Crayon Shin-chan follows the wacky antics and adventures of five-year-old Shinnosuke "Shin" Nohara and his parents, neighbors, and friends and is set in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Many of the jokes in the series stem from Shin-chan's occasionally weird, unnatural and inappropriate use of language, as well as from his inappropriate behavior. A typical gag involves Shin-chan confounding his parents by using the wrong phrase for the occasion; for example, saying "Welcome back!" instead of "I am back!" when he comes home. During the beginning of the series, the TV show was mostly based on the storyline in the original manga. As the show progressed, more and more episodes became anime-original.
Japanese study overview
Crayon Shin-chan is a Japanese anime of 2,702,546 characters, with 33,307 unique words and 2,167 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 33,307 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 言うto say×4,326
- 母ちゃんmum×2,647
- 食べるto eat×2,393
- 父ちゃんdad×2,137
- 今日today×2,014
- 待つto wait×1,798
- 先生teacher×1,768
- 今now×1,646
- 買うto buy×1,637
- 思うto think×1,532
- 風間Azama×1,508
- 事thing×1,470
- 野原Nohara×1,042
- テレ朝Asahi Television (abbr)×469
- 園長head of a garden×315
- 自由が丘Juugaoka×240
- 黒磯Kuroiso×180
- データ放送data broadcasting×144
- ｄボタンd button×114
- ＣＳcommunications satellite×108