Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
JANUARY 2025 EDIT-- HQ rip of the sequel here: youtube.com/watch?v=vMsUq2-f5c4
ENGLISH SUBTITLES provided by my dear friend Dustin, click the CC button!
Translates roughly to "The Little Polar Bear, Where Are You Going?". With music by Tomoko Tane, Nobuo Nakahara, Mutsuhiro "Mutchin" Nishiwaka. Based on a children's book by Hans de Beer.
If Little Polar Bear: Shirokuma-kun, Fune ni Noru (the sequel) is geo-blocked for you, here's an alternate link: drive.google.com/file/d/1xZoPGG5NAwRrnix1egFj1lZRLBZgREBA/view?usp=sharing
In the visual department, the HQ rip is not that huge a difference, but we finally have GLORIOUS STEREO AUDIO. This special makes INCREDIBLE use of that. I just finished meticulously cutting out little clicks just listening to the audio all by itself, and even as someone who doesn't speak Japanese, I felt completely immersed in the sound, radio-play-style. I could see every scene from the special poi'fectly through sound alone. Hope y'all feel the same. Also, I'm not normally one for uploading 60fps footage, but this VHS tape has rill' bad ghosting between animation cels, so I feel like if someone wanted to get nothing but clean frames, uploading it like this would be the best way to ensure you had them all.
JANUARY 2025 EDIT-- HQ rip of the sequel here: youtube.com/watch?v=vMsUq2-f5c4
ENGLISH SUBTITLES provided by my dear friend Dustin, click the CC button!
Translates roughly to "The Little Polar Bear, Where Are You Going?". With music by Tomoko Tane, Nobuo Nakahara, Mutsuhiro "Mutchin" Nishiwaka. Based on a children's book by Hans de Beer.
If Little Polar Bear: Shirokuma-kun, Fune ni Noru (the sequel) is geo-blocked for you, here's an alternate link: drive.google.com/file/d/1xZoPGG5NAwRrnix1egFj1lZRLBZgREBA/view?usp=sharing
In the visual department, the HQ rip is not that huge a difference, but we finally have GLORIOUS STEREO AUDIO. This special makes INCREDIBLE use of that. I just finished meticulously cutting out little clicks just listening to the audio all by itself, and even as someone who doesn't speak Japanese, I felt completely immersed in the sound, radio-play-style. I could see every scene from the special poi'fectly through sound alone. Hope y'all feel the same. Also, I'm not normally one for uploading 60fps footage, but this VHS tape has rill' bad ghosting between animation cels, so I feel like if someone wanted to get nothing but clean frames, uploading it like this would be the best way to ensure you had them all.
