As a lonely Japanese kid growing up in small town in Midwest, I saw this cartoon and was so delighted! I appreciate the studio for taking its time to make sure to get the language and the pronunciation correct (something that even modern studios don’t bother doing.) Seeing Betty on TV singing beautifully in my native language really left an impression on me!
日本人の方なのですか？ どうアメリカで生き延びたのでしょう？ すごく貴重なご意見をありがとうございます。 Are you Japanese, sir? How could you be alive under the WWII? I'm really amazed to hear your very precious opinion! Huge thanks! Hug from Tokyo! I'm 24-year-old woman:)
Amber DeYuliis yes yes yes she is accusing was you were her and she sounds a lot like Cyndi Lauper you don't know who she is look her up and you'll really like her ☮️
Thing about Fleischer is while they were generally darker and had a lot of adult themes like drugs, sex, death etc, they were also far less racially offensive. It wasn't about making caricatures, it was about Betty.
Yes, the Fleischers were often subtly didactic, and often showcased issues that are still relevant today. Popeye is mostly about bullying and abuse of women by men. There's an awful lot about being kind to others throughout the Fleischer catalog of shorts. Popeye doesn't get angry because people are different. He gets angry because people do something bad. Betty Boop's "Be Human" is about humane treatment of animals. I could go on. Betty Boop is always tolerant of others and here she is pushing harmony between nations and ethnic groups. There are some stereotypes of African Americans in Fleischer cartoons, but since they got the cooperation of some African American stars, like Cab Calloway, I guess they weren't considered to be offensive. One thing here: While the American audience at the beginning is made up of different faces wearing a variety of clothing, all the Japanese in the audience in Japan have the same face and wear the same clothing. I'm guessing the animators didn't have a lot of time to do research or were actually running out of time to finish the animation. By this time, Japanese people often wore Western style clothing, and they certainly would not have all been wearing the same kimono in any case. And indeed, they don't all look alike.
Here the lyrics: English: Got a language of my own known in every foreign home You surely know it is Boop - Oop - a - Doop! If you sing it when you’re sad it will always make you glad You surely know it is Boop - Oop - a - Doop! If you’re near or far doesn’t matter where you are Sung in every land or the ocean Boop - Oop - a - Doop! It’s a song for harmony if you’ll only sing with me A’ww come on and join me with Boop - Oop - a - Doop! Japanese: Hitotsu daijina, tote yoki kotoba, sore wa watashi no Boop - Oop - a - Doop! Kokoro hisomeba, naosara no koto, utai odore Boop - Oop - a - Doop! Wakarete mo, kokorohahitotsu, mimi ni tomete Boop - Oop - a - Doop! o najimi-sama ya, shin wa mune ni, sorede īdesho? Boop - Oop - a - Doop!
She- and Max Fleischer- inspired a young Japanese artist named Osamu Tezuka, who grew up on Fleischer's Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons. After the war, he became a prolific "manga" artist and writer-- creating, among other legendary characters, "Astro Boy" and "Kimba the White Lion"....which later became TV cartoon series, and imported to the U.S. in the early 1960's. Tezuka became known as "the Walt Disney of Japan".
Barry I. Grauman my art teacher would talk about this for hours too, I'd honestly forgotten I made this comment. The way the artistic world can inspire each other through things like this to create entirely new genres is amazing.
don't dare to compare those old animated treasures to the crap called anime. I'd rather prefer to be thrown into a hole full of cobras than to watch anime.
notice this is one rare moment where a minority is shown with dignity and without stereotypical exaggeration. The audience members are drawn almost naturalistic!
How about the show itself. When we start to appreciate art and not feelings. Feelings are important but they are as important as feelings should be, art like this is in its own beautiful, but when you look with the modern lens and break down every microaggresson and cultural appropriation it becomes not art anymore, now its just proofreading ancient art works with modern extremist values what have changed in between these times thousands of times. Everywhere is a problem if youre looking for it
This is a Betty Boop cartoon on the near-genius level, in my opinion, & the Fleischer Brothers were cartoonists with the most tremendous imagination & creativity. The voice of Betty Boop was supplied by a lady named Mae Questel who also did the voice for "Popeye's" Olive Oyl. I'll bet Miss Questel had a ball helping to make this particular cartoon because it is enormous fun to watch both for adults & kids.
Frank Scivier I'm not a judge of any foreign culture, but what we saw here seemed pretty grateful to Japan. It strangely both gladdens and saddens me that portrayals of Japanese people weren't so awful until hostilities escalated.
Mr Bielski, since this Betty Boop cartoon was made pre-WW2 I don't think that the Fleischer Brothers had kind of anti-Japanese propaganda in mind. They just observed Japanese culture, liked what they saw, & made a really brilliant cartoon around it. One of the saddest episodes of WW2 was that when the war broke out a few thousand Japanese people who had emigrated to the USA mainly on the west coast, were rounded up & put into internement camps for the duration of the war. It didn't happen to German or Italian emigrants because, it was pointed out later after the war was over, that the authorities would have had to round half the population of New York City which was not logistically feasible!.
