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Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl (TV)

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[ adapted from Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl (manga) ]

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Alternative title:
Cinturó Negre
Cinturón Negro (Spanish)
Yawara - Jenny la ragazza del judo (Italian)
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Themes: Sports
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
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: 82 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 16 votes (sub:16)
 Very good: 28 votes (sub:25, dub:3)
 Good: 21 votes (sub:17, Spa.dub:1, ?:1, Ita.dub:1, Tag.dub:1)
 Decent: 10 votes (sub:7, raw:2, Spa.dub:1)
 So-so: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Not really good: -
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 219 users, rank: #1657
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.366 (Good+.36), std. dev.: 1.693, rank: #1137
Weighted mean: 7.448 (Good+.44), rank: #819 (seen all: 7.32 / seen some: 7.73 / won't finish: 6.01)
Bayesian estimate: 7.457 (Good+.45), rank: #623
Number of episodes: 124
Episode titles: We have 124
Vintage:
1989-10-16 to 1992-09-21
2008-05-12 to 2008-08-20 (Philippines, Anime Revolution on Q, ep.1-40)
Releases: 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:
5-Ace - Yawara (Japanese) 
Links: We have 2
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.
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    Yawara! DVD Box Set 1
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Related releases:
    Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl - Box Set (Sub.DVD) 2009-05-01 (from $85.45)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Hiroko Tokita

Series Composition: Toshiki Inoue

Screenplay:
Hiroyuki Kawasaki
Toshiki Inoue
Yoshimasa Takahashi
Yoshiyuki Suga

Music: Hideharu Mori

Original Manga: Naoki Urasawa

Character Design: Yoshinori Kanemori

Art director: Yuji Ikeda

Sound director: Yasuo Uragami

Director of Photography:
Kinichi Ishikawa
Takeshi Fukuda

Producer:
Masao Maruyama
Michihiko Suwa (Yomiuri TV)
Satoshi Suzuki

Key Animation: Keiji Gotoh (eps 17, 26)

Planning:
Michihiko Suwa (Yomiuri TV)
Shigekazu Ochiai

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)
Yuko Hara (OP#3+ED#3)

 

Yuko Minaguchi as Yawara Inokuma

Akira Kamiya as Shinnosuke Kazamatsuri

Chiyoko Kawashima as Fujiko Itou

Ichirô Nagai as Jigorou Inokuma

Masashi Sugawara as Kaoru Hanazono

Toshihiko Seki as Kousaku Matsuda

Yoshino Takamori as Sayaka Honami

Daisuke Namikawa as Junji

Eriko Hara as Kazumi

Houchu Ohtsuka as Announcer

Jun'ichi Kanemaru as Kawano

Junichi Sugawara as Yasui

Kazuhiko Kishino as Nikkan Every's Editor in Chief

Kyoko Yamada as Kurokawa

Masashi Hirose as Kamata

Megumi Hayashibara as Takeyuki Suzuki

Mie Suzuki as Nanda

Miki Itou as Yurie

Minoru Inaba as Coach Ishikura

Miyuki Ichijou as Jody Rockwell

Naoki Bandou as Fujiko's Father

Reiko Suzuki as Matsuda's Mother

Rica Fukami as Outawara

Run Sasaki as Belkens

Takuma Gouno as Yuujirou Ishida

Tamao Hayashi as Kim

Toshiko Fujita as Tamao Inokuma

Yoku Shioya as Sudo

Youko Matsuoka as Kaori

Yukiji as Gonzalez

Yuko Minaguchi as Kaneko Inokuma

Yuko Mizutani as Anna Teleshikova

Yuko Sasaki as Yukari

Yumi Touma as Kyon Kyon/Shimizu

Akio Ohtsuka

Akira Shimada

Chisa Yokoyama

Ginzo Matsuo

Hideyuki Umezu

Hisako Kyouda

Juurouta Kosugi

Kiyoyuki Yanada

Kôhei Miyauchi

Masaharu Satou

Masayuki Kato

Michihiro Ikemizu

Minami Takayama

Nobuo Tobita

Ryo Horikawa

Satomi Koorogi

Shigezou Sasaoka

Shozo Iizuka

Takehito Koyasu

Takeshi Kusao

Takumi Yamazaki

Toku Nishio

Yasunori Matsumoto

Yuzuru Fujimoto

Japanese companies 

Animation: Madhouse Studios

Broadcaster: NTV

Co-Production: Yomiuri TV

Production: Kitty Films


English staff 
(none)
English companies 

Licensed by: AnimEigo

English cast 
(none)
Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 
(none)
 

Geni Rey as Ginger 'Yawara' Inokuma (Catalan dub)

Albert Trifol Segarra as Kosaku Matsuda (Catalan dub)

Carme Abril as Fujiko Itô (Catalan dub)

Eduard Farelo as Kaoru Hanazono (Catalan dub)

Josep María Zamora as Jigoro Inokuma (Catalan dub)

Núria Trifol as Sayaka Honami (Catalan dub)

Oscar Barberán as Shinnosuke Kazamatsuri (Catalan dub)

Aleix Estadella as Sudo (Catalan dub)

Belén Roca as Yukari Komiya (Catalan dub)

Carme Canet as Jody Rockwell (Catalan dub)

Emili Freixas as Hagoromo (Catalan dub)

Gemma Ibáñez as Mari Oda 'Marilyn' (Catalan dub)

Jaume Lleal as Tokunaga, el majordom (Catalan dub)

Marta Barbará as Kuniko Kaga (Catalan dub)

Marta Ullod as Kyoko Hikage (Catalan dub)

Miquel Cors as President Outaguro (Catalan dub)

Montse Puga as Sayuri Yoshinagawa (Catalan dub)

Pep Ribas as Entrenador Yutenji (Catalan dub)

Vicky Martínez as Nanda (Catalan dub)

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: K3 (Televisió de Catalunya)

Distributor: Luk Internacional (Spain)


Italian staff 

Director Of Dubbing: Lella Carcereri

Italian companies 

Broadcaster: Junior TV (1990)

Distributor: Carioca

Dubbing: Carioca

Italian cast 

Renata Bertolas as Jenny

Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 
(none)
 

Ahlee Reyes as Yawara Inokuma

Charmaine Cordoviz as
Fujiko Itou
Kuniko Kaga

Ely Martin as Kaoru Hanazono

Klariz Magboo as Sayaka Honami

Mark Aspiras as Shinnosuke Kazamatsuri

Robert Brillantes as Shinnosuke Kazamatsuri (2nd voice)

Roger Aquino as Jigorou Inokuma

Ahlee Reyes as
Kaneko Inokuma
Tamao Inokuma

Charmaine Cordoviz as
Anna Teleshikova
Jody Rockwell
Mrs. Honami

Ely Martin as
Mr. Kazamatsuri
Nishikimori

Klariz Magboo as
Kaori
Kasumi
Kim
Kyoko
Saeko (resemblance of Sayaka Honami)
Toudo Yuuki
Yukari Komiya

Mark Aspiras as
Kamoda
Saimonji
Yuutenji Gouzou

Robert Brillantes as
Kamoda (2nd Voice)
Yuutenji Gouzou (2nd voice)

Roger Aquino as
Kojirou Inokuma
Mr. Honami
Sudo

Erlich Sandoval

Miguel Moreno

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster: QTV Channel 11

Dubbing: ALTA Productions

 
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