Crayon Shin-chan

***Crayon Shin-chan*** (Japanese: ***クレヨンしんちゃん***) is a Japanese animated comedy slice-of-life television series adapted from the eponymous manga created by the late Yoshito Usui, produced by Shin-Ei Animation for TV Asahi. Originally premiering in Japan on April 13, 1992, it is still ongoing on several television networks worldwide. The series currently has over 1,200 episodes and 30 feature films.

The series follows the adventures of a five-year old boy named Shinnosuke Nohara and his parents, his dog, his baby sister, his neighbors, and his friends. They live in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. A staple of the series is its large cast of characters. Most of the plot is about Shin-chan's daily life, but it is also often interspersed with a lot of fantastic and incredible elements. Shin-chan is known for causing trouble wherever he goes due to his childish lack of tact when speaking to others, especially towards adults. The series is mainly comedic in style with some sexual innuendo. However, due to its popularity, it's also stylistically as family-friendly as possible, although it may not apply to all global audiences. Most episodes are about the importance of family and friends.

## Original version

Episode 93 aired for the first time on April 18, 1994 in Japan. The episode has never been released on home video or streaming media, nor recently re-aired, or dubbed in other languages. The official episode list on the TV Asahi website also skips episode 93. The episode may have been pulled from circulation for content reasons, as well as being unable to be dubbed internationally or re-aired in its complete form due to its third segment acting as a preview for the then-upcoming second *Crayon Shin-chan* film. The first two segments could have been released separately on DVD like many others, but were likely pulled from rotation due to violent content, as TV Asahi would usually remove segments due to complaints. The episode did not resurface until September 29, 2019, when the first segment was made public online, after English-speaking fan Chimpoozle traded with a Japanese fan who recorded tapes of nearly every early episode and digitized episode 93 in June. The full episode is in the possession of English fansubbers and will be released once the fansubs reach the episode.

Episodes 48a, 57c, 63a, 92b, 92c, 95a, 97c, and 98a are also notable for only having resurfaced through foreign dubs at the moment, although episodes such as 48a have been recorded on tapes from their original broadcasts and from secondary audio tracks on Spanish TV. Some other episodes and specials also fall into this category, especially with regards to copyrighted music or undubbed and obsolete live-action segments. Some missing segments have been recorded on tapes from broadcasts subtitled in English on Hawaiian television station KIKU-TV from December 18, 1993 to December 1, 2001, at which point broadcast ended due to the American rights for the series being acquired by Lacey Entertainment for the English dub.

Additionally, multiple short “cold open” segments have not been seen since their original airings on TV Asahi or KIKU-TV.

## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2004-08

A Danish dub of Crayon Shin-chan titled *Shin Chan* was aired on DR1, based on the English adaptation by Vitello Productions, starting on January 28, 2004. Based on schedules on the DR website, the dub aired until August 28, 2007. DR1 only aired single segments of the series in 10-minute time slots. Many episode titles have been sourced from the schedule, and while many can be matched to English titles, a handful of others are unclear. The dub was recorded at Adaptor D&D. More information can be found on Danske Film Stemmer. It is assumed based on the known episode titles that only the first 52 episodes were dubbed into Danish from the English version by Vitello Productions, and the dub did not continue to the second season's additional 52 episodes originally dubbed into English by Phuuz Entertainment.

No full episodes of the dub are available online, and the only surviving materials are the opening, the ending, and the first two minutes of episode 38c, "Where's My Sister, Mister?" The clip was uploaded to YouTube by user meinto on November 23, 2012. The opening and ending were uploaded to YouTube by another user in early December 2021, but went private on May 25, 2022, along with all other Danish-dubbed uploads on the original channel. The channel, who wishes to remain anonymous, says they have received full episodes from an unnamed contact, and that they wouldn't upload them without permission from that source. However, they have since fallen out of contact with said source and cannot upload the episodes themself for fear of being fined or otherwise penalized by Danish copyright agencies if issues arise.

All of the available materials are backed up on the Internet Archive. The clip of episode 38c has been cropped to remove padding.

## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2003-08

A Dutch dub of Crayon Shin-chan titled *Shin Chan* was aired on Fox Kids (and later Jetix in 2004) in the Netherlands, as well as on Kanaal Twee and VTM in Belgium (Flanders). The dub began on February 1, 2003 on Fox Kids, and according to *Crayon Shin-chan* Wiki, it was broadcast until July 23, 2008 on Jetix. The last new episodes premiered in 2005 and the remainder of its airings consisted of reruns. Kanaal Twee would broadcast the show from September 1, 2003 until March 18, 2005. Curiously, the official Japanese *Crayon Shin-chan* website states that the show started broadcasting in the Netherlands during July 2002, although no further evidence is known on whether or not the show was broadcast in that time frame on any channel at all, whether in Dutch or in English. The dub was recorded by JPS Producties and based on the English dub by Vitello Productions and later Phuuz Entertainment, running for a total of 104 episodes (52 from each English studio). It was relatively popular in ratings during its run, enough for parental complaints to bring the dub off the air, according to an interview with Dutch voice actress Melise de Winter, who provided the voice of Shin-chan in the Dutch dub. Dutch fans are very passionate over the dub and its voice actors and would like to see them return.

In the Dutch dub there were a lot of references to Dutch pop culture at that time. For example, one episode adds a line referencing Celsi (a CGI character of the Dutch Jeugdjournaal) wearing a string, and another adds Shin-chan and his grandfather wanting to eat with hot blondes from RTL (a umbrella of Dutch TV networks like RTL4 and RTL5).