The interment camps were too bad but if you think that's one of the saddest episodes of the war then I can't imagine what you think of what happened in China and Korea.
All the property that was "confiscated" from the Nisei was not given back. The whole "scare" was a land grab scheme, pure and simple, from the negative propaganda (which was one massive "con") to the actual pogroms. The men involved will rot in hell for it, I assume, unless their victims forgive them.
Darth rias gremory I hate to tell you, but those people were American citizens. Some had migrated here and become citizens, others were born here. Are you saying, if your ancestors migrated here and later we get into a conflict with the country they came from, it's ok to confiscate your property and throw you in a concentration camp. The army formed the all Japanese Nisei Battalion (100th Infantry Battalion) that fought in Europe and was awarded a Presidential unit citation and 4 Meritorious Unit Commendations. In 5 months of fighting in Africa and Italy they went from 1300 men to 500 . They fought in the battle of Monte Casisno, which was a slaughter house until the Military decided to bomb the St. Benedictine monastery where the Germans were.I think they proved there love of this country
+Haven the Maid of Breath that said, the real irony is that Japan can be just as racist as America. Just look at Mr Popo or Jynx or the Pepsi man videogame.
GregTheLion It's misunderstanding. Mainly our culture doesn't have racist idea for African American people. I guess they just used black color as same as any other colors. Some time Japanese people avoid talk with tourists from other countries, but that's because they feel scare about talk English. If there is racist person in Japan, I think most of them are not young generation. I'm sorry about my poor English...but I hope you're not hate Japan.
They CAN be racist, but Mr. Popo and Jynx are Americans projecting, since they have Japanese myth analogues and aren't trying to be blackfaces(Mr Popo isn't supposed to be even human for crying out loud).
The similitude is coincidental(and smaller than claimed), there ARE actual black characters(if incredibly minor) in Dragon Ball and they don't look like Mr Popo. Because, AGAIN, Mr Popo is not supposed to even be human. Again, this mindset is AMERICANS PROJECTING(there's also the issue of cultural isolation. Japan is a rather closed country and they often don't know about outside cultures as well as the US because the amount of immigrants isn't as large due the nature of the country, AKA being an island. So the best direct source they have to black people is...media. And media can paint quite a goddamn stereotypical picture of any race. So a LOT of potential racism from Japanese is actually inspired from American racism, since Japan doesn't even have a big enough population to know or care about them, nor the cultural background to have the blackface stereotype)
darth rias gremory I agree with you, today’s cartoons are mostly bad. That’s why I saved the old cartoons on USB drives and I mainly watch classic cartoons. But let’s face it, at least every animated show is different and has it’s own style, unlike animes whick they look all the same.
I mean a female cartoon, leading it's own show, driving a car, being a pilot, traveling all by herself to foreign country, working, being succssesful, speaking japanese, praising other people's culture....i don't how many taboos was she breaking
I know it doesn't count in an old school cartoon like this, but I still want to give props to Betty's costume designer for such a smooth transformation of her dress to kimono.
@@davidwesley2525 Not only that, but her and Fleischer Studios in general helped shape Anime into what it is today thanks to Osamu Tezuka being inspired by his stuff as you can see in his books like Astro Boy, Jungle Emperor Leo (Kimba) Black Jack, Phoenix, and many others.
@@reoire843 another thing I find some modern viewers forget is the cultural devide was actually more pronouced back then. like some people (Lowkey calling out my dumbass friend) would say "why are they all wearing kinono? that's sterotyping!" but back then western fashions where not popular, so people still mainly wore kinono. it's funny that historical accuracy is often treated as sterotyping. edit:also I seen people think the way older charters walk in kimono to be stereotyping but like, that stuffs hard to walk in.
@@thisotakugirl1017 i feel that the people that get offended, genuinely don't understand the topic at hand. www.tokyoweekender.com/2019/05/japanese-fashion-eras-heian-heisei/ And about kimonos being heavy to wear, I also feel that people don't understand how a kimono is worn either. There's just so many layers in that thing.
Ironic indeed that this positive portrayal of the Japanese was four years before WW2 broke. I like to think that the spirit of Manjiro Nakahama (first Japanese to come to the U.S., staying in my hometown, Fairhaven, Mass. !) watched over this cartoon!
The war between the US and Japan broke out on December 7, 1941, (or the 8th, if you were in Japan) not 1935 or 1939, of course, but the Fleischers were surely aware of the Japanese occupation of Korea and Manchuria, which were well established by this time. How would I know, but maybe they wanted to be very precise in stating that while the government of Japan was committing these heinous acts, the people of Japan were very much united with Americans in loving innocent music, cartoons, and, in particular, Betty Boop, who was a "star" there too. It is a horrible fact of human history that leaders find it necessary to turn all the people of a nation into the enemies of their own people, goading them into wars during which the leaders are rarely killed any more, but millions of soldiers and civilians are. Washington may have crossed the Delaware with his troops, but LBJ didn't cross the Mekong with his.
