golyplot wrote:Tonight, I watched Aggretsuko s2e1 (with subs as usual), the episode where Retsuko's incredibly overbearing mother who keeps insisting she know's best moves in. It made me decide to look up "Mother Knows Best" in Japanese afterwards. I had trouble understanding the song though.
This is super interesting. It all seems to revolve around "信じて" but there is no single phrase that they substitute for "Mother Knows Best." This is why we will always need human translators.