There was also a reference to the network itself, according to anecdotal evidence. In episode 64a, "I Get a Babysitter!", Shin was told he needed a babysitter, to which he replied "bedoel je Kim-Lian van Fox Kids?" ("did you mean Kim-Lian from Fox Kids?"). Kim-Lian was a singer and also did TV presentation for Fox Kids and Jetix. She was host of Kids Top 20 for example, a program which aired on the channel at that time. Due to Shin Chan airing during the transitional period in which Fox Kids became Jetix, that line was changed to replace Fox Kids with Jetix. The clip may have also been aired in commercial breaks highlighting the channel's cartoons. Neither the episode nor any promotional spots (which are also stated by the Dutch Wikipedia to have covered Shin's hind end with black censorship bars that weren't present during the actual show) are available in either version.

Each episode consists of three segments, so each season has a total of 156 segments.
In the first season, 137 segments are found and 2 are partially lost, with only 17 segments missing: 29b, 36a, 37c, 38b, 42b/42c, 45b/45c, 46c, 47c, 49a/49b/49c, 51b, and 52a/52b/52c. Segments 29a and 29c are missing small parts at the beginning but are considered found.
In the second season, 30 segments are found in full, 3 are partially lost, and 1 is partially found, with 122 completely missing. The found segments are: 54c, 56a/56c, 58b, 59a/59c 60a/60c, 61b, 63a, 65a/65b, 70a/70b/70c, 71a/71b, 74a/74b, 76b, 77c, 78b/78c, 81c, 82b/82c, 83a/83b, and 84b/84c. Segments 59b, 68c and 84a are missing small parts at the beginning but are considered found. Segment 57a is missing its first half.

The first 19 episodes, as well as the 23rd, 24th, 26th and 41st episodes were released on DVD by the company Bridge Entertainment. The company also released episode 22a and 30b on another DVD given as a freebie with purchases at Dutch supermarket Super de Boer in 2004.

A list of available episodes can be found here, and they can be watched on the Internet Archive.

## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2002

The first English dub of Crayon Shin-chan, titled *Shin Chan*, was produced in 2002 by Vitello Productions in Burbank, California, when TV Asahi and Lacey Entertainment commissioned the dub in order to market the series worldwide. Executive Brian Lacey served as executive producer and global distributor of the dub. According to Wikipedia, he orchestrated this global rollout beginning in early 2000, and “Lacey’s distribution efforts cleared the series in over 90 countries where the content garnered outstanding audience ratings.” (Although some sources say 100.) Referred to by fans as the “Vitello dub”, this version was never aired in the US, instead making its premiere in the United Kingdom from April 22, 2002 until 2003 on Fox Kids. When the channel rebranded to Jetix, the show remained on the schedule with a reduced presence, sometimes as a slot-filler between other programs such as movies that didn’t fill enough time, or as a trimmed-down short (these shorts were also included as a secret on the DVD included with issue 5 of Jetix Magazine in the UK). Contrary to popular belief, the show had its own scheduled times on both Fox Kids and Jetix, and was not exclusively broadcast during programming breaks. However, airings and time slots were sporadic, occurring in the early morning, evenings, or late at night. It appears Fox Kids and Jetix in the United Kingdom did not pay as much attention to the dub in comparison to their other European counterparts. The dub is commonly believed to have stopped broadcasting after Jetix became Disney XD in 2009, although it may have been removed a few years sooner as Jetix stopped airing the series in Poland after 2006 and in the Netherlands after 2008.

On Fox Kids in Australia, the dub premiered in January 2003 and ran until the channel's closure in 2004. The show played on weekday mornings at 8:30 AM, and later on, all week at 6:30 AM. Once the channel closed due to Foxtel's aim to migrate all their channels to a digital platform (Disney did not acquire the channel because it was operated separately), *Shin Chan* and a selection of other programming had begun airing on a Fox Kids block early every morning on Fox8, which did not last long. The dub aired weekdays at around 6:50 AM during February 2004. The dub is also officially stated on the Japanese *Crayon Shin-chan* website to have premiered in New Zealand during July 2005, although no further details are known.

On RTÉ Two in the Republic of Ireland, the dub premiered during January 2003 at 12:30 PM, and moved to 12:00 PM on February 1. The dub was broadcast until mid-2005, around the summer, when it aired on weekends at 2:00 PM.

On Channel i in Singapore, the dub started on May 3, 2003, airing at 10:30 AM on weekends until August 30. The following week, on September 6, the dub aired at 9:30 AM, only on Saturday. On September 13, the dub started airing on Saturdays at 11:30 AM until December 27. On July 27, 2004, the dub would return to the schedule on Tuesdays at 6:00 PM until September 28.

In subtitled form, the dub began in Iceland on January 14, 2003, airing until August 28, 2008 on Stöð 2’s Barnatími block. Subtitles were also shown in Israel in June 2004 on Arutz HaYeladim’s nighttime Telemania block, moving to the newly-formed Telemanga block in 2006 and running until the block’s closure in 2009. In 2003, there was an attempt to get the dub airing on Cartoon Network in the United States, but it was not done in time.

