Naoki Urasawa
Director
Yawara! (1989)
Season 1
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...
Released Oct. 16, 1989
Episode 25 min
7+
Genres: Action, Animation, Anime, Anime: Seinen, Anime: Sports, Comedy, Drama
Keywords: imdb.judo, imdb.high-school, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, imdb.anime-remake-of-live-action, imdb.anime-animation, imdb.based-on-manga, imdb.love-polygon + 23 more, imdb.female-protagonist, imdb.wants-to-live-a-normal-life, imdb.seinen-anime-animation, imdb.japanese-comics-literature-on-screen, imdb.coming-of-age-drama, imdb.training, imdb.seinen, imdb.high-school-girl, imdb.martial-arts, imdb.romantic-comedy, imdb.combat-sports, imdb.combat-sport, imdb.female-nudity, tmdb.judo, tmdb.sports, tmdb.high-school, tmdb.high-school-sports, tmdb.sport-competition, tmdb.japanese-high-school, tmdb.bukatsu, imdb.ecchi, imdb.hand-drawn-animation, imdb.the-olympic-games
Production Companies: Madhouse
Network: Nippon TV
S1E1 - Aim for Barcelona! The Girl Who Should Win the People's Honor Award!!
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Oct. 16, 1989, midnight
S1E2 - I've Found Yawara's Rival! She's the Ultimate Young Lady!!
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Oct. 23, 1989, midnight
S1E3 - Enter Kazamatsuri! What a Shame That She Is Infatuated With Love
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Oct. 30, 1989, midnight
S1E4 - This Is My Strategy to Make Yawara Take Part in a Real Match!
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Nov. 6, 1989, midnight
S1E5 - Finally the Real Fight! Judo Is Not Built in a Day, Jya!
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Nov. 13, 1989, midnight
S1E6 - Finally Pictured! The Big Scoop of the Century That Will Bring on a Storm, Jya!!
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Nov. 20, 1989, midnight
S1E7 - Hohohoh! The Yawara Boom That Shakes Japan, Jya!
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Nov. 27, 1989, midnight
S1E8 - Enough of Judo! I'm Going to Be in a Match
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Dec. 4, 1989, midnight
S1E9 - Yawara's Debut Match! An Ippon Victory Before You Even Know It Happened, Jya!
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Dec. 11, 1989, midnight
S1E10 - An Ippon-Zeoi With My Mom! The 90's Is Yawara's Era, Jya!
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Dec. 18, 1989, midnight
S1E11 - A Big Uproar at High School With the Yawara Fame!
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Jan. 8, 1990, midnight
S1E12 - Coach Yawara's Extracurricular Lesson!
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Jan. 15, 1990, midnight
S1E13 - Yawara's Heart Shook in Hayama!
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Jan. 22, 1990, midnight
S1E14 - Yawara's Date Has So Much Surveillance!
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Jan. 29, 1990, midnight
S1E15 - A Challenge to Yawara Over Love!
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Feb. 5, 1990, midnight
S1E16 - Yawara's National Martial Arts Hall Debut!
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Feb. 12, 1990, midnight
S1E17 - Yawara's Love Message
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Feb. 19, 1990, midnight
S1E18 - The Decisive Battle! Yawara vs. Sayaka
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Feb. 26, 1990, midnight
S1E19 - Jigoro, His Love, And Youth's Raging Storms
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March 5, 1990, midnight
S1E20 - The Big Guest for Yawara
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March 12, 1990, midnight
S1E21 - Yawara and the Blue-Eyed House Guest
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March 19, 1990, midnight
S1E22 - Let's Fight, Yawara!
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April 16, 1990, midnight
S1E23 - See You Again, Yawara
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April 23, 1990, midnight
S1E24 - Yawara's Personal Tutor Is a Love Expert
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April 30, 1990, midnight
S1E25 - Love, Exam Studies, And Yawara's Feelings
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May 7, 1990, midnight
S1E26 - A Shocking Invitation For Yawara!
