Children's shows in Japanese

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Reply #1 - 2008 August 18, 7:02 pm
strugglebunny Member
From: Okachimachi Registered: 2007-11-10 Posts: 139 Website

Anyone know where I can find any children's shows in Japanese? My listening comprehension is terrible, so children's TV might help me out. I can find streaming dramas, animes, and movies quiet easily, but I can't find anything basic. Everything I've seen in threads seems to put in the direction of dramas.

Reply #2 - 2008 August 18, 7:54 pm
playadom Member
Registered: 2007-06-29 Posts: 468

Perhaps some Doraemon?

Reply #3 - 2008 August 18, 7:56 pm
erlog Member
From: Japan Registered: 2007-01-25 Posts: 633

playadom wrote:

Perhaps some Doraemon?

I second this, you can do a search on youtube for Doraemon or どらえもん will bring up zillions of short episodes that are perfect. I suggest starting with this one: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=hf8KfF4pR0g

I came to Japan really not wanting to like Doraemon or any of the other typical Japanese stuff, but Doraemon is so well-done that it changed my opinion. It's just a really solid children's show, legitimately. I have no idea why Speed Racer made its way over here while Doraemon never did. I think it has something to do with Felix the cat cornering the market on tool-using cat-driven childrens' television shows.

Last edited by erlog (2008 August 18, 7:58 pm)

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Reply #4 - 2008 August 18, 8:32 pm
playadom Member
Registered: 2007-06-29 Posts: 468

Hahaha テストにアンキパン??? I cracked up as soon as I saw the title!

Man, I'm gonna need some of that, with the fall semester starting soon.....

Reply #5 - 2008 August 19, 9:06 pm
strugglebunny Member
From: Okachimachi Registered: 2007-11-10 Posts: 139 Website

Thanks for the suggestion! Do you guys recommend watching with or without subtitles? I seem to always just focus on them instead of listening....

Reply #6 - 2008 August 19, 9:19 pm
stehr Member
From: california Registered: 2007-09-25 Posts: 281

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there's a series of books that teach English using Doraemon manga.  In other words, they have translations and notes for every sentence in a Doraemon manga, J-E.  I have several volumes of the Vietnamese-English books, that I assume were translated from J-E to V-E. 

Anyways, great cache of sentences to SRS if you can find the books, plus you can watch the shows and see them in action.

Reply #7 - 2008 August 19, 10:05 pm
strugglebunny Member
From: Okachimachi Registered: 2007-11-10 Posts: 139 Website

stehr wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there's a series of books that teach English using Doraemon manga.  In other words, they have translations and notes for every sentence in a Doraemon manga, J-E.  I have several volumes of the Vietnamese-English books, that I assume were translated from J-E to V-E. 

Anyways, great cache of sentences to SRS if you can find the books, plus you can watch the shows and see them in action.

Perhaps this is what you ment? http://www.jbox.com/PRODUCT/PB561

Seems pretty cheap. Might end up ordering them.

erlog wrote:

I second this, you can do a search on youtube for Doraemon or どらえもん will bring up zillions of short episodes that are perfect. I suggest starting with this one: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=hf8KfF4pR0g

I came to Japan really not wanting to like Doraemon or any of the other typical Japanese stuff, but Doraemon is so well-done that it changed my opinion. It's just a really solid children's show, legitimately. I have no idea why Speed Racer made its way over here while Doraemon never did. I think it has something to do with Felix the cat cornering the market on tool-using cat-driven childrens' television shows.

Thank you for introducing me to this show. Seems great! I could definitely go for some ankipan right now..

Anyone know of anything in the line of a Japanese Sesame Street, Mr. Rodger's, Teletubbies, etc. type kid's educational shows? Something meant for really young children?

Reply #8 - 2008 August 25, 3:21 am
Jon_B Member
From: California Registered: 2008-08-18 Posts: 60

Doraemon is awesome. Whenever a TV application breaks down and I go into Japanese environment withdrawl, I turn on Doraemon and it settles me on. I love the voice of Doraemon too haha. Like kind of fat but not.

Reply #9 - 2008 August 25, 4:09 am
AdamLeliel Member
From: Nottingham Registered: 2008-06-30 Posts: 91

This sounds stupid, but Pokemon was pretty easy to understand and as I watched it when I was a kid, I at least remotely understood what was going on when I didn't get what was being said.

Reply #10 - 2008 August 25, 8:15 am
phauna Member
From: Tokyo Registered: 2007-12-25 Posts: 500 Website

Just get Japanese Sesame Street.  It's translated, and some extra parts are actually filmed in Japan with Japanese actors.

Reply #11 - 2008 August 25, 1:28 pm
amthomas Member
From: Japan Registered: 2006-06-22 Posts: 104

I totally second Kogepan. A great *great* show. You'll never look at milk the same way again.

Reply #12 - 2008 August 25, 2:05 pm
mentat_kgs Member
From: Brasil Registered: 2008-04-18 Posts: 1671 Website

Chi's Sweet Home is awesome. It looks totaly silly at first, but it is sooo deep!

Reply #13 - 2008 August 25, 7:40 pm
strugglebunny Member
From: Okachimachi Registered: 2007-11-10 Posts: 139 Website

Kogepan really was neat. Too bad I barely understood anything (had to rely on subtitles). My vocab must be really bad sad

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