Manga volume 49
Marc Bernabé and his girlfriend Vero
Hotel where the Noharas stayed
Spain is a country in South Europe with almost 50 million inhabitants. It is, besides from Japan, the country were Crayon Shin-chan has experienced the biggest success, with a great quantity of episodes, movies and merchandising translated or imported there.
This fact didn't remain unnoticed to Yoshito Usui, author of the manga, who made the Nohara family visit the country several times, both in the manga and in the anime.
The Nohara family visits Spain[]
Due to the great popularity of the series in Spain, Yoshito Usui, author of the manga, made the Nohara family visit Spain in the manga in volume 49 (on the cover Shinnosuke appears disguised as a bullfighter).
In this story we see Marc Bernabé, the first translator of Shin-chan to Catalan (and later personal friend of Yoshito Usui), and his girlfriend as main characters. The plot of the story is darker than usual, with a drug dealer accidentally exchanging his bag with Shinnosuke's. This story was brought to the anime some years later, in 2013, episode 816 (スペインでお宝ゲットだゾ).
In an interview in 2003, Marc proposed to Yoshito that Shin-chan visits Spain in the anime. The mangaka agreed to it, and in May 2004 episode 501 (Hola! Our Trip to Spain) aired.
In both cases, the Noharas win a trip to Spain in a lottery, and are received and introduced to the city of Barcelona by local guides. Several emblematic buildings and tourist attractions are shown in the episodes.
In real life, some lucky people won a trip to Japan (organized by the Catalan channel K3), and were able to meet Yoshito Usui himself and visit the publishing facilities which produces Crayon Shin-chan.
Crayon Shin-chan in Spain[]
Crayon Shin-chan was first aired in Spain in April 2000 (under the name Shin Chan), with licensed by LUK Internacional, who already licensed Doraemon for Spain in 1990s. TV3, an autonomic Catalan TV channel was the first broadcaster of Shin Chan, followed by autonomic Basque, Galician and Valencian channels. It wasn't dubbed in Spanish until at the end of 2000 when Shin Chan was first dubbed in that language and aired on Cartoon Network Spain. Some character names and the location names are localized, like Action Kamen (adapted as "Ultraheroe") or the Kendo Dojo (adapted as "Dojo 'My Way'"). Some translations are usually to adapt the joke or to evade using copyrighted subjects. Also in the first seasons, they adapt sometimes things like the currency Japanese "yens" to Spanish "pesetas" (just in 1992 episodes), or change famous Japanese people like "Natsuki Okamoto" to "Cindy Crawford". In recent seasons they do a mix between famous Japanese and famous from around the world.
Over the following years, the series grew in popularity, 2003 was a milestone when the movie Crayon Shin-chan: Pursuit of the Balls of Darkness was released in theaters. Until the summer of 2005, Shin Chan continued being broadcasted both autonomically in different languages and nationally in Spanish. At the same time, it received several bad reviews from different associations, leading to some censorship in certain episodes (mainly with the language and expressions).
In 2005, Antena 3 (one of the main national TV broadcasters in Spain) bought the emission rights of the series, stopping the autonomical emissions (that aired until episode 371). The popularity kept growing until 2007 when another movie reached the cinemas, Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back.
After 2008, the series suffered a great decline in popularity, due to constant broadcasting of old episodes. The frequency of emissions decreased until today (a few emissions mainly in the morning), with a small bunch of new episodes translated every year.
Despite its success or not, some channels moved the series to night programming or dropped it completely after complaints by parents associations who claimed it was not appropriate for children.
Spain has been the country outside Japan where Crayon Shin-chan achieved the greatest popularity. A proof of that is the fact that several video games or other merchandising were only available in these two countries. As of October 2019 over 800 episodes including specials have been dubbed in Spanish and aired in Spain and concurrently it is airing on the Spanish version of the Star Channel which since March 2024 is the name of the channel formerly known as FOX.
Currently, the manga series was released up to Japanese volume 25 in Spanish and up to 35 in Catalan.
On October 7th 2021, in honor of the passing of the voice actor who plays Hiroshi, José Manuel Cortizas, the official Spanish YouTube channel made a special livestream to remember him and doing a contest choosing the new voice actor.
In July 2024, it was announced on Instagram that Shin-chan would return with the Basque dubbing on the Makusi platform. In October 2024 the Catalan dub returned in the movie Crayon Shin-chan: Great Psychokinetic Battle! Leaping Handmade Sushi.