The dub contained a small pool of famous veteran voice actors that had done work in American cartoons, namely Kath Soucie as Shin-chan and Mitsy, Eric Loomis as Harry and Bo, Russi Taylor as Daisy and Max, Grey DeLisle as Cosmo and Miss Uma, Anndi McAfee as Nini and Miss Dori, and Pat Fraley as Principal Enzo and the Masked Muchacho. Kath Soucie and Grey DeLisle have voiced their disappointment in working on the dub during interviews in the late 2000’s on animation websites. Although the dub was censored and localized (as seen with the aforementioned character names), the infamous Buri Buri dance was still seen. Text edits were also made, along with a new soundtrack composed by Louis Cortelezzi and John Lissauer at Rave Music in New York. The theme song was composed by John Loeffler and John Siegler, both of *Pokémon* fame. It is notable that much of the dub’s music production staff also worked with 4Kids Entertainment, although 4Kids had no involvement with the series. The dub served as a basis for the Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, and Latin American Spanish dubs. Fox Kids Europe and Jetix Europe oversaw the dubbing and distribution of many European dubs based on the Vitello dub. Much knowledge on the dub has been inferred from its foreign-dubbed counterparts.

52 episodes comprising 156 segments (21 minutes each, with three segments lasting 5 to 7 minutes) were produced, of which 128 are fully found in English, 10 are found in censored form from UK broadcasts (although episode 23b is damaged at the beginning), 11 segments are completely lost, 6 segments are missing small portions (although episodes 23c and 40b are also censored), and 1 segment is mostly missing. The first 20 episodes (60 segments) were released on DVD in Australia by Magna Pacific, episode 27 was released in the UK on a DVD included with issue 4 of Jetix Magazine (although the audio was off-sync), and episode 28 was released in the UK on a DVD given away as part of a special freebie offer with the newspaper The Sun in 2004 (along with episode 13). Episodes 4 and 9 are also censored on another DVD released by The Sun in 2003. Although all 52 episodes made by Vitello were produced as a single season, Fox Kids UK split it in two for broadcast purposes.

The order of the episodes released in the dub is not the chronological order aired in Japan. For example, in episode 29, Shin brings his classmates to visit his newborn sister. Episode 30 features the baby coming home from her birth in the hospital. In episode 52, it is revealed that Shin is going to have a little sister.

The Danish dub, the Greek dub, the Polish dub, the Brazilian Portuguese dub, the European Portuguese dub, and the Latin American Spanish dub (translations of the Vitello dub) left the title cards in English, therefore the English names of missing segments of the Vitello dub are known. Most of these dubs do not have many episodes found which are missing in English, so the statement mostly applies to only the Latin American Spanish dub and sometimes the Brazilian Portuguese dub.

Most segments initially available were found by the same source on Fox Kids in the UK, uploaded to the Kametsu forums. However, some episodes appear to be sourced from second-generation tapes. Some segments recorded from Jetix were uploaded by the YouTube channel "Shin Chan", who has claimed to be in possession of 23 segments. Said user only ever uploaded 13 segments, 10 of which are available. Episodes 8a, 8c, and 17b were claimed for copyright when they were first uploaded and not backed up. Episode 30 was found from Fox8 Kids in Australia, uploaded to YouTube by GreenYoshi92, who also uploaded the contents of DVD volume 5.

On April 20, 2022, 16 complete segments and one incomplete segment were uploaded to Archive.org by user Philtype, sourced from VHS recordings captured on RTÉ2's The Den block in Ireland. On May 4, 2022, some alternate recordings of previously found episodes were added, including some new uncensored copies or copies in better quality.

It is possible some episodes were skipped by Fox Kids in the UK. For example, episode 20 is not available from a VHS rip on the channel. The Polish dub carries over the same censorship from the UK, which is also missing episode 20. It is the only foreign dub based on Vitello's dub to use this censorship.

For both the Vitello dub and the Phuuz dub that followed in the second produced season, more information and references, including UK censorship and a list of available episodes, can be found on the Lost Media Wiki, and the corresponding Japanese episode titles and numbers can be found on Wikipedia. All available episodes and alternate recordings can be watched on the Internet Archive.

## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2004

In 2004, Phuuz Entertainment and Media Concepts gained the license to the series and produced a new season of the English adaptation, being commissioned by Lacey Entertainment to continue in similar style as the Vitello dub, featuring a different pool of Los Angeles-based voice actors known for anime. None of this dub was ever released on DVD, and no segments have appeared on the internet. Only three low-quality cell phone audio recordings exist online of Shin, Mitsy, and Harry’s dialogue. 52 episodes (156 segments) have been produced of the Phuuz dub, of 151 segments the English name is known. The missing titles are from episodes 100c, 101, and 103c.

A handful of episode titles were sourced from the European Portuguese dub, which left title cards in English. The Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American Spanish dubs also provide a small amount of these. However, most of the other titles listed on Wikipedia have no visual proof, and were likely sourced from reairings of the Latin American Spanish dub on ETC TV in Chile, due to the fact that the edits that added the titles were made at the time reruns occurred in early 2020, by a user with a Chilean IP address. The missing titles are likely to become known if ETC is to rebroadcast the Latin American Spanish dub of these episodes. The end credits for this season are also seen in the three aforementioned dubs and the German dub.

This dub was pitched to Adult Swim but was rejected on the basis of it sounding too "childish" for the block. The license agreement between Lacey Entertainment and TV Asahi expired by the end of 2005, when FUNimation acquired the rights and their dub was released to the block. Most dubs based on Vitello’s dub also dubbed episodes from Phuuz, except for the Danish, Italian and Polish dubs. It is unclear whether or not the Greek dub may have continued. It is also unclear which channels may have broadcast Phuuz episodes given the time frame of broadcast, although according to an edit made to Wikipedia in December 2004, Fox Kids UK premiered a "new series with a different voice cast" that month. Mentions on Israeli forums also suggest that the season aired there.