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May 14, 1990, midnight
S1E27 - Yawara and the love square
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May 21, 1990, midnight
S1E28 - The madonna of my youth, Yawara
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May 28, 1990, midnight
S1E29 - The other one-sided love
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June 4, 1990, midnight
S1E30 - The Lonely Ippon Zeoi
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June 11, 1990, midnight
S1E31 - The Present on Entrance Exam Day
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June 18, 1990, midnight
S1E32 - A stormy time at the exam results
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June 25, 1990, midnight
S1E33 - Aim for the All-Japan Tournament
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July 2, 1990, midnight
S1E34 - The stage contest of the rivals
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July 9, 1990, midnight
S1E35 - The Miss` Tenacity
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July 16, 1990, midnight
S1E36 - Ah, Hanazono! The tearful graduation
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July 23, 1990, midnight
S1E37 - Jigoro`s Love, a Tumultuous Pure Love Story
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July 30, 1990, midnight
S1E38 - The Heartful Excitement of Women`s College Life
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Aug. 6, 1990, midnight
S1E39 - Blue Night Yokohama
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Aug. 13, 1990, midnight
S1E40 - Fujiko-san`s Secret!
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Aug. 20, 1990, midnight
S1E41 - The part-time job for a day
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Aug. 27, 1990, midnight
S1E42 - Ippon Zeoi at the Disco!
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Sept. 3, 1990, midnight
S1E43 - Free Weight Class is the only way for Yawara!
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Sept. 17, 1990, midnight
S1E44 - Selected Athletes Announced Tonight!
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Oct. 15, 1990, midnight
S1E45 - After the World cup ends...
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Oct. 22, 1990, midnight
S1E46 - Raising the Curtain! World Cup
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Oct. 29, 1990, midnight
S1E47 - Uncertain! Japan`s Female Judo!!
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Nov. 5, 1990, midnight
S1E48 - The Open-weight Campions
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Nov. 19, 1990, midnight
S1E49 - Yawara vs Queen Belkens
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Nov. 26, 1990, midnight
S1E50 - In order to fight Yawara...
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Dec. 3, 1990, midnight
S1E51 - The letter from Kojirou
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Dec. 10, 1990, midnight
S1E52 - Death Hold! Tereshkova`s Battle
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Dec. 17, 1990, midnight
S1E53 - Matsuda`s Interview Monopoly
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Jan. 7, 1991, midnight
S1E54 - Highlights 1: Everything started from that moment
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Jan. 14, 1991, midnight
S1E55 - Highlights 2: Came, Watched, Won ! The World`s Number 1 Juudou Girl!!
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Jan. 21, 1991, midnight
S1E56 - I... Am Quiting Judo!
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Jan. 28, 1991, midnight
S1E57 - Fujiko-san`s decision
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Feb. 4, 1991, midnight
S1E58 - The letter from Canada
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Feb. 11, 1991, midnight
S1E59 - The last Ipponzeoi
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Feb. 18, 1991, midnight
S1E60 - Japan`s weakest juudou club
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Feb. 25, 1991, midnight
S1E61 - The ultimate special training menu ja!
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March 4, 1991, midnight
S1E62 - Dangerous Debut Battle
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March 11, 1991, midnight
S1E63 - Secret Technique! The Swan Lake
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March 18, 1991, midnight
S1E64 - Maybe I should try doing it
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April 15, 1991, midnight
S1E65 - Fujiko and love and juudou
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April 22, 1991, midnight
S1E66 - Everyone wants to defeat Yawara!
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April 29, 1991, midnight
S1E67 - The large wall that is in the way
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May 6, 1991, midnight
S1E68 - The Swan vs The Heavy Tank
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May 13, 1991, midnight
S1E69 - Do your best! rah rah
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May 27, 1991, midnight
S1E70 - Disappear nuisance!
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June 3, 1991, midnight
S1E71 - Lightning fast ippon-zeoi
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June 10, 1991, midnight
S1E72 - I will! The 5-man succession miracle
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June 17, 1991, midnight
S1E73 - Jiro changes Inokuma into a tiger!
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June 24, 1991, midnight
S1E74 - Abnormalities in the soft job market!
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July 1, 1991, midnight
S1E75 - Championship weight of love
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July 8, 1991, midnight
S1E76 - Sowing was Chatta!!
