After trying about 5 more things to get him to leave and communicating with hand gestures to the lady at the cash register for help and sympathy, she finally gets a good idea and tells him there's an ice cream store next door and he should go ask his mom if he can get some. This really excites him so he runs out of the store. She's all happy (more hand gestures) but then of course he comes running back with a 4 scoop ice cream cone. She tells him he can't come in eating ice cream but he pulls out 3 bucks and says basically "I'm a paying customer, my mom gave me this money to buy a picture book." She spends the next 10 minutes trying to get him not to spill the ice cream and to quickly decide on a book. Trying to get him interested in something she thinks "ah ha!" and gets out a Maskman book (ie, generic popular superhero. Like Ultraman). Shinchan is of course interested and starts looking at the book and she, trying to get him sold, starts acting out like Maskman and/or his enemies and of course at one point gets fairly loud as she's rolling on the floor acting like a hit enemy which of course the rest of the store notices, thoroughly embarrassing her. After which she asks Shinchan, "so, are you going to buy this book?". He responds, "I can watch Maskman for free on TV so no way would I buy this book."

The storyline and art of Crayon Shinchan is very simple and perhaps unique in that sense. There seems to be no other domestic manga on the market that is quite like it. Comics One also included a few pages in color, which was a nice added feature. The storyline of Crayon Shinchan is formatted similar to American comics; each storyline is about two or three pages long. The graphic novel is made up of a collection of these short stories and is classified under one particular title. Comics One did an adequate job at adapting the dialogue for a domestic audience. I'm sure there were many gags that western audiences unfamiliar with Japanese culture and language may not have understood. For example, Shinchan seems to be quite fond of "oreo cookies" and "Britney Spears."

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