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Play Yawara! (Japan edition · Japanese) Online
YaWaRa! A Fashionable Judo Girl!
Play Yawara! Online — Follow sports reporter Matsuda through an illustrated Yawara adventure, using conversations and scene commands to uncover the story.
Browser play
PC Engine CD / TurboGrafx-CD — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| I / II | Z / X |
| RUN / SELECT | Enter / V |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Yawara!
Quick start
Begin the story as Matsuda, read the opening exchange, and inspect the scene’s conversation and examination commands. Recheck available topics after a new discovery.
Controls
Use the direction pad to highlight commands, I to confirm, and II to cancel or return to the previous menu. RUN starts from the title screen.
Yawara! — About this game
Matsuda’s role as a sports journalist provides the viewpoint for an adventure centered on Yawara and the people around her. The presentation follows the characters through illustrated scenes and dialogue instead of turning the story into a continuous judo fighting game. Choose what to examine and whom to speak to as the available commands develop. Reading an exchange helps explain which question matters next, and a newly discovered fact can make an earlier topic useful again. Preserve progress at the game’s save opportunities if you want to compare responses. The main challenge is following the character story and its sequence of encounters coherently.
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · pce
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
Sources and editorial basis
rwEmulator reviews edition metadata, release information, game manuals and first-hand browser-play notes. Available manuals are linked below; the editorial policy explains how facts are checked and corrections are handled.