Shinnosuke Nohara

Age: 5 He is the main character, a kindergarten-aged boy whose antics are the basis for the series. His affectionate name is Shin-chan. He loves Chocobis and an animated superhero named "Action Kamen." He is attracted to older girls and women, despite his young age. He brazenly pursues any girl who catches his eye. He shares this trait with his father and paternal grandfather, but this often results in Mom's cruel punishment. The only girl he seems to really like is a college student named Nanako. Some of his strange activities include dressing up and mooning. In general, he is brutally honest, highly curious, and has no shame whatsoever. Ironically, there have been several instances in which his antics actually solved the problems of those around him. He also displays a surprising amount of talent at various activities including kendo. 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, getting all wet and dirty and risking Misae's ire since it was his last set of clean clothes), but these are often immediately followed by antics that negate the goodwill others feel. There are also times when Shin-chan displays a level of maturity beyond his usual self in his concern for others. For example, during the trip to Australia where he bumps into Kazama, he kindheartedly arranged for Kazama's father to play ball with his son after Shin-chan notices him being sad on the beach. (Source: Wikipedia)

Nene Sakurada

Nene Sakurada is Shin-chan's female classmate and friend. She loves to play 'real omamagoto', or 'real house', in which divorces and arguments are very common. She occasionally sees her mother go crazy and shrieks something literally translated to be "You're not my usual mom!" She has the same character as her mother and she is often seen releasing her frustrations on a helpless stuffed bunny.

Misae Nohara

Age: 29 The mother of the Nohara family. She is a typical housewife of post-war Japan, she cleans, launders, cooks, sews, mothers, and lazes all to varying degrees of success. While at heart a caring and nurturing individual, her positive aspects are often offset by her many shortcomings. A paragon of hypocrisy, after handing out irrevocable edicts to her husband and children, she will not hesitate to immediately break them once they are out of sight. She administers brutal punishment to her husband, son, and on rare occasions her year-old daughter whenever they disobey her. While she spends as little as possible on the less-essential needs of her husband and son, she loves to splurge on Himawari and herself, though she is noted to have instances of great generosity. She is the source of boundless diet and savings plans, all of which fail within the first week. For example, she is prone to immediately partake in bargain sales when she sees them, thinking she is saving the family money. However, she buys in extreme quantities, which defeats the purpose. Additionally, she secretly hoards money for her own personal use. (Source: Wikipedia)

Hiroshi Nohara

Father of the Nohara family from Akita in Northern Japan, and its sole source of income. He met Misae at the age of 29, and after dating for around a year the two wed. He is a loving father to his two children, and ultimately a devoted husband. While he is the family bread-winner, he hands the reins of finance over to his wife, who maintains a totalitarian level of control on family spending. At age 35, 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. While his relationship with his family is positive on the whole, there is an abundance of recurring conflict. He and his wife bicker on many different things, from how little he gets for spending money every month, to whose turn it is to give the baby a bath. Misae is also notorious for inflicting violence on Hiroshi whenever she gets very angry (usually when his gaze wanders to younger women). He often dreams about being a playboy while he sleeps as an escape, though this is usually interrupted by some external stimulation. He enjoys a playful relationship with his children; but sometimes they're the source of his daily woes. He loves a cold beer after work and shares Shin-chan's appreciation of TV shows with young women in skimpy clothing, often getting too excited about it for Misae's liking. He will not hesitate to save his allowance for things he wants, but can be seen spending much of it to buy his family creature comforts. A running joke is made of the pungent odor of his feet and his socks are often used as weapons by other members of the family. (Source: Wikipedia)

Tooru Kazama

Tooru Kazama (Georgie Prescott) is Shin-chan's immaculately groomed and perfectly mannered friend, who usually loses his nerves and composure with Shin-chan's antics. Their relationship has often been joked as homosexual by Shin Chan. Despite Kazama's annoyance with Shin Chan, the both of them are actually the best of friends are actually quite closer than any of the other friends they have. Himawari has a slight crush on Tooru.

Ai Suotome

Ai is from an extremely rich family and happened to be enrolled in to the kindergarten at Kasukabe because she threw a dart at the map of Japan and hit Kasukabe, thereby determining where she would go next. She is always seen riding in a black limousine and with a bodyguard. Many boys fell in love with her except Shin-chan. Instead, she fell in love with Shin-chan. Masao-kun likes her very much, but Ai-chan almost never pays attention to him.

Masao Sato

Masao Sato is one of Shin-chan's friends. He is known to be a scaredy cat, and a bit of a cry baby. In the FUNimation dub, he is portrayed as having mildly effeminate/homosexual tendencies.

Midori Yoshinaga

Shin-chan's teacher. Age 24.

Ginnosuke Nohara

Like his son and his grandson, Shin-chan, he enjoys looking at pretty young women. He also likes to do weird things and rituals with his grandson.

Masumi Ageo

Masumi Ageo is a relative new 23 year old teacher who handles the Tulip class. She seems to be nervous of everything and experiences panic attacks when facing a large group of kids (which is an everyday scenario of a kindergarten teacher). However, when Shin-chan takes off her glasses, her vision becomes blurred and a personality change takes place; she becomes very aggressive and fearless as shown in her first appearance in episode 281-2 "The New Teacher Acts Weird". She has a fixation with Kuroiso, but the motivation behind it changes between the manga and the anime from one of admiration to one of romance. Throughout the series she becomes more "extroverted" without fully reaching what that term implies. (Source: Crayon Shin Chan Wikia)

Ume Matsuzaka

Arch-rival of Miss Yoshinaga, teacher of the Rose class. Age 24. Single. Likes to live stylishly in public but she actually struggles to save her money for accessories and lives in a very cheap, dusty apartment.

Bunta Takakura

The principal of Action Kindergarten, his Yakuza-like appearance is often misunderstood by the people in the neighborhood, which often acts as a recurring joke in the series (often worsened by Shin-chan by calling him "Kumichō" (組長 ,Godfather?)). Actually he has a tender heart and good attitude. He masqueraded as a superhero called Enchoman but Shin-chan found out his true identity easily. He is shown to like women's wrestling in one episode. (Source: Wikipedia)

Nanako Oohara

The college girl with whom Shin-chan is in love. Age 20. The first time they met was when Shin-chan was strolling in the neighborhood and got something in his eye. Nanako, though a stranger at the time, took it out of his eyes for him. Since then, they have kept contact with each other, sometimes Nanako inviting Shin-chan to beach resorts and skiing trips etc. Nanako is the only girl that is unruffled by Shin-chan's behavior, and the only one Shin-chan tries to behave for, even being shy and blushing around her. She dreams to be a kindergarten teacher.

Boo-chan

Another of Shin-chan's friends, he seems slow and expressionless, but is actually quite smart and has an interest in artistic, adult-oriented things. He often surprises his friends with his insight, though he speaks quite slowly. He always has a trail of snot running down his nose and performs various tricks with it. (Source: Wikipedia)