Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl

The lady's secret weapon (1x105)

Air date: Apr 27, 1992

Kojiro is eating bowls of noodle after bowls, thinking to himself that Sayaka only has one chance to deploy her secret weapon against a judo genius like Yawara. Jigoro is actually hoping that Yawara would lose so that she will quit her “half assed” job and enroll at Sakai to train seriously. Sayaka’s secret weapon turns out to be a left uchi mata that takes advantage of a supposed hole in Yawara’s ippon zeoi technique, but at the last second it is countered by an instinctive quick leg sweep by Yawara, and she wins much to Sayaka’s consternation and lost false tooth. She does not reconcile with Yawara and leaves without saying anything about a future matchup or vengeance against her. In the remaining semifinal, Tohodoh has only gotten bigger against Fujiko, and both judokas begin the contest with much fighting spirit (a change for Fujiko, who is usually nervous). Fujiko scores a quick yuko, but is thereafter in trouble as Tohdoh pins here. She is about to give up until she hears Hanazono’s voice in her head, and she pulls off a last second comeback victory, setting up a best friends only finals. Hanazono for his part is now so dedicated to training to be better that he does not even watch Fujiko’s match on TV.