Yawara!

Yawara!

Yawara!

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Yawara!

1989- 1992

1 Seasons

124 Episodes

6.5(8 votes)

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Animation

Comedy

Drama

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...

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Madhouse

Episodes

No episodes found for this season.

The people behind it

Cast & crew

7 featured cast members

Starring

Yuko Minaguchi

Yuko Minaguchi

Yawara / Kaneko (voice)

Ichiro Nagai

Ichiro Nagai

Jigoro (voice)

Toshihiko Seki

Toshihiko Seki

Matsuda / Eiji (voice)

Yoshino Takamori

Yoshino Takamori

Sayaka / Saeko (voice)

Akira Kamiya

Akira Kamiya

Kazamatsuri / Saimonji (voice)

Masashi Sugawara

Masashi Sugawara

Hanazono / Manager (voice)

Chiyoko Kawashima

Chiyoko Kawashima

Fujiko (voice)

Creative team

Created by: Naoki Urasawa
Written by: Naoki Urasawa

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