The French dub, the Brazilian Portuguese dub, the Latin American Spanish dub, and the Dutch dub translated the same 52 episodes. A limited number of episodes are also available from the Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, and Latin American Spanish dubs, which included English title cards, with some of the same known segments. It is commonly believed that Phuuz dubbed 78 episodes, but there is enough evidence in the presentation of the episodes to support the conclusion that the German version dubbed an additional 26 episodes early on between Vitello's episodes and Phuuz's episodes, based on the Japanese original. 52 episodes is also a standard number for American television.

## Zzang-gu

### Year(s)

early 2001-late 2003

A second South Korean English dub of *Crayon Shin-chan*, recorded at Hanbit Video Production Co., Ltd., was released by the company Gloman Co., Ltd. (글로만) in 2001 as part of its "TV Ani•Pops English 21" monthly subscription learning program. It is also the first known English dub of the series overall. Licensing was handled by Animation International. Gloman was in charge of planning, editing, and publishing, and manufacturing was done by Sangrok Multimedia. English was taught by the multimedia program through magazines and VCD or VHS videos, acting as the textbooks. The video format as well as a choice of English or Korean subtitles was chosen upon subscription, although on VHS, each half of the runtime was made up of the same contents subtitled in either English or Korean. The "21" stands for the 21st century. Very little is known about the dub outside of a single listing on South Korean shopping website hellomarket.com. The user that created the listing has been deactivated, despite the fact the listing still appears to be for sale, and the listing was created on March 13, 2012. It is assumed from the images that the set of audio cassette tapes and VCDs included with each textbook contained English audio of episodes to watch or to read and follow along with. The cassette tapes may have instead been for music as part of the program. The bilingual textbooks contained episode scripts with screenshots. The listing states that the first 13 volumes were only being sold as companion textbooks, while the rest were new packages with tapes and VCDs included. It is assumed from the listing that only 24 volumes exist.

Newspaper advertisements were also published in South Korean paper "The Dong-A Ilbo" throughout 2001, proclaiming "Multimedia English textbooks for the 21st century are finally here!" and "English couldn't be more fun than this". These newspapers are archived on the publication's website, but payment must be made for high quality PDF access.

The company's website was once available at gloman.net until
the end of 2003, with content concerning Shin-chan at gloman.net/default\_ani.htm. For each volume, the website listed titles for each segment and provided a transcript in English and Korean for one of the three. Each issue also had a self-test and an English cooking feature. WMV sample video files could also be downloaded, of which seven are backed up by the Wayback Machine, making the dub partially found. Other content could also be found at egloman.net, which appears to have been an online companion to the subscription.

In late June or July 2023, a set of the first 12 volumes on VHS was listed on South Korean shopping website bunjang.co.kr by the user 김재천블루. Using the website’s official global shipping proxy, globalbunjang.com, Discord user @harmony\_omega paid to buy the item on August 26, 2023. On September 8, 2023, they received the tapes, digitizing them and uploading them to Nyaa the next day, and on the Internet Archive on September 12. Despite the fact that an image of volume 20 was included in the listing, it was not apart of the package. Another listing was made by the seller on December 16, 2023, including volumes 16 and 20, which was purchased by the same Discord user on December 19, 2023. The two tapes were digitized and uploaded to the Internet Archive on January 19, 2024.

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## Crayon Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2002

A Filipino dub of *Crayon Shin-chan* was aired on IBC-13, RPN-9, and ABC-5 in the Philippines. The dub began on IBC-13 on March 4, 2002, debuting alongside the series *Cyborg Kuro-chan*. Shin-chan was voiced by Filipino rapper Andrew E., best known for his suggestive lyrics, for the first five episodes. He also dubbed the show's theme song. What was broadcast of the theme song (with a title card at the end) is only available from a low-quality cell phone audio recording.

The series was rated PG in the Philippines due to mature content. Almost all of the character names were changed into Filipino names, including Misae becoming Carmen, Masao becoming Boyet, and Mrs. Yoshinaga becoming Pilar Miyumi (or Mayumi or Ryumi).

Only six segments of the dub are available online, commonly seen in a 42-minute-long compilation of all six. Some segments are missing the title card either partly or entirely.

Additionally, a censored clip of episode 1a, "Running an Errand" (おつかいに行くゾ) was played during a special titled "20 Japanese Anime Masterpieces Chosen by the World", broadcast on TV Asahi in Japan on July 29, 2008. Crayon Shin-chan took the 13th spot, and its segment of the special can be seen here.

## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2002-05

A French dub of Crayon Shin-chan titled *Shin Chan* was aired on Fox Kids (and later Jetix in 2004) in France, as well as on Club RTL in Belgium (Wallonia) and on TSR2 in Switzerland. The dub began on August 31, 2002 on Fox Kids in France, broadcasting until the mid-2000’s. The last new episodes premiered circa 2005. According to the official Japanese *Crayon Shin-chan* website, the show started broadcasting in Belgium (Wallonia), Luxembourg, and Switzerland during July 2005. The dub was recorded by La Dame Blanche in Belgium and based on the English dub by Vitello Productions and later Phuuz Entertainment, running for a total of 104 episodes (52 from each English studio).

Each episode consists of three segments, so each season has a total of 156 segments.
In the first season, 85 segments are found and 6 are partially lost, with 65 segments missing: 1a, 3b, 4b/4c, episodes 7 through 14, 16a/16c, episode 17, 18a/18b, 19c, 21a, 25c, 32a/32c, 35c, 38b/38c, 39a/39c, 40c, episodes 41 through 44, episode 50 and episode 51. Segments 22b, 27a/27b, 35a/35b, 37a, and 47a are missing small parts at the beginning but are considered found.
In the second season, only five segments are found in full, and three are incomplete. They are in rather low video quality. The rest are completely missing. The found segments are: 79a/79b, 93b, 96c, and 97a. Segment 77a is missing its second half, with the available video file skipping forward to 77b, missing its first half. Segment 97b is missing its second half.

