YAWARA! a fashionable judo girl!
Yawara! is a sports anime laced with comedic and romance elements. It starts off with Yawara Inokuma, a high school girl who is most interested in doing the things that your average Japanese high school girl does. However, she has been trained in Judo for years by her grandfather, Jigorou (A former Japan Judo Champion), who has much grander plans in store for her as a Judo superstar. He manipulates matters so that Yawara ends up having to perform in matches and tournaments. His final plan is for Yawara to "Win the Gold Medal in the Olympics and be awarded the Nation Medal of Honor". (Source: AniDB)
YAWARA! a fashionable judo girl! is a tv with 124 episodes, from Fall 1989, produced by MADHOUSE, rated 7.2/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
Yawara! is a sports anime laced with comedic and romance elements. It starts off with Yawara Inokuma, a high school girl who is most interested in doing the things that your average Japanese high school girl does. However, she has been trained in Judo for years by her grandfather, Jigorou (A former Japan Judo Champion), who has much grander plans in store for her as a Judo superstar. He manipulates matters so that Yawara ends up having to perform in matches and tournaments. His final plan is for Yawara to "Win the Gold Medal in the Olympics and be awarded the Nation Medal of Honor". (Source: AniDB)
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- Coming of Age — Centers around a character's transition from childhood to adulthood.
- Athletics — Centers around sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, or walking.
- Female Protagonist — Main character is female.
- Martial Arts — Centers around the use of traditional hand-to-hand combat.
- Judo — Centers around the sport of judo.
- Seinen — Target demographic is adult males.
- Love Triangle — Centered around romantic feelings between more than two people. Includes all love polygons.
- Primarily Adult Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of characters above a high school age.
- Ojou-sama — Features a wealthy, high-class, oftentimes stuck up and demanding female character.
- College — Partly or completely set in a college or university.
- Parody — Features deliberate exaggeration of popular tropes or a particular genre to comedic effect.
- Heterosexual — Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.