Crayon Shin-chan (Japanese: クレヨンしんちゃん Kureyon Shin-chan) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshito Usui. It started as a spin-off of the character Shinnosuke Nikaido of another series by Yoshito Usui, Darakuya Store Monogatari. A series of four bilingual Japanese-English manga were released in 1996 in Japan as Shin-chan The Little Horror! (クレヨンしんちゃんの楽しいゾ英会話).