[2] A lively boy named Daizaemon in traditional Japanese clothing comes with various kinds of animals to the capital of Tokyo.

He visits a friend of his late father's to learn judo and makes friends with the young daughter of the judo master Kikuko and the cat Nyanko-sensei.

For a little girl, Kikuko has wonderful judo tricks inherited from her father while Nyanko-sensei is able to perform a difficult trick of triple turn in the air.

Although he shows clownish behavior once in a while, he is always popular among people around and grows stout and shrewd to be a future champion.

The series was broadcast from October 4, 1970, to September 24, 1972, for 208 15 minute episodes (technically 104).