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Key facts
- Genre
- Comedy , slice of life
- 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)
- Original run
- August 1990 – February 2010
- Volumes
- 50 ( List of volumes )
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Wikidata facts
- Author
- Yoshito Usui
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Publisher
- Futabasha
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- different from
- Harold and the Purple Crayon
- topic's main category
- Category:Crayon Shin-chan
- Commons category
- Crayon Shin-chan
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- social media followers
- 7620
- title
- クレヨンしんちゃん
- number of parts of this work
- 50
- start time
- 1990-08-00
- end time
- 2010-02-00
- intended public
- seinen
- has spin-off
- Nohara Hiroshi Hirumeshi no Ryūgi
- illustrator
- Yoshito Usui
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Encyclopedic overview
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, 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 1200 episodes. The show has been dubbed in 30 languages which aired in 45 countries. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crayon Shin-chan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.