Up until the attack on Pearl Harbor (and I do mean _right_ up until the attack), US-Japanese relations were fairly warm and looking to get warmer. The Japanese invasion of Manchuria caused a bit of trouble, but hopes were still high until the bombs fell. As President Roosevelt notes in his "Infamy Speech", "The United States was at peace with [Japan], and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its Government and its Emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific", referencing the "Hull Note", a message sent to Japan by the Secretary of State containing diplomatic proposals for maintaining peace and the US-Japanese relationship. But Pearl Harbor ruined everything, all because the Japanese military thought it would demoralize the Americans enough to knock them out of the war before it was even officially declared. Not to say there were _never any_ racist caricatures _before_ the war, of course, but Pearl Harbor was when they _really_ exploded and got less "thoughtless" and more "outright nasty".
Myron Waldman, the head animator/de-facto director of this cartoon, supervised the Fleischer unit that favored the most Disneyesque stories. He created Betty's dog Pudgy and would later handle the Fleischer's Raggedy Ann two-reeler cartoon (Waldman also was the Fleischer director who most loved putting big oval eyes on his characters, which would be a major influence on Tezuka and the future anime drawing style).
Got a language of my own known in every foreign home You surely know it is Boop-Oopy-Doop-Boop-Oopy-Doop 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 Boopy-Doopy-Doopy-Doo-Boop-Oopy-Doop!
This is before they created the 60’s anime such as Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Princess Knight, the Nicktoons show such as My Life as a Teenage Robot and the video games such as Bendy and the Ink Machine and Cuphead. Pretty interesting short.
Well, all those you mentioned were heavily inspired by Max Fleischer, so it makes sense (Cant say I was aware of the Teenage Robot connection, but looking at it with that context makes sense)
"Anime" influence? (Dr.) Osamu Tezuka was enchanted by Max Fleischer's cartoons while growing up in Japan in the 1930s, and those was HIS influence in creating and drawing what American audiences know as "ASTRO BOY", "KIMBA THE WHITE LION", "THE AMAZING THREE", and others. In most of his "manga", he occasionally featured some Fleischer-ish characters, or people who looked like "Popeye", "Bluto", "Betty", et. al.
It explains very much why some of his characters look very similar to ones in Max' cartoons. Its also been stated that Bambi was an influence too, though If you look at his artwork side by side with Fleischer, you can see the similarities.
Either they got a Japanese actress that sounds EXACTLY like Betty Boop...or her Japanese is just THAT good! :O Like seriously, when she's singing in Japanese, I hardly hear an American accent at all! (Although, her "arigato" sounds more like "ariNGato", but that's besides the point. LOL)
TeaCup This cartoon was made to pay tribute to the many Betty Boop fans in Japan. That's why so much carefulness was put into making it respectful, as compared to how other cartoons depicted other foreign cultures.
Originally released by Paramount in July 1935, and Betty's last appearance in her trademark skirt and garter. This was her penultimate performance (and last hurrah before she was "cleaned up", because of the stringent Hollywood "Production Code")- she'd never quite match it again. The delightful music score was written and conducted by Sammy Timberg. And, of course, Mae Questel is "Betty".
Fantastic animated cartoon. I think this cartoon was done before the build up to WW2, so our outrage or doubts about its purpose are misplaced. Today's allies can be tomorrow's villains, so how can an animator or writer know? Take the cartoon IN CONTEXT as a wonderful work of art and forget about the horrors of war, if only for a brief moment. Just sayin' . . .
Nowhere near as many stereotypes as when WW2 started, Betty is a goodwill ambassador in this going to a foreign country that most americans knew nothing about, I like the use of the Japanese language in this.
Talk about surrealism , it took less than a minute for BETTY BOOP to fly from NEW YORK CITY to JAPAN . It takes five and a half hours to fly from SEATTLE WASHINGTON to HAWAII . L.O.L.
やっぱベティちゃん可愛い❤️ im surprised she sings with proper Japanese and no accents!! I mean I can’t believe the company in 1900s hired an Japanese voice actor!! (Sorry if there’s any grammatical errors in the sentences.)
@MsGeek703 I didn't pay overly close attention to her lyrics and her Japanese has a bit of an odd intonation at times, but she seems to be singing roughly the same thing she sang in English, but in Japanese! There might be some differences, but I was never very good at picking out words in songs. ^^;
3:03 I’m a Japanese. I wonder why people (foreigner) putting their hands together in front of their chest to say “thank you” ? We don’t do that in Japan.
@diddymuck And very inspirational to a certain little runt named Osamu Tezuka, who would have been only seven years old when this was made. Wonder if he saw this one?
@Kawayoporu Speaking of Dororo, the godfather of modern anime and manga Osamu Tezuka's style was very much inspired by Fleischer and Disney animation! Cute how it all comes full circle, huh?
it is impressive how well this aged, when you currently looking over to japan how the fans are at concerts, you can see a lot of parallels ... Thought know I wonder, has this always been like that in japan or is this a modern occurrence which they somehow managed to "predict" back then?
Golly, welcome to the comment section talking about 1930's: a period of time in which they can only talk about and are not actually apart of. Jeez, it's rather inane to pick at old wounds that have come close to completely healing.