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July 15, 1991, midnight
S1E77 - New deadly technique! Nutcracker!!
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July 22, 1991, midnight
S1E78 - Ippon-zeoi smile!
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July 29, 1991, midnight
S1E79 - Go for it, Fujiko! The first prize is imminent!!
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Aug. 5, 1991, midnight
S1E80 - World Championship squad decision!
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Aug. 12, 1991, midnight
S1E81 - Fujiko's first training camp experience!
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Sept. 9, 1991, midnight
S1E82 - Opening! The Yugoslavia World Championship
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Oct. 14, 1991, midnight
S1E83 - Jostling champions in the world!
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Oct. 21, 1991, midnight
S1E84 - First pressure
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Oct. 28, 1991, midnight
S1E85 - Swan Lake flap in the world
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Nov. 4, 1991, midnight
S1E86 - Perfect and imperfect!
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Nov. 11, 1991, midnight
S1E87 - Noisy! Uncle Pappara
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Nov. 18, 1991, midnight
S1E88 - Great clash! Swan Lake vs. ura-nage!!
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Nov. 25, 1991, midnight
S1E89 - Invincible myth!
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Dec. 2, 1991, midnight
S1E90 - Shigeru Satoshi's story of friendship's affectionate tears
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Dec. 9, 1991, midnight
S1E91 - Graduation match is now, jya!
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Dec. 16, 1991, midnight
S1E92 - Revealed! Ultimate conspiracy
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Jan. 6, 1992, midnight
S1E93 - Desperate Kyonkyon!
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Jan. 13, 1992, midnight
S1E94 - It's good to be fat!
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Jan. 20, 1992, midnight
S1E95 - Ippon to win!
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Jan. 27, 1992, midnight
S1E96 - The return of Kitao Jyou
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Feb. 3, 1992, midnight
S1E97 - After the graduation ceremony...
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Feb. 10, 1992, midnight
S1E98 - First kiss!
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Feb. 17, 1992, midnight
S1E99 - New employee's first job
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Feb. 24, 1992, midnight
S1E100 - Hokkaido and the Budokan
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March 2, 1992, midnight
S1E101 - A match by default will not be!
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March 9, 1992, midnight
S1E102 - Run! All Japan Championship!!
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March 16, 1992, midnight
S1E103 - The bright waves of Sayaka's charge
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April 13, 1992, midnight
S1E104 - Destinies showdown!
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April 20, 1992, midnight
S1E105 - The lady's secret weapon
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April 27, 1992, midnight
S1E106 - Confronting a close friends dreams!
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May 4, 1992, midnight
S1E107 - Let's stay with you...
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May 11, 1992, midnight
S1E108 - The determination of men!
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May 18, 1992, midnight
S1E109 - Garden, I Love the flames!
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May 25, 1992, midnight
S1E110 - My Champion
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June 1, 1992, midnight
S1E111 - Fujiko's shocking retirement announcement!
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June 8, 1992, midnight
S1E112 - Dad's appearance
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June 15, 1992, midnight
S1E113 - The end of the invincible myth
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June 22, 1992, midnight
S1E114 - The best daughter in the world
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June 29, 1992, midnight
S1E115 - Fujiko Mama Challenge!
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July 6, 1992, midnight
S1E116 - Stupid body!
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July 20, 1992, midnight
S1E117 - The best present
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July 27, 1992, midnight
S1E118 - Sayaka's Top Secret Training
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Aug. 3, 1992, midnight
S1E119 - The Explosive Remark!
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Aug. 17, 1992, midnight
S1E120 - The Comeback Ippon Zeoi!
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Aug. 24, 1992, midnight
S1E121 - You're Going to Barcelona
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Aug. 31, 1992, midnight
S1E122 - First Place for the First Time
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Sept. 7, 1992, midnight
S1E123 - Death Match
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Sept. 14, 1992, midnight
S1E124 - Ever Since I Met You
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Sept. 21, 1992, midnight
Nippon TV
25 min/ep
3100 min
Oct. 16, 1989
Sept. 21, 1992, midnight
Ended
PG / 7+
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