Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl (TV)
Alternative title:
Cinturón Negro (Spanish)
Yawara - Jenny la ragazza del judo (Italian)
Themes:
sports
Objectionable content:
Significant
Plot Summary:
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...
User Ratings:
158 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
half hour per episode
Number of episodes:
124
Episode titles: We have 124
Vintage:
1989-10-16 to 1992-09-21
1995-05-16 (TV3 - Televisió de Catalunya)
2008-05-12 to 2008-08-20 (Philippines, Anime Revolution on Q, ep.1-40)
Release dates: We have 1
Opening Theme:
#1: "Miracle Girl" by Nagai Mariko
#2: "Ame ni Kiss no Hanataba wo" by Imai Miki (eps 44-81)
#3: "Makeruna Onnanoko!" by Hara Yuko (eps 82-102)
#4: "YOU AND I" by Nagai Mariko (eps 103-124)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Stand By Me" by Himenogi Rika
#2: "Egao wo Sagashite" by Karashima Midori (eps 44-81)
#3: "Shoujo Jidai" by Hara Yuko (eps 82-102)
#4: "Itsumo Soko ni Kimi ga Ita" by LAZY LOU's BOOGIE (eps 103-124)
Official website:
Links: We have 13
Trivia: We have 5
Comment:
Distributed in Japan as Ranma 1/2's sister show, Yawara was significantly more popular in Japan. Despite being more popular in Japan, it was not licensed in North America until over a decade later.
Reviews:
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DVD (Region 1) |
Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl - Box Set (Sub.DVD) 2009-05-01 (from $107.98) |
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Director: Hiroko Tokita
Series Composition: Toshiki Inoue
Screenplay:
Hiroyuki Kawasaki (19 episodes eps 41, 46, 58-59, 61, 63, 67-69, 77-78, 81, 87, 89, 91, 94, 96, 100, 102 )Toshiki Inoue (56 episodes eps 1-3, 7-8, 10, 13, 15-16, 19, 21, 24, 27, 29, 32, 35-37, 42-44, 48-49, 51-56, 64, 71-72, 74-75, 79, 83-84, 88, 92-93, 95, 98, 104-110, 118-124 )Yoshimasa Takahashi (6 episodes eps 11, 17, 25-26, 31, 40 )Yoshiyuki Suga (43 episodes eps 4-6, 9, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22-23, 28, 30, 33-34, 38-39, 45, 47, 50, 57, 60, 62, 65-66, 70, 73, 76, 80, 82, 85-86, 90, 97-103 odd, 111-117 )
Storyboard:
Akinori Nagaoka (ep 20) Akio Sakai (5 episodes eps 3, 8, 16, 22, 30 )Daiki Shimazaki (eps 53, 62) Hirohide Fujiwara (13 episodes eps 12, 18, 26, 32, 42, 50, 59, 67, 74, 82, 88, 97, 106 )Hiroko Tokita (10 episodes eps 1, 15, 23, 27, 44, 54-55, 75, 90, 124 )Hiroshi Fukutomi (eps 41, 76, 96) Junichi Sakata (21 episodes eps 4, 6, 9-10, 25, 28, 33, 39, 46, 51, 56, 63, 70, 77, 84, 91, 105, 111, 116, 120, 123 )Katsuhisa Yamada (eps 2, 98) Kazuhiro Mori (ep 17) Kazushige Takatō (eps 64, 71) Kazuyoshi Katayama (eps 31, 49) Kitarō Kōsaka (5 episodes eps 13, 24, 36, 61, 89 )Kōichi Chigira (eps 14, 57) Makoto Moriwaki (5 episodes eps 38, 69, 81, 99, 113 )Masaharu Okuwaki (eps 47, 85, 94) Morio Asaka (10 episodes eps 40, 48, 52, 60, 68, 78, 86, 93, 102, 109 )Naoto Kanda (8 episodes eps 66, 73, 80, 92, 100, 108, 114, 118 )Satoru Namekawa (5 episodes eps 95, 103, 110, 115, 119 )Shigeru Morikawa (4 episodes eps 7, 11, 35, 43 )Tomihiko Ōkubo (eps 65, 83, 107) Toshio Hirata (eps 19, 37) Tsukasa Abe (4 episodes eps 104, 112, 117, 121 )Yutaka Okamura (7 episodes eps 5, 58, 72, 79, 87, 101, 122 )
