Fierce Atarō

is a Japanese comedy manga series written by Fujio Akatsuka. It was serialized from 1967 to 1970 in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Two anime television adaptations were produced by Toei Doga (now known as Toei Animation), and aired on NET TV (then called TV Asahi). The first aired from April 4, 1969 to December 25, 1970 for 90 episodes, and the second from April 21 to December 22, 1990 for 34 episodes.

Plot
The story revolves around a young edokko named Atarō who lives with his father X-gorō (read as Batsu-gorō) in downtown Tokyo running the family store. After his father's sudden death, Atarō must take care of the store himself and, along with the help of his father's ghost, his friend Dekoppachi, former yakuza leader Butamatsu, and a nutty alley cat named Nyarome, he protects it from the tanuki-faced gang leader Kokoro Boss.