Hime-chan’s Ribbon: Episodes 41–50

June 24, 2019 — OUT: Hime-chan’s Ribbon 41 v2 is available

Little Lovers

Little Lovers is a slice-of-life episode. One of its main topics is a realistic problem for little children, but is rarely depicted in anime shows, perhaps because it’s not very exciting nor fantastic (and so not marketable). When the seiyū for Yumeko voices Fake Yumeko (who is actually Himeko), the way she speaks is subtly different (Himeko-ish) — nicely nuanced! Also interestingly, Shinataro and Ichiko (“Icchan”) are voiced by the same person.

Yumeko & Shintaro (Click to enlarge)

(Click to enlarge)

The Tama River? (Click to enlarge)

Image:hcr41-3
A view from the same location in the real world,
assuming that the two kids are on the Sekido Bridge.

For a detailed explanation with more pictures and a map, please see “The Tama River in Hime-chan’s Ribbon Ep. 41.”

Fake Yumeko (Click to enlarge)

The so-called “Come to my van, children” scene (NO IT ISN’T)

First Aired on: July 16, 1993 (Friday), 18:00–18:30 JST (09:00–09:30 UTC)
Ep. Title: Little Lovers
Original Ep. Title: 小（ちい）さな恋人（こいびと）たち
Original Ep. Title in Romaji (Unicode): Chiisana Koibito-tachi
Original Ep. Title in Romaji (ASCII): Chiisana Koibito-tachi
Script (Screenplay): Yanagawa Shigeru
Storyboard: Akane Kazuki
Episode Director (Animation Director; Enshutsu): Akane Kazuki
Animation Supervisor (Animation Director; Sakuga Kantoku): Konishi Yōko
Fansub Released by #honobono on: June 24, 2019 (18:54 UTC)

File

Name: Hime-chan's Ribbon (DVD x264) - 41 [h-b] (190618E6).mp4
Video: AVC (x264) [r3059]; 1210 kbps
Audio: AAC (Apple) [qaac]; 119 kbps
Size: 250,676,399 Bytes (239 MiB)
CRC32: 190618E6
MD5: 87BD3CCD939339C7F2F26D1C6EB3B51F
RIPEMD-160: F45E5FCA7B5F8D88230968C5254C0EB5B0560EEC
SHA-1: 97B5CCE2ADF0E94D7556DACD943B2004DD2FE690
SHA-256: A5C104181B5A51129B39C1EEEDC8D2C5B5F8E0358751F76B94A124DA302547DE

Version History

a3r 0.1.8.1
2017-08-13 HCR41 Edited
2017-09-02 HCR41 Timed
2017-09-06 HCR41 Typeset RC1
2017-09-08 HCR41 Encoded RC1
2017-12-26 HCR41 Typeset RC2
2018-01-21 HCR41 Encoded RC2
2018-07-06 HCR41 Typeset RC3

(hiatus)

a3r 0.1.8.4-pre
2019-05-25 HCR41 Typeset RC3v2
2019-05-25 HCR41 Encoded RC3
2019-05-31 HCR41 Typeset RC4
2019-06-04 HCR41 Encoded RC4
2019-06-11 HCR41 Typeset RC5
2019-06-11 HCR41 Encoded RC5
2019-06-16 HCR41 Typeset RC6
2019-06-18 HCR41 Encoded RC6
2019-06-24 HCR41 Released

Memos

May 23, 2019: After a 2-year hiatus [HCR40 was released on 2017-05-10], we’re now restarting Hime-chan’s Ribbon Episode 41. We may be able to release 41 within like two weeks, as it is already in the RC3 (=near-final) stage, script-wise. The hiatus was not due to laziness; life is not always peaceful. Our chief encoder of HCR, who also did that amazing OP logo work, needed a rest. She, however, did not just go MIA; she gracefully has made the necessary arrangement so that we can continue this project. We’d like to continue HCR (we even have a QCer whose nick is Pokota). We can’t promise anything, but we’ll try!

