Usui was the creator of Crayon Shin-Chan, an extremely popular manga that sold 25 million copies of its first volume in Japan, and has been translated into dozens of languages and spawned an equally popular cartoon. Often called the “Bart Simpson of Japan”, the strip concerns five-year-old Shin Nohara and his uncensored behavior which drives his parents to tears at times. Usui’s art is in the simpler, more underground style of manga, and while the stories are often crude — one of Shin’s most notorious pranks involves drawing an elephant around his penis — they have universal verve and biting humor that has successfully survived translation

So you say, ‘I’ve never heard of Shin-Chan. I didn’t have Adult Swim back in the days before they were littered with shows that committed heinous crimes against the gods of comedy.’ The embed of Shin-Chan episode 27(below the cut), “Shin Wars,” will teach you a lesson.

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