Shin Chan is criminally underrated.. I grew up on the Funimation dub (defo not something I should've watched as a kid) but virtually no one ever talks about it! Glad to see some coverage on the franchise as a whole.
About that Funimation may have DUBBED it just NOT in the USA since Toonami NEVER actually aired a SINGLE Episode that I know off the ONLY DUB is the European/UK DUB of it.
@@veghesther3204 If I remember correctly the Funimation dub of Shin-Chan aired during the era after Toonami initially ended, so it aired on Adult Swim technically.
My introduction to Shin Chan was something that i remember during high school. I remember when the movie Shin Godzilla came out, they made a funny special for Shin Chan where he fights Godzilla and it ends with Shin Chan shrinking Godzilla.
I’m so glad you’re expanding on the greatness of Crayon Shin-Chan. While I visited in Japan last month, Shinosuke was everywhere. He’s like the Bart Simpson of Japan. You’re very thorough in your research and it’s really impressive. You earned a sub.
Holy smokes someone finally made a video explaining shin chan. And the whole leaving out the crayon part of the title bc i feel like it?? 😂😂 Tell em how it is
YO WHAT?! Laura Bailey from critical role is the voice for adult swim shin shan? Wow. Favorite episode hands down is when a drug addicted birthday clown overdoses at himas birthday party and they spend the next day traumatized cause they had to bury the dead body instead of calling the police hahaha
Finally someone in the west talks about it! My favorite anime and I hardly understand japanese so you can imagine I have not seen most of the episodes, but the 200 or so and the movies that I have seen with english subtitles are gold. I especially like the cozy older episodes and the spin-off series with the alien and the yokai storylines.
You left out a very huge part of the world and fandom that generationally grew up on Shin-Chan, the Chinese speaking world that includes China, Taiwan(which granted the world an extremely iconic Mandarin Shin-Chan dub), Malaysia, Singapore and more. And I’d say the Taiwanese version is the most faithful of the Japanese original in the world because they kept every raunchy joke and adult theme.
thanks for answering that bit about Shin Chan's origin dying after saving his sister. i think i recall seeing that in a bunch of comment sections for years when when there were episodes still on UA-cam and just being super confused at this and not being able to find the answer for that.
I hope you make more shinchan videos 🥺 I feel like there’s so many more eps and movies to deep dive into. This was such a great video and I could really feel the love and passion that you have for shinchan ❤️
I'm from Spain and Shin-chan is my childhood I'm so glad to see people talking about it, I used to love it as a kid and even today I still love to go back to the DS games and the movies, (Adult empire strikes back is no joke my favorite movie of all time and always manages to make me a bit emotional), the show is still earing over here, but sadly the distribution rights were bought by Fox meaning it's no longer on public TV, there's still the official channel who posts old chapters and that's honestly my main go to for comfort shows.
Despite being into anime at the right time I somehow never heard of shin Chan until now. I’m playing natsumon and now I’m glad I saved the shin Chan version for after
I loved this video so much as a huge fan of shin-Chan. I personally don’t like the funimation dub. It just doesn’t have the same feel as the Japanese version. But I loved this video and I’m glad to see shin Chan get more attention and I definitely need to get that game soon I want it so bad😭
Loved this, I also grew up with Funimation's dub of Shin-Chan and still adore it to this day. Although I really wish more of the original Japanese version was subbed in English, I was enjoying it so much until I realized only a small portion of it has been fansubbed 😔
Not surprised parts of seeing this video sure hasn’t aged partically the end cause I doubt shin chan will ever get picked up by American audiences the content is too different from most of what we get in the US like Doraemon it’s hard and most Americans probably wouldn’t watch stuff like that because we’re usually in a shonen/isekai situation
you're right from the gameplay you showed of the game, that does look like a really chill game. gives me Animal Crossing feelings of laid backness. I'll keep this game saved and in mind. 👍
thanks for doing a summary of Shin Chan esspecially with the creator of the manga i found out about the Funimantion Dub from some friends and seeing scattered episodes all over UA-cam, before they all got deleted as well as not being able to get it on DVD or streaming anymore.
The eyes were the hardest thing for me to get past when I first saw it on Adult Swim. Inverted from what many art styles do, they’re black with white pupils. But when I did, I found one of the most insanely hilarious programs in existence
Fun fact: Yoshito Usui was a hardcore devotee to Jehovah's Witnesses. To the point he had a church built near his house and was infamous in the industry because during meetings he would take up a lot of time reciting the entirety of the new testament and gave out bibles to his publishers.
