


Shin’s family shares his sentiment and does everything they can to avoid her, often without success. As a result, Ai developed a crush on Shin and became determined to make him her boyfriend, which is enough to make him uncomfortable. All except Shin Chan, who is somehow able to resist her manipulative ways. She is manipulative and is able to make other classmates do things her way, just because. Coming from an upper-class family, she is always seen with her bodyguard, whom she has no qualms blackmailing in order to do things her way. Poster for the feature “Crayon Shin-chan: Super-Dimension! The Storm Called My Bride” (2010)Later episodes introduced Ai to the kindergarten. The rare times he talks, he is shown to be insightful, with worldly views and artistic interests. One of the running gag is that, whenever Shin comes to visit, he always mistakes the house across the street as his.īo is the slow one in the group, always seen with snot coming out of his nose. Masao is a meek one in the group, a scaredy cat who often gets bullied by bigger kids in the kindergarten. Whenever she gets angry, she grabs her stuffed “Happiness Bunny” and takes out her frustrations by punching it repeatedly, a habit she picked up from her mother. She often blackmails her male classmates (including Shin) to play this game. Nene, a red-haired girl who has a habit of playing “real house”, her version of the house game where arguments and divorces are common. He has a secret interest in girls dolls and animation, which he hides from his friends (especially Shin) in extreme measures. In spite of that, he is paranoid and is prone to having nervous breakdowns whenever something goes wrong, most of which is because of Shin’s antics. He is dressed neat, is polite, and is often depicted as the “intelligent” one. Kazama is, by all accounts, the opposite of Shin. Shin has a group of friends there: Kazama, Nene, Masao, and Bo. Shin Chan goes to Futaba Kindergarten, where he proves to be a nightmare to his teachers just as he is to his parents. The story of her birth was released simultaneously with the original comic and the anime in middle of 1996 her name was selected from a contest, where fans could submit names. It’s hinted that Himawari is destined to follow her brother’s footsteps, in a relative way. Shin (and, to an extent, his dad) are kept in check by Misae, his mother, who has no qualms bonking her son in the head whenever he misbehaves.įew years into the series’ run, Shin gained a baby sister, Himawari (Japanese for sunflower). Part of his attitude likely stems from his father, Hiroshi, who has a taste for ladies himself.

He is often seen checking out older girls, and is often caught reading his dad’s secret porn stash whenever he could. Shin would prove to be a nightmare to adults, having to deal with his love of “butt dance” and “elephant dance” (where he takes off his pants and shakes his penis in public). “Shin Chan” refers to Shinnosuke Nohara, a 5-year old boy who can be described as a mixture of Dennis the Menace and Howard Stern. One of the more infamous of those is Crayon Shin Chan. In spite of that, those shows often get complaints from the Japanese PTA. Jokes about sex and nudity and depictions of violence isn’t entirely forbidden, and there have been shows aimed at kids that featured nothing but sexual humor and violence. In Japan, standards tend to be far looser than out in the West. Standards on what is acceptable and what is not in children’s entertainment is always a headache, at least in America.
