Yawara ep. 21
Yawara and the Blue-eyed House Guest
Yawara and Jody.Jody Rockwell (last year’s judo world champion) came all the way from Canada to see our Yawara. She challenges Yawara to a match but Yawara refuses. The judo team blocks Jody’s way (they were no match for Jody though) so that Yawara can escape. When Yawara gets home, her grandfather tells her he enrolled her in Saikai College (the athletic school). As usual, Yawara gets upset because she wants to go to Mitsuba Women’s College (a home economics school).
Jody Rockwell visits Yawara’s house. Since Yawara doesn’t want to fight Jody, Jigoro (the grandfather) challenges Jody instead, saying he wants to see her strength before he let his granddaughter fight her. As the match commences, Jody moves forward to attack grandpa but when she feels his aura, she then breaks down, cries, and gives up before anything even happened. Grandpa decides to take her in since she was able to ascertain his strength even before they fought and that makes her a suitable sparring partner for Yawara. Yawara worries because Jody eats a lot though. The next morning, Jody and Yawara train together. Yawara worries because she should be studying for Mitsuba’s entrance exam instead of practicing judo. Jody tells her she’s not going home to Canada until she fights Yawara.
Sayaka and Kazamatsuri-san are attending a ball in Belgium. Sayaka says the only reason she came to Belgium was to challenge Belgium’s own judo champion, Belkens. However, since Belkens is out of town, Sayaka settles for Stelkes who is just as strong as Belkens. Sayaka easily throws Stelkes though.
At school, Jody asks Yawara to train with her even when she’s studying. Yawara finally has enough and tells Jody off. Yawara regrets her decision and Jigoro tells her that Jody even stayed up all night just to study Japanese so that she can speak with Yawara. Yawara feels guilty and surprised that although Jody spent the whole night studying, she was able to do morning practices. Yawara apologizes to Jody and agrees to a match (everything was all planned by Jigoro though).
