Yawara!
Yawara! (also stylized as YAWARA!) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in "Big Comic Spirits" from 1986 to 1993, with the chapters collected into 29 "tankōbon" volumes by publisher Shogakukan. In 1990, it won the 35th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. A live-action film adaptation directed by Kazuo Yoshida and starring Yui Asaka was released by Toho in 1989.

In the same year, Yomiuri TV began broadcasting an anime adaptation titled Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl!, which ran from October 16, 1989 through September 21, 1992 for 124 episodes. Each episode ended with a countdown of days remaining to the start of the Barcelona Olympics. The anime, produced by Kitty Film with animation by the Madhouse studio, aired on Japanese television contemporary with Kitty's "Ranma ½" but achieved higher ratings than "Ranma ½", despite the latter series being better known outside Japan. AnimEigo licensed the TV series for North American distribution in August 2006. However, as of April 2010 AnimEigo has been unable to license the remaining episodes of the TV series for North American distribution.
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