Yawara!

Yawara!

Alternative Titles

Synonyms

Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl

Japanese

YAWARA!

English

Information

Type

TV

Aired

Oct 16, 1989 to Sep 21, 1992

Episodes

124

Duration

25 min per ep

Season

fall 1989

Broadcast

Mondays at 07:30 (JST)

Studios

Madhouse

Licensors

AnimEigo

Status

Finished Airing

Source

Manga

Rating

PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Demographics

Seinen

Statistics

Rank

1975

Score

7.49

Scored by

4690

Popularity

4761

Members

23301

Favorites

131

External Links

Synopsis

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. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Yawara! competed against Ranma ½ on Japanese television and achieved higher ratings, although Ranma ½ was more popular internationally. Yawara! had remained quite unknown outside Japan and only got licensed for North American distribution in August 2006, over a decade after its airing period.

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Adaptation

Yawara!