Why not talk about history. Why not think back for a moment and think about where we are now as a generation. Wounds may have had time too heal but we must not forget where they came from
Accurately, This Is Not Her Last Episode With A Garter Was The Episode "Buzzy Boop" in 1938. But, Yes for A Long Time Her Garter was Gone untill 1938 and you were right about her dress, it did dissapear after this episode.
A unique Betty Boop cartoon, released six years before the Pearl Harbor attack. Her song was translated into Japanese, and this charming feature is free of negative stereotyping & political correctness. More than that: it's culturally authentic! 😁😸
for an old cartoon the cultural setting and asian characters are remarkably well done (as in no offensive caricatures)
KoTheGoober I read that Fleischer asked a group of Japanese college students studying in America to review it to make sure it went over well.
+Filby Really?
Ink-Bleedful
According to Wikipedia, anyway.
y e a h b e c a u s e i t s l i t e r a l l y s u p p o s e d t o b e t h e o p p o s i t e o f o f f e n s i v e
That's because this was made for the appreciation of Betty Boop being popular among Japanese fans
This was cute, she translated her song to Japanese for them
Tom and Jerry - A Language All My Own (1948) Opening Title & Closing
A MGM Cartoon Release On July 3, 1948 and got reissued On February 18, 1956
:P
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@AP no, 666.
As a lonely Japanese kid growing up in small town in Midwest, I saw this cartoon and was so delighted!
I appreciate the studio for taking its time to make sure to get the language and the pronunciation correct (something that even modern studios don’t bother doing.)
Seeing Betty on TV singing beautifully in my native language really left an impression on me!
日本人の方なのですか？
どうアメリカで生き延びたのでしょう？
すごく貴重なご意見をありがとうございます。
Are you Japanese, sir? How could you be alive under the WWII? I'm really amazed to hear your very precious opinion! Huge thanks! Hug from Tokyo! I'm 24-year-old woman:)
Even tho that show come out 100 years ago is still great to this day.
@@udon-no-onna I'm sure reruns exist....maybe a grand parent had a CD or recording of the episode.
Am i the only one who thinks betty's voice is the cutest thing ever?
Absolutely not my friend...
Her voice makes every moe girl blush harder.
Amber DeYuliis nah
yes yes yes yes & Yes oh hell yeah & not only that she sounds ALot lik Cindy Lauper !& If you don't know
Amber DeYuliis yes yes yes she is accusing was you were her and she sounds a lot like Cyndi Lauper you don't know who she is look her up and you'll really like her ☮️
I'm impressed that Betty actually sings in quite good Japanese. Mae Questal obviously was well-coached by a native speaker and had a good ear.
They had Japanese exchange students helping them. :)
@@daddylonglegs9854 mae questel speaks five languages Japanese is one of them.
except for the "arengato" part
Betty looks so cute in a kimono! Her Japanese is pretty good too.
Thing about Fleischer is while they were generally darker and had a lot of adult themes like drugs, sex, death etc, they were also far less racially offensive. It wasn't about making caricatures, it was about Betty.
Yes, the Fleischers were often subtly didactic, and often showcased issues that are still relevant today. Popeye is mostly about bullying and abuse of women by men. There's an awful lot about being kind to others throughout the Fleischer catalog of shorts. Popeye doesn't get angry because people are different. He gets angry because people do something bad. Betty Boop's "Be Human" is about humane treatment of animals. I could go on. Betty Boop is always tolerant of others and here she is pushing harmony between nations and ethnic groups. There are some stereotypes of African Americans in Fleischer cartoons, but since they got the cooperation of some African American stars, like Cab Calloway, I guess they weren't considered to be offensive. One thing here: While the American audience at the beginning is made up of different faces wearing a variety of clothing, all the Japanese in the audience in Japan have the same face and wear the same clothing. I'm guessing the animators didn't have a lot of time to do research or were actually running out of time to finish the animation. By this time, Japanese people often wore Western style clothing, and they certainly would not have all been wearing the same kimono in any case. And indeed, they don't all look alike.
Who is just watching this in 2021?! I am.
Fleischer was a gentleman as long as everyone else was as well.
Nathaniel Garza good for you pro.
Here the lyrics:
English:
Got a language of my own known in every foreign home
You surely know it is
Boop - Oop - a - Doop!
If you sing it when you’re sad it will always make you glad
You surely know it is
Boop - Oop - a - Doop!
If you’re near or far doesn’t matter where you are
Sung in every land or the ocean
Boop - Oop - a - Doop!
It’s a song for harmony if you’ll only sing with me
A’ww come on and join me with
Boop - Oop - a - Doop!
Japanese:
Hitotsu daijina, tote yoki kotoba, sore wa watashi no
Boop - Oop - a - Doop!
Kokoro hisomeba, naosara no koto, utai odore
Boop - Oop - a - Doop!
Wakarete mo, kokorohahitotsu, mimi ni tomete
Boop - Oop - a - Doop!
o najimi-sama ya, shin wa mune ni, sorede īdesho?
