Yawara! (1989)
Yawara! is a 1989 Japanese-language animation series created by Naoki Urasawa. It stars Yuko Minaguchi, Ichiro Nagai and Toshihiko Seki.
Inokuma Yawara is just another young high school girl. Well, not quite - for Yawara is being raised by her grandfather, 7th dan Judo master Inokuma Jigorou, to be Japan's great hope for the women's Judo competition at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. All the same, Yawara just wants to live a normal life...
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What is Yawara! about?
Inokuma Yawara is just another young high school girl. Well, not quite - for Yawara is being raised by her grandfather, 7th dan Judo master Inokuma Jigorou, to be Japan's great hope for the women's Judo competition at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. All the same, Yawara just wants to live a normal life...
When was Yawara! released?
Yawara! was released on 16 October 1989.
How many episodes does Yawara! have?
Yawara! has 124 episodes across 1 seasons.
Who made Yawara!?
Yawara! was created by Naoki Urasawa.
Official site
https://www.madhouse.co.jp/works/1990-1989/works_tv_yawara.html
Cast
- Yuko Minaguchi as Yawara / Kaneko (voice)
- Ichiro Nagai as Jigoro (voice)
- Toshihiko Seki as Matsuda / Eiji (voice)
- Yoshino Takamori as Sayaka / Saeko (voice)
- Akira Kamiya as Kazamatsuri / Saimonji (voice)
- Masashi Sugawara as Hanazono / Manager (voice)
- Chiyoko Kawashima as Fujiko (voice)
- Masashi Hirose as Military police (voice)
- Akira Shimada as Criminal (voice)
- Atsuko Mine as Waitress (voice)
- Jun'ichi Kanemaru as A pupil A (voice)
- Toshiharu Sakurai as A pupil B (voice)