Shin Chan (English, Lacey Entertainment)

The dub is also officially stated on the Japanese Crayon Shin-chan website to have premiered in New Zealand during July 2005.

Licensed by Lacey Entertainment in partnership with TV Asahi, it was dubbed by the company Vitello Productions for its first season in Burbank, California, during 2002, notably featuring voice actors popular in American cartoons, albeit a small pool of only six.

For the second season, dubbing was handled by Phuuz Entertainment, Inc. in Universal City, California, during 2004, with voice actors experienced in dubbed anime based in Los Angeles. They continued dubbing in a similar style. Targeted at children, the dub made many changes in localization. Despite this, it is well-liked by fans. Fox Kids Europe oversaw distribution and acquired licensing rights.

Vitello Productions (2002)

 * }


 * }

Phuuz Entertainment (2004)

 * }


 * }

Original
Although the dub was never aired in the United States, it was pitched by distributor Lacey Entertainment with TV Asahi to both Cartoon Network and its Adult Swim block, whose VP of production Keith Crofford was revealed to be a fan of the series, during 2003, which ultimately failed. As fans of the show already, Adult Swim's staff believed that "the newly dubbed version felt more appropriate for five year olds and had lost the charm of the original," as stated on its website in anticipation of the Funimation dub's test run premiere in August 2006. Three years prior, on May 27, 2003, Sarah Dyer (who also enjoyed the series and later worked as a freelance writer for the Funimation dub's test run with her husband Evan Dorkin) wrote on her blog, "I'll always be sorry that the attempt to get him for the Cartoon Network wasn't in time. I doubt the current licensee will ever get that show on the air. But you never know." Despite no presence in North America, the show gained a lot of attention in other parts of the western world and Europe to make Crayon Shin-chan a larger success worldwide. The license agreement between Lacey Entertainment and TV Asahi expired at the end of 2005.

International
The English dub of Shin Chan was first broadcast on April 22, 2002, on Fox Kids in the United Kingdom, airing its first 26 episodes. Programming guides indicate the series aired between 7:10 PM and 7:35 PM every evening. Another 26 episodes, labelled as "Series 2" by Fox Kids, were announced on July 23 and began airing on October 19, 2002 until early 2003. However, the first 52 episodes were in actuality produced as a single season, a standard for American television. This occurred due to the fact that Vitello Productions initially sent the first 26 episodes to Fox Kids and Saban Entertainment. Fox Kids UK simply split it in two for broadcast purposes. Reports also state the show aired in the afternoons and evenings on the Jetix block, and early in the morning on the Jetix channel (with Shaman King). Fox Kids also aired the show between episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures on weekday mornings at 8:30 AM in June 2003 during a block called the "Chanwich". At some point, the show was removed from the schedule before making a return on Jetix starting April 4, 2005 at 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM until that May. Trimmed-down shorts of episodes still aired during commercial breaks when the show wasn't otherwise seen. The dub was commonly seen to fill time after movies on Jetix if they did not fill enough time, but the show was usually during normal daytime hours. Fox Kids has been known to censor the dub compared to how it was originally produced. The dub became rather popular with its target audience at the time.

British newspaper The Sun included a "Cheeky Weekly" mini-magazine themed around the series during half-term on October 19, 2002, to promote the show's second season, coinciding with the Fox Kids channel branding itself "Cheeky Week" with Shin Chan programming and sweepstakes on the channel and online. TV spots promoting the stunt were also run on other children's channels on UK cable.

Phuuz Entertainment’s season premiered on Fox Kids in the UK during December 2004.

On Fox Kids in Australia, the dub premiered in January 2003 and ran until the channel's closure in 2004. The show played on weekday mornings at 8:30 AM, and later on, all week at 6:30 AM. Once the channel closed due to Foxtel's aim to migrate all their channels to a digital platform (Disney did not acquire the channel because it was operated separately), Shin Chan and a selection of other programming had begun airing on a Fox Kids block early every morning on Fox8, which did not last long. The dub aired weekdays at around 6:50 AM during February 2004. The dub is also officially stated on the Japanese Crayon Shin-chan website to have premiered in New Zealand during July 2005.

On RTÉ Two in the Republic of Ireland, the dub premiered during January 2003 at 12:30 PM, and moved to 12:00 PM on February 1. The dub was broadcast until mid-2005, around the summer, when it aired on weekends at 2:00 PM.

