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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
Japanese: YAWARA!


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Type: Manga
Volumes: 29
Chapters: 331
Status: Finished
Published: 1986 to 1993
Genres: Award Winning Award Winning, Comedy Comedy, Romance Romance, Sports Sports
Theme: Combat Sports Combat Sports
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Big Comic Spirits
Authors: Urasawa, Naoki (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.421 (scored by 916916 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #34552
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3171
Members: 5,863
Favorites: 39

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Synopsis

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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Yawara! was awarded the 35th Shogakukan Manga Award for best general seinen manga in 1989.

It had two chapters published in English from May to June 1993 in the educational publication Mangajin's issues #26 and #27.

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Prequel:Jigoro!
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Inokuma, Yawara
Inokuma, Yawara
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Inokuma, Jigorou
Inokuma, Jigorou
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Matsuda, Kousaku
Matsuda, Kousaku
Main
Itou, Fujiko
Itou, Fujiko
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Honami, Sayaka
Honami, Sayaka
Supporting
Kazamatsuri, Shinnosuke
Kazamatsuri, Shinnosuke
Supporting
Yamashita, Yasuhiro
Yamashita, Yasuhiro
Supporting

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