Yawara!

Yawara!, Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl, YAWARA!

Episodes: 124 / 124

Type: TV

Plot Summary: High school student Yawara Inokuma lives a completely happy and ordinary life. She aspires to an average lifestyle as a delicate young lady with a handsome boyfriend in the near future.Unfortunately for Yawara, she has an undesirable prodigious talent in Judo, a modern martial art that is neither feminine nor fashionable. Moreover, Yawara is the only granddaughter of the seventh dan Judo master Jigorou Inokuma, who expects her to become a Japanese Judoka superstar of the '90s.Yawara cautiously hides her strength from everyone to maintain a normal reputation but is often pushed to situations when she must exercise her Judo skills. Observing Yawara's immense potential from the shadows, Kousaku Matsuda, a sports reporter from a substandard paper, is willing to do everything he can to bring her into the limelight.

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sports, Combat Sports, Seinen

Studios: Madhouse

Producers: Kitty Films

Licensors: AnimEigo

Type: TV

Released: Oct 16, 1989 to Sep 21, 1992

Country: Japan

Status: Finished

Tags: #Coming of Age, #Female Protagonist, #Athletics, #Martial Arts, #Judo, #Seinen, #Love Triangle, #Primarily Adult Cast, #Ojou-sama, #College, #Parody, #Heterosexual