Yawara! - Urasawa, Naoki

Synopsis

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...

Background

Yawara! was awarded the 35th Shogakukan Manga Award for best general seinen manga in 1989.

It had two chapters published in English from May to June 1993 in the educational publication Mangajin's issues #26 and #27.

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