In December 2024, ECC Ediciones was going to release a new Spanish edition of the manga. But the publisher unexpectantly went bankrupt leaving Shin-chan's manga unreleased. They tried to change the dates for release it, but finally the publisher closed.
At January 11, 2025, Star Channel stops streaming Crayon Shin-chan in Spanish. On January 15, Shin-chan social media (Spain) posted a stories asking for a new TV channel.
Dubbing technical sheet[]
Spain[]
| Director | Traductores | Distribuidora |
|---|---|---|
| José María Oteyza |
|
LUK Internacional S.A. |
The Spanish dubbing is done in the Basque Country. The series, after a fire in Mar Digital (Llodio-Álava), began to be dubbed in its new headquarters, Domusic TV (Erandio-Vizcaya). Later the series was dubbed on FX-Media (Galdácano-Vizcaya).
Spain is the non-Asian country where Crayon Shin Chan is most popular; because of this, an episode of the series where the Nohara family visits Spain premiered in Japan in May 2004.
This dub is uncensored and only a few episodes have been completely omitted. Although it was initially broadcast in children's time slots, due to regulatory changes in Spain over time, it is now considered an adult program and as such, in recent years it has been delegated mainly to late night rotation and then moved to Fox (now Star Channel), an adult channel. Several channels had also dropped the series due to complaints from parents about it not being appropriate for children.
This dub serves as the basis for several subsequent dubs following the end of Lacey Entertainment's English dub: English by Red Angel Media, French, Italian, the Polish voice-over, Santa Claus's European Portuguese, and Latin American Spanish.
Catalonia[]
Because some films in the franchise were dubbed into Catalan for their DVD release at a time when the series was not broadcast in Catalan, some special episodes (365-368, 371, 387, 389, 395, 408, 468, 541) included as bonuses were dubbed exclusively for their DVD release. They were re-dubbed years later when new episodes were broadcast on television.
Episode 492 was skipped in the Catalan broadcast, because Luk Internacional did not send it to TV3, so it was not dubbed.
Valencia[]
Both Júlia Sorlí (Shinnosuke's voice) and Rafa Contreras (Hiroshi's voice) have participated in interviews in the years since the dubbing was cancelled. It is worth noting that Júlia Sorlí appeared with Mari Giner, the Valencian voice of Son Goku from Dragon Ball, at the "Teatre Principal de València" on October 14, 2016, performing a humorous conversation live between the two characters.
Galicia[]
Because some of the franchise's films were dubbed into Galician for their DVD release at a time when the series was not broadcast in Galician, some special episodes (365-368, 387, 389, 395, 408, 468, 541) included as bonuses were dubbed exclusively for their DVD release. They were re-dubbed years later when new episodes were broadcast on television.
Episode 492 was omitted from the Galician broadcast, because LUK did not send it to TVG, so it was not dubbed.
Basque[]
Because some films in the franchise were dubbed into Basque for their DVD release at a time when the series was not broadcast in Basque, some special episodes (365-368, 387, 389, 395, 408, 468, 541) included as extras were dubbed exclusively for their DVD release. They were re-dubbed years later when new episodes were broadcast on television.
Social Media[]
YouTube[]
Shin-chan's Spanish YouTube channel was created on October 8th, 2014. It currently has 306K subscribers (2024).
The most viewed video on his channel is the single "¡Trompa!" by Andrés Alcaraz, Diego Vanegas and Nukito.
Description (Translation)
Shin-chan's official YouTube channel in Spain. A transgressive and fun Japanese manga/anime series, created by Yoshito Usui. Shinnosuke Nohara is a mischievous and rebellious five-year-old boy who is affectionately called Shin-chan. Despite his young age, the little boy baffles adults with his cheeky and crazy actions and behavior, especially his family, with whom he lives in the city of Kasukabe, made up of his parents, Hiroshi and Misae Nohara, his sister Himawari and his dog Shiro. Find weekly episodes in Spanish on the official Shin-chan YouTube channel, as well as all the promotions for this legendary anime character.
Videos
- Episodes every Thursday
- Movie trailers
- Promotions
- Merchandising advertising
Shorts
- Clips from episodes
- Memes/Shin-chan humor
Livestreams
- Hiroshi Talent
Lists
- Songs
- Episodes
- Videos Friends [Videos in which they have participated or sponsored]
- Events
- Crayon Shin-chan: Honeymoon Hurricane ~The Lost Hiroshi~ Trailers
- Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy Trailers
Comunity
They only have a message to the community that they send to an episode that they have in private.
