwarming

Edit (10/23/22): ok i got the history incorrect, but yeah this episode still warms my heart

[Gojiro]

didn't expect Mae Kwestel to actually speak real really impressive for the 30's