Anime Profile: Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
Fields | USA Info | Japanese Info | Image |
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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, 1989βSep 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 β | Belkens β | |
· · · | Coach Ishikura β | Coach Ishikura β | |
· · · | Fujiko Itou β | Fujiko Itou β | |
· · · | Hanazono β | Hanazono β | |
· · · | Jigorou Inokuma β | Jigorou Inokuma β | |
· · · | -- more listed below -- | -- more listed below -- |
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Characters: Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
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Japanese Name |
English Name |
Japanese Name |
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Belkens β | Belkens β | Kazumi β | Kazumi β | |
Coach Ishikura β | Coach Ishikura β | Kosaku Matsuda β | Kosaku Matsuda β | |
Fujiko Itou β | Fujiko Itou β | Sayaka Honami β | Sayaka Honami β | |
Hanazono β | Hanazono β | Shinnosuke Kazamatsuri β | Shinnosuke Kazamatsuri β | |
Jigorou Inokuma β | Jigorou Inokuma β | Sudoh β | --?-- | |
Jody Rockwell β | Jody Rockwell β | Takeyuki Suzuki β | Takeyuki Suzuki β | |
Junji β | --?-- | Yawara Inokuma β | Yawara Inokuma β | |
Kamoda β | Kamoda β | Yuujirou Ishida β | Yuujirou Ishida β |
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?