Crayon Shin-chan Trivia
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40 free Crayon Shin-chan trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Shinchan, or Crayon Shin-chan to give the series its full name, has been misbehaving in Kasukabe since 1990, first in a manga drawn for grown-ups and then in an anime that is still on the air decades later. A kindergarten-age troublemaker with a baby sister, a long-suffering mother, a salaryman father and a suspiciously clever dog became one of Japan's most exported cartoons. This quiz covers the whole franchise: the Nohara household and the friends at kindergarten, the creator's life and the continuation that followed him, the anime's broadcast history and its voice changes, the annual films and their records, and the show's popularity in India, Spain and Korea. It suits anyone who grew up with the show in any language, from casual viewers to fans who know the films by number. Every answer is checked against a real source, and every explanation adds something worth repeating.
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Q 01Which name belongs to Shin-chan's baby sister, the youngest member of the Nohara family?
Himawari
Himawari, meaning sunflower, was a name sent in by viewers after the show put out a public call for suggestions, which makes the youngest Nohara a fan-named character.
Q 02What did Kasukabe grant the fictional Nohara family in 2004 for its 50th anniversary?
A special resident certificate
A special resident certificate registered the Noharas at a made-up Kasukabe address as part of the city's 50th-anniversary events. The creator himself grew up in Kasukabe and went to school there.
Q 03In 1993 Shin-chan appeared as a special guest on which year-end Japanese music show?
Kōhaku Uta Gassen
Kōhaku Uta Gassen, NHK's New Year's Eve song contest, had the cartoon kindergartner sing his own theme 'Ora wa Ninkimono' in a stage-show segment.
Q 04What is the name of the puppy Shin-chan adopted after finding him abandoned in a box by the road?
Shiro
Shiro is often the cleverest member of the Nohara household, showing logic that outstrips his owners, and has learned to forage because the family keeps forgetting to feed him.
Q 05Which TV superhero is five-year-old Shinnosuke Nohara's great idol in Crayon Shin-chan?
Action Kamen
Action Kamen, called Action Mask in English, is the hero Shin-chan worships; he fought the Leotard Devil in the first Shin-chan film in 1993 and later won a spin-off manga of his own.
Q 06Which actress voiced Shin-chan from 1992 until June 2018, having also played Relena Peacecraft in Gundam Wing?
Akiko Yajima
Akiko Yajima gave Shin-chan his voice for 26 years and stepped down in June 2018, explaining that it had become hard to keep producing his voice and still act naturally.
Q 07Which network has aired the Crayon Shin-chan anime since April 1992 and has wholly owned its studio since 2010?
TV Asahi
TV Asahi has carried Shin-chan for well over a thousand episodes and in 2010 bought the studio behind it outright, the same house that animates Doraemon.
Q 08Which 2001 Shin-chan film centres on a 20th-century expo that trades on nostalgia?
The Adult Empire Strikes Back
The Adult Empire Strikes Back turns the usual order upside down: with the parents lost in nostalgia, Shin-chan and his kindergarten friends are the ones who have to bring them home.
Q 09Which Indian children's channel launched a Hindi dub of Shin-chan in June 2006?
Hungama TV
Hungama TV put the Hindi dub on air every weekday from 19 June 2006, until parents' complaints to India's broadcasting ministry took the show off the air for a time in late 2008.
Q 10Which artist created Crayon Shin-chan after attending a technical high school in the city where the series is set?
Yoshito Usui
Yoshito Usui graduated from Kasukabe's technical high school in 1977 and set his strip in the city; after his death in 2009 his former staff carried it on as New Crayon Shin-chan.
Q 11The creator of Crayon Shin-chan died in September 2009 after falling from a cliff on which Gunma mountain?
Mount Arafune
Mount Arafune is where searchers found the cartoonist a week after his family reported him missing from a hike; his recovered camera's final frame had been taken from the cliff top.
Q 12Crayon Shin-chan debuted in 1990 in which seinen anthology, which passed the strip to a monthly stablemate in 2000?
Weekly Manga Action
Weekly Manga Action, a magazine aimed at adult men, is where a kindergartner's antics first ran, and the strip stayed there until 2000 before moving to the monthly Manga Town.
Q 13Under which name has the late creator's staff drawn the continuation New Crayon Shin-chan since 2010?
Q 21Which girl among Shin-chan's kindergarten friends vents her anger by punching a stuffed rabbit, just as her mother does?
Nene Sakurada
Nene Sakurada likes nothing better than making the boys act out 'real house', her soap-opera take on playing house, and is not above using the game as a threat.
Q 22Which 24-year-old teacher runs the Rose Class at Shin-chan's kindergarten and feuds with his own class teacher?
