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Shinnosuke Nohara (野原しんのすけ), is the main character of Crayon Shin Chan. He is 5 years old and yet acts overtly mature. In general, he is brutally honest, highly curious, and has no shame whatsoever. Ironically, there have been several instances in which Shinnosuke's own crazy antics actually solved the problems of those around him. Whether this is the result of his own or purely accidental is debatable. Adding to that, he also displays a surprising amount of talent and ability in various activities (running, surfing, kendo, fishing, skiing, swimming and others). On rare occasions, he displays bouts of selfless kindness (for example, in one anime episode he saved a frog from a truck on a rainy day- dirtying his last set of clean clothes and irking Misae's in the process), but those are often immediately followed by more of his antics that negate the goodwill others could feel by the act.

He loves chocolate biscuits, especially "Chocobi" and is a fan of tokusatsu show "Action Kamen",but he absolutely hates green peppers. He is attracted to older girls and women, despite his young age,,is brazenly attracted to older girls and women even to a point of flirting with them​. (Possibly an inherited trait with his father and paternal grandfather,much to his mum's dismay). The only girl he seems to really like is a college student named Nanako, around whom he becomes shy. However he also often exhibits deep affection for his friend Kazama. Some of his strange activities include dressing up (often as an animal), mooning plus pretending to be an elephant using his er... manhood as the appropriately named "Mr. Elephant". He also makes trouble for others and then criticizes their efforts in covering for him.

There are also times when Shin Chan displays a level of maturity beyond his usual self in his concern for others, and in a few rare instances he shows that deep down he really does care for his family, despite his constant disrespect towards them such as one time he truly trusted his family in the movie Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back as they climbed up a construction building to stop the emperor from sending the world back to the twentieth century. This shows up more often than not in the feature length movies as compared to the regular series episodes.