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"Crayon Shin-Chan" is a great anime series about all the troubles slice of life genre doesn't often exhibit.

The anime series has a truly strong potential to generate an incredible spin-off with all the elements of the original anime/manga. It's well-known that Crayon Shin-Chan is a "seinen" genre anime when you realise all the things the series criticize using a kid as a main character, a kid who takes the adult's worst side and makes their words and behaviors look "innocent", but it isn't far from reality, kids are continuously learning thanks to their parents, their teachers... but they are not always the best example ... for the own children, so they are what they see from adult people.

Now let's talk about "Shin-Men". As I have said, Crayon Shin Chan is an anime series which has a powerful seinen potential, due to its clever plot, but this particular spin-off lacks absolutely the main esence of the original series. "Shin-Men" works really well as a "shounen" anime, but not as a Crayon Shin Chan spin-off. The main themes from Crayon Shin-Chan are not present in Shin-Men, this one works in a different way and miss the Yoshito Usui's burlesque and acid way of expressing ideas. I think it was a wrong idea to create new Crayon Shin-Chan stuff without considering the original autor's work at all. I also missed the original roles of the main characters, and didn't like the art too much, I get some weird feeling from it. Only the red Shin-Men takes the original Shinnosuke Nohara's personality. The other characters are not bad, but they absolutely don't work well as Crayon Shin-Chan characters. The problem is that Shin-Men forgot the original anime and manga's roots, because Yoshito Usui (the original manga creator) was already dead back then. Crayon Shin-Chan needn't a spin-off like this one, because it doesn't seem like from the anime series.

In conclusion, you may find interesting "Shin-Men" if you consider it as a shounen anime, but you shouldn't expect to see the original source material of the manga and the early anime, or at least to do a clever use of Crayon Shin-Chan's jokes more than just showing them.

The best way to find a meaningful purpose in "Shin-Men" is estimating that the story, in some way, comes from a child's mind, the childish and most creative part of Shinnosuke Nohara.

If you like those animes where there are lots of epilepsy and you get a seizure so you have to go to the hospital and you may lose your eyes or mind due to some strange animation, you should watch it. You will enjoy it, I think.

I stopped watching it after the first second. I'm still wondering how the production staff survived after doing and rewatching this with a balanced mind state.

Character development: 10/10.
Story: 10/10

Best mindfuck since Neon Genesis Evangelion, but also eyefuck. Well, this is literally the best Mustn't-Watch anime ever, just don't try it if you want to be healthy.

It's painful ... to remember that I have REVIEWED this, if you know what I mean.

This film just changed my entire view of life. It made me feel human and cry like I had never done. After watching it, I just couldn't see a simple candy without crying. That's the potential of The Grave of the Fireflies, a powerfully sad feeling that I had inside my mind for at least three months. Animation can perfectly tell us about human's cruelty and humankind's reality, and this film demonstrates it in so many ways.

Hotaru no Haka is the anime film everyone should watch before dying. I always consider significant to find a metaphor inside a story, this film has it. You will ... see that fireflies are depicted as human's weak brightness looking for a better world, the poorly awakened souls of those who died in the war, the light of life, and also the small shine of a world based on utopia. The film knows how to join subtle with the crudest reality.

Hotaru no Haka is, probably, one of the most beautifully, brilliantly, and brutally depressing films ever made. You must watch it, but you also shouldn't. It's up to you.