A list of the titles of every episode is available on Planète Jeunesse along with information on the dub’s staff and cast, and all available episodes (and the theme song) can be viewed on the Internet Archive.

## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2002

The first German dub of *Crayon Shin-chan* was aired on RTL II in Germany, produced by Interopa Film. The dub began on April 5, 2002. 52 episodes premiered with the first season until June 24, 2002 and the second season from July 29, 2002 to September 3, 2002. The dub was also very appealing to older audiences. However, after complaints from a small group of activists, the series received a new dub later on, toning down inappropriate dialogue with new jokes and insults. Some episode titles were also modified. After this point, only the second dub was aired or released on DVD and streaming. The remainder of the series only received one dub, which was more true to the original Japanese version than the first dub. The broadcast order of the first 78 episodes also differed compared to later releases, but neither order matched the English release. An additional 26 episodes were also dubbed in German based on the Japanese version that were not dubbed in English.

11 full episodes ranging from 7 to 17 (or 7 to 11, 15, and 53 to 57 in the redub) were made available by YouTube user AvatarFanUno on December 27, 2018, burned to a DVD file format. A version split up by episode is uploaded to the Internet Archive.

A list comparing each episode in both German dubs to their corresponding English or Japanese version can be found here, where the first three seasons (colored in red and blue) are relevant.

## Σιν Τσαν

### Year(s)

2004-07

A Greek dub of Crayon Shin-chan titled *Σιν Τσαν* was first broadcast in Greece on Star Channel and in Cyprus in October 2004, lasting until at least August 2007 judging by archives of the Star Channel website. Rated for all ages, the ran for either 60 or 80 episodes. It is unknown whether this number counts single segments or full episodes, or whether this number is exact, although it is listed to have a runtime of 30 minutes. Across its run, the dub aired in an early morning time slot, ranging from 6:00 AM to 6:30 AM and 6:45 AM, on weekends. The dub was recorded by Power Music Productions in Greece.

On October 23, 2006, Audio Visual Enterprises S.A. released 6 DVDs in Greece, containing 4 episodes on each disc, making up the first 24 episodes of the dub. The contents of all 6 volumes were uploaded to the Internet Archive on July 14, 2022. It is yet to be seen whether any episodes existed on TV airings past episode 24.

Cast information can be found on the Greek Dub Database.

## शिन चैन

### Year(s)

2006-08

After Spacetoon acquired the series license in India, the first Hindi dub of *Crayon Shin-chan* premiered on Hungama TV in India on June 19, 2006, gaining up to 50-60% of the channel's market share before its hiatus. Repeated complaints of "social concerns" caused by the show were lodged by parent bodies with the main character's controversial style and behavior, and the attitudes exhibited towards elders on the show, both of which were seen as "negative impacts on kids" and a bad role model influencing their children. A mother described "The character does things which are prohibitory in India." Some of this incorrigible behavior included Shin-chan arguing with his mother and critiquing her appearance, irking the elderly lot with worries their children would copy whatever Shin-chan did on the show.

This consequently led to the series going off the air. The show had a query placed on it on September 23, 2008 by the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, who questioned the show's content on account of heavy nudity and profanity, all while it was the most-watched and most successful program on the channel. The series was required to be re-edited and re-dubbed to remove the disrespect towards elders in order to air again on the network. However, parents who had blocked Hungama TV from their children were worried that the show may still be back on the air if the channel agreed to delete the objectionable portions, so they were not convinced to unblock it by the ban.

On the other hand, Hungama wanted to continue to run the show, and younger fans who were let down by the ban wanted to watch it for entertainment. The channel launched a veiled campaign in retaliation called Mission Ha Ha Hungama, endorsed by actor Darsheel Safary. It asked viewers to combat the "Anti-Laughter Squad" (ALS) that has invaded Hungma TV, and is threatening to wipe out all the fun. Under this mission, kids along with parents were asked to come to a specified venue, and thwart the ALS's attempts. According to a Hungama TV spokesperson, the show was never banned, only questioned. "Shin Chan has not been banned. There's a query on the show from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The matter is under consideration with the Ministry. We don't have any comments at the moment."

After many requests from fans, a heavily censored version with more edited family-friendly jokes restarted airing on Hungama TV starting on March 27, 2009, alongside the debut of Tamil and Telugu dubs. Nude scenes and profanity were edited out. All jokes with mature themes were translated into childish ones, and the word "alcohol" was changed to "juice". Cuts included scenes with instances of Nene's mother beating a stuffed rabbit, Shin-chan imitating Action Mask, as well as the "Mr. Elephant" dance or "Butt Alien Monster"/"Buri Buri" dance. Shin-chan's distinct voice provided by Aakash Ahuja was also replaced in 2010, around episode 230. At the age of 16, Akash Ahuja stopped dubbing Shin-chan because his voice was becoming hard as he was getting older. Shin-chan’s mother also had her voice replaced. Fans were irritated with the poor dubbing and cuts.

The original Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu dubs covered the first two seasons, equating to 104 episodes. The Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu dubs of the anime series stopped in 2015, even with mature content censored. The first two seasons (through Japanese episode 105) of the series were redubbed in 2016 for airings on Hungama TV and released on Amazon Prime Video, while the censored version of the first Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu dubs is no longer broadcast. However, even episodes that were not redubbed later received additional censorship. Episodes are still aired in the redub version in which there is no mature content, and episodes which have high amounts of mature content are not aired. As such, the search continues not only for original uncensored episodes in Hindi, but also for censored episodes that were later redubbed or received further edits without a redub in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. The Hindi dub, however, is the most well-known dub of the three to have lost material due to the original ban, as well as being the most widely documented of the three nowadays.