On Channel i in Singapore, the dub started on May 3, 2003, airing at 10:30 AM on weekends until August 30. The following week, on September 6, the dub aired at 9:30 AM, only on Saturday. On September 13, the dub started airing on Saturdays at 11:30 AM until December 27. On July 27, 2004, the dub would return to the schedule on Tuesdays at 6:00 PM until September 28.

Subtitled versions
On Stöð 2 in Iceland, the dub made its debut in subtitled form on January 14, 2003 at 4:00 PM in the Barnatími block. It played until September 4, 2008.

On Arutz HaYeladim in Israel, the dub premiered with Hebrew subtitles during June 2004 in the Telemania block, moving to the Telemanga block when it launched in 2006. The dub ran with both Vitello’s episodes and Phuuz’s episodes until the closure of the Telemanga block in 2009. It aired at 9:55 PM on weekdays.

Release
In 2004, Magna Pacific released 5 DVD volumes in Australia, containing 4 episodes on each disc, making up the first 20 episodes of the dub. All of the releases were rated PG with the exception of the first volume, rated G. They appear to be transferred from broadcast tapes rather than digital masters due to their picture quality.

On November 18, 2003, British newspaper The Sun (and sister publication News of the World) ran a promotion for a free Shin Chan DVD voucher which could be redeemed at Blockbuster stores. The disc featured the 4th and 9th episodes, both using the censored cuts seen on UK television broadcasts, and a promo for the second British season. The same disc was offered with the Daily Express newspaper on May 11, 2004, in different packaging, this time redeemable at Woolworths and Big W stores. Another promotion was ran with The Sun and Blockbuster on October 2, 2004, with a disc featuring the 13th and 28th episodes.

On December 16, 2004, Jetix Magazine in the UK packaged with its fourth issue a DVD including the dub's 27th episode. Oddly, the audio of the episode is not synced correctly, and a row of discolored pixels can be seen on screen if the viewer looks closely. on January 6, 2005, the magazine's fifth issue had a DVD including short, trimmed-down versions of episodes 11a (hidden in the DVD's "secret area") and 11c (unlocked after completing a quiz), branded "Shin Chan Shorts". Both DVDs also featured a Shin Chan photo gallery filled with stock art (also hidden in the "secret area" for issue 5).

