Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl (1989–1992) User Reviews

One of the most underrated Anime Series from the 80s

[Super_Dweeben · 3 July 2003]

This is my favorite Anime. It has a very good plot.

You don't see all kinds of fantasy/Sci-Fi stuff going on in this series. What you do see is the life of a young teenaged girl who is struggling with her grandfather's desire for her to be an Olympic Judo Champion, while she wants to only be a teenaged girl.

The Characters in this series are very good and the story keeps you hanging on for more. Yawara is very loveable, too.

One thing to note that when this show was airing in Japan, it aired during the same timeslot as Ranma 1/2 and beat it in ratings.

GREAT SERIES

OLDSKOOL manga from 1 of the best manga writers ever!

[manobahar · 10/10 · 16 December 2011]

The story is about yawara who has been trained by his grandfather judo since very young age. but yawara does just want an normal life, boyfriend,shopping and friendship in her life and sees the extensive training as an stoppage to her wishes. but her grandfather has other dreams for her! wining gold medal in olympics! at the same time she meets this young reporter that seems a bit taken by her when he see her stop a thief using her judo, knowing she will be a sport star in future. In this series we follow yawara in her life through school and university, her competitons and her funny grandfather,fujiko (her best friend), and many other well developed characters. be warned this is highly addictive , after the first couple of episodes you wont find a way back. there are subtiltled versions which is recommended instead of the dubbed version. google it ! this is an great manga with a great story and some very fun characters. yawara was written by Naoki Urasawa which ran in Big Comic Spirits from 1986 to 1993. In 1990, it received the 35th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.

He made his professional manga debut with Return in 1981.[1] Three of his series have been adapted into anime: Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl (1986?1993), Master Keaton (1988?1994), and Monster (1994?2001). Arguably his most notable work, 20th Century Boys (2000?2006), was made into a three-part movie series, which were released in 2008 and 2009. He has received the Shogakukan Manga Award three times, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize twice, and the Kodansha Manga Award once. As a storyteller, his most distinctive characteristics are his dense, multi-layered, interconnecting narratives, his mastery of suspense, clever homages to classic manga & anime and a frequent use of German characters and settings.

In 2008 the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Junot Diaz praised his Monster series and added that "Urasawa is a national treasure in Japan. In December 2009 8th Viz Media released his Monster Box Set.