I'm not sure I could call the Funimation dub "butchered", exactly, maybe more like frankesteined. I did some reading up on Shin and his oddities in the original version, and I realized some of the big reason they took the 2008 version the way they did was because so much of the original humor was derived from cultural norms and touchstones that just do not translate over well at all. Like the whole "when you say a specific phrase, you're supposed to do a certain gesture/movement to go with it and Shin rarely ever gets it 'right' " thing? I can't think of all that many phrases here in the west we have that it is considered socially normal and "proper" to always attach the gesture or hand motions to go along with it. But then, that's just my thoughts on it. Happy to see this, though! That show is a "comfort" anime for me and I'm still trying to figure out why xD
I'm surprised you didn't bring up the Amazon Prime English dub. BTW Is there any Shin-chan merch that you would like to own? Mines would be the happiness bunny.
Some of the dated references for the Funimation Dub ended up helping me get a slightly better pop cultural idea for what might've been going on at the time that I might've been to young to understand at the time they were happening. As well as give me some things to look up and around at to sort of play search the references. ex) the episode with the Dead Clown Mr.Peebles episode, Fairly Bad Things, was a parody of this 90s movie Very Bad Things also the Cleaning Service that Mitzi started with Summer was a parody of this movie called Sunshine Cleaning. I'm not sure if hearing all the references got me to check out all the movie and show things they were talking about, but it made me feel productive and it was kind of interesting to see and see what the lines matched up to being distanced from the time of the show and not having as strong a connection to the time period and references. So it was kind of a museum sort of search and view experience with a South Park style crude humor air about it.
As someone who has grown up with a more childfriendly eng dub and loved shin chan. (Although it was removed from kids channels because even that version wasn't child friendly enough with parents complaining for years) It was wildly popular however. The more adultlike funimation dub that I've watched many years later blows my mind it is such a shame that they only did 3 seasons. It's a massive improvement. They also dimmed down on the ass scenes big time in funimation dub. which is a good thing, cause those scenes rarely where that interesting was always the same thing didn't add much isn't that fun with some exceptions. That being said the darker adult themes and the personality switches, the different plots in the funimation dub elevate this series to an entire different lvl. Made my appreciation for the series even higher than it already was. Funimation made the right call since they had to up the age ratings anyway. Also more adult themes aside, funimation dub had higher quality voice actors than the other eng dub it was a huge boost in that department aswell. It was actually properly done. It is by far the best version of Shin chan quality stuff.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment I am so glad there are other Shin Chan lovers out there! I wish I had known about the PG Shin Chan earlier in life, I thought the Funimation Dub was all there was for so long!
I remember watching it on Adult Swim in the 2000s when I was in elementary school. My mom never really thought much about it because it looked like a children’s cartoon until she stayed up to watch it with me one night. Needless to say I wasn’t allowed to watch it anymore but that didn’t stop me. 😂
I remeber being a kid and watching shinchan and his dad boost their confidence with the man song. "In order to be a man you must have honor, honor and a peeeeeenis oooouu ooouu oouu~~" the wiggle at the end with the oous is mandatory
I was never all that familiar with Shin-chan, but I recently started watching the Funimation dub and I’m loving it so far. I’m considering checking out the Japanese version as well.
Yooo, the Indian Shin Chan lore is a bit deeper, they initially aired without censoring the nud*ty and made shin really rude to her mom. kids started doing all that irl, then they started watering it down to the point that it was completely neutered. Also, the funimation changed more than the names, they go to an American school smh. 😭. Ik its a bit dated but the republican Georgie was too on point i loved how they Americanised it.
