Synopsis

High school student Yawara Inokuma lives a completely happy and ordinary life. She aspires to an average lifestyle as a delicate young lady with a handsome boyfriend in the near future.

Unfortunately for Yawara, she has an undesirable prodigious talent in Judo, a modern martial art that is neither feminine nor fashionable. Moreover, Yawara is the only granddaughter of the seventh dan Judo master Jigorou Inokuma, who expects her to become a Japanese Judoka superstar of the '90s.

Yawara cautiously hides her strength from everyone to maintain a normal reputation but is often pushed to situations when she must exercise her Judo skills. Observing Yawara's immense potential from the shadows, Kousaku Matsuda, a sports reporter from a substandard paper, is willing to do everything he can to bring her into the limelight.

(Source: MAL)

Contexte

Yawara! competed against Ranma ½ on Japanese television and achieved higher ratings, although Ranma ½ was more popular internationally. Yawara! had remained quite unknown outside Japan and only got licensed for North American distribution in August 2006, over a decade after its airing period.

Personnages

Jigorou Inokuma Principal

Yawara Inokuma Principal

Kristin Adams Secondaire

Seinosuke Arakawa Secondaire

Belkens Secondaire

Davis Secondaire

Deneuve Secondaire

Fujiwara Secondaire

Gen-san Secondaire

Gonzales Secondaire

Équipe

Masao Maruyama Producteur

Hiroko Tokita Réalisateur

Yasuo Urakami Directeur du son

Morio Asaka Réalisateur d’épisode, Storyboard

Toshio Hirata Réalisateur d’épisode, Storyboard

Kazuyoshi Katayama Réalisateur d’épisode, Storyboard

Kitarou Kousaka Réalisateur d’épisode, Storyboard, Directeur de l’animation, Animation clé

Yukihiro Matsushita Réalisateur d’épisode

Makoto Moriwaki Réalisateur d’épisode, Storyboard

Tensai Okamura Réalisateur d’épisode, Storyboard

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