

While at heart a caring and nurturing individual, her positive aspects are often offset by her many shortcomings. She cleans, launders, cooks, sews, mothers, and lazes all to varying degrees of success. She is 29 years old and a typical housewife of post-war Japan. The mother of shinchan and himawari from Kumamoto on the island ofKyūshū. Her name is "Penny" in the English dub, with the surname "Milfer", and in addition to being a hothead she is the product of an unstable home involving an abusive father (who is never seen)and a mother who is secretly plotting to abandon her family Alternatively, Nene uses Masao as the lightning rod for her frustration when her bunny is not available. Like her mother, she hits a stuffed bunny to relieve her anger. Nene styles herself as a sweet girl, but in fact she has inherited her mother's temper and is quite bossy. She occasionally sees her mother go crazy or do something out of character and shrieks something literally translated to be "You're not my usual mom!".

This is always a nuisance to Shin-chan, Bo-chan, and Kazama-kun and a nightmare to Masao as he often needs to be Nene's husband (unsuccessful salaryman) in the plot. She loves to play 'real omamagoto', or 'real house', in which divorces and arguments are very common and she typically forces/blackmails the boys to play with her. Nene Sakurada (Nene-chan) is Shin-chan's female classmate and friend.