Actually my introduction of crayon shin chan was actually 2020 during Covid-19 I was able to watch the Japanese verison and thankfully people have put the movies online now a days I doubt they gonna release to the public for a lot of reasons the marketing for this franchise is kinda “meh “compared to shonen titles which work better overall I don’t hate the series I do like but it’s hard to get people into this show for the first time I kinda was for me
I'd love to see Funimation bring the show back for either one more season, or do an adaptation of one of the movies. I know they took the show off their library for a reason, due to the more raunchier risque humor being a little much after 2017 or 2018, I forget. I thought that was a shame. I thought it'd be cool or funny if they surprise brought it back via a dubbed movie on Adult Swim via one of those April Fools Day Pranks by dropping that dubbed movie on their Adult Swim stream on UA-cam, kind of like what they did for Smiling Friends this year with all those different style puppets and season 2 episode 1. I can imagine that being a little difficult rights wise and marketing-wise. I think the American Audience that enjoys that dub is probably really niche and probably wouldn't be enough to be considered profitable, as well as factoring in the audience under the original one that probably wouldn't know what this is exactly. So it's kind of a financial risk and might not be worth it. ...not the best plan or idea. No idea how to think it out properly and make a good suggestion for it. Just something I'd like to see that has no chance😔.
Shin Chan is criminally underrated.. I grew up on the Funimation dub (defo not something I should've watched as a kid) but virtually no one ever talks about it! Glad to see some coverage on the franchise as a whole.
Thank you!
About that Funimation may have DUBBED it just NOT in the USA since Toonami NEVER actually aired a SINGLE Episode that I know off the ONLY DUB is the European/UK DUB of it.
@@veghesther3204 If I remember correctly the Funimation dub of Shin-Chan aired during the era after Toonami initially ended, so it aired on Adult Swim technically.
All heroes watch Shin Chan ✊🔥
All facts 👏🏼
Shin chan doesn't get enough love in the west. Thank you for making this!
My introduction to Shin Chan was something that i remember during high school. I remember when the movie Shin Godzilla came out, they made a funny special for Shin Chan where he fights Godzilla and it ends with Shin Chan shrinking Godzilla.
I’m so glad you’re expanding on the greatness of Crayon Shin-Chan. While I visited in Japan last month, Shinosuke was everywhere. He’s like the Bart Simpson of Japan. You’re very thorough in your research and it’s really impressive. You earned a sub.
Holy smokes someone finally made a video explaining shin chan. And the whole leaving out the crayon part of the title bc i feel like it?? 😂😂 Tell em how it is
Boosting it again! Loved the video and all your content!
Thank you so much!!! ❤❤
The art style is very unique (in a good way).
YO WHAT?! Laura Bailey from critical role is the voice for adult swim shin shan? Wow. Favorite episode hands down is when a drug addicted birthday clown overdoses at himas birthday party and they spend the next day traumatized cause they had to bury the dead body instead of calling the police hahaha
OMG YES!!! I'm so glad at least one other person out there finds this interesting! It blew my mind!
Finally someone in the west talks about it! My favorite anime and I hardly understand japanese so you can imagine I have not seen most of the episodes, but the 200 or so and the movies that I have seen with english subtitles are gold. I especially like the cozy older episodes and the spin-off series with the alien and the yokai storylines.
It’s not that it’s hard to find this series
@@watchforever1724 Yes, my point was that most episodes don't have english subtitles
@@1appletree still it’s hard to find it’s movies though
You left out a very huge part of the world and fandom that generationally grew up on Shin-Chan, the Chinese speaking world that includes China, Taiwan(which granted the world an extremely iconic Mandarin Shin-Chan dub), Malaysia, Singapore and more. And I’d say the Taiwanese version is the most faithful of the Japanese original in the world because they kept every raunchy joke and adult theme.
thanks for answering that bit about Shin Chan's origin dying after saving his sister.
i think i recall seeing that in a bunch of comment sections for years when when there were episodes still on UA-cam and just being super confused at this and not being able to find the answer for that.
I hope you make more shinchan videos 🥺 I feel like there’s so many more eps and movies to deep dive into. This was such a great video and I could really feel the love and passion that you have for shinchan ❤️
I'm from Spain and Shin-chan is my childhood I'm so glad to see people talking about it, I used to love it as a kid and even today I still love to go back to the DS games and the movies, (Adult empire strikes back is no joke my favorite movie of all time and always manages to make me a bit emotional), the show is still earing over here, but sadly the distribution rights were bought by Fox meaning it's no longer on public TV, there's still the official channel who posts old chapters and that's honestly my main go to for comfort shows.
Shin chan was voiced by a rapper in a deep raspy voice in my country.
I actually enjoyed this nice little review, it felt personal but very on point. Love Shinchan💜
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!
