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Shin-chan: Our Dinosaur Diary Film Wins Ann Award at 'Animation & More Summit' in India
posted on by Adriana Hazra
The Animation & More Summit at the Anime India convention announced on Friday that Eiga Crayon Shin-chan: Ora-tachi no Kyōryū Nikki (Shin chan Our Dinosaur Diary), the Crayon Shin-chan franchise's 31st 2D animated film, has won the award for Best International Animated Feature Film at its Ann Awards 2025. Crayon Shin-chan also won the award for "Best Animated Licensed Character (International)" at the awards show.
クレヨンしんちゃんがインドで快挙達成‼
— クレヨンしんちゃん【公式】 (@crayon_official) August 23, 2025
꧁ インド「ANNアワード2025」 ꧂
堂々2部門で最優秀賞W受賞🏆
インド最大級のアニメーションアワード
「ANNアワード」でクレヨンしんちゃんが
2部門同時受賞の快挙を成し遂げました✨
≪受賞部門と作品≫
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The film premiered in Japan in August 2024. The film opened in Japan at #2. It sold 365,000 tickets and earned 455,302,200 yen (about US$3.05 million) in its first three days, and sold 510,000 tickets and earned 636 million yen (about US$4.32 million) in its first four days including Monday (August 12 was the Mountain Day holiday in Japan).
The film follows the friendship between the Nobara family's pet dog Shiro and a "small dinosaur." Their connection helps the growth of Shinnosuke and the Kasukabe Defense Squad.
Takumi Kitamura guest stars in the film as Billy, a biology researcher who loves dinosaurs and works with the Kasukabe Defense Squad. Ozwald comedian duo Yū Hatanaka and Shunsuke Itō also guest star in the film as Chū and Ammoner Itō, respectively.
Shinobu Sasaki (director of many Duel Masters anime including the 2017, 2018, and 2019 Duel Masters TV anime) directed the film. Moral, who writes scripts for the Crayon Shin-chan TV series, wrote the screenplay.
Rock band My Hair is Bad performed the film's theme song "Omoide o Kakenukete" (Run Past Your Memories).
Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Chō Karei! Shakunetsu no Kasukabe Dancers (Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Magnificent! Scorching Kasukabe Dancers), the latest anime film in the Crayon Shin-chan series, opened in Japan on August 8. It will open in India on September 26. The film is the "series' first dance entertainment movie" and the series' first film set in India.
