Crayon Shin-Chan

Crayon Shin-Chan, which is also known as Shin-Chan in the United States, is an anime based on a manga series written by Yoshito Usui.

Crayon Shin-Chan follows the antics of a five-year-old boy named Shinnosuke "Shin" Nohara. These antics tend to include Shin's parents, neighbors, and friends. The series is set in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. In the Japanese version of the series, many of the jokes come from Shin-chan's occasionally weird, unnatural, and inappropriate use of language. The jokes also come from Shin's inappropriate behavior.

FUNimation Entertainment acquired the license to Crayon Shin-Chan in 2005. When FUNimation produced the American dub of the series, the company took a lot of liberties with the original source material. Since the original Japanese series lacks a sense of continuity, FUNimation has taken advantage of this by producing the episodes out of their original order. However, FUNimation's approach has caused some characters to be introduced earlier in the series than they were in the original Japanese version. The American dub also created new, previously non-existent backstories for the characters. FUNimation has also given very different personalities to some of the characters.

Another thing FUNimation did when they produced the American dub of Crayon Shin-Chan was to make it an adult-oriented series. There is a bit of swearing (from both the children and adults in the series), there are numerous sexual references, and dark humor. There are also references to current popular American culture; for example, a couple of episodes reference the failed Presidential bid of Rudy Giuliani.

Most episodes of Crayon Shin-Chan have received a TV rating of TV-14, although a few have actually received a TV-MA rating. Crayon Shin-Chan is definitely not an anime property being aimed at young children, even if the title character is a five-year-old boy. Personally, I would recommend this series to anime viewers who are 15 or 16 years of age and older that appreciate "gross out" humor, dark humor, swearing, and sexual references.

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Title	Episodes	Release Year(s)	Director	Studio	N.A. Licensor
Crayon Shin-chan	1126+	1992-ongoing	Mitsuru Hongo/Keiichi Hara/Yuji Moto	Shin-Ei Animation	FUNimation Entertainment
Crayon Shin-chan: Action Kamen vs Leotard Devil	N/A	1993	Mitsuru Hongo	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Secret Treasure of Buri Buri Kingdom	N/A	1994	Mitsuru Hongo	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: Unkokusai's Ambition	N/A	1995	Mitsuru Hongo	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: Adventure in Henderland	N/A	1996	Mitsuru Hongo	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: Pursuit of the Balls of Darkness	N/A	1997	Keiichi Hara	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: Blitzkrieg! Pig's Hoof's Secret Mission	N/A	1998	Keiichi Hara	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: Explosion! The Hot Spring's Feel Good Final Battle/Kureshin Paradise! Made in Saitama	N/A	1999	Keiichi Hara	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called The Jungle	N/A	2000	Keiichi Hara	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back	N/A	2001	Keiichi Hara	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Battle of the Warring States	N/A	2002	Keiichi Hara	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: Yakiniku Road of Honor	N/A	2003	Tsutomu Mizushima	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Kasukabe Boys of the Evening Sun	N/A	2004	Tsutomu Mizushima	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Legend Called Buri Buri 3 Minutes Charge	N/A	2005	Tsutomu Mizushima	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Legend Called: Dance! Amigo!	N/A	2006	Yuji Moto	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Singing Buttocks Bomb	N/A	2007	Yuji Moto	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Hero of Kinpoko	N/A	2008	Mitsuru Hongo	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: Roar! Kasukabe Animal Kingdom	N/A	2009	Akira Shigino	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: Super-Dimension! The Storm Called My Bride	N/A	2010	Akira Shigino	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: Operation Golden Spy	N/A	2011	Soichi Masui	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called!: Me and the Space Princess	N/A	2012	Soichi Masui	Shin-Ei Animation	N/A