Crayon Shin-chan

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Crayon Shin-chan
Cover of the first Crayon Shin-chan tankōbon, featuring Shinnosuke Nohara (Shin-chan)
クレヨンしんちゃん (Kureyon Shin-chan)
Genre	Comedy, slice of life[1]
Manga
Written by	Yoshito Usui
Published by	Futabasha
English publisher	NA: One Peace Books ComicsOne (former) CMX Manga (former)
Imprint	Action Comics
Magazine	Weekly Manga Action (1990–2000) Manga Town (2000–2010)
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	August 1990 – February 2010
Volumes	50 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Mitsuru Hongo (#1–202) Keiichi Hara (#202–504) Yuji Muto (#505–present)
Music by	Toshiyuki Arakawa
Studio	Shin-Ei Animation
Licensed by	North America: Funimation (2006–2020) Americas, Europe, Oceania: Lacey Entertainment (2003–2005) EMEA: LUK Internacional (2000–present)[2]
Original network	ANN (TV Asahi)
English network	AU: Vitello, Phuuz: Fox Kids,[3] Fox8 CA: Funimation: Razar EU: LUK Internacional: Nintendo eShop (2016–2018) IE: Vitello: RTÉ2[4] UK: Vitello, Phuuz: Fox Kids/Jetix (2002–2009) LUK Internacional: Nintendo eShop (2016–2018) US: English subtitled: KIKU (Hawaii) (1993–2001) Funimation: Adult Swim (2006–2009) ZA: LUK Internacional: Nintendo eShop (2016–2018)
Original run	April 13, 1992 – present
Episodes	1,267 (List of episodes)
Manga
New Crayon Shin-chan
Written by	UY Team
Published by	Futabasha
Imprint	Action Comics
Magazine	Manga Town (2010–2023)[5] Manga Crayon Shin-chan.com (2024–present)[5]
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	August 2010 – present
Volumes	14 (List of volumes)
Spin-off
SHIN-MEN (anime, 2010–2012) Crayon Shin-chan: SHIN-MEN (manga, 2010–2013) Action Mask (manga, 2013–2015) Style of Hiroshi Nohara LUNCH (manga, 2015–present) Crayon Shin-chan Spin-off (anime, 2016–2017) Super Shiro (anime, 2019–2020) Super Shiro (manga, 2020–2021)
Other media
List of Crayon Shin-chan films List of Crayon Shin-chan video games

Crayon Shin-chan (Japanese: クレヨンしんちゃん, Hepburn: Kureyon Shin-chan) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshito Usui. Crayon Shin-chan made its first appearance in 1990 in a Japanese weekly magazine called Weekly Manga Action, which was published by Futabasha. Due to the death of author Yoshito Usui, the manga in its original form ended on September 11, 2009. A new manga began in the summer of 2010 by members of Usui's team,^[6] titled New Crayon Shin-chan (新クレヨンしんちゃん, Shin Kureyon Shin-chan).

An animated television adaptation began airing on TV Asahi in 1992 and is still ongoing, with over 1000 episodes. The show has been dubbed in 30 languages which aired in 45 countries.^[7] As of 2023, both the Crayon Shin-Chan and New Crayon Shin-Chan series has over 148 million copies in circulation, making it among the best-selling manga series in history.