Boop - Oop - a - Doop!
CHANNEL NHẬT NGUYÊN nice job!
Translated: Yoku yata!
did Betty's voice actor learn Japanese
@@christhekappa399 I doubt it
Thank youuu
I can't believe Betty Boop invented anime
She- and Max Fleischer- inspired a young Japanese artist named Osamu Tezuka, who grew up on Fleischer's Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons. After the war, he became a prolific "manga" artist and writer-- creating, among other legendary characters, "Astro Boy" and "Kimba the White Lion"....which later became TV cartoon series, and imported to the U.S. in the early 1960's. Tezuka became known as "the Walt Disney of Japan".
Barry I. Grauman my art teacher would talk about this for hours too, I'd honestly forgotten I made this comment. The way the artistic world can inspire each other through things like this to create entirely new genres is amazing.
So this is where anime got it's fanservice trope from.
don't dare to compare those old animated treasures to the crap called anime. I'd rather prefer to be thrown into a hole full of cobras than to watch anime.
@@alex9920ro well sure because a lot of it is just girls doing men's roles. But some are good like outlaw star, Hellsing, Akame ga kill.
Betty Boop, the World's First Vocaloid
Early vocaloids would not exist until the sixties
Trueeee
I legit want a Betty Boop Vocaloid to exist now. And it better cost more than 100.
@@justatoaster3140 r/woooosh
notice this is one rare moment where a minority is shown with dignity and without stereotypical exaggeration.
The audience members are drawn almost naturalistic!
Wow, no stereotypes, this was the least racist cartoon I’ve seen from this time period.
Even tho they all look alike?
@@hoodatdondar2664 That’s probably because they are background characters
@@loghorn-feghorn And that's before the war
How about the show itself. When we start to appreciate art and not feelings. Feelings are important but they are as important as feelings should be, art like this is in its own beautiful, but when you look with the modern lens and break down every microaggresson and cultural appropriation it becomes not art anymore, now its just proofreading ancient art works with modern extremist values what have changed in between these times thousands of times. Everywhere is a problem if youre looking for it
This is a Betty Boop cartoon on the near-genius level, in my opinion, & the Fleischer Brothers were cartoonists with the most tremendous imagination & creativity. The voice of Betty Boop was supplied by a lady named Mae Questel who also did the voice for "Popeye's" Olive Oyl. I'll bet Miss Questel had a ball helping to make this particular cartoon because it is enormous fun to watch both for adults & kids.
Frank Scivier I'm not a judge of any foreign culture, but what we saw here seemed pretty grateful to Japan. It strangely both gladdens and saddens me that portrayals of Japanese people weren't so awful until hostilities escalated.
Frank Scivier And she got to sing in Japanese
the calm before the storm
@@SuperCatfire : Yeah! Really!………..What was to come later was a total tragedy!
Mr Bielski, since this Betty Boop cartoon was made pre-WW2 I don't think that the Fleischer Brothers had kind of anti-Japanese propaganda in mind. They just observed Japanese culture, liked what they saw, & made a really brilliant cartoon around it. One of the saddest episodes of WW2 was that when the war broke out a few thousand Japanese people who had emigrated to the USA mainly on the west coast, were rounded up & put into internement camps for the duration of the war. It didn't happen to German or Italian emigrants because, it was pointed out later after the war was over, that the authorities would have had to round half the population of New York City which was not logistically feasible!.
The interment camps were too bad but if you think that's one of the saddest episodes of the war then I can't imagine what you think of what happened in China and Korea.
All the property that was "confiscated" from the Nisei was not given back. The whole "scare" was a land grab scheme, pure and simple, from the negative propaganda (which was one massive "con") to the actual pogroms. The men involved will rot in hell for it, I assume, unless their victims forgive them.
@@WildBillCox13 well mabey there people should not have attacked pearl harbor.
Darth rias gremory I hate to tell you, but those people were American citizens. Some had migrated here and become citizens, others were born here. Are you saying, if your ancestors migrated here and later we get into a conflict with the country they came from, it's ok to confiscate your property and throw you in a concentration camp.
The army formed the all Japanese Nisei Battalion (100th Infantry Battalion) that fought in Europe and was awarded a Presidential unit citation and 4 Meritorious Unit Commendations. In 5 months of fighting in Africa and Italy they went from 1300 men to 500 . They fought in the battle of Monte Casisno, which was a slaughter house until the Military decided to bomb the St. Benedictine monastery where the Germans were.I think they proved there love of this country
darth rias gremory it wasn't "their people" since they were American.
i was quite surprised, when she sang in japanese, her pronunciation wasn't all that bad!!
I'm so glad the creators didn't depict the Japanese with those god awful stereotypes.
Sadly, thanks to the effects of WWII, they did it anyways :(
+Haven the Maid of Breath that said, the real irony is that Japan can be just as racist as America. Just look at Mr Popo or Jynx or the Pepsi man videogame.
