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Inokuma Yawara just wants to be an ordinary high-school girl. Unfortunately for
her, she's been trained since she was a toddler by her grandfather, Jigoro, to be a
judo prodigy. Nothing less than an Olympic Gold Medal and the coveted National Merit
Award will satisfy him, and he'll do anything to ensure that she achieves it.
And if that isn't enough, a pesky sports reporter is on her trail, convinced she's
Japan's next superstar -- and that picture of her taking down a mugger (with her panties showing)
on the front page of his cheesy sports newspaper isn't helping matters at all!
AnimEigo is proud to be releasing one of Japan's most popular and long-running
Anime TV series, based on the sweet and hilarious hit manga by Naoki Urasawa --
Yawara, the Fashionable Judo Girl.
The entire first season (40 episodes) is now available. This is a special limited edition set, and
may go out of print fairly quickly. We are pressing a relatively small amount of copies, and there is no guarantee we'll
make more.
Want more convincing? We're so sure you'll love Yawara that, just to whet your appetite, we'll send you a DVD,
containing the first 4 episodes, for free! Scroll down for more details on that, or throw caution to the winds
and order the box set using the button below.
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Trained from an early age to be a judo champion, Inokuma Yawara just wants to
be a normal high-school girl, find a boyfriend, fall in love, and so on. Unfortunately, her
grandfather is...
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...Inokuma Jigoro, 7th-dan Judo Master and 5-time National Champion. Jigoro loves two things, Judo
and Eating, and he's world-class in both. He won't be satisfied unless Yawara wins both an
Olympic Gold Medal and the prestigious National Merit Award, and he's been reminding Yawara
of this since she's been a toddler. When Yawara decides boys are more important than Judo,
he schemes to find her a rival, someone like...
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...Hon'ami Sayaka, the extremely spoiled daughter of one of Japan's richest families (when she
wants a designer outfit from Paris, the designer flies to her!). Sayaka has never failed to
dominate any sport she's cared to try, and when Yawara shows her up, she decides to stop
at nothing to defeat her, enlisting the aid of...
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...her loyal and extremely patient majordomo, Tokunaga, and...
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...Kazamatsuri Shinnosuke, the finest judo coach in all of Japan (except perhaps
for Jigoro, whom he worships), and also,
despite being incredibly shy, an unbelievable babe-magnet. Unfortunately for him, for all the women
in the world, and in particular, for Sayaka, he just might be getting serious about...
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...Inokuma Yawara, who is fast falling in love with him, but is perhaps even
more shy than he is. However, her romantic daydreams may get a cold dose of reality when she finds out
Kazamatsuri is Sayaka's coach! Meanwhile, Yawara's life is being made complicated by
a tenacious reporter...
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...Matsuda Kosaku, who's become convinced she's going to be the next
great sports superstar, and whose photographer sidekick Kamoda seems to have a knack for
taking embarrassing pictures of our heroine...
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...such as this one (fear not, Moms of America, this is a PG series, and Yawara always
remembers her mother's advice about wearing clean underwear just in case)...
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...which have caused no end of problems, not the least of which are the
unwanted affections of her school's resident bad boy, Sudoh...
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...as well as the overly-emotional devotion of the captain of the school's
hapless Judo club, Hanazono.
And that's just in the first few episodes, mind you...
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| To introduce you and your friends to Yawara, we are
making an unprecedented offer - a Free Preview DVD containing the first 4 episodes
of the series, 100% complete and subtitled in the traditional AnimEigo style! Starting with
the original, lovingly-done Yawara fansubs, we've spent many hours refining the translation,
tweaking the timing, and adding our trademark multicolor titles and "supertitle" terminology
notes.
You may request up to 3 discs so you can pass on copies to friends and family whom you
think might be interested, but please only ask for the amount you really need
(these things do cost us money, after all!). And if, after watching it, you decide Yawara
isn't for you, please pass the disc along to someone you think would appreciate it.
There's one catch (you knew there had to be at least one): If you order a disc by
itself, we hit you up for a minimum S&H charge of $5.00. On the other hand, if you order
anything else from the site as well, you can get free S&H if you choose the Media Mail
option, since we can just pop the disc in with your order.
Please note: even though this disc is free, the material on it is still copyrighted,
and you should not under any circumstances copy, sell, fileshare, or in any way distribute
it without written permission
from AnimEigo (except to give any extra copies you requested to their intended recipients,
of course!).
PS: We welcome your feedback on the translation and subtitling choices we've made on
Yawara. You can email your comments to our normal
questions@animeigo.com
email address with subject line "Yawara Preview Comments".
Here's the order button - enjoy!
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| To celebrate the release of Yawara, we've
created a special Yawara T-Shirt, featuring calligraphy by local expert Mitsuyo Ito.
The character, “yawara”, is the first kanji in Judo, and to emphasize the flexible nature of yawara, it appears tilted on the t-shirt.
These high-quality shirts are available for a mere $9.98, and you can even get one free
with any order of $100.00 or more. And note that if you buy a t-shirt, you can get free USPS shipping,
and we'll be able to add in a free copy of the Yawara Preview DVD! So for less than $10, you can
get a great t-shirt and the free DVD delivered to your door!
PS: we have a limited number of shirts that feature the kanji on the back instead of the front. If you'd prefer one of these,
simply say so in the comments field of your order.
Alas, this shirt is now sold-out!
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