Yawara!

Information
Type: TVStatus: Finished AiringBroadcast: Mondays at 07:30 (JST)Episodes: 124Duration: 25minAired: October 16, 1989 to September 21, 1992Source: MangaStudios: MadhouseGenre: Comedy, Romance, SportsTheme: Combat SportsDemographics: SeinenProducers: Kitty FilmsLicensors: AnimEigoRating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Score7.49Ranked#1994Popularity#4812Members24KFavourites135Users5K
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 Jud...
Background
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.
CharactersMore info

Adams, KristinSupporting

Arakawa, SeinosukeSupporting

BelkensSupporting

DavisSupporting

DeneuveSupporting

FujiwaraSupporting

Gen-sanSupporting

GonzalesSupporting

Gotou, MegumiSupporting

Gotouda, SumireSupporting

Hagoromo, WifeSupporting

Hagoromo, Chief ClerkSupporting

Hagoromo, KatsuoSupporting

Hanazono, FukukoSupporting

Hanazono, KaoruSupporting

HatakeyamaSupporting

Hikage, KyokoSupporting

Honami, MotherSupporting

Honami, KinnosukeSupporting

Honami, SayakaSupporting

IgarashiSupporting

InagakiSupporting

Inokuma, KojiroSupporting

Inokuma, KanekoSupporting

Inokuma, TamaoSupporting

Ishikura, CoachSupporting

Itou, MotherSupporting

Itou, FatherSupporting

Itou, FujikoSupporting

Juujou, MichikoSupporting

Kaga, KunikoSupporting

Kaizuka, TeacherSupporting

KamataSupporting

KaoriSupporting

KatagiriSupporting

Katori, ShinobuSupporting

KatsuragiSupporting

Kawakami, TeacherSupporting

Kazamatsuri, FatherSupporting

Kazamatsuri, ShinnosukeSupporting

KazumiSupporting

KhrushchevaSupporting

KimuraSupporting

KobayashiSupporting

KodamaSupporting

Komiya, YukariSupporting

Konoike, ReikoSupporting

KounoSupporting

KujiraokaSupporting

KunihikoSupporting

KuramochiSupporting

Kurokawa, TomokoSupporting

LiSupporting

MakitaSupporting

MartinezSupporting

Matsuda, MotherSupporting

Matsuda, KousakuSupporting

Matsuda, FatherSupporting

MimieuxSupporting

Minamida, YoukoSupporting

Mitsuhashi, YoshikoSupporting

Mochida, NorikoSupporting

MorechandSupporting

MuraiSupporting

Murakami, ManagerSupporting

NishikimoriSupporting

Oda, MariSupporting

Ogaki, NorikoSupporting

Ogami, KasumiSupporting

Ogata, CoachSupporting

Ogawa, TamamiSupporting

OgawaSupporting

OnodaSupporting

Oobayashi, TakayoSupporting

Ootaguro, PresidentSupporting

Ootawara, Older SisterSupporting

Ootawara, MiyokoSupporting

OzakiSupporting

PolnareffSupporting

ProstSupporting

Rockwell, JodySupporting

SaitouSupporting

SasakiSupporting

Sei-sanSupporting

ShimizuSupporting

Simard, ReneSupporting

Soviet CoachSupporting

SudouSupporting

Sugai, Branch ManagerSupporting

Tamaranch, PresidentSupporting

TaoSupporting

Teleshikova, AnnaSupporting

Todo, YukiSupporting

TokunagaSupporting

TomiokaSupporting

UedaSupporting

UsamiSupporting

Ushio, UmanosukeSupporting

Ushio, ToranosukeSupporting

Uzaki, MegumiSupporting

Yamada, KaoriSupporting

Yamashita, YasuhiroSupporting

Yanagisawa, CoachSupporting

YasuiSupporting

YoshidaSupporting

YoshidaSupporting

Yoshinagawa, SayuriSupporting

Young-suk, KimSupporting

Yugoslavian Taxi DriverSupporting

Yumioka, MayumiSupporting

Yuutenji, GouzouSupporting

Zen-sanSupporting
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 Jud...
Background
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.
CharactersMore info

Adams, KristinSupporting

Arakawa, SeinosukeSupporting

BelkensSupporting

DavisSupporting

DeneuveSupporting

FujiwaraSupporting

Gen-sanSupporting

GonzalesSupporting

Gotou, MegumiSupporting

Gotouda, SumireSupporting

Hagoromo, WifeSupporting

Hagoromo, Chief ClerkSupporting

Hagoromo, KatsuoSupporting

Hanazono, FukukoSupporting

Hanazono, KaoruSupporting

HatakeyamaSupporting

Hikage, KyokoSupporting

Honami, MotherSupporting

Honami, KinnosukeSupporting

Honami, SayakaSupporting

IgarashiSupporting

InagakiSupporting

Inokuma, KojiroSupporting

Inokuma, KanekoSupporting

Inokuma, TamaoSupporting

Ishikura, CoachSupporting

Itou, MotherSupporting

Itou, FatherSupporting

Itou, FujikoSupporting

Juujou, MichikoSupporting

Kaga, KunikoSupporting

Kaizuka, TeacherSupporting

KamataSupporting

KaoriSupporting

KatagiriSupporting

Katori, ShinobuSupporting

KatsuragiSupporting

Kawakami, TeacherSupporting

Kazamatsuri, FatherSupporting

Kazamatsuri, ShinnosukeSupporting

KazumiSupporting

KhrushchevaSupporting

KimuraSupporting

KobayashiSupporting

KodamaSupporting

Komiya, YukariSupporting

Konoike, ReikoSupporting

KounoSupporting

KujiraokaSupporting

KunihikoSupporting

KuramochiSupporting

Kurokawa, TomokoSupporting

LiSupporting

MakitaSupporting

MartinezSupporting

Matsuda, MotherSupporting

Matsuda, KousakuSupporting

Matsuda, FatherSupporting

MimieuxSupporting

Minamida, YoukoSupporting

Mitsuhashi, YoshikoSupporting

Mochida, NorikoSupporting

MorechandSupporting

MuraiSupporting

Murakami, ManagerSupporting

NishikimoriSupporting

Oda, MariSupporting

Ogaki, NorikoSupporting

Ogami, KasumiSupporting

Ogata, CoachSupporting

Ogawa, TamamiSupporting

OgawaSupporting

OnodaSupporting

Oobayashi, TakayoSupporting

Ootaguro, PresidentSupporting

Ootawara, Older SisterSupporting

Ootawara, MiyokoSupporting

OzakiSupporting

PolnareffSupporting

ProstSupporting

Rockwell, JodySupporting

SaitouSupporting

SasakiSupporting

Sei-sanSupporting

ShimizuSupporting

Simard, ReneSupporting

Soviet CoachSupporting

SudouSupporting

Sugai, Branch ManagerSupporting

Tamaranch, PresidentSupporting

TaoSupporting

Teleshikova, AnnaSupporting

Todo, YukiSupporting

TokunagaSupporting

TomiokaSupporting

UedaSupporting

UsamiSupporting

Ushio, UmanosukeSupporting

Ushio, ToranosukeSupporting

Uzaki, MegumiSupporting

Yamada, KaoriSupporting

Yamashita, YasuhiroSupporting

Yanagisawa, CoachSupporting

YasuiSupporting

YoshidaSupporting

YoshidaSupporting

Yoshinagawa, SayuriSupporting

Young-suk, KimSupporting

Yugoslavian Taxi DriverSupporting

Yumioka, MayumiSupporting

Yuutenji, GouzouSupporting

Zen-sanSupporting