Striped Island Tiger Shimajiro

is a 1993 Japanese children's slice of life anime series by Pierrot Plus. It was created and directed by veteran director Hisayuki Toriumi, and the first series aired at TV Setouchi and all TXN TV networks in Japan from December 13, 1993, to March 31, 2008, becoming the 19th longest running anime in Japan from its debut to its final episode with a total of 726 episodes. The second series, premiered on April 7, 2008 and ended on March 29, 2010. The Third series,, premiered on April 5, 2010 and ended March 26, 2012. The current series, which introduced Nikki Momoyama and her family and wrote off Ramurin Makiba and her family, premiered on April 2, 2012. Starting from 2014, several animated films have come out with the most recent ones using 3D CG animation.

Plot
The entire series focuses on Shimajirō Shimano, a curious tiger boy living in Challenge Island. Being the second in the family, he attends Kindergarten alongside his friends as they all discover everything around them, and learn valuable lessons as they grow up.

There is a similar show from America called Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood that airs on PBS and is the spin-off to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1968-2001). Shimajiro has been on since before Mister Rogers went off the air and before Fred Rogers himself died. The Daniel Tiger cartoon aired later the same year that Nikki Momoyama was introduced which was on September 3, 2012. Nikki was introduced on April 2.