(also known as "Shin Chan" in the United States) is a Japanese manga and anime series written by Yoshito Usui.
Crayon Shin-chan follows the antics of five-year-old Shinnosuke Nohara and his parents, neighbors, friends, etc., and is set in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
Crayon Shin-chan first appeared in a Japanese weekly magazine called Weekly Manga Action, which is published by Futabasha. The anime Crayon Shin-chan has been on TV Asahi since April 13 1992, and has also been aired by Cartoon Network, the anime television network, Animax across Japan, Hungama TV in India, and in Latin America.
Much of the jokes in the series stems from Shin-chan's occasionally weird, unnatural and inappropriate use of language, as well as from his inappropriate behavior. Consequently, non-Japanese readers and viewers may find it difficult to understand his jokes. In fact, some of them cannot be translated into other languages. In Japanese, certain set phrase almost always accompany certain...
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