Yes, I fell in love with shin chan because of adult swim too, I wish they had done more seasons! And he will always be called Action Bastard to me 😂
Despite being into anime at the right time I somehow never heard of shin Chan until now. I’m playing natsumon and now I’m glad I saved the shin Chan version for after
I bought the seasons as soon as they came out and even got my wife wanting to watch a few episodes each month ❤.
Well done! It is so lovely!
I loved this video so much as a huge fan of shin-Chan. I personally don’t like the funimation dub. It just doesn’t have the same feel as the Japanese version. But I loved this video and I’m glad to see shin Chan get more attention and I definitely need to get that game soon I want it so bad😭
Loved this, I also grew up with Funimation's dub of Shin-Chan and still adore it to this day. Although I really wish more of the original Japanese version was subbed in English, I was enjoying it so much until I realized only a small portion of it has been fansubbed 😔
21:08 The original voice actress for Shin in Japan was Yajima Akiko, who retired from the role a few years ago.
Not surprised parts of seeing this video sure hasn’t aged partically the end cause I doubt shin chan will ever get picked up by American audiences the content is too different from most of what we get in the US like Doraemon it’s hard and most Americans probably wouldn’t watch stuff like that because we’re usually in a shonen/isekai situation
Shin-chan and Mitzi (Misae) are also my two favs.
Good video it was actually recommended because of Reddit
you're right from the gameplay you showed of the game, that does look like a really chill game.
gives me Animal Crossing feelings of laid backness.
I'll keep this game saved and in mind. 👍
Shin Chan has some of the best animated films lol
thanks for doing a summary of Shin Chan
esspecially with the creator of the manga
i found out about the Funimantion Dub from some friends and seeing scattered episodes all over UA-cam, before they all got deleted as well as not being able to get it on DVD or streaming anymore.
The eyes were the hardest thing for me to get past when I first saw it on Adult Swim. Inverted from what many art styles do, they’re black with white pupils. But when I did, I found one of the most insanely hilarious programs in existence
The Funimation dub of shin Chan is supreme
Wee deserved more seasons
Not sure if this could be made with the exact same writing and flavor again.
but would love it if they could bring it back
The other English dub is better but this is good and best for its episodes.
Fun fact: Yoshito Usui was a hardcore devotee to Jehovah's Witnesses. To the point he had a church built near his house and was infamous in the industry because during meetings he would take up a lot of time reciting the entirety of the new testament and gave out bibles to his publishers.
EXCUSE ME?! Is that real? omg
I'm not sure I could call the Funimation dub "butchered", exactly, maybe more like frankesteined. I did some reading up on Shin and his oddities in the original version, and I realized some of the big reason they took the 2008 version the way they did was because so much of the original humor was derived from cultural norms and touchstones that just do not translate over well at all. Like the whole "when you say a specific phrase, you're supposed to do a certain gesture/movement to go with it and Shin rarely ever gets it 'right' " thing? I can't think of all that many phrases here in the west we have that it is considered socially normal and "proper" to always attach the gesture or hand motions to go along with it. But then, that's just my thoughts on it. Happy to see this, though! That show is a "comfort" anime for me and I'm still trying to figure out why xD
Ooooh I really like t hat term "frankensteined" very appropriate for this interpretation of Shin Chan. Thank you for watching!
Seems a lot easier to understand than random inserted pop culture references that became dated after like a week
Is Shin Chan the biggest cartoon franchise? Has The Simpsons ever gone as far as thirty five languages and forty five countries?
such a detailed video, thank you!!
I'm surprised you didn't bring up the Amazon Prime English dub. BTW Is there any Shin-chan merch that you would like to own? Mines would be the happiness bunny.
Ooooh tough question, maybe a Shiro plushie? Or anything with Shin mooning lol
Some of the dated references for the Funimation Dub ended up helping me get a slightly better pop cultural idea for what might've been going on at the time that I might've been to young to understand at the time they were happening. As well as give me some things to look up and around at to sort of play search the references. ex) the episode with the Dead Clown Mr.Peebles episode, Fairly Bad Things, was a parody of this 90s movie Very Bad Things also the Cleaning Service that Mitzi started with Summer was a parody of this movie called Sunshine Cleaning. I'm not sure if hearing all the references got me to check out all the movie and show things they were talking about, but it made me feel productive and it was kind of interesting to see and see what the lines matched up to being distanced from the time of the show and not having as strong a connection to the time period and references. So it was kind of a museum sort of search and view experience with a South Park style crude humor air about it.