GregTheLion It's misunderstanding. Mainly our culture doesn't have racist idea for African American people. I guess they just used black color as same as any other colors. Some time Japanese people avoid talk with tourists from other countries, but that's because they feel scare about talk English. If there is racist person in Japan, I think most of them are not young generation. I'm sorry about my poor English...but I hope you're not hate Japan.
They CAN be racist, but Mr. Popo and Jynx are Americans projecting, since they have Japanese myth analogues and aren't trying to be blackfaces(Mr Popo isn't supposed to be even human for crying out loud).
@@scissorman44 but he does resemble a character from jungle jitters.
The similitude is coincidental(and smaller than claimed), there ARE actual black characters(if incredibly minor) in Dragon Ball and they don't look like Mr Popo. Because, AGAIN, Mr Popo is not supposed to even be human.
Again, this mindset is AMERICANS PROJECTING(there's also the issue of cultural isolation. Japan is a rather closed country and they often don't know about outside cultures as well as the US because the amount of immigrants isn't as large due the nature of the country, AKA being an island. So the best direct source they have to black people is...media. And media can paint quite a goddamn stereotypical picture of any race. So a LOT of potential racism from Japanese is actually inspired from American racism, since Japan doesn't even have a big enough population to know or care about them, nor the cultural background to have the blackface stereotype)
Perfect anime doesn't exis...
how dare to insult Fleischer cartoons that way? shame on you. Anime sucks !
@@alex9920ro today's cartoons suck as well.
darth rias gremory I agree with you, today’s cartoons are mostly bad. That’s why I saved the old cartoons on USB drives and I mainly watch classic cartoons. But let’s face it, at least every animated show is different and has it’s own style, unlike animes whick they look all the same.
MUH MARXHIZT PROPHAGHANDHA.
Three words Bebop, Eva, Miyazaki.
I mean a female cartoon, leading it's own show, driving a car, being a pilot, traveling all by herself to foreign country, working, being succssesful, speaking japanese, praising other people's culture....i don't how many taboos was she breaking
God, she's So adorable in her pilot suit when she's flying!
BETTY BOOP looks CUTE & BEAUTIFUL in any outfit. I wish i could marry her.
I never realized how much the Fliescher studios played a part in animation till now.
I know it doesn't count in an old school cartoon like this, but I still want to give props to Betty's costume designer for such a smooth transformation of her dress to kimono.
Welcome to Japan, thank you, Max and Betty.
Damn im surprised this wasn't racist
Actually, it's far from it! This short was made in appareciation of Betty Boop's Japanese fans.
I#m suprised that people finally found their brain and see when those cartoons where made *sarcasm*.
@@girzarro BETTY BOOP WAS VERY WELL LOVED BY HER FANS IN JAPAN.
@@davidwesley2525 Not only that, but her and Fleischer Studios in general helped shape Anime into what it is today thanks to Osamu Tezuka being inspired by his stuff as you can see in his books like Astro Boy, Jungle Emperor Leo (Kimba) Black Jack, Phoenix, and many others.
And yes, she WAS singing in real Japanese
Does this count as early racial harmony? Because i don't want to say anything bad to anyone on this good green earth.
chanel pugh more like they didn't rely on racial caricatures for humor unlike most pre modern cartoons which is refreshing
I wouldn't count this as _racist_, considering the short was made for Betty Boop's fans in Japan.
And the reply above is very true.
george ruch I think it’s because the cartoon focuses on differences that are cultural rather than race-based.
@@reoire843 another thing I find some modern viewers forget is the cultural devide was actually more pronouced back then. like some people (Lowkey calling out my dumbass friend) would say "why are they all wearing kinono? that's sterotyping!" but back then western fashions where not popular, so people still mainly wore kinono. it's funny that historical accuracy is often treated as sterotyping. edit:also I seen people think the way older charters walk in kimono to be stereotyping but like, that stuffs hard to walk in.
@@thisotakugirl1017 i feel that the people that get offended, genuinely don't understand the topic at hand.
www.tokyoweekender.com/2019/05/japanese-fashion-eras-heian-heisei/
And about kimonos being heavy to wear, I also feel that people don't understand how a kimono is worn either.
There's just so many layers in that thing.
Ironic indeed that this positive portrayal of the Japanese was four years before WW2 broke. I like to think that the spirit of Manjiro Nakahama (first Japanese to come to the U.S., staying in my hometown, Fairhaven, Mass. !) watched over this cartoon!
The war between the US and Japan broke out on December 7, 1941, (or the 8th, if you were in Japan) not 1935 or 1939, of course, but the Fleischers were surely aware of the Japanese occupation of Korea and Manchuria, which were well established by this time. How would I know, but maybe they wanted to be very precise in stating that while the government of Japan was committing these heinous acts, the people of Japan were very much united with Americans in loving innocent music, cartoons, and, in particular, Betty Boop, who was a "star" there too. It is a horrible fact of human history that leaders find it necessary to turn all the people of a nation into the enemies of their own people, goading them into wars during which the leaders are rarely killed any more, but millions of soldiers and civilians are. Washington may have crossed the Delaware with his troops, but LBJ didn't cross the Mekong with his.
