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Keiji Fujiwara

By Simran Kaur

Shinchan, a japanese show , helps us to forget our stress,tensions and anger and laugh out loud. The show is about a five year old naughty but cute boy named Shinchan Nohara, who does weird activities and troubles his family and friends.I can relate my mom with shin chan’s mom , Infact i feel like i am watching my childhood . This cartoon is a great escape from the real life. Sometimes life is so stressful that we need a escape. Shin Chan is the best show i’ve ever seen . It’s closely related to the daily life of a common man. It has satires on life, comedy and parody. It can be viewed by all age groups.

Voice Actor of Crayon Shin Chan’s Father Tragically Passes Away At 55 Years of age. ( Keiji Fujiwara ) . The show has now been dubbed in 30 languages, which aired in 45 countries, has over 1007 episodes and 26 full-length movies. More than 275 million copies of the manga have been sold worldwide in 20 years. A Hindi dub of the anime started airing in India on Hungama TV on June 19, 2006, Later in Tamil dub and Telugu dub.

There were complaints from parents over the main character’s behavior and the attitudes exhibited towards elders on the show, both of which were seen as a negative influence on children.The series was banned in October 2008 by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting ( India )on account of heavy nudity.

Before the ban, the Hindi version of Crayon Shin-chan gained up to 60% of the channel’s market share. After many requests from fans, the Indian Censor boards, heavily edited the content and revived the Indian dub on March 27, 2009.The jokes were edited to be more family-friendly, and all mentions of alcohol were replaced by mentions of juice.

Scenes that have been cut include instances of Shin-chan performing either the Mr. Elephant dance or the  butt-shaking  dance, and instances of Nene’s mother beating up a stuffed toy in anger. Hiroshi Nohara , is a loving father to his two children, and ultimately a devoted husband. While he is the family breadwinner, he hands the reins of finance over to his wife, who maintains a totalitarian level of control on family spending.

He is a stereotypical Japanese salaryman, working eight-hour days, enduring overstuffed trains, enjoying the occasional nightlife, and giving every bit of his take home pay to his wife every month. He is a quiet, reasonable person, who is almost always invited by his boss or a worker, to drink beers, were he almost always gets drunk.He used to smoke a lot, when Misae was pregnant by Himawari, he quit smoking as a favor for her.

Fujiwara , was also famously the Japanese voice actor who dubbed Robert Downey Jr’s voice as Iron Man/Tony Stark. Having fought a long battle with cancer, Mr Fujiwara was well known within the Japanese animation industry for not only lending his voice in the popular Japanese cartoon, but for voicing many other popular characters in Japanese animation too .

In August 2016, Air Agency announced that he was going on hiatus in order to undergo medical treatment for a then-unspecified illness.He officially resumed work in June 2017. Fujiwara died of cancer on April 12, 2020.

Posted in Reviews, Series Reviews

Never have I ever

By Padma Dolma

Well the teenage is a very critical period and most likely to be a period where everything gets intense. This is a story of an Indian – American teenage who struggles not only with her hormonal changes but mental issues as well. The whole thing was paused for a movement when she didn’t grief her father’s death instead she got paralyzed, nothing can explain what happened to her legs not even medical science. When your closest person dies the worst you an expect other than accepting the lost is either you fall in trauma or you face denial and Devi was facing both with her own style, where she didn’t wanna grief her father’s death so she found a distraction for herself without knowing it by paralysing herself. The mind of a human is as powerfull as enough to make you think about such things.

And one day she just started walking as if that’s the most normal thing. She wanted to live her teenage period full with fun which she was unaware of or we can say didn’t get it at all under the parental care of her mother, her mother is quite sensitive about her she tries to act tough but somehow she too fells weak, broken, helpless. While her life was going to be a roller coaster to be, she decided to date anyone before graduation. She convenience her two best friends Eleanor and Fabioula into her super plan for themselves but here’s the twist, one of her friend is gay another one is already dating but she doesn’t know about that along with that she had an unwanted guest in her house, her cousin Kamala who wants to complete her studies and not get married at that moment turns out she also has a secert boyfriend but Devi’s mother wanted her to get married a arranged marriage. It was forced on her cousin that she had to get married to a Indian boy who ever fits her parents criteria.

Devi is very competitive, A+ student with a rival Ben in her class from her middle school they’ve been competing among themselves that these two doesn’t stands each other. But what must be missing in her life is she never dated anyone she was so desperate to have a boyfriend, go on dates, have sex, going to parties, get drunk, and all those famous kids do list, but her desperation lead her to a lie route from where returning was impossible for her where she also have to loose her friends. Pexton her crush for more than 2 years, she got close to him meanwhile they decided to have sex, friends with benefits with no strings attached but things didn’t go her way.

Later thing she could possibly do was to accept that she was fallen apart by the terrific accident she had seen and her father had faced, she is a musician, her father died on the day for her concert before the concert started, her mother and she got into a fight which let her to think her mother didn’t care bout her and her father is the only person who cared about her, and when he got to know about the shifting back to India broke them apart more. She tried to convince herself that it was her father only who loves her and now when he is gone she don’t have anyone who loves her. She moved out from her house and she started staying at her rival Ben’s house.

It was her father’s birthday so her mother wanted them to bite her father goodbye all for good, she kept on denying for so long that she wasn’t sure that if she is ready or not earlier she thought her father was reborn as a Cayote and almost got killed by the wild animal.

But this time her friends, Ben helped her realized the fact that she had to grief to let her go and blocking the thoughts didn’t mean you don’t care enough even to say good bye

The whole story was about hypocrisy of Indian strict culture and modern thoughts clashing amongst themselves until you find your way out by being faithful, honest, and broken, sometimes it’s okay to fell broken.