Vitello and Phuuz dubs

The official international logo of Crayon Shin-chan

Crayon Shin-chan 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. During the early 2000s, it ran on Fox Kids (and later Jetix) in the United Kingdom, on Fox Kids in Australia and on RTÉ Two in the Republic of Ireland. RTÉ Two has not shown the series since 2003, and on Jetix UK, the series was eventually relegated to shorts in-between programs, with more edits. The dub is of American origin, with veteran voice actors such as Kath Soucie, Russi Taylor, Grey DeLisle, Pat Fraley, Eric Loomis and Anndi McAfee playing the characters. Soucie voiced Shin and Misae. No English dub was aired in North America until the FUNimation dub was made between 2006-2011 which consisted of 3 seasons (78 episodes). Between 1992 and 2001 the American Hawaiian channel KIKU-TV did air an English subtitled version of the series.

Many characters had their names changed to American-sounding ones, the original background music was completely replaced with new background music and scenes with nudity were edited to remove any signs of indecent exposure. Most adult jokes were re-made into family-friendly jokes and the profanity was edited out. However, the frequent appearance of Shinnosuke's naked buttocks (still family-friendly, unlike in South Korea) as well as humor relating to breast-size and sexual themes remained in the finished product. Some episodes that displayed adult material and mature content were not dubbed at all. Additionally, the 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. Vitello also started dubbing at a later season which means some earlier seasons were skipped in Vitello's English dub.

In 2003, phuuz entertainment inc. was commissioned by Lacey Entertainment to continue in similar style as the Vitello dub. But their episodes featured a new cast of voice artists (among others Diane Michelle, Julie Maddalena, Peter Doyle).

Fox Kids Europe and Jetix Europe Channels B.V. - a British and Dutch media company located in Hilversum (The Netherlands) and London (United Kingdom) - is a media company that oversaw the dubbing and distribution of European dubs based on the Vitello and Phuuz dubs. In 2003 the company was owned by The Walt Disney Company and to a lesser extent by a famous Dutch media tycoon. At the time Fox Kids in the Netherlands was the most successful European channel of Fox Kids.

52 episodes have been produced of the Vitello dub and at least 78 episodes of the Phuuz dub. Vitello and Phuuz episodes lasted an average of 21 minutes and contained three segments of 5 to 7 minutes. No episodes of the Phuuz dub have been found on DVD. Many of the foreign dubs of the series used the Vitello dub as the source for their dubbing while only some foreign dubs also dubbed from the Phuuz dub afterwards.

Changes from the Japanese original

Vitello censorship

• The Vitello and Phuuz opening used scenes from the Japanese openings 1 up to and including 6.
• Shinnosuke's genitals were censored (or sometimes, they removed genitals by "paint edits"), in the original he called them "Mr. Elephant" and did the "Mr. Elephant dance".
  • Additionally in 30b, Shinnosuke doing the Mr. Elephant dance to calm down Himawari was changed to him "crying" himself by reusing footage of Shinnosuke speaking (which was added in pretty poorly by the way) and even added pants on him at 6:24.
• Most of the time Japanese was replaced with English.
• Removed Misae slapping Shinnosuke but forgot to remove the mark.
• 03a
  • 5:45 there's a deleted scene where they were sharing a bath which replaced the teacher in the tub with screenshots from 4:30
• 06b
  • Changed the dialogue in the beginning, Enzo saying that he threatened teachers wasn't in the original. And they changed a trip to a hot spring to a trip to Paris.
• 06c
  • Miss Uma's risque comment at 1:16 about the New Years Eve party wasn't in the original Japanese version, Vitello actually added that part in complete with added in lip flaps.
• 21c
  • Changed green tea to lime slime soda in.
• 20c
  • At 3:06 where Cosmo is kissing his mother, her face has actually been edited in by Vitello. In the original he was actually dreaming about being breast fed by her, hence why he was sucking on Shin's face.
• 30c
  • Mitsy's story about the "pants fairy" wasn't in the Japanese version, instead she pulled Shinnosuke's "Elephant" to give him a rude awakening. Also when Shin falls asleep on the toilet, Mitsy's head was edited in front of Shin's genitals.
• 42b
  • Showed a censor bar when Shin is doing his elephant dance.

Censorship by Fox Kids UK/Jetix UK only

These edits were done by Fox Kids UK/Jetix UK themselves and therefore didn't appear anywhere else such as in Australia.