Up until the attack on Pearl Harbor (and I do mean _right_ up until the attack), US-Japanese relations were fairly warm and looking to get warmer. The Japanese invasion of Manchuria caused a bit of trouble, but hopes were still high until the bombs fell. As President Roosevelt notes in his "Infamy Speech", "The United States was at peace with [Japan], and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its Government and its Emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific", referencing the "Hull Note", a message sent to Japan by the Secretary of State containing diplomatic proposals for maintaining peace and the US-Japanese relationship.
But Pearl Harbor ruined everything, all because the Japanese military thought it would demoralize the Americans enough to knock them out of the war before it was even officially declared. Not to say there were _never any_ racist caricatures _before_ the war, of course, but Pearl Harbor was when they _really_ exploded and got less "thoughtless" and more "outright nasty".
Myron Waldman, the head animator/de-facto director of this cartoon, supervised the Fleischer unit that favored the most Disneyesque stories. He created Betty's dog Pudgy and would later handle the Fleischer's Raggedy Ann two-reeler cartoon (Waldman also was the Fleischer director who most loved putting big oval eyes on his characters, which would be a major influence on Tezuka and the future anime drawing style).
BB was a thundering success in pre-war Japan, which probably led to the this "thank you" cartoon being made.
Her Japanese is very fluent. I'm really amazed!
she looks cute in a kimono. well done Fleischer
この時代からこんな綺麗で、日本を違和感なく描写できてるなんてさすがはアメリカ！
Got a language of my own known in every foreign home
You surely know it is Boop-Oopy-Doop-Boop-Oopy-Doop
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
Boopy-Doopy-Doopy-Doo-Boop-Oopy-Doop!
Paula Teixeira
And the rest of the song?
This is before they created the 60’s anime such as Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Princess Knight, the Nicktoons show such as My Life as a Teenage Robot and the video games such as Bendy and the Ink Machine and Cuphead.
Pretty interesting short.
Cuphead is American.
Well, all those you mentioned were heavily inspired by Max Fleischer, so it makes sense (Cant say I was aware of the Teenage Robot connection, but looking at it with that context makes sense)
"Anime" influence? (Dr.) Osamu Tezuka was enchanted by Max Fleischer's cartoons while growing up in Japan in the 1930s, and those was HIS influence in creating and drawing what American audiences know as "ASTRO BOY", "KIMBA THE WHITE LION", "THE AMAZING THREE", and others. In most of his "manga", he occasionally featured some Fleischer-ish characters, or people who looked like "Popeye", "Bluto", "Betty", et. al.
It explains very much why some of his characters look very similar to ones in Max' cartoons. Its also been stated that Bambi was an influence too, though If you look at his artwork side by side with Fleischer, you can see the similarities.
Either they got a Japanese actress that sounds EXACTLY like Betty Boop...or her Japanese is just THAT good! :O
Like seriously, when she's singing in Japanese, I hardly hear an American accent at all!
(Although, her "arigato" sounds more like "ariNGato", but that's besides the point. LOL)
Americans were always obsessed with Japan, even in the extremely olden days (1800's or 1900's?? I forget?)
TeaCup This cartoon was made to pay tribute to the many Betty Boop fans in Japan. That's why so much carefulness was put into making it respectful, as compared to how other cartoons depicted other foreign cultures.
Originally released by Paramount in July 1935, and Betty's last appearance in her trademark skirt and garter. This was her penultimate performance (and last hurrah before she was "cleaned up", because of the stringent Hollywood "Production Code")- she'd never quite match it again. The delightful music score was written and conducted by Sammy Timberg. And, of course, Mae Questel is "Betty".
This just warms my heart in a strangely profound way. Betty Boop is so awesome😊
I like the old version of animation than the modern one
Fantastic animated cartoon. I think this cartoon was done before the build up to WW2, so our outrage or doubts about its purpose are misplaced. Today's allies can be tomorrow's villains, so how can an animator or writer know? Take the cartoon IN CONTEXT as a wonderful work of art and forget about the horrors of war, if only for a brief moment.
Just sayin' . . .
starts singing Japanese , ME: HOLY CRaP
Nowhere near as many stereotypes as when WW2 started,
Betty is a goodwill ambassador in this going to a foreign country that most americans knew nothing about,
I like the use of the Japanese language in this.
ありがとうございます。
Thank you up video.
Talk about surrealism , it took less than a minute for BETTY BOOP to fly from NEW YORK CITY to JAPAN . It takes five and a half hours to fly from SEATTLE WASHINGTON to HAWAII . L.O.L.
3:27 love that part to much
やっぱベティちゃん可愛い❤️
im surprised she sings with proper Japanese and no accents!! I mean I can’t believe the company in 1900s hired an Japanese voice actor!!
(Sorry if there’s any grammatical errors in the sentences.)
Very late but it was actually the same voice actor in English and Japanese
What can I say about Betty Boop. She is a classy lady.
@MsGeek703 I didn't pay overly close attention to her lyrics and her Japanese has a bit of an odd intonation at times, but she seems to be singing roughly the same thing she sang in English, but in Japanese!
