Crayon Shin-chan

On the data. This is one of the largest franchises on this site and it has no order at all, which is the point. The television series has been running on TV Asahi since April 1992 and is past twelve hundred episodes. It is built as short segments, two or three per broadcast, with essentially no continuity. Characters do not age. Nothing carries over. So there is no correct starting point and no benefit to watching it in sequence. The films are where the effort goes. Thirty four of them since 1993, one most summers, each self contained. A few are genuinely well regarded as films: The Adult Empire Strikes Back from 2001 is the one usually named, and it is a serious piece of work wrapped in a crude gag comedy. The 2023 film was the first made in 3D computer animation and became the highest grossing entry in the series. The author, Yoshito Usui, died in a hiking accident in 2009. The manga was continued by his former assistants under the title New Crayon Shin-chan. One warning for anyone who watched the English version: the Funimation dub from the 2000s rewrote the scripts almost entirely into adult humour that is nothing like the original. The Japanese version is crude but it is a children's show. They are very different programmes. No episode count is listed for the television series here. It has run for over thirty years without season breaks and any figure would be out of date by the time you read it.

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