Episode Director:
Akio Sakai (5 episodes eps 3, 8, 16, 22, 30 )Hirohide Fujiwara (13 episodes eps 12, 18, 26, 32, 42, 50, 59, 67, 74, 82, 88, 97, 106 )Hiroko Tokita (10 episodes eps 1, 15, 23, 27, 44, 54-55, 75, 90, 124 )Hiroshi Fukutomi (eps 41, 76) Junichi Sakata (18 episodes eps 4, 10, 28, 33, 39, 46, 51, 56, 63, 70, 77, 84, 91, 105, 111, 116, 120, 123 )Katsuhisa Yamada (eps 2, 98) Kazuhiro Mori (eps 17, 21, 25) Kazuyoshi Katayama (ep 31) Keitarō Motonaga (eps 45, 64) Kitarō Kōsaka (4 episodes eps 24, 36, 61, 89 )Kōichi Chigira (eps 14, 57) Makoto Moriwaki (5 episodes eps 38, 69, 81, 99, 113 )Morio Asaka (14 episodes eps 40, 48, 52, 60, 65, 68, 78, 83, 86, 93-94, 96, 102, 109 )Naoto Kanda (11 episodes eps 47, 53, 66, 73, 80, 85, 92, 100, 108, 114, 118 )Satoru Namekawa (9 episodes eps 5-6, 9, 11, 95, 103, 110, 115, 119 )Shigeru Morikawa (ep 35) Tatsuhiko Urahata (7 episodes eps 7, 13, 34, 43, 49, 62, 71 )Tensai Okamura (eps 101, 122) Tomihiko Ōkubo (ep 107) Toshio Hirata (eps 19, 37) Tsukasa Abe (4 episodes eps 104, 112, 117, 121 )Yasunori Urata (eps 20, 29) Yutaka Okamura (4 episodes eps 58, 72, 79, 87 )
Unit Director: Morio Asaka
Music: Hideharu Mori
Original Manga: Naoki Urasawa
Character Design: Yoshinori Kanemori
Art Director: Yūji Ikeda
Art: Hitoshi Nagasaki (ep 117)
Animation Director:
Akio Sakai (eps 3, 8, 30) Hiroshi Hamasaki (ep 2) Hiroshi Ōsaka (5 episodes eps 37, 47, 57, 66, 75 )Katsunori Kimizuka (30 episodes eps 5-6, 9, 11, 14, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 38, 41, 45, 50, 56, 60, 64, 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 98, 101, 104, 108, 112, 121 )Kitarō Kōsaka (15 episodes eps 7, 13, 24, 36, 46, 61, 70, 79, 89, 95, 102, 109, 114, 117, 123 )Kunihiko Sakurai (15 episodes eps 1, 10, 15, 23, 28, 35, 43, 49, 54-55, 62, 69, 77, 85, 119 )Masaru Kitao (13 episodes eps 32, 40, 48, 53, 59, 67, 74, 81, 86, 94, 99, 103, 110 )Reiko Kurihara (eps 12, 18) Shigeru Fujita (6 episodes eps 89, 105, 111, 115, 118, 124 )Takuo Noda (ep 19) Tomihiko Ōkubo (13 episodes eps 27, 34, 42, 52, 65, 73, 83, 91, 97, 107, 113, 116, 122 )Tsukasa Abe (ep 90) Yoshinori Kanemori (eps 22, 44) Yoshiyuki Momose (ep 4) Yūzō Satō (17 episodes eps 16, 20, 26, 31, 39, 51, 58, 63, 71, 78, 82, 87, 93, 96, 100, 106, 120 )
Sound Director: Yasuo Uragami
Background Art:
