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Yawara! is another great "undiscovered" anime from the late 1980s. The characters are fun and engaging, the opening theme music ("Miracle Girl") is catchy, energetic, engaging J-pop typical of the era, and the end theme ("Stand By Me") is a sweet, wistful romantic ballad also typical of the era. The main character, INOKUMA Yawara, is a high school/college student who wants nothing more than to be an ordinary girl. Unfortunately for her, she has an extraordinary talent for judo and has been trained by her grandfather INOKUMA Jigoro (also a judo prodigy) since the age of 5. Jigoro wants nothing more than for Yawara to go to the Barcelona Olympics and win the first ever gold medal for female judo. Yawara is sideswiped by a purse snatcher and instantly throws him to the ground but in the process of doing so, she is seen by a sports reporter, MATSUDA Kousaku, who recognizes he has seen an amazing talent. Kousaku makes it his mission to find the amazing judo girl and see her talent go to the Barcelona Olympics. Along the way, Kousaku falls for Yawara as a woman as well as a story, we meet Yawara's destined opponent, HON'AMI Sayaka, and a rival for her affections, KAZAMATSURI Shinosuke, emerges. While her grandfather schemes to get Yawara to compete in judo, she struggles to attain her dream of attending a small women's college and getting a job like any ordinary girl. This box set by Animeigo is done with their typical fun, informative manner with extras like their booklet, "The Road of Yawara! Cannot Be Walked in a Day", and inside covers for the DVD cases that form a mosaic composed of images from the anime itself. The only regret I have with this series was that Animeigo didn't get to do the rest of the series so I was left with a hunger for more that can only be satisfied by searching online for the rest of the series. There are fansubs available but no one does as good a job as Animeigo -- definitely worth buying your own set of DVDs!Read full review
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