Ume Matsuzaka
Ume Matsuzaka says she dislikes teaching at the kindergarten and plans to move somewhere better, yet when a better-paying kindergarten tried to recruit her she turned it down.
Q 23Why do strangers keep misjudging the principal of Shin-chan's kindergarten, a man who is actually kind and optimistic?
UY Studio
UY Studio shares the byline with the late creator on New Crayon Shin-chan, which began in the monthly Manga Town in August 2010 and has since left print for its own website.
Q 14Which publisher, whose name Shin-chan's anime kindergarten echoes, has issued the manga since 1990?
Futabasha
Futabasha has published Shin-chan since 1990 and kept it going after its creator died in 2009, with his former staff drawing a sequel series. The anime's Futaba Kindergarten shares its name.
Q 15Which college student is five-year-old Shin-chan's great crush in Crayon Shin-chan?
Nanako Ohara
Nanako Ohara is the person the shameless Shin-chan puts on his best behaviour for.
Q 16Before his manga debut, the creator of Crayon Shin-chan joined a company in 1979 in which line of work?
Advertising
Advertising paid the bills from 1979: he made point-of-purchase signs for supermarkets, and a supermarket became the setting of the strip that launched him as a cartoonist in 1987.
Q 17In October 2019 Crayon Shin-chan and Doraemon moved together from Friday nights to which day of the week?
Saturday
Saturday afternoons became the pair's home in 2019, a day Shin-chan had last held from 2002 to 2004; it left Fridays with a 'moving day' episode in September.
Q 18Which Chiba-born actress took over as Shin-chan's voice in July 2018, after 26 years of one performer?
Yumiko Kobayashi
Yumiko Kobayashi said she felt both the honour and the weight of the responsibility, and prepared by rewatching the series from its first episode before her debut on July 6, 2018.
Q 19What do Shin-chan and his kindergarten friends, four boys and one girl, call their gang in Crayon Shin-chan?
Kasukabe Defence Force
Kasukabe Defence Force holds its strategy meetings at a 'secret base', though the five mostly just play together, and its lone girl member is outnumbered four to one.
Q 20Which of Shin-chan's kindergarten friends attends cram school and hides a love of cartoons?
Toru Kazama
Toru Kazama counts Shin-chan as his best friend, however firmly he denies it in public.
His yakuza-like appearance
His yakuza-like appearance scares people who only see him walk past, and his name, Bunta Takakura, is said to come from Bunta Sugawara and Ken Takakura, stars of gangster films.
Q 24Which vegetable does Shin-chan famously refuse to eat in Crayon Shin-chan?
Green bell peppers
Green bell peppers are the one food listed as Shin-chan's dislike, an odd blind spot for a boy otherwise drawn as a glutton like his mother.
Q 25Which snack does Shin-chan forever beg for in Crayon Shin-chan, his favourite treat of all?
Chocobi
Chocobi, the chocolate biscuits Shin-chan loves, crossed over into real shops: Lotte first sold a Chocobi in 1993, and Bandai Namco counts its Chocobi packs in the hundreds of millions.
Q 26Which Shin-chan character fell silent when actor Kaneto Shiozawa died in 2000, until Hiroshi Kamiya took over in 2016?
Buriburizaemon
Buriburizaemon went sixteen years with barely a speaking role, surfacing only as a set of evil clones in the SHIN-MEN episodes, before a new 2016 episode brought him back for good.
Q 27Shin-chan's father Hiroshi comes from a village near Omagari in which northern prefecture?
Akita
Akita is Hiroshi's home prefecture, and trouble travels south from it: whenever his father comes to stay in Kasukabe, his antics are a standing headache for Hiroshi and Misae.
Q 28Shin-chan's mother Misae grew up in Aso, a volcanic caldera region of which prefecture on Kyushu?
Kumamoto
Kumamoto is Misae's home prefecture; her 'Aso City' was invented for the strip before a real city of Aso existed, and that city, formed by a 2005 merger, has since used the Noharas in its tourism campaigns.
Q 29Which voice actor played Shin-chan's father Hiroshi from 1992 until 2016, when Toshiyuki Morikawa took over the role?
Keiji Fujiwara
Keiji Fujiwara voiced Hiroshi for 24 years until he took leave for medical treatment in 2016, and he died in April 2020; father and son changed voices within two years of each other.
Q 30A 2015 spin-off manga, adapted as an anime series in 2025, follows Shin-chan's father doing what?
Eating his lunches
Eating his lunches is the whole premise of Nohara Hiroshi Hirumeshi no Ryūgi, a salaryman's meal-by-meal diary that ran in Manga Town for eight years before moving online.