Hitoshi Nagasaki (Studio Wyeth; 17 episodes eps 3, 5-6, 8, 30, 37, 39, 53, 59, 61, 67, 69, 83, 85, 97, 99, 101 )Junko Ina (eps 13-14, 19) Kazuko Katsui (6 episodes eps 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 47 )Kazushige Takatō (eps 12, 17, 21) Keiko Tamura (28 episodes eps 2, 4, 7, 9, 11-12, 16, 18, 20-21, 23, 25, 29, 32-42 even, 45, 47, 50, 52, 57, 62, 66, 68, 80 )Kiyomi Ōta (ep 19) Kyōko Naganawa (eps 15, 19) Mariko Kobayashi (eps 28, 31) Masanori Kitta (17 episodes eps 2, 4, 7, 9, 11-12, 16, 18, 20-21, 23, 25, 29, 32, 34, 36, 42 )Masato Shibata (ep 22) Masatoshi Kai (11 episodes eps 2, 4, 7, 9, 11-12, 16, 18, 20, 36, 42 )Masayoshi Banno (4 episodes eps 13-14, 19, 26 )Masayuki Kaneko (11 episodes eps 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 16, 18, 20-21, 23, 25 )Masumi Nishikawa (26 episodes eps 2, 4, 7, 9, 11-12, 16, 18, 20-21, 23, 25, 29, 32-42 even, 45, 47, 52, 57, 62, 64, 123 )Mutsuo Koseki (ep 1) Naomi Sakimoto (8 episodes eps 1, 3, 8, 10, 13-15, 19 )Naoya Tanaka (eps 13-15, 19) Naruyo Kiriyama (22 episodes eps 1, 3, 8, 13-15, 29, 56, 58, 60, 84, 86, 89, 91, 96, 100, 102-103, 107, 110, 112, 123 )Rieko Ohiwa (Studio Wyeth; eps 119, 124) Shinichi Uehara (19 episodes eps 1, 3, 8, 10, 12-15, 19, 40, 56, 58, 60, 84, 91, 114, 118, 121, 123 )Tomoko Doi (31 episodes eps 3, 5-6, 8, 10, 13-15, 20, 23-24, 26-27, 30, 33, 35, 37-39, 41, 43-44, 46, 48, 111, 115, 117, 119-120, 122, 124 )Toshiyuki Yoshimura (25 episodes eps 2, 4, 7, 9, 11-12, 16, 18, 20-21, 23, 25, 29, 32-42 even, 45, 47, 50, 64, 66, 118 )Yōko Nagashima (4 episodes eps 13-14, 19, 37 )Yukari Matsuzaki (9 episodes eps 18, 20, 29, 32, 34, 36, 80, 98, 112 )Yūko Kobayashi (25 episodes eps 3, 5-6, 8, 30, 33, 35, 37-39, 41, 43-44, 105, 108-111, 113-119 odd, 120, 122, 124 )
Editing: Harutoshi Ogata
In-Between Animation: Hidetsugu Itō (23 episodes
eps 75, 77, 79, 82-83, 85-87, 89, 95, 97, 99, 102-103, 106-107, 111, 113, 117-120, 124 )
Key Animation:
Akihiro Izumi (ep 14) Akira Takeuchi (eps 8, 23) Akira Takeuchi (ep 25) Akira Watanabe (ep 25) Atsuko Ōtani (eps 8, 10, 13) Chūji Nakajima (eps 9, 21) Fujio Oda (eps 5-6, 14) Fumie Muroi (7 episodes eps 5-6, 9, 11, 14, 21, 25 )Hajime Yoshida (eps 8, 23, 26) Hideyuki Satō (eps 5-6) Hiroko Minowa (ep 24) Hiroshi Hamasaki (ep 2) Hiroshi Ōsaka (4 episodes eps 30, 37, 57, 75 )Hiroshi Shimizu (eps 13, 24) Hitoshi Ueda (ep 15) Junichi Hashimoto (ep 4) Junichi Nagano (eps 8, 23) Katsunori Kimizuka (eps 9, 11, 21) Katsutoshi Tsunoda (ep 20) Kazuhiko Miyake (ep 26) Kazuko Shibata (eps 12, 16, 20) Kazuya Takeda (ep 7) Keiji Gotō (eps 17, 26) Keiko Watanabe (eps 11, 14, 21) Kenichi Shimizu (ep 4) Kenichi Tsuchiya (ep 12) Kitarō Kōsaka Kōichi Tsuchida (ep 9) Kumiko Kawana (ep 3) Kunihiko Sakurai (eps 15, 20) Kunihiro Abe (ep 17) Makiko Yamauchi (ep 4) Mamoru Sasaki (ep 12) Mariko Aoki (ep 16) Masafumi Yamamoto (ep 4) Masahiko Yoda (5 episodes eps 2-3, 7-8, 12 )Masaki Takei (4 episodes eps 1, 10, 13, 18 )Masami Ozone (ep 20) Masaru Kitao (eps 2-3, 7, 15) Masato Kimura (ep 8) Masaya Suzuki (eps 17, 21) Masayuki Yagi (ep 4) Michio Mihara (5 episodes eps 1, 3, 7, 