May 25, 2019: HCR41 RC3 was actually encoded, though this may not be the final version.
May 27, 2019: Maybe we can release this episode in early June.
June 4, 2019: HCR41 RC4 was (test-)encoded, with a few translation improvements.
June 9, 2019: HCR41 is almost ready to release, except a minor encoding problem was found. We’re re-encoding to fix it.
June 11, 2019: Fixed (RC5). Should be released within a few days.
June 16, 2019: We’re going to re-encode this one last time to make a few minor changes.
June 20, 2019: We will release Hime-chan’s Ribbon 41 today or tomorrow.
June 23, 2019: Hime-chan’s Ribbon 41 will be released shortly. The file itself is 100% ready and the torrent was already made on June 18, but it is being temporarily on hold for certain reasons.
June 24, 2019 (18:54 UTC): We have released Hime-chan’s Ribbon 41. The bridge depicted in this episode may be based on a real place (see a separate page for more info).

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June 16, 2021 — OUT: Hime-chan’s Ribbon 41v2

Little Lovers

This is the v2 release of Episode 41: a fully softsubbed MKV, as opposed to v1 (hardsubbed MP4). For more info about the format change, see Episode 42.

File

Name: Hime-chan's Ribbon (DVD x264) - 41v2 [h-b] (210601A1).mkv
Video: AVC (x264) [r3059]; 1245 kbps
Audio: AAC (Apple) [qaac]; 120 kbps
Size: 257,052,096 Bytes (245 MiB)
CRC32: 210601A1
MD5: D33550B2ED3116D9F9BC846C7B5DEBB0
RIPEMD-160: 95329C70404D06D7A8DCD7A68C8FD214E57B8B4E
SHA-1: 7D736374297D2D9CA1C18EBC58356CCBB12CCDEB
SHA-256: 30EEAF26EE1542FAAA78A358414D4E3F611FBF7300AE0AC8FF30336BEADBFBDA

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June 16, 2021 — OUT: Hime-chan’s Ribbon 42

UFO Camp!

NOTE (File Format Change): Starting from this episode, we are now fully softsubbing HCR as MKV. OP/ED, especially OP, may be too CPU-intensive for old computers (you can just skip it). Episode 41v2 was also released in the same format.

So in this episode, Hime-chan, Daichi, and others visit the mountainous town of Okutama.

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A scenery of Okutama (Left), and a scene in HCR42.

A map of Western Tokyo and some surrounding areas (Click to enlarge):
A = Kunitachi City: Hime-chan’s hometown, Kazetachi, is based on this.
B = Okutama Town / C = Chichibu City: appearing in Initial D, though unrelated here.

(Click to enlarge)

First Aired on: July 23, 1993 (Friday), 18:00–18:30 JST (09:00–09:30 UTC)
Ep. Title: UFO Camp!
Original Ep. Title: キャンプでUFO！
Original Ep. Title in Romaji (Unicode): Kyanpu de Yūfō!
Original Ep. Title in Romaji (ASCII): Kyanpu de Yuufoo!
Script (Screenplay): Sakurai Masaaki
Storyboard: Satō Yūzō
Episode Director (Animation Director; Enshutsu): Matsukawa Tomomichi
Animation Supervisor (Animation Director; Sakuga Kantoku): Watanabe Hajime
Fansub Released by #honobono on: June 16, 2011 (21:19 UTC)

File

Name: Hime-chan's Ribbon (DVD x264) - 42 [h-b] (210613A3).mkv
Video: AVC (x264) [r3059]; 1245 kbps
Audio: AAC (Apple) [qaac]; 120 kbps
Size: 257,052,096 Bytes (245 MiB)
CRC32: 210613A3
MD5: EFFA9AC2F7508236BBFEB24766CF193C
RIPEMD-160: 05CDCC58C40A6EE2E8E9BC072BC0B06931019941
SHA-1: 4ED14D01BB6905AACB7A120B9347C2277E0263A5
SHA-256: 3DF5880850EEBEB87128FCE29938A9BFE0FF3BC79363B51DB3A0FB530666B438

Version History

a3r 0.1.9.2 / 0.1.9.3
2019-08-01 HCR42 Translated
2020-07-19 HCR42 Editor change
2021-02-21 HCR42 Edited
2021-05-03 HCR42 Timed
2021-05-13 HCR42 Typeset RC1
2021-05-13 HCR42 Encoded RC1
2021-05-31 HCR42 Typeset RC2
2021-05-31 HCR42 Encoded RC2
2021-06-13 HCR42 Typeset RC3
2021-06-13 HCR42 Encoded RC3
2021-06-16 HCR42 Released

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