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Title (English) Yawara! (J)

Title (Japanese) Yawara!

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Fantasy Novel

Notes Yawara #1,p.107.
(eye-catch drawing for chapter 6)

( Dialogue (from top left, p.106)
A: What's become of Kawano?
B: If your team doesn't have all its members, the match is off.

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Manga author/artist Naoki Urasawa

Date

Publisher Big Comic Spirits

Edn. Language Jap

ISBN (review vol.)

Pages 218

Price Y500

Size 13x18 cm.

Cover

Synopsis Sports manga: ambitious grandfather coaches typical schoolgirl to become judo champion.

Review This is a very well-known sports manga that has also been animated. To quote the title page, "Lovely and cute Miss Yawara Inokuma is a fashionable judo girl!" Yawara is the grand-daughter of Jigoro, a former judo champion. Jigoro has trained Yawara in judo, hoping to make her a champion. She clearly has talent, but doesn't like judo and wants to be a normal high school girl and do the normal girlish things.
In the first volume, she attracts the attention of Matsuda, a reporter, by throwing a bag-snatcher in the street. Yawara likes Nishikimori, a school student, but he gets scared after Yawara beats up some dropouts who threaten him. Then she and Jigoro encounter Sayaka, a rich but bored and eccentric sports enthusiast.
Jigoro fixes for Yawara to take part in a school judo tournament.She throws several of her huge opponents and the team wins, though she'd rather have gone shopping.
The drawing below is from one of the title pages; one of many drawings that remind the reader that Yawara is a girl.
Even if you have no interest in judo, the facial expressions are amusing and the story is fairly easy to follow from a synopsis.

References Also a TV anime.

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Title (English)	Yawara! (J)
Title (Japanese)	Yawara!
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	Yawara #1,p.107. (eye-catch drawing for chapter 6) ( Dialogue (from top left, p.106) A: What's become of Kawano? B: If your team doesn't have all its members, the match is off. Get original scan (higher resolution, 54K)
Manga author/artist	Naoki Urasawa
Date
Publisher	Big Comic Spirits
Edn. Language	Jap
ISBN (review vol.)
Pages	218
Price	Y500
Size	13x18 cm.
Cover
Synopsis	Sports manga: ambitious grandfather coaches typical schoolgirl to become judo champion.
Review	This is a very well-known sports manga that has also been animated. To quote the title page, "Lovely and cute Miss Yawara Inokuma is a fashionable judo girl!" Yawara is the grand-daughter of Jigoro, a former judo champion. Jigoro has trained Yawara in judo, hoping to make her a champion. She clearly has talent, but doesn't like judo and wants to be a normal high school girl and do the normal girlish things. In the first volume, she attracts the attention of Matsuda, a reporter, by throwing a bag-snatcher in the street. Yawara likes Nishikimori, a school student, but he gets scared after Yawara beats up some dropouts who threaten him. Then she and Jigoro encounter Sayaka, a rich but bored and eccentric sports enthusiast. Jigoro fixes for Yawara to take part in a school judo tournament.She throws several of her huge opponents and the team wins, though she'd rather have gone shopping. The drawing below is from one of the title pages; one of many drawings that remind the reader that Yawara is a girl. Even if you have no interest in judo, the facial expressions are amusing and the story is fairly easy to follow from a synopsis.
References	Also a TV anime.