There might be some differences, but I was never very good at picking out words in songs. ^^;
3:28 how does one squeak that much
Betty boop So cute when sing japanese!!
3:03
I’m a Japanese. I wonder why people (foreigner) putting their hands together in front of their chest to say “thank you” ? We don’t do that in Japan.
I think it's a practice we borrowed from Thailand, where it is the custom. It seems to work.
すげぇ...ベティー俺より日本語うまいんじゃねえか？ ww
When Betty hoop does that tiny dance at 3:07 it’s ADORABLE!
Considering that film was "lost" for years (and I haven't seen it until recently), that's a good reason why I was in error, Cooper...
Shouldn't lady liberty have a French accent
Lady Liberty has been an American citizen since 1886 she long lost her French accent.
I love how crazy these old cartoons are
So cute ! I love JAPAN and Betty Boop ❤️
my favorite ep of betty boop!!! missing my childhood days 💛
@diddymuck
And very inspirational to a certain little runt named Osamu Tezuka, who would have been only seven years old when this was made. Wonder if he saw this one?
Wonderful short!!! Betty Boop is the best!
I wish i could marry BETTY BOOP. I would love to have BETTY BOOP for a wife.
素晴らしいです。感動しました。このようなものが戦前に作られていたことは、両国の貴重な財産になるでしょう。
this is one of my favorite ones. such a cute cultural exchange.
@Kawayoporu Speaking of Dororo, the godfather of modern anime and manga Osamu Tezuka's style was very much inspired by Fleischer and Disney animation!
Cute how it all comes full circle, huh?
Damn the memories... this was my favorite episode XD
@fromthesidelines : Thanks for the excellent background info!
ARIGATOU !
ありがとう！
This is my favorite song from her.
I have never been in a cockpit where the only two gauges were "motor" and "oil."
Betty Boop is the og queen
it is impressive how well this aged, when you currently looking over to japan how the fans are at concerts, you can see a lot of parallels ... Thought know I wonder, has this always been like that in japan or is this a modern occurrence which they somehow managed to "predict" back then?
Oh my god,This cartoon is so old!
kingx mettaton 😂
Her “それでいいでしょ！”sounds adorable
Golly, welcome to the comment section talking about 1930's: a period of time in which they can only talk about and are not actually apart of. Jeez, it's rather inane to pick at old wounds that have come close to completely healing.
Why not talk about history. Why not think back for a moment and think about where we are now as a generation. Wounds may have had time too heal but we must not forget where they came from
The animation at 3:48 is amazing! I love the transition
Betty is best girl
lost but not forgotten...
Life would be imitating art after this short several years later
So interesting to see this prewar cartoon and contrast it with Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
1935: Betty Boop flies a plane to Japan to drop some entertainment
1945: Betty Boop flies a plane to Japan to drop something else...
Now I finally figured out where the clips in I've got that Tune from Chinese Man are from
Betty va a Japón qué buena .
Accurately, This Is Not Her Last Episode With A Garter Was The Episode "Buzzy Boop" in 1938. But, Yes for A Long Time Her Garter was Gone untill 1938 and you were right about her dress, it did dissapear after this episode.
This is the first betty boop cartoon that shows the world approved and the certificate number
Was she singing real Japanese?
Stephen Gilberg yes, while I can't speak great Japanese I caught some words like 'kore wa' and 'watashi'(translates as 'here' and 'I')
I'm Japanese. Yes, her Japanese is quite good.
Then can you comment all the lyrics she sang in Japanese?
一つ大事な、とてよき言葉、それは私の
Hitotu Daijina Toteyo ki Kotoba Sore Wa Watashino!
Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
心潜めば、なおさらの事、歌い踊れ
Kokoro Hisomeba Naosaranokoto Utai Odore!
Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
分かれても、心は一つ、耳に留めて
Wakaretemo Kokorowa Hitotu Mimini Todomete!
Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
お馴染み様や、真は胸に、それでいいでしょ？
Onajimi-samaya Makoto-wamuneni Sorede ii desho?
Boopy-Doopy-Doopy-Doo-Boop-Oopy-Doop!
Yes
This was used in Chinese Man's song "I've got that tune"
Betty poop is pretty damn close to one of the most timeless characters
What a difference 6 years makes...
hi from 6 years after you comment
すごいなぁ感動した
Betty Boop the first waifu of the history.
@fromthesidelines If this cartoon were made today, would there be any changes made? Who would be the voice of Ms. Boop now?
During the 1930s, her popularuty soared in Japan
She’s too cute I’m crying
A unique Betty Boop cartoon, released six years before the Pearl Harbor attack.
Her song was translated into Japanese, and this charming feature is free of negative stereotyping & political correctness. More than that: it's culturally authentic! 😁😸
Tbh her dress is all in one and its cool its cute how she said "Thank you" in japanese so cute i love betty boop.
Olive Oyl liked her show so much... she went to see it twice, AT THE SAME TIME (look in the front row).
I watched this one as a child
And 6 years later it all change. 😒
July 14, 1935
I like that song xD
GOLLY! BETTY BOOP IS CRAZY FAMOUS!!