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Yawara!

1989 · 1 season · 25m per episode · Animation, Comedy, Drama

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...

Seasons

• Season 1 — 124 episodes (October 16, 1989)

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)

Details

Created by

Naoki Urasawa

First aired

October 16, 1989

Episodes

124

Genres

Animation, Comedy, Drama

Network

Nippon TV

Status

Ended

TMDB score

6.7 / 10 from 9 votes