Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
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| Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl | |
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| YAWARA! (YAWARA!) |
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| Genre | sport |
| Manga: Yawara! | |
| Authored by | Naoki Urasawa |
| Publisher | |
| Serialized in |  Big Comic Spirits |
| Original run | 1986 – 1993 |
| No. of volumes | 29 |
| TV anime | |
| Directed by | Hiroko Tokita |
| Studio | Kitty Films |
| Network | NTV |
| Original run | 16 October 1989 – 21 September 1992 |
| No. of episodes | 124 |
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 Yawara Inokuma, an average young girl forced to keep practicing judo by her authoritarian grandfather (Jigorō Inokuma) in order to achieve championship in Japan and the gold medal in the Barcelona's 1992 Olympic Games. Because of all the pressure from her grandfather, she has a generally bad attitude about judo, avoiding it as much as she can. However, as the manga continues, she begins to understand why her grandfather so loves judo, and she begins to appreciate it more.
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.
AnimEigo licensed the TV series for North American distribution in August 2006[1].
[edit] References
- ^ See AnimEigo Picks up Yawara, August 17, 2006.
[edit] External links
(Japanese) Official site
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