anime episode summaries

Yawara bids Jody farewell. They promise each other to fight in a match someday. Unfortunately for Yawara, she is still pretty unknown and has no previous records so fighting in a huge international match is still a long way. Jigoro arranges for Yawara to appear in several tournaments so that she can make a name for herself. In order to fulfill her promise to Jody, Yawara agrees. The entrance examinations for Mitsuba College (?) are coming up pretty soon, too, so Yawara spends the whole night studying and then the rest of the day doing judo. Although fatigued, Yawara manages to win her first few tournaments. Jigoro challenges Sayaka, too, to meet his granddaughter in a match. Matsuda is worried about Yawara health because she hasn’t been sleeping and taking care of herself well.

Kevin and Ryoma are about to fight each other but Tezuka stops them. Ryoma won’t listen to Tezuka so Tezuka slaps him. Kevin is pissed when he learned that Ryoma won’t be playing in the invitationals. Ryoma is frustrated about not being selected and not being able to play against Kevin. Ryoma visits Tezuka and begs him to let him play. Tezuka sees Ryoma’s passion for tennis rekindled so he tells Ryoma that he can be part of the national team as a substitute.

Mugen has a hard time fighting his opponent (the brother with the chain/scythe weapon) but manages to kill him. The other brother (the one on the wheelchair) shoots Mugen and tries to blow the entire place up with bombs.

Jin loses in his fight with Kariya (?) and falls in the water.

Fuu finally meets her father but finds him weak and dying. Kariya appears and kills Fuu’s dad. Apparently, Kariya was ordered to kill the entire family. As he was about to kill Fuu, Jin shows up. Kariya and Jin fight again and this time, Jin lets himself get stabbed so that he can stab the opponent, too. Kariya dies.

Mugen and Jin both survive. They try to fight each other but are too weak to do so.

After the two recovers, the three part ways. The end.