TikTok[]
Shin-chan's TikTok account was created on December 13, 2021.
The account follows 128 users, has 172.1K followers, and 2.8M likes.(Data 2024)
His most viewed video on TikTok is the Shin-chan: The Superhero Teaser Trailer with 289.5K views.(Data 2024)
Decription (Transaltion)
Shin chan's official TikTok account in Spain 😎 #SHINCHANenSTARChannel
Instagram[]
Shin-chan's Instagram account was created in April 2018 but his first post wasn't until September.
The account has changed its name 3 times.
They follow 308 people and have 107k followers.(Data 2024)
Account overview
In their first post they asked fans what they wanted to see on Instagram. Among the things they asked for were things that they even do now on their networks, uploading excerpts of episodes or entire episodes.
The next post was a post where they announced that they had published a new episode on their YouTube channel.
The next things they uploaded were excerpts of an episode mixed with giveaways. The giveaways they did were for merchandising and promotions in which they announced that they were going to events.
In January 2019 they started to release some memes with screenshots of Shin-chan.
In February 2019 they started to release curiosities of the series mixed with official artworks.
In June 2019 they announced that there were 5 days left for the series to air on FOX saying that it would air on June 22.
Later they announced the single "¡Trompa!"
In March 2020, they announced the cancellation of Shin-chan in Australia due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, as a result of the virus, Shin-chan's account advised people to take care of themselves in the face of the health problem they were experiencing. Due to the cancellation of the film, they decided to make a section dedicated to Shin-chan films.
In September 2021, they announced that on October 7 they would hold an event called Hiroshi Talent (due to the death of José Manuel Cortizas) to find the new voice in Spain for the character of Hiroshi Nohara. Revealing Hiroshi's new voice on Instagram in November for those who did not see the live broadcast.
On April 13, 2022, they celebrated the 30th anniversary of the series with a post.
In July 2022, they announced that they were going to release the Shinchan game for Nintendo Switch (My Summer with the Teacher) in Spain. After 13 years, a game arrived in Spain.
Due to Disney's purchase of FOX, FOX was renamed STAR Channel, and in March 2024 it was announced that Shin-chan would now be broadcast on STAR Channel.
In July 2024 it was announced on Instagram that Shin-chan would return with the Basque dubbing on the Makusi platform.
Publication
Its content is based on clips from Shin-chan episodes, memes and advertisements, although they have also published some artwork and information about the series.
Twitter/X[]
On X (formerly Twitter) they do the same thing as the other networks. They make posts announcing movies, show clips from the series and promote merchandising.
Web (2013)[]
The domain "www.shinchanweb.com" was acquired by LUK International in 2013.
Another thing it had was an option to change the language to Portuguese and a section with news.
Section
- Store
- Videos
- Games
- Club
- Fun Stuff
- Wikichan
- TV
Gallery[]
Home video[]
All DVDs released in Spain are region 2 and PAL.
| Title | Film material | Language | Format | Release date | Distributor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shinchan: En busca de las bolas perdidas / La invasion / Operacion rescate EAN: 8422397905447 |
> (M1) "Crayon Shin-chan: Action Mask vs. Leotard Devil" > (M5) "Crayon Shin-chan: Pursuit of the Balls of Darkness" > (M6) "Crayon Shin-chan: Blitzkrieg! Pig's Hoof's Secret Mission" |
Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician | 3 x DVD | unknown | LUK International |
| Shinchan: Spa wars (La guerra de los balnearios) / Mi perro es la bomba | > (M7) "Crayon Shin-chan: Explosion! The Hot Spring's Feel Good Final Battle" (M13) "Crayon Shin-chan: The Legend Called Buri Buri 3 Minutes Charge" |
Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician | unknown | unknown | LUK Internacional |
| Shinchan: La espada de oro / Perdidos en la jungla | > (M8) "Crayon Shin-chan: Jungle That Invites Storm" > (M16) "Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! The Hero of Kinpoko" |
Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician | 2 x DVD | unknown | LUK International |
Links[]
- www.shinchanweb.com (2013-2019)
- shinchan.lukinternacional.com (Current)