(and yes, this was intended for children like it is in Japan. It wasn’t an [adult swim] situation)
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This took me a lot of time lol😭
The mangas are:
I’d say maybe Super Milk-Chan? Even though the pacing in that show is gawd-awful it does have surreal vibes and similar humor to most [as] originals.
This manga, also made by Yoshito Usui, features a character named Shinnosuke Nokaido who Shinnosuke Nohara was based on. He is actually an older man but we see him in flashbacks and he behaves just like Shin. His childhood design is just Shin’s but with different hair.
It was actually revealed that the reason why Crayon Shin-Chan exists was because an editor said that the character (as in Nikaido) would be good in a solo manga.
Because Shinnosuke Nokaido and Nohara are technically different characters, would it be accurate to call Crayon Shin-Chan a spin-off? Why or why not?
Oh, his name in Japanese is “Action Kamen”? Oh, well guess what?
I DON’T GIVE A FUCK. I DON’T SPEAK JAPANESE. GO TO HELL, WEEB.
Oh, you are telling me that his most used English name is Action Mask, because kamen means Mask? I DON’T GIVE A FUCK. THE MASKED MUCHACHO SOUNDS COOLER, OKAY???
I DON’T CARE.
And, for the 1% of who only know the Funimation dub, his name ain’t Action Bastard either. That’s literally his least common English name, only used then and there. And it’s a joke name, not intended to be taken seriously.
HIS MOTHERFUCKING NAME IS THE MASKED MUCHACHO. CALL HIM, THE MASKED MUCHACHO.
I HOPE THAT EVERY PERSON WHO CALLS HIM ANYTHING ELSE IS SENT STRAIGHT TO THE GULAG.
CALL. HIM. THE. MASKED. MUCHACHO. VITELLO GAVE HIM WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HIS PERMANENT ENGLISH NAME, AND IT’S BLASPHEMY TO CALL HIM ANYTHING ELSE.
While, I’m not the biggest fan of this… uh… joke, it’s a shame the only way to read these chapters is to get very rare Japanese magazines. Especially since they were published on such cheap paper and intended to be disposable - If you wanted to read it in high quality, you would get the tankobon or other collections. And the problem is…
IT ISN’T IN THE GODDAMN TANKOBON.
I hope one day, Futubasha can re-release them, but it seems unlikely. Oh well…
I guarantee most of you will get this wrong.
Now that cartoonnetwork.com and boomerang.com are dead.
They hail from the same magazine (Weekly Manga Action) though all Lupin III related stories got spun-off into their own magazine in 2004 (well after Monkey Punch had stopped doing Lupin III manga himself) and Crayon Shin-Chan got kinda spun-off in 2000. (The new magazine [Monthly Manga Town] wasn’t a Crayon Shin-Chan exclusive magazine but CSC was the flagship title and it replaced a magazine that exclusively had CSC spin-off stories)
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I feel like it represented all the points of CN back in the day:
The past/Boomerang - It is a parody/spin-off of the original Space Ghost after all
Toonami - Moltar was the original host
Cartoon Cartoons - In addition to that one episode airing the PPG pilot, the representation of Space Ghost Coast to Coast in the Cartoon Cartoons comics up until 2 whole years after the launch of [adult swim] is suggestive of it being an “honorary” Cartoon Cartoon. Not to mention that proved the network could handle original programming in the first place.
[adult swim] - somewhat self-explanatory, it had some episode on there and aired re-runs after re-runs as well as exclusive bumpers and such. Even the DVDs of the CN episodes have the [as] logo on there
Not to mention it was the first CN original that wasn’t an anthology show and was the 3rd over all.
It was CN’s middle ground
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This is from the editor-in-chief of Monthly Manga Town, which the manga was serialized in from 2000 to 2023