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REVIEW: Shin chan Season 3 Part 1

You're utterly missing the point. This is a parody dub, not one that was ever meant to be treated as a seriously accurate portrayal of the original content.

And your missing the point as well. The charm of Shin-chan was that it spoke to our childhoods that we once had. The fact that we gave our parents grief while they raised us. The fact that we did some mischievous things and that we could get away with things that nowadays all grown up could result in a sexual harassment lawsuit. Friends whom would be privy to the mischief. And all in a humorous way.

The parody dub is a mere shell of the original dialogue. It relies on crass dialogue and unnatural actions of the characters. Instead of a natural family show about a mischievous young boy and his life, we have a stupid unrealistic "parody" that is trying too hard to become Family Guy.

We don't have a naive wisecracking boy, we have a spoiled brat who puts Bart Simpson to shame. We don't have flustered parents, we have parents whom should be turned into Child Services. We don't have normal friends, we have foul mouthed friends. We don't have caring teachers, we have teachers that border on pedophilia. And so forth and so on.....

If FUNimation wants me to buy their Shinchan, they need to release the original episodes. Otherwise, my money goes elsewhere.

Edited to add: Party Join Us is sung better in Japanese!! English is crap!!

Shin-chan is hardly an exception to Funimation's repertoire of botched releases. . . Frankly, I find their practices insulting as a consumer, and it's a wonder they have so many fans to dance around them as they consistently churn out sub-par products.

Like I said, it's wonderful, but a professional company that should, ideally, be releasing anime in formats as close to the original as possible should not be doing this.

Key wrote:

msgundam2 wrote: "Art : D" It's called a art style. Yes, and it's an ugly art style. (The Simpsons, contrarily, is immensely better.) What's your point?

Your a pretty spot on reviewer Key and more often than not, I do enjoy reading your reviews. I have great respect for anyone that takes time to see series for it' is and takes to the time to truly understand that.

Okay fair enough the art style certainly isn't the show's strong point and maybe it's not as modernized as shows produced in 2011-2012, but the series has two-three aspects of this show that make up for the art.

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