I was aware of this show long before many other shonen anime and let’s just say I think it’s funny
As someone who has grown up with a more childfriendly eng dub and loved shin chan. (Although it was removed from kids channels because even that version wasn't child friendly enough with parents complaining for years) It was wildly popular however. The more adultlike funimation dub that I've watched many years later blows my mind it is such a shame that they only did 3 seasons. It's a massive improvement. They also dimmed down on the ass scenes big time in funimation dub. which is a good thing, cause those scenes rarely where that interesting was always the same thing didn't add much isn't that fun with some exceptions. That being said the darker adult themes and the personality switches, the different plots in the funimation dub elevate this series to an entire different lvl. Made my appreciation for the series even higher than it already was. Funimation made the right call since they had to up the age ratings anyway. Also more adult themes aside, funimation dub had higher quality voice actors than the other eng dub it was a huge boost in that department aswell. It was actually properly done. It is by far the best version of Shin chan quality stuff.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment I am so glad there are other Shin Chan lovers out there! I wish I had known about the PG Shin Chan earlier in life, I thought the Funimation Dub was all there was for so long!
Yeah many people said this
Shin Chan is super popular in France too
I remember watching it on Adult Swim in the 2000s when I was in elementary school. My mom never really thought much about it because it looked like a children’s cartoon until she stayed up to watch it with me one night. Needless to say I wasn’t allowed to watch it anymore but that didn’t stop me. 😂
Watched the American dub when I was like 11-12. Funniest shit ever. Even if it’s not the real translation, I have fond memories of it
I remeber being a kid and watching shinchan and his dad boost their confidence with the man song. "In order to be a man you must have honor, honor and a peeeeeenis oooouu ooouu oouu~~" the wiggle at the end with the oous is mandatory
I was never all that familiar with Shin-chan, but I recently started watching the Funimation dub and I’m loving it so far. I’m considering checking out the Japanese version as well.
In the Netherlands only the first 3 season where ever dubbed and aired
Yooo, the Indian Shin Chan lore is a bit deeper, they initially aired without censoring the nud*ty and made shin really rude to her mom. kids started doing all that irl, then they started watering it down to the point that it was completely neutered. Also, the funimation changed more than the names, they go to an American school smh. 😭. Ik its a bit dated but the republican Georgie was too on point i loved how they Americanised it.
FYI: Kasukabe is pronounced "Kas'kabe" and Misae is exactly as written "Mee-sah-eh"
I wish i could find the funimation dub. Its seemingly wiped from all streaming.
Actually my introduction of crayon shin chan was actually 2020 during Covid-19 I was able to watch the Japanese verison and thankfully people have put the movies online now a days I doubt they gonna release to the public for a lot of reasons the marketing for this franchise is kinda “meh “compared to shonen titles which work better overall I don’t hate the series I do like but it’s hard to get people into this show for the first time I kinda was for me
I'd love to see Funimation bring the show back for either one more season, or do an adaptation of one of the movies.
I know they took the show off their library for a reason, due to the more raunchier risque humor being a little much after 2017 or 2018, I forget. I thought that was a shame.
I thought it'd be cool or funny if they surprise brought it back via a dubbed movie on Adult Swim via one of those April Fools Day Pranks by dropping that dubbed movie on their Adult Swim stream on UA-cam, kind of like what they did for Smiling Friends this year with all those different style puppets and season 2 episode 1. I can imagine that being a little difficult rights wise and marketing-wise. I think the American Audience that enjoys that dub is probably really niche and probably wouldn't be enough to be considered profitable, as well as factoring in the audience under the original one that probably wouldn't know what this is exactly. So it's kind of a financial risk and might not be worth it.
...not the best plan or idea. No idea how to think it out properly and make a good suggestion for it. Just something I'd like to see that has no chance😔.
A fellow Toonami kid i grew up with the inuyasha and Ruroni Kenshin era, what era did you grow up with?
I came from Instagram
Yay!! Welcome! New video this afternoon about Totoro 😊
@@dearestdimple I came here from Reddit
Anyone prefer the Fox Kids version?
-(Honor and a P!)
You see the Shin Chan Spin Off off prime video?!
What’s the reupload for?
Copyright claim 😢
I see
Wait… “butchered version”?
The US version is 100% better than Ghost Stories.
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