Overview

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...

Created by Naoki Urasawa

Network

• Nippon TV

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Yuko Minaguchi

  Yawara / Kaneko (voice)

  124 eps

• 

  Ichiro Nagai

  Jigoro (voice)

  124 eps

• 

  Toshihiko Seki

  Matsuda / Eiji (voice)

  124 eps

• 

  Yoshino Takamori

  Sayaka / Saeko (voice)

  124 eps

Themes

• judo
• sports
• high school
• high school sports
• sport competition
• japanese high school
• bukatsu

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