The official website for Crayon Shin-chan, the long-running TV anime adaptation based on the gag manga by Yoshito Usui, has announced that Keiji Fujiwara – the voice actor who plays Shinnosuke’s father, Hiroshi Nohara – will be taking time off from the role in order to recuperate from an unspecified illness.
Keiji Fujiwara has voiced Hiroshi Nohara since 1992.
In an official statement, the show’s producers announced that Keiji Fujiwara would be taking time off as of the episode of Crayon Shin-chan that is scheduled to air on TV Asahi on August 23, 2016.