Inokuma Yawara is just another young high school girl. Well, not quite - for Yawara is being raised by her grandfather, 7th dan Judo master Inokuma Jigorou, 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...

Cast & crew

Naoki Urasawa

Creator

Yuko Minaguchi

Yawara / Kaneko (voice)

Ichiro Nagai

Jigoro (voice)

Toshihiko Seki

Matsuda / Eiji (voice)

Yoshino Takamori

Sayaka / Saeko (voice)

Akira Kamiya

Kazamatsuri / Saimonji (voice)

Masashi Sugawara

Hanazono / Manager (voice)

Chiyoko Kawashima

Fujiko (voice)

Masashi Hirose

Military police (voice)

A

Akira Shimada

Criminal (voice)

Atsuko Mine

Waitress (voice)

Jun'ichi Kanemaru

A pupil A (voice)

Toshiharu Sakurai

A pupil B (voice)

Kohsuke Meguro

Man A (voice)

Hirohiko Kakegawa

Man B (voice)

Naoki Bando

Man C (voice)

Naoki Makishima

Man D (voice)

Chafurin

People A (voice)

Kiyoyuki Yanada

People B (voice)

Tamao Hayashi

People C (voice)

Seasons

124 episodes

Season 11989 · 124 episodes