All Info
Genres
Comedy, Romance, Seinen, Sports
Description
Inokuma Yawara is just another young high school girl. Well, not quite. Yawara, raised by her grandfather, a 7th dan Judo master Inokuma Jigorou, strives 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...
Authors
Characters
Jigorou Inokuma
main
Yawara Inokuma
main
Kousaku Matsuda
main
Sayaka Honami
support
Fujiko Itou
support
Shinnosuke Kazamatsuri
support
Yasuhiro Yamashita
support
Other Facts
Published
1986 to 1993
Serialization
Big Comic Spirits
Where to read
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