Additionally, seasons 9 through 11, as well as the currently broadcasting episodes of season 16, have not been released to either Amazon Prime Video or Disney+ Hotstar, and not to any streaming platform, leaving fans to capture the episodes from television airings.

For unknown reasons, episodes 45 and 54 still use a censored version of the first dub, and episode 51b uses the original title card narration. After the edited version premiered, the ending song sequence was also shortened for unknown reasons. The full version of the song exists online through audio, and the majortity of the video sequence is also available. Episodes were also shortened to only include one segment per broadcast instead of two. The ban has also resulted in messages about the viewers' ability to file a complaint seen on screen during programming on many Indian children's channels.

33 segments from the dub's initial broadcast have been recovered from a torrent, which is no longer active, and mirrored to MediaFire. However, said torrent originally contained 11 more segments not present in the MediaFire folder. Five more segments are mirrored on Dailymotion and one on YouTube. Episodes 9c, 16a and 68b are missing their title cards. Episode 69b is missing the first 45 seconds. Episode 102c is missing the first minute.

On October 21, 2022, a clip of the first episode was posted to Reddit.

### Italian

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The first dub, made in 2005 by E.T.S. European Television Service, which was based on the English dub made by Vitello Productions, is completely found.

## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2009-10

On May 19, 2009, it was announced that new episodes in Italian would start broadcasting on Cartoon Network on June 15, 2009, from Mondays to Fridays at 3:00 PM. A contest was also held on Cartoon Network’s Italian website. Although the show was broadcast on Hiro starting on June 18, 2009, the episodes played were from the original 2005 season of the series. The season would be recorded in Rome, as was the previous dub, but this time at CD Cine Dubbing Int. s.r.l. Massimo Corizza, who had played the title character in the previous dub, would direct the dubbing as he did the first time, although the voice of Shin-chan himself was replaced with a female voice actress, Monica Bertolotti. Between episodes 26 and 27 there was a break in the broadcast to dub other episodes. New episodes would again be broadcast by Cartoon Network, starting with episode 27, on October 7, 2009, airing again at 3:00 PM in addition to a slot at 9:15 PM. The second wave of episodes would make a small update to the ending theme, adding some Italian dubbing credits in place of Luk Internacional’s logo and broadcasting the song in full where a small part had previously been cut. The first version of the ending theme was once available on the YouTube channel SuppaMan, but was claimed for copyright. This dub would also rerun on Boing starting in March 2010.

The dub was based on Luk Internacional's Spanish dub, which is close to the Japanese original and has no censorship. It had some different voice actors than the first Italian dub, although the writing was similar and common phrases were retained.
50 episodes from the Spanish dub, 387 through 438 (excluding episodes 413 and 415), were dubbed into Italian, of which episodes 31 through 50 are lost. The first 26 episodes of this dub were also released for purchase on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS in five volumes, with the first three releasing on December 22, 2016 and the final two on December 29, 2016, for €1.99 each (although the first volume was free). The opening and ending themes, originally Italian dubs of OP3 and ED5, were replaced with instrumental versions of OP8 and ED3 in this release. The episodes, which were rearranged in broadcast and even segment order on Cartoon Network, were also reverted to match the Spanish dub. Any text translated into Italian on Cartoon Network and Boing was not translated here.

A list of episodes can be found on the Italian Wikipedia. All 30 available episodes are on the Internet Archive.

### Khmer (dub)

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In addition to the readily available illegal VHS voice-over covering early episodes of the series, a Khmer dub was made legally for television in 2014. It is difficult to determine information about either of the two Khmer versions of *Crayon Shin-chan*.

## សុឹន ចាំង

### Year(s)

2014

An officially licensed Khmer dub of Crayon Shin-chan titled *សុឹន ចាំង* premiered on TV3 Asia at launch in July 2014. It was recorded at Planet Wave Studios and FX Animation, which appear to have later become Fil-K Entertainment in August 2015. According to their Facebook page for Doraemon in Cambodia, 52 episodes were planned to be dubbed when production began in March. No full episodes have resurfaced from the dub, and only a short ten-second promo without dub samples has been available online since October 20, 2014 on TV3 Asia's official *TV3 Asia Trailer* YouTube channel. The promo states that the show aired every Saturday and Sunday at 5:30 PM, with rebroadcasts on Saturdays and Sundays at 9:00 AM. It is possible that Planet Wave Studios was not happy with TV3 Asia's promo video, since they left a comment stating "Nightmare Quality." However, this is likely also because the master for the opening *Dame Dame no Uta* has poorly blended frames.

A single screenshot taken with a camera of the dub airing on TV exists on a Japanese blog written by a woman living in Cambodia, which also mentions the dub’s overall quality.

## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2002-08

A Brazilian Portuguese dub of Crayon Shin-chan titled *Shin Chan* was aired on Fox Kids in Brazil starting on November 9, 2002, with a preview of the first two episodes. The official premiere happened on November 11, 2002, and the dub premiered its first 25 episodes on the channel, on a regular basis from Mondays to Fridays at 11:00 PM, until December 11, 2002 (episode 19 premiered following episode 11, when they were repeated until another 23 episodes premiered from June 6, 2003 to July 8, 2003. Its last broadcast was on September 30, 2003. It premiered on Animax when the channel bought the rights with its launch on July 31, 2005, scheduled from Monday to Sunday. On Animax, the first season was re-aired with four additional episodes that were not broadcast by Fox Kids: episode 12 aired on August 6, 2005 (despite a Fox Kids promo using clips from the episode), episodes 48 and 49 premiered on August 25, 2005, and episode 52 premiered on August 26, 2005. The second season of the dub premiered on June 9, 2008 on Animax, where the series would be rerun until it was removed from the schedule during October 2010. A promo from Animax is also available.