Music

 * }

Changes
The series was first dubbed into English by Vitello Productions in Burbank, California in 2002, when TV Asahi and Lacey Entertainment decided to market the series worldwide.
 * A new theme song was created along with a new credits sequence.
 * Most of the changed names begin with their same letter as in their Japanese versions (Misae = Mitsy, Hiroshi = Harry, Masao = Max).
 * Many characters and some locations, objects, or organizations had their names changed to American-sounding ones. Aside from those listed above:
 * Ai Suotome is Sally.
 * Nanako Ohara is Miss Bono.
 * Masae Koyama is Minnie.
 * Yoshiji Koyama is Waldo.
 * Micchi Hatogaya is Gidgy.
 * Yoshirin Hatogaya is Luis.
 * Masumi Ageo is Miss Agnes.
 * Reiko Kitamoto is Miss Goober.
 * Junichi Ishizaka is Ricky.
 * Satoshi Honda is Jim.
 * Keiko Honda is Kay.
 * Kawaguchi is Morty "Mort" Giffel.
 * Tokuro Gyoda is Billy.
 * Mai Akikaze is Marti.
 * Miho is Darlene.
 * Yasuo Kawamura is Cheetah.
 * Kuriyo Urima is Hishi.
 * Mari is Becky.
 * Ogin Uonome is Millie.
 * Ryuko Okegawa is Fran/Franny ("Freakout Fran").
 * Shinobu Kandadori is Lilly.
 * Usuto Yoshii is Marty Flang.
 * Taeko Yoshii is Jenny.
 * She is changed from Marty's wife to his assistant, as a famous cartoonist.
 * Uyiko Norohashi is Miss Nasty.
 * Nakamura Komatshi is Miss Poppi.
 * Buriburizaemon is Porkazoid.
 * Kantam Robo is Psycho Robotico.
 * Chiruko Sakura is Dotty.
 * Picasso Ogawa is Tubasso.
 * Razaya Dan is Sam Donarshin.
 * Ranpopo is Foudini.
 * Kazume Miki (from episode 1) is Mr. Brim.
 * Otonegawa Mineko (from episode 18) is Fast Frieda.
 * Hirazumi Honda (from episode 22) is Henry Hardsell.
 * Yumi Soka (from episodes 33 and 34) is Miss Dart (Miss Finch in episode 33).
 * Kyousuke Saionji (from episode 48) is George Applecheek.
 * Nene's stuffed bunny is named Dr. Weinstein.
 * Chocobi are named Choccy Chews.
 * Kasukabe is called Kahzu City.
 * The Kasukabe Bookstore is called Nasty Books
 * The Kasukabe Defense Force is called the Kahzu Kids Junior Spy League.
 * The Saitama Crimson Scorpions are called the Kahzu Kamakazes Gang.
 * Shin-chan's butt monster dance is called the Bare Butt Boogie. He also uses "hula hula" sometimes.
 * Some episodes that displayed adult material and mature content were not dubbed at all.
 * Episodes were dubbed out of their original order, which created continuity errors. For example, episode 29 shows Shin bringing his classmates to visit his newborn sister, episode 30 shows his sister coming home from her birth in the hospital and in episode 52 it was revealed that Shin was going to have a sister.
 * Shin-chan's tendency to confuse some words for other words with similar sounds is not in this dub. However, new puns are often created, such as for changed episode titles (i.e. I'm a Mentor Case).
 * New catchphrases were created for Shin and sometimes other characters, like "Coolie-oolie!" or "Cheese sammich!". Shin also commonly calls his mother "Mitz".
 * All transitional graphics were replaced with original graphics created by the dubbing studio.
 * Eyecatches are not present.
 * In season 2 by Phuuz, the final segment of each episode would close with the ending notes of the theme song and the Shin Chan! chant.
 * Title cards were replaced by establishing shots with an overlay of the episode's title. Sometimes, the shots were reused from other episodes and not present in the original Japanese episode.
 * In season 2 by Phuuz, shots from later in an episode were sometimes used, seemingly at random.
 * Many American pop culture references are added, such as to celebrities or TV shows.
 * Principal Enzo is often mistaken for a member of the mafia, rather than the Japanese Yakuza. As such, he has a Brooklyn accent and Shin often calls him "Godfather". As a cover for some kind of criminal activity (not present in the Japanese version), he pretends to be Swedish.
 * Additional lip-sync animation is sometimes added, such as in "Me Want Cookie", when Shin imitates Lucky's bark, or Miss Uma's risque comment about the New Year's party in "Play Ball (Part Two)".
 * The original background music was completely replaced with new background music.
 * Some background characters, such as Masked Muchacho villains (like Red Rooster), are given new names when they aren't named in Japanese. Others are unnamed, like Shiro Sukekoma.
 * In season 2, some of the original sound effects were removed and replaced with more cartoonish sound effects. Sometimes, scenes removed the original sound effects entirely, like Shin getting hit on the head.

Censorship
Shin Chan's episodes were heavily edited for content and length. Many items, places, and dialogue have been edited from its original Japanese version to better suit children and comply with Federal Communications Commission regulations, although it never aired in the United States. Some of the edits have been done directly (such as violence, cursing and nudity) or indirectly (such as music). Episodes lasted on an average 21 minutes and contained three segments of 5 to 7 minutes. All episodes run for about 21 minutes and 55 seconds, and most segments last for about 6 minutes and 45 seconds.

General

 * Scenes with nudity were edited to remove any signs of indecent exposure, such as Shinnosuke's genitals. Sometimes, they are digitally edited to show his buttocks instead, like in episode 14b.
 * In episode 38c, Shin-chan's genitals can be seen after his mom takes off his pants. It is the only episode that was not censored.
 * Text edits were made, some of which were more localized.
 * Most adult jokes were re-made into family-friendly jokes, and most profanity was edited out. However, the frequent appearance of Shinnosuke's naked buttocks, as well as humor relating to breast-size and sexual themes, remained in the finished product.
 * In the second season, the bumps on Shin-chan's head after he gets hit are often removed.
 * In one episode, a scene of Mitsy slapping Shin is removed, but not the visible slap mark following.
 * Episode 3a: A scene of Shin and Miss Dori sharing a bath is replaced with only Miss Dori in the tub using different screenshots.
 * Episode 6b: The dialogue was changed at the beginning. Enzo saying he threatened teachers wasn't in the original. The prize of a trip to a hot spring was also changed to "A Week in Paris", although in both cases the real prize was bath salts, where in the dub it was named after Paris.
 * Episode 9b: The ramen soup shop is changed to "Pete & Pete's Pea Soup".
 * Episode 20c: Cosmo's dream about breastfeeding from his mother is instead changed to kissing his mother.
 * Episode 21c: Green tea was changed to lime soda.
 * Episode 30b: The Mr. Elephant dance being used to calm down Daisy was instead edited to Shin fake-crying with reused footage of him speaking. Before the episode ends, pants are edited on top of him.
 * Episode 30c: Mitsy's story about the "pants" fairy was added to the dub, where in Japan she pulled on Shin's genitals to give him a rude awakening. When Shin falls asleep on the toilet, Mitsy's head was edited in front of his genitals.
 * Episode 42b: Shin's genitals are covered by a black box marked "CENSORED".
 * Episode 35a: All mentions of beer are changed to energy drinks.
 * Episode 46c: The subtitled dialogue underwater is blurred and waved to make it appear as bubbles instead of Japanese text. The actual dialogue is spoken aloud and filtered.
 * Episode 76c: The scene of Mitsy spanking Shin is removed.

