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“High school girl Yawara, trained by grandfather for 1992 Olympics, just wants normal life.”
Yawara!
YAWARA!
7.42
3,926 rank · 8,058 readers · 46 favorites
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High school girl Yawara, trained by grandfather for 1992 Olympics, just wants normal life.
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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- 9 “((At the time of writing this review, I've only read 92 chapters since those are the only chapters I could get my hands on. So this review won't be about the entirety of the manga, just the...”
- 9 “It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. I'd just helped myself to lunch at my girlfriend's folks' house. I was just about to head home when my girlfriend's sister held out the first volume of Yawara,...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 331 × 29 ch × vol
- Total read 44h 08m approx
- Published Jan 1986 – Jan 1993
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0791 catalog