Crayon Shin-chan ( Kureyon Shin-chan?

), also known as Shin Chan, is a

Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshito Usui. It follows the adventures of the
five-year-old Shinnosuke "Shin" Nohara and his parents, baby sister, dog, neighbours, and
friends and is set in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture. An animeadaptation of the series began airing
on TV Asahi in 1992 and is still ongoing. The show has now been dubbed in Danish, English,
Dutch, German, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque,
Polish, Mandarin, Korean, Cantonese, Hindi, Hebrew, Telugu, Tamil, Tagalog, Indonesian,
Malay, Khmer, Thai and Vietnamese.
Due to the death of author Usui, the manga in its current form ended on September 11,
2009, as announced in a broadcast of the anime on October 16, 2009. Although the series
formally ended on February 5, 2010, it was announced on December 1, 2009 that a new
manga would begin in the summer of 2010 by members of Usui's te