Fox Kids UK
Additional censorship was also applied in broadcasts on Fox Kids and Jetix in the UK.
 * Any instance where "Oh my God!" or "jackass" occurs was removed. This only happens a few times, and only within the first few episodes.
 * Episode 3c: The episode ends six seconds early to remove Harry's comment, "You guys stay here, I'm gonna go stand in the traffic."
 * Episode 4a: The word "freakin'" was removed from Principal Enzo's "Let's get these freakin' lessons over with", resulting in the loss of some frames. Shin's line, "Some rotten kid put grape juice in his inhaler," is also removed.
 * Episode 4b: The final "I'm your biggest fan" scene was slowed down to omit Shin dancing with a fan between his rear end.
 * Episode 4c: The flashback was switched from the aforementioned "I'm your biggest fan" scene to instead highlight Miss Uma's "Who wants some dance lessons?". Shin's line "I've got two months to live," was also removed. When Shin's parents look for his missing ski, the scene with Shin saying, "What am I gonna to do with you? Always losing your things!" was removed, along with his parents giving him a noogie.
 * Episode 7b: The repairman's line, "It looks like someone beat the crap out of it" is removed.
 * Episode 8a: Mitsy's line "starting with these little minions" is removed.
 * Episode 8b: Shin speaking Pig Latin to say "The op-cay is an ervo-pay" is removed.
 * Episode 9a: All mentions of Shin trapping Lucky in the dryer are removed. As the family boards the plane, Mitsy's statement, "I kind of liked being patted down," is removed.
 * Episode 9c: Shin looking to the cow's udder and then to Mitsy's breasts and saying "Explains why we're always out of milk," is removed.
 * Episode 10a: The scene of Harry's coworker in a club on the other side of the phone is removed.
 * Episode 11a: Shin's line, "I wanted to kill a penguin," is cut.
 * Episode 12b: This segment appears to have been removed from rotation.
 * Episode 14c: Harry saying "Aw jeez, how did that happen?" is partially muted to remove "Aw jeez".
 * Episode 20: This entire episode appears to have been removed from rotation.
 * Episode 22c: The scene of the men in the shop looking at suggestive magazines is cut.
 * Episode 23a: When Mitsy is caught in her underwear, the scene ends before she starts tearing up.
 * Episode 23b: When Shin is told Lucky is coming home with him, some of Mitsy's dialogue is cut.
 * Episode 28a: Mitsy saying "I'd feel safer in one of those Israeli gas masks" is removed.
 * Episode 29c: A line from one of Mrs. Goober's friends was cut.
 * Episode 32b: Part of Mr. Enzo's conversation with Shin in the bathroom was cut.
 * Episode 34b: Harry's "jeez" was removed before saying "he almost ripped my leg off".
 * Episode 35a: When Daisy is fussing over her dinner, one of Mitsy's lines was cut.
 * Episode 35b: After Shin comments that it's almost dinnertime, one of Cosmo's lines was cut. A small cut forward also appears when the hills are shown between scenes.
 * Episode 36a: When Harry brags about his model-building skills, 10 seconds of his dialogue were cut.
 * Episode 36b: After Cosmo asks where Shin is going, 10 seconds of his dialogue were cut.
 * Episode 37b: Some of the dialogue exchanged between the teachers from the other kindergarten was cut.
 * Episode 40b: Scenes of Shin pulling down his pants to use a golf club held between his buttocks are cut. One line of Shin's dialogue is also removed at the beginning by cutting a shot short, and later some dialogue between him and Cosmo is removed. When Cosmo gets his ball stuck in the sandpit and tries to get it out, some of his lines are removed. Later, some footage of Cosmo and Mort is placed between two earlier shots of Cosmo, the second being muted with some of Mort's dialogue placed over it. One shot is cut short and the last three shots are either deleted or missing, resulting in the removal of one line and the loss of the final line.
 * Episode 40c: Shin doing the Bare Butt Boogie with Miss Uma's flower was cut.
 * Episode 42a: Mitsy's conversation with Amber Kissy about the octopus balls was cut.
 * Episode 42b: Scenes of Harry filming Shin's poses and dances were cut.
 * Episode 42c: A verse from Shin's lullaby is cut.
 * Episode 44a: Scenes of Mitsy pulling Shin through the mall by the cheek were cut or cropped, along with Shin getting hit on the head a second time.
 * Episode 45a: Shin's parents asking about the drawings beneath the squiggle key on Shin's map, his response, and his subsequent noogie were removed.
 * Episode 45b: When the kids try to help Miss Dori, a few seconds are removed when they try to push down on her, and Nini's dialogue about the emergency is cut short. Cosmo saying "moron" is also removed, and both their dialogue seems to be covered up. A small cut forward also happens when Miss Dori pours the juice.
 * Episode 46c: Franny's fight with the lifeguard was removed, along with part of Shin's following dialogue.
 * Episode 49a: After the Masked Muchacho says to aim for the chicken legs, the scene cuts to the firing of the Muchacho Beam Accelerator. When the scene cuts to the hen-men, the framerate is reduced to tone down strobe lighting, and some of the end of the scene is cut.
 * Episode 50b: Scenes of Mitsy pulling Shin by the cheek and by the ear were cut.
 * Episode 49b: Ricky's "jeez" was cut out before saying "What are you so nervous about, man? It's just a simple question!".
 * Episode 50c: At the end of the episode, Kenny pulling his pants down in front of his mother is removed.
 * Episode 51c: The episode ends on Shin saying "See ya tomorrow" to remove Miss Dori's "Dear God".
 * Episode 52a: After Shin's comment about the bar, the scene skips to a transition animation.