The first season was recorded in São Paulo at Parisi Vídeo in 2002, and the second season was recorded at Álamo in 2006, due to the closure of Parisi Vídeo in 2005 (and because it dubbed most Animax content). Unlike the Latin American Spanish dub, the cast was not changed. Each season had 52 episodes licensed by TeleVix Entertainment, based on the Vitello Productions and Phuuz Entertainment English dubs of each respective season. TeleVix entertainment held the license to the dub from when it was first broadcast until February 2014.

Controversy arose during the dub's run on Fox Kids due to the anime's content. The then-deputy César Maia issued an action against the anime to call for its censorship, demanding that it be moved to a late night time slot or removed from the schedule. This soon caused the series' broadcasts, although relatively successful, to be halted until Animax started its broadcasts.

Six episodes from the first season were released on DVD by Imagem Filmes in 2005 and 2006 across three volumes, containing two episodes on each disc. The first volume was released on September 15, 2005, the second on March 24, 2006, and the third on September 15, 2006. For unknown reasons, the second volume excludes episode 3b from the list on its packaging despite its presence on the disc itself. Only some segments from the DVD release are actually sourced from it (1c, 2, 3), with the rest being sourced from Animax broadcasts.

Out of all 104 episodes, most of the first season is available (missing episodes 7a, 8c, 9a, 11a, 11b, 12a, 12c, 22b, 23c 24a, 24b, 25a, 27c, 39b, 41c, 43b, 43c, 48b, 49a, 49b, 49c, and 50a), in addition to five segments from the second season (episodes 54a, 54b, 54c, 58a, and 58c). Some lost episodes were once uploaded online, whose titles have been matched to the closest English counterparts. Additionally, an episode titled "Quero relaxar" was once uploaded online, although it is difficult to determine which episode this may have been. The second season used the English opening instead of the first season's dubbed opening. All available episodes can be found on the Internet Archive.

### European Portuguese (Nacional Filmes)

This dub is separate from the 2009 dub by Santa Claus Audiovisual that aired on Animax, Biggs, and Fox Comedy, which is still receiving new episodes on the official YouTube channel. More information on the differences between the two can be found on Wiki Dobragens Portuguesas.

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## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2003-06

The first European Portuguese dub of *Crayon Shin-chan* premiered on SIC in Portugal on May 17, 2003, as part of the Fun Totil block at 10:00 AM. Later, when the SIC Kids block was launched in 2006, the dub was moved there, airing until some later point withinin the year. Based on the Vitello and later Phuuz English dubs, this dub was produced by Nacional Filmes. At the time, SIC had a contract with Fox Kids/Jetix and Disney for the rights to their programming. The dub aired early in the morning around 7 or 8 AM alongside shows that were not licensed from Disney on SIC Kids, although during Fun Totil it was scheduled at 10:00 AM, according to schedules on Portuguese TV forum Zapping. Many episodes may have aired only once and then never again.

Six episodes from the first season were released on DVD by Prisvideo S.A. in 2004 across two volumes, containing three episodes on each disc.

Out of all 104 episodes, only 6 full episodes from Vitello Productions' season, and 13 full episodes with an additional 3 segments and 1 more incomplete segment from Phuuz Entertainment's season, are available online. Eight more segments from the second season were once available on YouTube Channel AlfaCanal, but have since been claimed for copyright, in addition to one more from the first season on an unknown channel. All available episodes can be found on the Internet Archive.

### Latin American Spanish

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The first season, recorded at Audiomaster 3000, has been completely available online for many years, although if it has dubbing credits they are not available.

## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2008 (broadcast through 2020)

During 2007, ETC TV, a cable television network that broadcast the series in Chile, announced that it would premiere new episodes not previously broadcast by the channel. The episodes finally began to air on March 24, 2008 on ETC TV and on June 9, 2008 across Latin America on Animax. TeleVix entertainment held the license to the season from when it was first broadcast until February 2014, presumably being picked up afterwards by KORA International like the third season. The season would be recorded in Mexico at Fogarty Studios (then known as AF The Dubbing House, before Dubbing House split off into its own studio in 2010) due to the shutdown of Audiomaster 3000 a few years prior, and contained 52 episodes based on the English version, whose second season was recorded by Phuuz Entertainment. The second season used a totally different cast from the first, possibly because the studio was not aware of the first cast. Fan complaints came as a result of the cast change, especially of Shinnosuke, and these protests caused the second season to be broadcast less frequently. For example, ETC TV only showed the second season after broadcasting episodes of the first season. *Crayon Shin-chan* was removed from the Animax schedule in October 2010, and from ETC TV in March 2017. The first and second seasons returned on September 2, 2019 (after an announcement on August 9), became a part of ETC's slate of classic programming on November 11, 2019, and was once more removed in October 2020. Many English titles for episodes from this season were added to Wikipedia in early 2020 from a Chilean IP address, so it can be assumed that those titles were drawn from these broadcasts. However, most of these broadcasts have yet to resurface.

