Shin Chan

Crayon Shin-chan follows the wacky antics and adventures of five-year-old Shinnosuke "Shin" Nohara and his parents, neighbors, and friends and is set in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Many of the jokes in the series stem from Shin-chan's occasionally weird, unnatural and inappropriate use of language, as well as from his inappropriate behavior. A typical gag involves Shin-chan confounding his parents by using the wrong phrase for the occasion; for example, saying "Welcome back!" instead of "I am back!" when he comes home. During the beginning of the series, the TV show was mostly based on the storyline in the original manga. As the show progressed, more and more episodes became anime-original.

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Chibi Maruko-chan 83%

142 eps · 1990

You get the same warm episodic family chaos, just filtered through a slightly bratty little girl instead of a slightly bratty little boy.

KochiKame 82%

344 eps · 1996

Swap the household for a police box and you still get that same string of harmless schemes blowing up in the hero's face.

Kiteretsu Encyclopedia 80%

331 eps · 1988

Its neighborhood cast of rivals and crushes plays like a gentler, gadget-driven cousin to Shin's own school-day antics.

Hanada Shounen-shi 75%

25 eps · 2002

This one keeps the mischievous rural brat energy but layers in quiet ghost stories for extra heart.