Errors

 * Miss Dori's name is written as "Miss Snell" on her mailbox in P.J. Party with Miss Dori.
 * Miss Dart is called Miss Finch in the episode Dad's Stuck with Me, however, she is called Dart for the first time in the next episode.
 * In I Get Recycled, the original transition sound effects can be heard.
 * In the Phuuz credits, "Written by" is spelled "Writen by", with a single letter T. This was later fixed.
 * In episode 4, the background is black during Shin's finger snap animation in the credits.
 * In episode 27, Shin disappears for a second during the credits.
 * In the first season, creator Yoshito Usui is credited with his last name first, written "Usui Yoshito". Some Japanese names in the credits are also spelled in different, less common ways.
 * Every title card in season 1 capitalizes every word, including words that are grammatically incorrect to do so for a title.
 * The volume 1 DVD calls the episode "Mom Takes Driving Lessons" as "Mom Takes a Driving Lesson".
 * The volume 5 DVD calls the episode "Me and the Comic Book Guy" as "Me and the Cartoon Guy".

Trivia

 * The members of the dub's music staff are most popularly known for working with 4Kids Entertainment. Lacey Entertainment also worked to distribute 4Kids programming.
 * Grey DeLisle has stated in an interview that she did not like working on the dub.
 * Additionally, she appears to deny working on it in another interview, but it may be more likely that she was trying to stop misinformation, because Wikipedia at the time said the dub was made in 1994 as her first major role.
 * Additionally, Kath Soucie has expressed her distaste of a job she committed to, which she refused to name, and didn't realize until she got into it that the scripts were so unlike anything she wanted to say . She goes on to say that "It was a foreign show and the humor was very different in that part of the world." She believed the characters were unlikable overall. She even specifies that there were 52 episodes that were hard to show up for, and that she played the lead, meaning she was really in just about every scene. She liked the director so she wanted to keep her word to him and stay till the bitter end, but she decided never to commit to anything she didn't really believe in ever again.
 * While it is commonly believed that she is referring to Shin Chan. this may not be the case due to the dub's similarity in humor to one of her most famous shows, Rugrats. She also uses a similar voice to Shin for Tuffy in various pieces of Tom and Jerry media. The only other show she participated in that matches all of her descriptors is The Cramp Twins, which is far less beloved.
 * It appears Fox Kids and Jetix in the United Kingdom did not pay as much attention to the dub in comparison to their other European counterparts. Scheduling was rather sporadic and less information about scheduling is known. The dub was also censored on their broadcasts, and it is unconfirmed if they actually aired the real second season or not.