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Shin Chan, or Kureyon Shin-chan ( Crayon Shin-chan), is a long running Japanese anime and manga series created by the recently deceased Yoshito Usui. It follows the misadventures of Shinnosuke "Shin" Nohara and his family and friends. It was recently picked up by Funimation, given a more extreme Gag Dub and is now airing on Adult Swim.
This series features examples of:
- Abusive Parents - Penny's father.
- Interestingly enough, Penny (or Nene in the Japanese version) didn't have an abusive father at all in the original. Her domestic abuse is entirely exclusive to the English dub. Ironically, having her come from an abusive family actually makes more sense, because it explains why she and her mother are so emotionally unstable and why Penny (as evidenced by the way she plays house with her friends) has such a warped view of marriage.
- Art Evolution - Not much of one, but it's noticable enough.
- Art Shift - often lampshaded in the dub
- Author Existence Failure - Yoshito Usui, the creator of the manga, died on September 11, 2009
 after falling while hiking on Mt. Arafune. Whether the manga, which was still ongoing at the time of Usui's death, will be continued without him has not been announced.
- Book Dumb - Yonro, who just can't seem to get into college.
- Butt Monkey - Mitzi, Hiro, and Whitey. Mostly Mitzi and Whitey.
- Ceiling Banger
- Chew Toy - Happiness Bunny
- Cross Dressing Voices - the little boys are mostly played by adult women, lampshaded.
- In the four-part story arc, The High School Years, Shin tells Georgie "Yeah, well you have the body of a first-grader. And the ass of a baby. And (in Laura Bailey's normal voice) the voice of a grown woman."
- In the original, Shin-chan himself is voiced by Akiko Yajima.
- Cross Over - A ten-minute short has Shin meet the cast of Kamen Rider Den-O and becoming Kamen Rider Shin-O in order to help save his mother from an Imagin.
- Crowning Moment Of Funny - "To be a man you must have honor, honor and a peeenis!"
- Dead Baby Comedy
- Delivery Stork - When playing house with Shin, Ai declares to Penny that she's pregnant. "Shin and I French-kissed and then the stork came down and knocked me up!"
- Dissimile
- Face Of A Thug - Principal Ench, whose face convinces everyone (adults and children alike) that he is a Yakuza.
- Flanderization - A reminder that Tropes Are Not Bad
- Freaky Friday Flip - With Shin and Mitzi.
- Gag Dub
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Spanish, Catalonians specially, love Shin-chan in the same way Americans love The Simpsons (maybe more), to the point the author went there several times and befriended the official translator - who eventually appeared in the manga. Meanwhile, no matter how many dubs, (Gag-like or otherwise) are made, it seems the series can't never catch in America, either North or Latin.
- House Wife - According to a bonus web interview, the fact that the Nohara's don't quite make enough money for Mitzi to live comfortably as a housewife is the main origin of Mitzi's unusual behavior.
- Leisure Suit Larry - all the male Noharas
- Lipstick Mark - it turns out it was the baby
- Lolicon - parodied in the Show Within A Show Action Bastard
- Parodied? Outright Lampshaded, more like. "Skirt of blue! Scarf of green! When you're hit by her love beam - tell the cop she looked eighteen!"
- Long Runner
- Looming Silhouette Of Rage - usually Mitzi
- Mistaken For Gay - Maso in the dub, Georgie in the original
- Initially implied to be the case with Ken Nakatomi and Bernie Ota, a pair of detectives, who rent an apartment near the Noharas' as part of an investigation and claim to be a gay couple to cover up in the episode "Stakeout of the Closet". Subverted, because about halfway through their first appearance it becomes increasingly obvious that they both are gay and in denial. In a later episode, their Inner Monologue reveals that they both secretly love each other.
- Mouthy Kid - So much
- Naked People Are Funny - The "Elephant Dance"!
- Name That Tune - In the Gag Dub, the charachters frequently hum along to the shows main them. Usually just the part that goes Doot-Do-Doot-Da-Doot Doot-Do-Doot-Da-Doot-Dah-Doot.
- Parent Service - Mitzi "secretly" lusts after various Bishonen characters in Action Bastard
- Playing Against Type - For being mostly cast as sexy women like Lust, Laura Bailey sure shocked us all with her dead-on portrayal of the 5 year old lead.
- What, and no mention of Akiko Yajima, who is better known for her lady roles?
- Ralph Wiggum - Boo
- Not really. He's actually smarter than you think. He's more of the silent type.
- Rich Bitch - Ai
- Refuge In Audacity - everything
- Strawman Political - played for laughs with Georgie
- Subverted Kids Show
- Shotacon - parodied in an extended spoof of sports based "High School" shows. Shin only wishes the women he met had this fetish
- Small Reference Pools - in an interview on the Adult Swim website the writers talked about how they were able to avert this trope
- Toilet Humor - Sometimes Shin's dialog is just "Farty poop fart fart" or something like that.
- Unmoving Plaid - Principal Ench's pants
- A Very Star Wars Parody
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