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Judo Boy - Recommendations
Alt title: Kurenai Sanshirou
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Sugata Sanshirou
- TV Special (1 ep)
- 1981
Yawara! Sore Yuke Koshinuke Kids!!
- Movie (1 ep)
- 1992
Yawara helps a group of timid grade school kids overcome their fears and compete in a judo competition. One of the kids is Hanazono's cousin, which is how she meets them. Another is a girl who seems very similar to Yawara.
Judo Sanka
- TV (27 eps)
- 1974
Judo-bu Monogatari
- OVA (2 eps)
- 1991
Ippon Again!
- TV (13 eps)
- 2023
After one last tournament and an embarrassing loss in the final round, Michi decides to call it quits on the sport of judo. Between high school social activities and entrance exams, she’ll have no time to compete in the martial art she loves most, but putting aside old hobbies is a normal part of growing up. Still, the love of judo lingers—and it comes back full force when she meets her new classmate Towa, the girl who bested Michi in her final match! Towa wants to form a judo club at their school, but she’ll need new members to get it up and running. United by their love of judo, they’ll throw in their passions into the ring together and score ippon again!
Inakappe Taishou
- TV (104 eps)
- 1970 - 1972
Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
- TV (124 eps)
- 1989 - 1992
Yawara just wants to be a normal girl. Her grandfather, though, has different plans. He has been training her every day in judo since she was a baby so that one day she could win an Olympic Medal. Now, with her grandfather trying to set up her debut match and magazine reporters watching her every movement, will she be able to keep her normal life?
Yawara! Special: Zutto Kimi no Koto ga
- TV Special (1 ep)
- 1996
Yawara Inokuma competes for Japan in the Atlanta Olympic Games as she meets with several familiar faces throughout the tournament.
Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf
- TV Special (1 ep)
- 1992
When legendary martial artist Jeff Bogard is assassinated by his archrival Geese Howard, Jeff's young sons Terry and Andy swear revenge. Years later, their skills honed, they return and enter the King of Fighters tournament, each hoping to prove himself worthy of learning their school's ultimate technique: the only attack that can defeat Geese. But Geese himself controls the tournament from the shadows, and he will stop at nothing to eliminate the brothers before they acquire the secret they seek!
