Crayon Shin-chan: Terrifying Urban Legends

[Anthology format] [Supernatural] [Urban legends] [Multiple storylines]

Is Crayon Shin-chan a horror series? I was breaking into a cold sweat in the middle of winter! Not for the faint of heart. I’m not responsible if you get scared out of your wits~

A: The Adult Empire Strikes Back is the creepiest and most terrifying of all the Crayon Shin-chan movies. It came out 17 years ago, but even now, thinking about it at midnight still gives me goosebumps. Shin-chan may have dealt with plenty of monsters, and all the ghosts and demons that came to the Nohara family’s house ended up dead and gone, but this time they came after him, and even Shin-chan, the exorcist priest, was forced to flee! What happened?

B: Terrifying things have been happening at Nene’s house lately. Everyone knows the Sakurada mother and daughter are the worst nightmare of every stuffed rabbit. They always carry around lots of rabbit dolls, each with a different purpose: one for pinning things down, one for bare feet, one for secret executions~ There’s nothing the mother and daughter can’t do, if you can imagine it. Then one day… the rabbit dolls couldn’t take the abuse anymore and decided to take revenge on the Sakurada family!

C: The most mind-bending urban legend is here. Anyone under 18 should watch with a parent or partner. Do you ever feel like you’re sleepwalking through the same life every day? One day, Kazama headed out to cram school as usual…

D: If Jack-in-the-Box is a funny doll, then the French doll is downright terrifying. She not only strips Shin-chan of all his protagonist plot armor, but even the ending is left open. One evening, Misae was asleep in the living room, perhaps because