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. Targeted at children, the dub made many changes in localization. Despite this, it is well-liked by fans.

Vitello Productions (2002)

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Phuuz Entertainment (2004)

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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 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."

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. This occurred due to the fact that Vitello Productions initially sent the first 26 episodes to Fox Kids and Saban Entertainment. 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 in 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.

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

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Changes
The series was first dubbed into English by Vitello Productions in Burbank, California through 2001–2002, when TV Asahi and Lacey Entertainment decided to market the series worldwide.
 * A new theme song was created along with a new credits sequence.
 * 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 Goobers.
 * Junichi Ishizaka is Ricky.
 * Satoshi Honda is Jim.
 * Keiko 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.
 * Shinobu Kandadori is Lily.
 * Usuto Yoshii is Marty Flang.
 * Nakamura Komatshi is Miss Poppi.
 * Buriburizaemon is Porkazoid.
 * Kuntam Robo is Psycho Robotico.
 * 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.
 * Tomoko (from episode 27) is Goldie Lux.
 * 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 Defense Force is called the Kahzu Kids Junior Spy League.
 * The Saitama Crimson Scorpions are called the Kahzu Kamakazes.
 * 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.
 * All transitional graphics were replaced with original graphics created by the dubbing studio.
 * 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.
 * 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.

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 in season 1 run for 21 minutes and 55 seconds, and most segments last for 6 minutes and 45 seconds.

General

 * Scenes with nudity were edited to remove any signs of indecent exposure.
 * 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.

Fox Kids UK
Additional censorship was also applied in broadcasts on Fox Kids and Jetix in the UK.

Errors

 * Miss Dori's name is written as "Miss Snell" on her mailbox in P.J. Party with Miss Dori.
 * In the Phuuz credits, "Written by" is spelled "Writen by", with a single letter T.
 * 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.

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, 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.