The show has also fallen foul of the censors in South Korea and Vietnam. ![]() The show was taken off the air in India in 2008 after the broadcasting ministry objected to its nudity and profanity, although a sanitised version appeared the following year. ![]() ![]() It is not the first time Shin-chan – aka Shinnosuke Nohara – who lives in the Tokyo commuter belt with his parents, younger sister and their dog, has challenged cultural sensibilities outside Japan, where he appears in manga, on TV and in cinemas. “We will continue to air the show as we have.” “I don’t see what the problem is,” a spokesman told the newspaper. RCTI said it would resist official pressure to censor the wildly popular cartoon, which first aired in Indonesia in 2000. The show features a lot of female characters in seductive garments that emphasise their cleavage. ![]() “The character fools around with his bare bottom exposed,” Agatha Lily told Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper. The Indonesian broadcasting commission has told RCTI, the private television network that airs the Crayon Shin-chan series, to either cut “indecent” parts of the programme or show it at a later time, when it will be missed by many in its target audience: young children.Ī member of the commission insisted the cartoon, which has also been shown in Spain, Malaysia and several other countries, was not intended for young audiences.
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