Shinnosuke Nohara
Shinchan is the main characters in the anime "Crayon Shinchan." Shinchan is a small kindergarden-aged boy with Chuck Manson eyebrows and a very distinctive voice that will burn itself deep into your brain. He has very strange interests compare to the other normal kids. He like to check out beautiful girls, make his mother angry, playing stupid games imitating that superman, beg his mother to buy toys, and reading books without buying them at the bookstore (the bookstore is like a library to him).
Misae "ka-chan" Nohara
She's Shinchan's mother. She rules the Nohara household with an iron fist that is regularly whacked against Shinchan and her husband's head. Lurking behind the good little housewife exterior is a very short temper that Shinchan can snap with almost no effort. Shinchan can always send her over the edge in an endless multitude of ways. Shinchan's more common methods include doing the "Zou-san" in public, trying to pick up women on the street, and reminding her of how flat chested she is (however, she claims 89 cm).
Hiroshi "to-chan" Nohara
Shinchan's father the hard working wage earner. His success as a businessman have alllowed his family to live a fairly comfortable middle-class life. Unfortunately, this also means that he doesn't get much time with Shin-chan. But when he does spend time with Shin-chan, he reveals a different side to the hard working businessman, a side that is very much like his son.
Shiro
Shin-chan's dog. It's small, white, and stupid, REAL stupid dog. Nene-can and the gang found him abandoned on the street and Shin-can took him home. If the dog had any intellegence, it would have run away a long time ago. Instead, it silently suffers the abuse that Shinchan dishes out day after day. Shiro isn't an extremely talented dog, but it does knows one trick which involves the command, Chinchin kai kai.
Nene-chan (Nene Sakurada)
Shin-chan's female classmate. She's a normal, maybe almost generic, kindergartener. When asked what she liked, she responded with Sailor Moon (of course, Shin-chan when asked the same question said "t-back oneesan" = "woman in a thong"). She'll happily spend her time "playing house" but her close proximity to Shin-chan makes her a target for his shenanigans. She seems to be able to shake them off fairly easily. However, it doesn't take a far stretch of the imagination to see her contact with Shin-chan resulting in a need for some serious psychotherapy a few years down the road.
Masao-kun
Masao-kun is one of Shin-chan's friends who can be easily identified by his monk-like, shaved head. He's extremely submissive and it doesn't take much to make him cry. He could be labelled a crybaby.
Boo-chan
In everyone's childhood memories, there's that one kid who was always a little bit "slower" than everyone else. Boo-chan is that kid. With what seems to be a perpetual cause of postnasal drip, he follows the other kids around like a miniature version of Frankenstein. He rarely speaks but once in a while, he will catch his friends off guard with a witty retort which they don't think him to be capable of.
Kawamura-kun
Tarzan boy. Kawamura-kun is a kid in Matsuzaka-sensei class who always wears a Cheetah-dot shirt. Kawamura-kun regularly plays a key role in Matsuzaka-sensei's plots to upstage Yoshinaga-sensei. He's a bully at heart and has the physical ability to back it up. However, he has one major weakness, Action Kamen. The mere mention of Action Kamen causes him to stop dead in his tracks, take the Action Kamen pose, and shout, "Action Kamen!" Shin-chan has taken advantage of this weakness more than once to Tarzan boy's chagrin.
Kazama-kun
Kazama-kun is the anti-Shichan in the story. If this was the fifties he would be considered a square. He is always well mannered and well groomed...the perfect target for Shichan. Shinchan and Kazama are like opposite forces of a magnet, Kazama the + and Shinchan the -. Because of this Shinchan is drawn to Kazama, resulting in a conflict of sorts, in which the negative (-) side most frequently wins.
(Ume) Matsuzaka-sensei and (Midori) Yoshinaga Sensei
Matsuzaka-sensei can be identified by her long black hair and the somewhat sinister aura about her. However, even though she won't admit it, she cares for Yoshinaga like a sister. Matsuzaka-sensei is 24 years old and she's quite aware of the fact that she isn't getting any younger. Because of this, one of her biggest priorities in life is entrapping some successful young man in marriage but Shin-chan always seems to be around at exactly the wrong time.. Yoshinaga is a bouncy and enthusiastic teacher. However, her playful disposition is no challenge for Shin-chan who happens to be in the class that she teaches. But to her credit, she hasn't killed him yet. Most normal people without Yoshinaga's resiliency would have made sure Shin-chan ended up in a shallow grave a long time ago. Yoshinaga-sensei has brown hair which is tied back with a ribbon. She also claims 89cm..
"Yakuza ja nai!" Enchiyou Sensei
Enchiyou-sensei is the principal at Shin-chan's kindergarten. He's a big, hulking man who always wears sunglasses and the same tacky suit, has a mustache and a scar on his face.. the kind of look that just shouts, "Japanese mobster." However, he seems to have both of his pinkies (Japanese mobster often lack them) and his suit jacket hides any possible body tattoos but it wouldn't be a far stretch of the imagination. In fact, he has been mistaken for a gangster on several different occasions. In reality, he's a gentle person and doesn't like it when Shin-chan teases him about looking like a gangster. Maybe in a future episode, he'll personally show Shin-chan how to make concrete shoes..