• General
  • Cut out anyone saying "Oh my god!" or "Jackass".
• 04b
  • edited that finally scene where Shin says "I'm your biggest fan!" They slowed the clip down to omit the part where Shin dances with the fan between his rear end.
• 04c - at 1:15 the flashback was edited to showcase the part where Uma says "Who wants some dance lessons?" And at 5:20 the line where Shin said "I've got two months to live" was cut out.
• 07b - cut out the part at 4:00 where the repairman says "it looks like someone beat the crap out of it".
• 08a - cut out part of Mitsy's dialogue at 2:22 where she says "starting with these little minions".
• 09a - cut any dialogue of anyone saying that Shin trapped Lucky in the dryer. They also cut where Mitsy said as she got on the plane, "I kind of liked being patted down."
• 09c - cut out the part Shin looks at a cow's udder and then to Mitsy's breasts and said "That explains why we're always out of milk."
• 10a - the stripper clip was cut.
• 22c - cut out the men looking at dirty magazines (no footage available)
• 42b - cut out even the censored part for no reason.
• 50c - cut out 40 seconds from this episode.

Phuuz censorship

• In "Shin, der Boss" (Japanese episode 209) they removed Misae spanking Shinnosuke.

Names

Both dubs featured many name changes for the characters, although in some cases they used different options than what FUNimation would later use. Latin America and Mexico used the character name changes from this dub for all of the Latin American Spanish dubs.

• Shinnosuke's name was shortened to "Shin-chan"
• Misae became "Mitsy"
• Hiroshi became "Harry"
• Ginnosuke became "Gary"
• Himawari became "Daisy"
• Shiro became "Lucky"
• Masae Koyama became "Minnie"
• Toru Kazama became "Cosmo", with his name loosely based off his surname
• Nene Sakurada became "Nini"
• Moeko Sakurada became "Ruby"
• Masao Sato became "Max"
• The principal Bunta Takakura/"Encho-sensei" became "Principal Enzo"
• The teachers Midori Yoshinaga and Ume Matsuzaka were renamed "Miss Dori Snell" and "Miss Uma", with the names loosely sourced from their Japanese names
• Action Mask became "The Masked Muchacho"
• Nanako Oohara became "Miss Bono"
• Usuto Yoshii became "Marty Flang"
• Junichi Ishizaka became "Ricky"
• Uyiko Norohash became "Miss Nasty"
• Nakamura Komatshi became "Miss Poppi"
• Kitamoto became "Goobers"
• Yoshirin Hatogaya became "Luis"
• Micchi Hatogaya became "Gidgy"
• Kuriyo Urima became "Hishi"
• Keiko Honda became "Kai"
• Satoshi Honda became "Jim"
• Kawaguchi became "Morty"
• Buriburizaemon became "Big-a-zoid"
• Kantam Robo became "Psycho Robotico"
• Yoshiji Koyama became "Waldo"
• Saitama Crimson Scorpions became "Kahzu Kamakazes Gang"
• Kasukabe became "Kazhu"
• Kasukabe Bookstore became "Nasty Books"
• Razaya Dan became "Sam Donarshin"
• Mai Akikaze became "Marti"
• Miho became "Darlene"
• Chiruko Sakura became "Dotty" in Phuuz's dub
• Ai Saotome became "Sally" in Phuuz's dub
• Masumi Ageo became "Miss Agnes" in Phuuz's dub
• Picasso Ogawa became "Tubasso" in Phuuz's dub

Script

• In the Vitello dub, Misae has this secret fascination with American actor Richard Gere.

DVDs of the Vitello Dub

Volume 1

Volume 1 includes episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Volume 2

Volume 2 includes episodes 5, 6, 7 and 8.

The rating on this DVD is actually inaccurate; Shin Chan volume 2 received a "PG" by the Australian Classification Board for "Mature themes, Sexual references, a Low level coarse language".

Volume 3

Volume 3 includes episodes 9, 10, 11 and 12.

Volume 4

Volume 4 includes episodes 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Volume 5

Volume 5 includes episodes 17, 18, 19 and 20.

Jetix Magazine Issue 4 DVD

The DVD given away with Jetix Magazine issue 4 in the UK included episode 27.

Jetix Magazine Issue 5 DVD

The DVD given away with Jetix Magazine issue 5 in the UK includes a shortened version of segment 11a, “Let's Go Fishing”, and a clip of segment 11c, "Driving With Mom". They include a special short “Shin-chan Shorts” intro and have an animated “Shin-chan Shorts” logo on the upper right corner of the screen for the duration of the shorts.

Daily Express Fox Kids/Jetix Promo DVD

One of the three Fox Kids/Jetix promo DVDs given away with the UK newspaper Daily Express on May 10, 2004, was a Shin Chan DVD with two episodes of Shin Chan, sourced from its 43-minute runtime. The episodes included are unknown.

The Sun Fox Kids Promo DVD 2003

From November 17, to November 22, 2003 free Fox Kids promo DVDs were given away with UK newspaper The Sun. This included one Shin Chan DVD with episode 4 and 9.

The Sun Jetix on Fox Kids Promo DVD 2004

From September 11 to October 2, 2004, free Jetix on Fox Kids promo DVDs was given away with UK newspaper The Sun. This included one Shin Chan DVD with episode 13 and 28.

Gallery

One of the example text edits