Yawara!
Sign in to saveYawara! (also stylized as YAWARA!) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Big Comic Spirits from 1986 to 1993, with its chapters collected into 29 volumes by publisher Shōgakukan. The story centers around Yawara Inokuma, a seemingly ordinary high school girl, but her grandfather, a living judo legend, has been secretly training her since she was a child so that she can win the gold medal at the Olympic Games. But Yawara has only one desire, to have a normal life.
Key facts
- Animanga/Header.image
- Yawaramanga.jpg
- Animanga/Header.caption
- First volume cover, featuring Yawara Inokuma
- Animanga/Print.type
- manga
- Animanga/Print.author
- Naoki Urasawa
- Animanga/Print.publisher
- Shogakukan
- Animanga/Print.magazine
- Big Comic Spirits
- Animanga/Print.first
- 1986
- Animanga/Print.last
- 1993
- Animanga/Print.volumes
- 29
- Animanga/Video.type
- tv film
- Animanga/Video.title
- Yawara! Special: Zutto Kimi no Koto ga
- Animanga/Video.director
- Morio Asaka
- Animanga/Video.writer
- Toshiki Inoue
- Animanga/Video.studio
- Madhouse
- Animanga/Video.network
- Nippon TV
- Animanga/Video.first
- October 16, 1989
- Animanga/Video.last
- September 21, 1992
- Animanga/Video.episodes
- 124
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Wikidata facts
- Author
- Naoki Urasawa
- Genre
- spokon
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Main subject
- judo
- Official website
- www.5-ace.co.jp/yawara
Show 8 more facts
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- intended public
- seinen
- title
- YAWARA!
- published in
- Big Comic Spirits
- number of parts of this work
- 29
- start time
- 1986-09-08
- end time
- 1993-08-23
- illustrator
- Naoki Urasawa
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Characters
- Production
- Media
- Manga
- Volume list
- Anime
- Live-action film
- Video games
- Reception
- Notes
- References
- External links
Yawara! (also stylized as YAWARA!) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Big Comic Spirits from 1986 to 1993, with its chapters collected into 29 volumes by publisher Shōgakukan. The story centers around Yawara Inokuma, a seemingly ordinary high school girl, but her grandfather, a living judo legend, has been secretly training her since she was a child so that she can win the gold medal at the Olympic Games. But Yawara has only one desire, to have a normal life.
A live-action film adaptation directed by Kazuo Yoshida and starring Yui Asaka was released by Toho in April 1989. That same year, Kitty Films and Madhouse began an anime adaptation titled Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl!. It was broadcast on Yomiuri TV from October 1989 through September 1992, for 124 episodes. Each episode ended with a countdown of days remaining to the start of the Barcelona Olympics. Two animated films were released in August 1992 and July 1996. AnimEigo released the first 40 episodes of the anime in North America in 2008, but were unable to license the remaining episodes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yawara!” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.