Includes Amazon.co.jp exclusive bonus: set of three L-print visual sheets

The second feature film of Chibi Maruko-chan, released in 1992, is now available on Blu-ray for the first time to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its theatrical release!The second feature film of Chibi Maruko-chan, released in 1992, is now available on Blu-ray for the first time to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its theatrical release!

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Synopsis
When Momoko Sakura, a.k.a. Maruko, learns a song called “Menkoi foal” at school, she decides to use it as the theme for her arts and crafts class, but she doesn’t know how to draw it. One day, near her grandmother’s house in Shizuoka, she meets a portrait artist who tells her that “Menkoi colt” is actually a sad song about a horse and a boy who have to be separated due to war, down to the third verse. Maruko paints the boy’s feelings and his heart that he will always remember her. When she visits her sister to let her know that her painting has won a prize, the boyfriend who taught her the lyrics proposes that she come with him as he is going back to the country to work on his ranch. Maruko refuses to go because she wants to paint, but the older sister tells her that she can paint anywhere. On the day of the wedding, she quietly sneaks out of school and shouts that she will never forget him. Some time later, a book with her sister’s drawings in it arrives. It is the same book that Maruko had just acquired in exchange for cleaning out the chicken coop.

Staff
Planning : Masataka Miyanaga
Original Story/Screenplay : Momoko Sakura
Music：Akira Senju, Shinji Kawahara
Character Design：Hideo Kawachi
Screen Setup : Osamu Kobayashi
Art Director: Kanako Nomura
Animation Director：Yuko Ikuno, Yoshiaki Yanagida, Masaya Fujimori
Sound recording: Yasunori Honda
Photography: Shuichi Ito
Editing: Yumiko Fuse
Storyboarding: Yumiko Suda
Direction: Fumiko Ishii, Saeko Aoki
Ending Animation: Masaya Fujimori
Producer: Masahiro Okamura, Kenji Shimizu
Director: Yumiko Suda, Tsutomu Shibayama
Production Cooperation: Asia Do Co.
Production: Sakura Productions Co.
　　　(Fuji Television Network, Inc.

Ending Theme Song “Daisuki
Lyrics: Momoko Sakura, Composition: Kyohei Tsutumi, Arrangement: Akira Senju, Song: Yumiko Takahashi

Voice Cast
Maruko: TARAKO
Grandpa: Takashi Tomiyama
Grandma: Yuko Sasaki
Father: Yusaku Yara
Mother: Sadatomo Iryusai
Big sister: Yuko Mizutani
Shoko Kimura: Yumiko Takahashi