Shin Chan (Dutch)

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Netherlands
The dub was first broadcast on Fox Kids in the Netherlands on February 1, 2003 at 4:22 PM, airing an episode every day of the week (three episodes every day during holidays). It was a translation of the Lacey Entertainment English dub, with 104 episodes across two seasons, recorded in the city of Hilversum by the studio JPS Producties. The studio is notable for having also dubbed the Pokémon franchise into Dutch. When Fox Kids rebranded to Jetix in February 2005, new episodes continued airing throughout the year, with reruns lasting until August 26, 2007. Reruns made a brief return in 2008, on July 8th at 9:00 AM, the 15th at 9:00 AM, and the 23rd at 9:30 AM. According to Melise de Winter, the reason that the series was taken off the air in the Netherlands could have been because of complaints by parents or activists, despite the show's popularity and ratings success (reaching a peak of 20.6% market share in May and June 2005, and captured more than half of the available children's audience in the late summer of 2003). Dutch fans are very passionate over the dub and its voice actors and would like to see them return.

Curiously, the official Japanese Crayon Shin-chan website states that the show started broadcasting in the Netherlands during July 2002, although no further evidence is known on whether or not the show was broadcast in that time frame on any channel at all, whether in Dutch or in English.

Belgium (Flanders)
The dub later premiered in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) on Kanaal Twee on September 1, 2003. Its run on the channel would last until March 18, 2005. According to the cover on some printings of the first DVD volume, Op Vakantie, it also aired on VTM, although this may be a mistake.

Release
Various DVD volumes were released on DVD in 2004 by the company Bridge Entertainment (currently part of Just Entertainment) in partnership with Fox Kids. Some of them are known to have been released on VHS as well. The releases covered the first 19 episodes, as well as the 23rd, 24th, 26th and 41st episodes. The company also released episodes 16b, 22a and 30b on another DVD given as a freebie with purchases at Dutch supermarket Super de Boer in 2004, and in 2005 another one with episodes 6b, 6c and 16c.

Merchandise
Merchandise was released and licensed by Fox Kids Europe, who acquired all major licensing rights to the series in several European territories, including Belgium and the Netherlands, on September 25, 2003. Super de Boer also released two series of lenticular trading cards in 2003 and 2004 based on Fox Kids and its various series, which would play a short animation when placed in a special viewer. The Dutch theme song was also released on the music album Fox Kids Hits 7 in 2003 while the song Cosmos Afscheid was released on the music album Fox Kids Hits 8 in 2004, both published by BMG The Netherlands. Short comic stories based on episodes were also published in the Dutch version of Fox Kids Magazine and Jetix Magazine.

Music

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