Along with the opening and credits, FLV files of episodes 53 through 55 have been available in full since their Animax broadcast on the Shin Chan Latino Online page on Blogspot, while episodes 57 and 84 were uploaded in segments from their 2019/2020 broadcasts on ETC TV to Facebook page "Kureyon Shin Chan Latino XD" on October 23 and November 2, 2021, until the page was removed in 2022. All of these episodes can be found on the Internet Archive. On May 30, 2023, Internet Archive user Umulti 003 uploaded eight more segments from the season, three of which form the full episode 95, along with the third segments of episodes 81, 83, 86, 88, and 98. The same archive was later updated on December 14, 2023, with 15 additional segments, including 77c, 78c, 79b, 80ab, 81ab, 92ab, 100ab, 102ab, and 103ab.

The dub has also been planned to premiere on Senpai TV in Chile since March 17, 2022, before its launch on April 1; however, it remains unbroadcast, with no confirmed premiere date.

## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2014 (broadcast through 2023)

On July 22, 2014, Mexican voice actress Laura Torres, voice of Shin-chan in the first season, announced on Twitter that she had started directing the new season the previous day, revealing more details later on. The season would be recorded at Dubbing House. She along with many others reprised their roles from the first season, and Boo and Max from the second season. The third season premiered in Mexico on the Tiin channel on November 10, 2014, running until 2017. This season would also later run on ETC in Chile starting on July 15, 2019, being removed from the channel's schedule after October 2020.

On July 21, 2023, it was announced by ETC that the dub would return to the channel on August 1, 2023, providing another opportunity to recover lost episodes.

Most characters would retain their names established by the English dub, with the exception of characters introduced in the second season reverting to their original Japanese names, such as Ai (previously Sally) and Miss Ageo (previously Miss Agnes). Action Mask, referred to previously as Muchacho Enmascarado (from the English dub's Masked Muchacho), is now called Ultrahéroe, his name in Spain. Likewise, Buriburizaemon, previously Porkazoid, is called Cerdito Valiente like in Spain.

78 segments from 39 episodes, 527 through 565, were dubbed, all of which have been found as of August 31, 2023. This season does not feature an opening or ending theme, although the original dubbed opening and credits are added on ETC broadcasts. Licensed from Luk Internacional in Spain to the company Kora International, these episodes are 560 through 588 in Spain (removing in Latin America episodes 577 through 579, which cover Japanese specials 45 through 47), thus making up 26 episodes as broadcast in Spanish. Most episodes aired on Tiin are available on the Shin Chan Latino Blogspot page.

All available episodes from Tiin are also on the Internet Archive, along with the 2023 ETC broadcasts.

## Shin Chan

### Year(s)

2001-02

A Valencian dub of *Crayon Shin-chan* was aired in the Valencian Community on Punt 2's Babalà Club block starting on August 27, 2001, reaching Canal Nou's version of the block on May 25, 2002. The dub was pulled from the air by RTVV (Radiotelevisió Valenciana) on November 29, 2002, due to the show's content was not "suitable" for children's programming. According to a press release from the Valencian station, "the adventures of Shinosuke Nohara were conceived as a caricature against the social chakras, but lately he has been developing a line of acid humor more typical of adults".

Outside of the show's opening and ending, only a handful of episodes from the dub are available online, ranging mostly from episodes 200 to 252, but also including two segments from episode 85. Episode 202c was once on YouTube channel Dibuixos en valencià and its website, but has been claimed for copyright on YouTube, and removed from the website for unknown reasons. The website also removed episodes 230a, 230b, 233b, and 233c. They also state on Twitter to have more single segments in their possession (such as 217a, 218c, and 226b) that have not been uploaded to the site because they had to decide whether to upload them alone or as a fake 22-minute episode. Note that some episode numbering has been slightly altered to match the original Japanese version instead of the Spanish version, which skipped episodes 93 and 179. The dub most likely stopped at episode 262 (260 in Spain), the point at which the Catalan dub went on hiatus for nine months from April 10, 2002 to January 20, 2003.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.jinjur.com/2003/05/
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071011023353/http://www.adultswim.com:80/williams/shinchan/index.html
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6. ↑ https://www.timesofindia.com/india/shin-chan-has-parents-worried/articleshow/1260326.cms
7. ↑ https://cms.rajyasabha.nic.in/UploadedFiles/Debates/OfficialDebatesDatewise/Floor/218/F22.12.2009.pdf
8. ↑ https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/adorable-shin-chan-shown-the-door/story-uidnCw3z1TI5gzFPNlXHDL.html
9. ↑ https://crayonshinchan.fandom.com/wiki/Crayon\_Shin-chan\_in\_India
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11. ↑ https://www.tvblog.it/post/14077/shin-chan-gli-episodi-inediti-e-un-concorso-arrivano-su-cartoon-network
12. ↑ https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/anim/shinchan.htm
13. ↑ https://www.e-duesse.it/senza-categoria/su-cartoon-network-i-nuovi-episodi-di-shin-chan-d87
14. ↑ https://anime.everyeye.it/notizie/cartoon-network-arrivano-i-nuovi-episodi-di-crayon-shin-chan-62902.html
15. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/doreamon.cambodia.1/photos/a.147321525438417/147326838771219
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18. ↑ https://dvdpt.com/s/shin\_chan\_1.php
19. ↑ https://dvdpt.com/s/shin\_chan\_2.php
20. ↑ https://www.anmtvla.com/2022/03/chile-senpai-tv-estrena-su-pagina-web-y.html
21. ↑ https://www.etc.cl/actualidad/21663-regresa-un-clasico-shin-chan-vuelve-a-las-pantallas-de-etc-en-agosto.html
22. ↑ https://www.etc.cl/programacion/21665-programacion-etc-agosto-2023.html

## External links

* *Crayon Shin-chan* on the Dubbing Database Wiki