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Yawara!

1989 – 1992 · Nippon TV
1 seasons · 124 episodes
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Animation
Comedy
Drama

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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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Yuko Minaguchi
Yawara / Kaneko (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
Jigoro (voice)
Toshihiko Seki
Matsuda / Eiji (voice)
Yoshino Takamori
Sayaka / Saeko (voice)
Akira Kamiya
Kazamatsuri / Saimonji (voice)
Masashi Sugawara
Hanazono / Manager (voice)
Chiyoko Kawashima
Fujiko (voice)
Masashi Hirose
Military police (voice)
Created by Naoki Urasawa

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Status
Ended
Type
Scripted
First aired
Oct 16, 1989
Original language
JA
Production
Madhouse
Country
JP

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