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Broadcast
The dub, licensed by Spacetoon India, made its debut on June 19, 2006 on Hungama TV. The show gained up to 50-60% of the channel's market share. Repeated complaints of "social concerns" caused by the show were lodged by parent bodies with the main character's controversial style and behavior, and the attitudes exhibited towards elders on the show, both of which were seen as "negative impacts on kids" and a bad role model influencing their children. A mother described "The character does things which are prohibitory in India." Some of this incorrigible behavior included Shin-chan arguing with his mother and critiquing her appearance, irking the elderly lot with worries their children would copy whatever Shin-chan did on the show.

This consequently led to the series going off the air. The show was reportedly banned for further airing as-is in October 2008 (although news articles declared the ban on December 4) by the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, who questioned the show's content on account of heavy nudity and profanity, all while it was the most-watched and most successful program on the channel. The series was required to be re-edited and re-dubbed to remove the disrespect towards elders in order to air again on the network. However, parents who had blocked Hungama TV from their children were worried that the show may still be back on the air if the channel agreed to delete the objectionable portions, so they were not convinced to unblock it by the ban. On the other hand, Hungama wanted to continue to run the show, and younger fans who were let down by the ban wanted to watch it. According to a Hungama TV spokesperson, the show was never banned, only questioned. "Shin Chan has not been banned. There's a query on the show from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The matter is under consideration with the Ministry. We don't have any comments at the moment."

After many requests from fans, a heavily censored version with more edited family-friendly jokes restarted airing on Hungama TV starting on March 27, 2009, alongside the debut of Tamil and Telugu dubs. Nude scenes and profanity were edited out. All jokes with mature themes were translated into childish ones, and the word "alcohol" was changed to "juice". Cuts included scenes with instances of Nene's mother beating a stuffed rabbit, Shin-chan imitating Action Mask, as well as the "Mr. Elephant" dance or "Butt Alien Monster" and "Buri Buri" dance. Shin-chan's distinct voice provided by Aakash Ahuja was also replaced in 2010, around episode 230. At the age of 16, Akash Ahuja stopped dubbing Shin-chan because his voice was becoming hard as he was getting older. Shin-chan’s mother also had her voice replaced. Fans were irritated with the poor dubbing and cuts.

The original Hindi dub covered the first two seasons, equating to 104 episodes. The Hindi dub of the anime series stopped in 2015, even with mature content censored. The first two seasons of the series were redubbed in 2016 for airings on Hungama TV and released on Amazon Prime Video, most likely because further dialogue editing would result in episodes being too short, while the censored version of the first dub is no longer broadcast. However, even episodes that were not redubbed later received additional censorship. Episodes are still aired in the redub version in which there is no mature content, and episodes which have high amounts of mature content are not aired.

Since September 23, 2021, the 16th season of the dub has been broadcast.

Release
In 2016, the first 8 seasons of the dub were released on Amazon Prime Video, and are no longer available for streaming. On February 21, 2019, seasons 12 through 15 of the dub began release on Disney+ Hotstar, but they were eventually removed in January 2022 for unknown reasons. The show returned to the platform in March. Season 12 is currently unavailable for streaming.

Cast

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Special episodes

 * Shin chan in Why This Himawari-Di?
 * Shin chan Summer Camp
 * Shin chan Kazama Ka Pajama
 * Shin chan in Rain Rain Come Again
 * Shin chan Shiro hamara Hero
 * Shin chan Mitsy aur Muft Ka Discount!
 * Shin chan Pal Do Pal ka Principal
 * Shin chan baap re baap!
 * Shin chan Ka Car-Nama
 * Shin chan Photo Wali Aunty
 * Shin chan Pakoda Padosi
 * Shin chan dana-nana ki Nadani
 * Shin chan Ka Space Bukhaar 104
 * Shin chan Go Go Hokkaido!

Music

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