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Title (English) Crayon Shin-chan

Title (Japanese) Crayon Shin-chan

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Fantasy Novel

Notes From a manga by Yoshuhito Usui. 391+ TV episodes. Also seven movies.

Classification -

Synopsis About Shinnosuke "Shin-chan" Nohara, a horrible spoiled rude little brat.

Review This show was supposedly made with adults in mind, but it proved wildly popular with Japanese children, who enjoyed the exploits of its revolting 5 year old main character. Complaints abounded that a generation of Japanese children was growing up to emulate Shin-chan.
The episodes are generally split into three un-related chapters, in which Shin-chan engages in obnoxious behaviour and harasses the adults around him.
No doubt one's response to this series will be coloured by which side of the generational gap one is on. My immediate response was to sympathise with the adult characters and to feel that Shin-chan should have been stifled at birth :-). The character design is a little odd, as can be seen from the grab above.
If possible, see a subtitled version of this, as it definitely loses something in translation. In the original version, Shin-chan's voice is remarkable, managing to be simultaneously low-pitched and whiny. And foreign dubbed versions may water down how rude this boy actually is - in the original he shows his bum in the credit sequence and goes on (in one episode) to trail his father to see if he's having an affair, make remarks about women, and say that various people are perverts.
The Japanese episode I checked had two related parts, not 3. (GC)
What do you make of a five year old who makes passes at older women (older than 17..) and regularly exposes himself? A lot has been said about this show, both inside and outside Japan - it is obscene, it teaches kids bad manners, etc. Which would make one think that Crayon Shin-chan is a big ecchi-fest. It is not.
Yes, it can be vulgar. Yes, the kid does things no normal five year old would do. Yes, he does talk in a way no Japanese mother would tolerate out of her own children. But it does have some degree of innocence to it. Shin-chan annoys (and embarasses) the heck out of his parents, his teachers, his friends, his friend's parents, but he's still a five year old. What he does is mostly out of ignorance, and he's got a heart of gold.
The reason this show is a hit is that it is extremely funny. It pokes fun at everything Japanese, and has a great cast of characters. The humor is "clever", often insightful, and even, at times, self-referential. The show does have its vulgar moments, but it is never crass. Definitely not the same sort of vulgarity you'd find in, say, "Ping Pong Club". The closest American equivalent would be "The Simpsons", not "South Park". Even more so than "The Simpsons", the artwork is very stylized (some would say "crude", though not so crude as the artwork in "South Park"), which fits the tone of the show very well.
Episodes subtitled in English are aired on KIKU in Hawaii, so your best way of getting episodes would be to have a friend in Hawaii who tapes the show. Some knowledge of Japanese helps, since a lot of the Japanese jokes (usually involving puns) don't get translated, and are VERY funny. The manga is even more daring than the show, involving, for instance, covering your dad's eyes when he is driving. A few chapters were translated, over the years, in the late lamented Mangajin.
(Iskandar Taib )

Credits Series dir: Keiichi Hara

Episodes

Release Ger:TV, Spa:TV

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 1992 April 13 -

Production Shinei

Broadcaster TV Asahi

Animation

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	Crayon Shin-chan
Title (Japanese)	Crayon Shin-chan
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	From a manga by Yoshuhito Usui. 391+ TV episodes. Also seven movies.
Classification	-
Synopsis	About Shinnosuke "Shin-chan" Nohara, a horrible spoiled rude little brat.
Review	This show was supposedly made with adults in mind, but it proved wildly popular with Japanese children, who enjoyed the exploits of its revolting 5 year old main character. Complaints abounded that a generation of Japanese children was growing up to emulate Shin-chan. The episodes are generally split into three un-related chapters, in which Shin-chan engages in obnoxious behaviour and harasses the adults around him. No doubt one's response to this series will be coloured by which side of the generational gap one is on. My immediate response was to sympathise with the adult characters and to feel that Shin-chan should have been stifled at birth :-). The character design is a little odd, as can be seen from the grab above. If possible, see a subtitled version of this, as it definitely loses something in translation. In the original version, Shin-chan's voice is remarkable, managing to be simultaneously low-pitched and whiny. And foreign dubbed versions may water down how rude this boy actually is - in the original he shows his bum in the credit sequence and goes on (in one episode) to trail his father to see if he's having an affair, make remarks about women, and say that various people are perverts. The Japanese episode I checked had two related parts, not 3. (GC) What do you make of a five year old who makes passes at older women (older than 17..) and regularly exposes himself? A lot has been said about this show, both inside and outside Japan - it is obscene, it teaches kids bad manners, etc. Which would make one think that Crayon Shin-chan is a big ecchi-fest. It is not. Yes, it can be vulgar. Yes, the kid does things no normal five year old would do. Yes, he does talk in a way no Japanese mother would tolerate out of her own children. But it does have some degree of innocence to it. Shin-chan annoys (and embarasses) the heck out of his parents, his teachers, his friends, his friend's parents, but he's still a five year old. What he does is mostly out of ignorance, and he's got a heart of gold. The reason this show is a hit is that it is extremely funny. It pokes fun at everything Japanese, and has a great cast of characters. The humor is "clever", often insightful, and even, at times, self-referential. The show does have its vulgar moments, but it is never crass. Definitely not the same sort of vulgarity you'd find in, say, "Ping Pong Club". The closest American equivalent would be "The Simpsons", not "South Park". Even more so than "The Simpsons", the artwork is very stylized (some would say "crude", though not so crude as the artwork in "South Park"), which fits the tone of the show very well. Episodes subtitled in English are aired on KIKU in Hawaii, so your best way of getting episodes would be to have a friend in Hawaii who tapes the show. Some knowledge of Japanese helps, since a lot of the Japanese jokes (usually involving puns) don't get translated, and are VERY funny. The manga is even more daring than the show, involving, for instance, covering your dad's eyes when he is driving. A few chapters were translated, over the years, in the late lamented Mangajin. (Iskandar Taib )
Credits	Series dir: Keiichi Hara
Episodes
Release	Ger:TV, Spa:TV
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	1992 April 13 -
Production	Shinei
Broadcaster	TV Asahi
Animation
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.