Anime Profile: Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
Fields | USA Info | Japanese Info | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
Title | Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl | YAWARA! |  |
Released | 124 TV Episodes, 1 Movie, 1 OVA Special | 124 TV Episodes, 1 Movie, 1 OVA Special | |
Dates | August 2006 | Oct 16, 1989–Sep 21, 1992 | |
Company | AnimEigo | Madhouse, Kitty Films, NTV, Yomiuri TV | |
Creator | Naoki Urasawa | ||
Director | Hiroko Tokita | ||
Genre | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sports | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sports | |
Characters | Belkens ⊕ | Belkens ⊕ | |
· · · | Coach Ishikura ⊕ | Coach Ishikura ⊕ | |
· · · | Fujiko Itou ⊕ | Fujiko Itou ⊕ | |
· · · | Hanazono ⊕ | Hanazono ⊕ | |
· · · | Jigorou Inokuma ⊕ | Jigorou Inokuma ⊕ | |
· · · | -- more listed below -- | -- more listed below -- |
Last I checked, this anime was available on DVD at Amazon.
Characters: Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
English Name |
Japanese Name |
English Name |
Japanese Name |
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| Belkens ⊕ | Belkens ⊕ | Kazumi ⊕ | Kazumi ⊕ | |
| Coach Ishikura ⊕ | Coach Ishikura ⊕ | Kosaku Matsuda ⊕ | Kosaku Matsuda ⊕ | |
| Fujiko Itou ⊕ | Fujiko Itou ⊕ | Sayaka Honami ⊕ | Sayaka Honami ⊕ | |
| Hanazono ⊕ | Hanazono ⊕ | Shinnosuke Kazamatsuri ⊕ | Shinnosuke Kazamatsuri ⊕ | |
| Jigorou Inokuma ⊕ | Jigorou Inokuma ⊕ | Sudoh ⊕ | --?-- | |
| Jody Rockwell ⊕ | Jody Rockwell ⊕ | Takeyuki Suzuki ⊕ | Takeyuki Suzuki ⊕ | |
| Junji ⊕ | --?-- | Yawara Inokuma ⊕ | Yawara Inokuma ⊕ | |
| Kamoda ⊕ | Kamoda ⊕ | Yuujirou Ishida ⊕ | Yuujirou Ishida ⊕ |
Description: Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl tells the story or a girl named Yawara Inokuma, who has a natural talent at Judo. Being raised by her grandfather/Judo teacher Jigorou Inokuma, she is being taught to be a master at Judo and Japan's hope for winning the Gold at the Judo Competition at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic games. However, in all of this Yawara is a normal girl who desires nothing more than a normal life as a teenager. Can Yawara balance a normal life with the pressures and expectations of succeeding?
