General Inakappe

Inakappe Taishō (いなかっぺ大将, "The Hick Judo Champion") is Japanese manga series by Noboru Kawasaki and serialized by Shogakukan in Shogakukan no Gakushū Zasshi. The manga series won the 14th Shogakukan Manga Award. An anime adaptation produced by Tatsunoko Productions aired on Fuji TV from October 4, 1970 to September 24, 1972 for 104 episode segments.

Plot
A lively boy named Daizaemon arrives 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. Both of them are worthy instructors for Daizaemon. 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.