Yoshito Usui (the creator of Crayon Shinchan)

tinlunlau · Post by **tinlunlau** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:27 pm

This may sound totally unrelated to Dragon Ball but in honor of the late Yoshito Usui, I've decided to show you guys a little something from the ever-so-classic manga "Crayon Shinchan". I was looking all over for this but never realized that it was actually in the very first volume. (Hint: Look at the very bottom left-hand corner.)

TheNamek · Post by **TheNamek** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:33 pm

ShinChan rocks! But I only like his US voice. Yay for Frieza masks.

tinlunlau · Post by **tinlunlau** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:40 pm

The US voice was good for sounding similar to the original Japanese voice. Shinchan's Japanese voice is classic. I coulda sworn there were other times in the manga where Shinchan takes out the Frieza mask. It's been a long time since I read any Shinchan manga. Don't even remember where I left off. So I've decided to read it all over again.

Kibosuru412 · Post by **Kibosuru412** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:45 pm

Buahaha. That strip was so funny.

Shin-chan rocks!

Hellspawn28 · Post by **Hellspawn28** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:47 pm

Shin-Chan is a good anime and I like the little Freeza mask that was used in this comic.

kei17 · Post by **kei17** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:58 pm

I remember Misae transforming into Super Saiya Ka-chan (Super Saiyan Momsy) in the anime. There are many more DB parodies in Shin-chan I think.
By the way, I was really dissapointed and felt sorry for Yoshito Usui when I heard he'd passed away in an accident at where I come from. May he rest in peace.

B · Post by B » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:21 pm

I hope to have the pleasure of reading the manga someday, as I love the anime; I'll surely miss him.

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:55 pm

Could anyone translate this please?

Also, does anyone else find it funny that the one with the Frieza mask is voiced by the one who killed Frieza (sort of)?

Kibosuru412 · Post by **Kibosuru412** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:11 pm

Shin chan says "huu huu. This kind of power can never defeat me"
the mom gets mad and the side note says "power increasing"

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:39 pm

Kibosuru412 wrote:Shin chan says "huu huu. This kind of power can never defeat me"
the mom gets mad and the side note says "power increasing"

Thanks! I went to try and piece together a general idea of the dialog and noticed it was Chinese instead of Japanese. I was like, "What. Chinese? I can't read this!"

Very funny!

Oh, and I heard about his death after his body was first found but only heard from one of my Japanese friends today exactly what happened. As sad as it is, I was relieved that it was some sort of accident and that he wasn't found murdered or something.

Post by **Herms** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:20 pm

Note that there's a little "Copyright Akira Toriyama" note under the panel with the Freeza mask.

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:04 pm

I never liked this anime and never laugh on it's jokes, mostly because of that I watched it on German TV channel RTL II and I can't speak German......

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:46 pm

I loved watching Shin-chan in Spain. I was really sorry to hear about Usui's death.

tinlunlau · Post by **tinlunlau** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:22 am

There was a panel in that very first volume of Crayon Shinchan where Misae (Shinchan's mom) said something like "You better do as I say before I lose my rationale". Her hair was flaring upwards like a Super Saiyan as well. I had such a fun time reading the Shinchan comics over the years. This, just like Dragonball, was one of the first manga's I've read as I began to learn (how to read) Chinese. I think Shinchan kept me totally off-guard as I had no idea what it was when I read it for the first time back in the early 90s.

Kibosuru412 · Post by **Kibosuru412** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:05 am

Lol. Me too. Dragonball taught me most of the Chinese characters I know today and the rest were from other comics. Now if I could only do the same with Japanese. Hmmm...

The Time Traveller · Post by **The Time Traveller** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:27 am

Shin-chan used to air in the UK, around the same time as Dragon Ball Z...

It was dubbed in the USA, but wasn't the same as the Adult Swim/Funimation dub, Kath Soucie played Shin-chan and Misae.

tinlunlau · Post by **tinlunlau** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:11 am

Kibosuru412 wrote:Lol. Me too. Dragonball taught me most of the Chinese characters I know today and the rest were from other comics. Now if I could only do the same with Japanese. Hmmm...

Dragonball (and most of the other manga I've read in my teenage years) taught me most of the Chinese text I know today. In fact, I'm even good enough to work on a couple of official Jackie Chan DVDs. (No joke! I was the official translator for the special features including audio commentary on the Hong Kong DVD release of "Rob-B-Hood" and "The Myth".) If parents say that reading manga is a bad influence on the primitive mind, they should think again. And being Chinese myself, I hear that a lot from Chinese parents.

Oh, and it just occurred to me that the "hoo..hoo.." bit from Shinchan is a parody on the way Frieza speaks.