Yawara!
| Yawara! | |
| Genre | sport |
|---|---|
| Manga | |
| Yawara! | |
| Written by | Naoki Urasawa |
| Anime | |
| Directed by | Hiroko Tokita |
| Studio | Kitty Films |
Yawara! (also known as Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl) is a manga series by Naoki Urasawa which ran in Big Comic Spirits from 1986 to 1993.
The story is about a girl (Inokuma Yawara) which forced to keep practicing judo by her authoritarian grandfather (Inokuma Jigorou) -in order to achieve championship in japan and gold medal in olympics- while herself rather to be a plain usual girl. Many things happened to her which makes her hating judo more and more. But as the manga continues, her love for judo grows.
In 1989, Yomiuri TV (part of the Nihon TV network) began broadcasting an anime adaptation, which ran from October 16, 1989 through September 21, 1992 for a total of 124 episodes.
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