Yawara!

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 Judo, a modern martial art that is neither feminine nor fashionable. Moreover, Yawara is the only granddaughter of the seventh dan Judo master Jigorou Inokuma, who expects her to become a Japanese Judoka superstar of the '90s. Yawara cautiously hides her strength from everyone to maintain a normal reputation but is often pushed to situations when she must exercise her Judo skills. Observing Yawara's immense potential from the shadows, Kousaku Matsuda, a sports reporter from a substandard paper, is willing to do everything he can to bring her into the limelight. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Type: TV
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Season: fall 1989
Status: Finished Airing
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Tags: action comedy parody slice of life female protagonist sports based on a manga manga martial arts combat coming of age primarily adult cast earth japan seinen asia drama present romance tournaments hand to hand combat love triangle athletics college ojou-sama love polygon judo