This summer the Nohara family went home to Akita, where Hiroshi, the father, grew up. They are resting at the grandfather's house and looking forward to a fireworks festival when, on the morning after they arrive in Akita, they find the room they are staying in strewn with flyers for "Obakation Village." The words "all-you-can-eat Chocobi" get Shin-chan so worked up that he talks the family into going, and as they head deep into the mountains they slip into a strange space. That is the story of the 33rd film in the series, Kiki Kaikai! Ora no Yokai Bakeshon, which opened in Japan on 31 July. Masaki Watanabe directs and Toho distributes. According to a report on 14 September, the film passed 2.7 billion yen at the box office in 45 days, an all-time record for the film series.
The source is a gag manga Yoshito Usui began in August 1990 in Futabasha's Weekly Manga Action. It follows five-year-old Shinnosuke Nohara, the boy Korean viewers know as Jjanggu, through everyday life with his office worker father, his mother, his little sister and his dog. In 2000 the series moved to the monthly Manga Town. After Usui died in September 2009, it kept running on pages he had already handed in, and it ended with chapter 1126 in the March 2010 issue. The collected edition was completed at 50 volumes.
That was not the end of the story. Staff who had worked with Usui for years formed Yoshito Usui & UY Studio and began serializing New Crayon Shin-chan in the September issue of Manga Town, released on 5 August 2010. New stories now appear on the official manga site, Manga Crayon Shin-chan.com, and the 341st, "Chigai ga Wakaru 0-saiji da zo," went up free on 5 October. Volume 16 of the collected edition came out on 30 July 2026. It includes "Nohara Misae Hirumeshi no Ryugi," about the mother Misae's lunch break, a strange game of shadow tag between Bo-chan and Shin-chan, and a crossover story with Chibi Maruko-chan. A manga adaptation of the film came out the same day.
The TV anime first aired on the TV Asahi network on 13 April 1992 and still airs every Saturday at 4:30 pm. Yumiko Kobayashi has voiced Shin-chan since episode 928. "Aru Gogo no Nohara Fufu da zo," broadcast on 19 September, was the first Crayon Shin-chan script by the playwright Kakeru Hasumi. Shin-chan barely appears in it. The story runs entirely on a conversation between Misae and Hiroshi and was animated as a single unbroken shot. Three stories led by "Kan Keri Wars da zo" air on 17 October.
If you want to go from the anime to the manga, there are two ways in. The Shin-chan Usui drew himself is in volumes 1 to 50 of the original, and the Shin-chan who carries on today is in volumes 1 to 16 of New Crayon Shin-chan and in the latest stories on the official manga site.
