Shimajiro Shimano

* 2012+
* 2010-2012
* 2008-2010
* 2005-2008
* 2000-2005
* 1997-2000
* 1993-1997
* 1988-1993

**Shimajiro Shimano** (縞野 しまじろう, *Shimano Shimajirō*) is one of the four main characters, and is the main protagonist in the Shima Shima Tora no Shimajiro anime series, and in the Kodomo Challenge franchise.

## Bio

### Appearance

Shimajiro is a tiger with yellow fur, black stripes on his head, body, arms, and legs, a white muzzle, black whiskers, a brown nose, black eyes, white inner ears, and a yellow and black striped tail.

When debuting in 1988, Shimajiro wears a green long-sleeved shirt underneath blue overalls with red buttons, white socks, and sky blue shoes. During the summer, his outfit remained the same, but his shirt becomes shorter-sleeved, and he wears a sunhat with a lime green ribbon.

In October 2009, Shimajiro wears a red long-sleeved shirt with a white pocket with red stripes on the bottom, dark blue shorts, white socks, and burnt orange shoes. During the summer, he wears a red baseball cap with a white initial, a white t-shirt with baby blue patterns, blue shorts, white socks, and blue shoes.

Starting in April 2012, Shimajiro wears a red long-sleeved pocket shirt, teal denim shorts, white socks, and turquoise sneakers. Earlier, he wore a light blue sweatshirt with a white snowflake, vermilion sweatpants, white socks, and sky blue sneakers. During the summer, he wears a safari hat, a white pocket t-shirt with dark red patterns and dark blue denim shorts.

### Personality

Shimajiro is bright and active, despite not being outrageous. He usually acts on his own and is criticized by anybody that is around him, including his parents. He cares about his friends, and every time there is commotion, he reflects and learns lessons on his life.

## Relationships

* **Mimirin Midorihara**: The first friend that Shimajiro met. When Mimirin first met him, she help Ramurin pull the elevator to get him down at the secret base.
* **Torippii Sorano**: The second friend that Shimajiro's met, dispite Torippii being more outrageous than him.
* **Ramurin Makiba**: The third one that Shimajiro met. After Ramurin meets him, she shows him a picture that she was drawing.
* **Nyakkii Momoyama**: After Shimajiro finds Nyakkii, she gives him back his shoe that he lost while he and his friends were playing soccer at the park in Doki Doki Forest.
* **Hana Shimano**: Shimajiro's younger sister. He and Hana-chan sometimes get into a fight when they really want to play on their own.
* **Sakurako Koinuma**: When Shimajiro became shy, he really wanted to talk to Sakurako.
* **Kirinta Kusano**: Kirinta was Shimajiro's childhood friend before Kindergarten started.
* **Pontaro**: After Shimajiro first met Pontaro, he can't even understand what his name was and he told a story to him about what happened in a long time ago.
* **The Three Black Cat Brothers**: Shimajiro usually gets bullied by the Cat Brothers, most notably Dot.

## Etymology

* **Shimano** (縞野, *Shimano*): **Shima** (縞, *Shima*) means "stripes". **No** (野, *No*) means "field" or "of". This makes the surname translate to "striped field".
* **Shimajiro** (しまじろう, *Shimajirō*): **Shima** (しま, *Shima*), which can also be written in kanji as (縞, *Shima*)means "stripes". **Jiro** (じろう, *Jirō*), which can also be written in kanji (次郎, *Jirō*) means "son" or "next". This makes the name translate to "striped son".

## Trivia

* Shimajiro's birthday is on May 5th, making his zodiac sign Taurus.
	+ His birthday also falls on a Japanese holiday "Children's Day" and a Mexican holiday "Cinco de Mayo".
* In the first two anime series, it is rare to find one of Shimajiro's overall straps slip.
* There are several gags that Shimajiro made:
	+ The first one is that he complains about being hungry.
	+ The second one is that he had some dreams that are related to donuts.
	+ The third one is that he doesn't want to clean his room after he was playing with toys all day.
	+ The fourth one is that Hana-chan usually fights with him that he wants to play with her.
* Shimajiro had a character song in the early season called "Yume Yume Doing".