02-21-2018, 10:33 PM
So for a while now I've been wanting to watch Yawara!: A fashionable judo girl. But never really got the chance. I knew about it since 2015 but never really read it, and along with that I watched the first episode of the anime sometime in 2016 at the anime soc, but I never really did anything about it.
Just before Christmas break, our anime soc had another week where the first episode of Yawara got in, and I decided that I'd finally get around to watching it. I downloaded all the episodes and put a few on my phone for when I was going to go home in my dad's car. I watched two more episodes, and left it at that. This was the 11th of December.
When I had to go back I decided it was a good time to watch more episodes of Yawara, and watched 5 more (since it was a 2 hour trip) and pushed it up to 8 episodes.
Now I'm a terrible person when it comes to watching anime, and I've found it very difficult to even sit still for 20 minutes, let alone give something my attention, especially when it's boring/setting up a story or I'm just not doing anything (such as eating food) so I never expected to really finished it and it'd probably be on my MAL for years since it was 124 episodes long and I had just barely finished 8 of them.
That was until I decided that I WAS going to finish this, and gave myself a goal. To finish it before my birthday on the 3rd of March. I began to watch more episodes on the 21st, and started on the 9th episode. By the end of the month I was on the 35th episode, and now 21 days later I'm on episode 101, with only 23 to go, and 9 days left, it should be fine. I've been averaging around 3-5 episodes a day.
I'm honestly surprised with myself, as I never EVER watch anime to this extent, let alone finish something THIS long. It's almost sad that it's nearly over, it's been a staple to watch several episodes every day for the past month, and soon it'll be over.
It's a pretty great anime to be honest, it has it's ups and downs but mainly ups. It's more a Romance, Drama, Slice of Life, Comedy than it is a Sports anime. I'd say the split is around 60/40, but damn it can really do both perfectly. If you've got some time to spare, I'd give it a watch, it's really good.
I also love the OP.
Another interesting side note is that, I decided to watch Monster after I finished Yawara since it's been on my watch list for a while and I never wanted to due to it's length, so now I'll be able to. Along with this I also started reading a manga called Happy, about a girl who was pushed into a lot of debt, and is trying to pay it off by getting back into Tennis as she was once a prodigy that had to give it up to take care of her siblings.
What's interesting is that ALL three of these were made by the same person. Naoki Urusawa, and I didn't even notice until I wanted to see who created Yawara, and saw it was all the same.
Just before Christmas break, our anime soc had another week where the first episode of Yawara got in, and I decided that I'd finally get around to watching it. I downloaded all the episodes and put a few on my phone for when I was going to go home in my dad's car. I watched two more episodes, and left it at that. This was the 11th of December.
When I had to go back I decided it was a good time to watch more episodes of Yawara, and watched 5 more (since it was a 2 hour trip) and pushed it up to 8 episodes.
Now I'm a terrible person when it comes to watching anime, and I've found it very difficult to even sit still for 20 minutes, let alone give something my attention, especially when it's boring/setting up a story or I'm just not doing anything (such as eating food) so I never expected to really finished it and it'd probably be on my MAL for years since it was 124 episodes long and I had just barely finished 8 of them.
That was until I decided that I WAS going to finish this, and gave myself a goal. To finish it before my birthday on the 3rd of March. I began to watch more episodes on the 21st, and started on the 9th episode. By the end of the month I was on the 35th episode, and now 21 days later I'm on episode 101, with only 23 to go, and 9 days left, it should be fine. I've been averaging around 3-5 episodes a day.
I'm honestly surprised with myself, as I never EVER watch anime to this extent, let alone finish something THIS long. It's almost sad that it's nearly over, it's been a staple to watch several episodes every day for the past month, and soon it'll be over.
It's a pretty great anime to be honest, it has it's ups and downs but mainly ups. It's more a Romance, Drama, Slice of Life, Comedy than it is a Sports anime. I'd say the split is around 60/40, but damn it can really do both perfectly. If you've got some time to spare, I'd give it a watch, it's really good.
I also love the OP.
Another interesting side note is that, I decided to watch Monster after I finished Yawara since it's been on my watch list for a while and I never wanted to due to it's length, so now I'll be able to. Along with this I also started reading a manga called Happy, about a girl who was pushed into a lot of debt, and is trying to pay it off by getting back into Tennis as she was once a prodigy that had to give it up to take care of her siblings.
What's interesting is that ALL three of these were made by the same person. Naoki Urusawa, and I didn't even notice until I wanted to see who created Yawara, and saw it was all the same.