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“Yawara, a judo prodigy, hides her talent to live normally, but a reporter wants her in the spotlight.”

Yawara!

YAWARA!

7.52

2,051 rank · 25,075 viewers · 141 favorites

Comedy Romance Sports Combat Sports Seinen

124 episodes · 25 min per ep min · Fall 1989 · Madhouse · PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Synopsis

Yawara, a judo prodigy, hides her talent to live normally, but a reporter wants her in the spotlight.

High school student Yawara Inokuma lives a completely happy and ordinary life. She aspires to an average lifestyle as a delicate young lady with a handsome boyfriend in the near future. Unfortunately for Yawara, she has an undesirable prodigious talent in Judo, a modern martial art that is neither feminine nor fashionable. Moreover, Yawara is the only granddaughter of the seventh dan Judo master Jigorou Inokuma, who expects her to become a Japanese Judoka superstar of the '90s. Yawara cautiously hides her strength from everyone to maintain a normal reputation but is often pushed to situations when she must exercise her Judo skills. Observing Yawara's immense potential from the shadows, Kousaku Matsuda, a sports reporter from a substandard paper, is willing to do everything he can to bring her into the limelight.

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