12, 16 )Miho Shimogasa (ep 17) Minoru Okamoto (ep 25) Nobumasa Shinkawa (33 episodes eps 16, 19, 22, 27-28, 30, 32, 34-36, 39, 43, 47, 53, 57-58, 65, 67, 71, 75, 79, 82, 86, 89, 95, 102, 106, 109, 113, 116, 119, 121, 123 )Noriko Moritomo (ep 10) Osamu Nabeshima (eps 13, 19, 23) Reiko Eda (4 episodes eps 8, 10, 15, 19 )Reiko Kurihara (eps 1, 22, 26) Takafumi Watanabe (ep 17) Takahiro Gotō (6 episodes eps 5-6, 9, 11, 14, 25 )Takashi Hashimoto (ep 8) Takeshi Koike (eps 1, 18) Takuo Noda (eps 22, 35) Tatsuya Suzuki (ep 25) Tetsurō Aoki (ep 3) Tomihiko Ōkubo (ep 24) Toshiyuki Tsuru (eps 1, 7-8) Tsutomu Awada (eps 13, 18) Yasuhiko Ōyama (eps 9, 11) Yasushi Muraki (ep 17) Yasuzō Iino (ep 26) Yoshie Kawamura (ep 27) Yoshie Sakata (ep 23) Yoshiharu Ashino (7 episodes eps 5-6, 9, 11, 14, 21, 25 )Yoshiharu Satō (eps 13, 24) Yoshihito Hishinuma (7 episodes eps 5-6, 9, 11, 14, 21, 25 )Yoshinobu Aohachi (ep 22) Yoshinori Kanemori (12 episodes eps 40, 44, 63, 66, 73, 78, 81, 94, 96, 100, 103, 109 )Yukio Okano (eps 3, 20, 23) Yūzō Satō (eps 22, 26)
Photography:
Hajime Noguchi (Takahashi Production; ep 3) Hitoshi Yamaguchi (eps 1-2, 4-5) Junko Nagai (Takahashi Production; ep 3) Koji Yamakoshi (T Nishimura; ep 6) Miho Sakata (Takahashi Production; ep 3) Satoshi Saito (T Nishimura; ep 6) Taizo Matsuzaki (Takahashi Production; ep 3) Toshiyuki Fukushima (Takahashi Production; ep 3) Yasuhiro Matsumura (eps 1-2, 4-5) Yasuyoshi Toyonaga (eps 2, 4-5) Yuichi Katsumata (T Nishimura; ep 6)
Production Advancement: Toshikatsu Tokoro (eps 5, 45)
Recording Adjustment: Hisanori Ōshiro
Sound Effects: Akihiko Matsuda
Theme Song Composition:
Hirokazu Fujii (OP1) Midori Karashima (ED2) Wataru Yahagi (ED1) Yūko Hara (OP3,ED3)
Theme Song Performance:
LAZY LOU's BOOGIE (ED#4) Mariko Nagai (OP#1+OP#4) Midori Karashima (ED#2) Miki Imai (OP#2) Rika Himenogi (ED#1) Yūko Hara (OP#3+ED#3) |
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Animation: Madhouse
Animation Production: Madhouse
Broadcaster: Nippon Television Network
Casting Cooperation: Aoni Production
Co-Production: YTV
Film Developing: Tokyo Laboratory
Finish Animation:
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Production: Kitty Films
Recording Production: Audio Planning U
Recording Studio: APU Studio
Sound Effects: Fizz Sound Creation
Titles: Maki Production
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Translation: Anastasia Moreno |
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Insert Song Performance: David (Catalan dub; ep 39)
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Distributor: Luk Internacional (Spain)
Licensed by: Luk Internacional (Spain)
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Dubbing Director: Lella Carcereri |
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Broadcaster: QTV Channel 11
Dubbing: ALTA Productions
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