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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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All I can say it it is a helluva cliff hanger ending. The episode announces that Aoki is going to fight Imae for the title, Takamura is going to defend the title, Itagaki is going to enter the rookie tournament and Ippo's next title defense. It even shows a picture of Shimabukuro. I hope season 3 comes out soon and with the way the episode plays out, the next season will probably rush to the fight and not emphasize that Shimabukuro is a cardio machine

gonna shock a lot of people by saying this from the off. I actually liked this episode

I thought a lot of stuff in this episode was handled surprisingly well, if the director had done more of an approach like this throughout then things could have been a lot different, some material was cut however which annoyed me, but overall it was a good episode IMO, and i'm glad the director finally figured out how to do a montage the right way. This episode was also very rushed in parts, which i hope wont effect the build up, i hope none of that gets rushed through or cut out because i enjoyed this fight a lot in the manga and the parralels between ippo and the opponent is a nice touch as well as humerous, so hope none of that is rushed through and handled well.

This season as a whole however have just been one big disapointment, it was jsut extremely lacking, overdone, or just terrible in many areas, the music was very VERY in the wrong anime and just bad, the direction was shit for the most part, ruining fights like hawk v taka, this season could have been up there with the original hajime no ippo anime and the two OVA's if the old team was assembled, unfortunately it just had the misfortune of coming out during the wrong time, hopefully nishimura and tsuneo will be back for the next season, if not then i don't know whether i will watch.

Overall i score new challenger a 6/10
this episode 4/5

I honestly don't know what to think. I really liked this season except for the last two episodes of the Takamura/Hawk fight, which were kind of whiffs. I'm going to leave it blank and come back to it later.

instead, nishimura and tsuneo want to work on the "duke nukem forever of anime"

But y'know, Duke nukem Forever ended up pretty epic.

lmao at both of you guys, any game whre you used the control to pick your nose and wiggle your ears is 10/10 material

honestly though trigun needs to jsut hurry the fuck up or just get the news already that it's been cancelled, at this point i wouldn't even care as it would be best for ippo. Also didn't nishimura state awhile back that he would have liked to do another series of ippo too? cmon man where the hell are you when your chance is here!

well trigun was announced as far back as 2005 and i dont see it yet. anyone remember the trigun game that wasupposed to come out on xbox in japan?

I loved and wanna more. The delay in the fight of Takamura discouragement me a little, but the promise of these struggles I have reanimate, so I eagerly await the continuation, Aoki will be fighting a joke =x

i liked this ep dempsey roll bout to b beastly and damn miyata cold!!!!!!!!!! but 1 match i really want to see Aoki's title fight o well cant wait for new series^^ 5/5

Waiting the next season hoping it will be good. This episode was good in that it was reminiscent of the Ippo's training as seen a lot in the first season. 9/10 for the series.

this episode was a return to what made the first season so great. Cameos (be it minor) by almost all supporting charcters, a strong drive forward, and excellent pacing. My overall thoughts of this season are conflicted. Firstly, it was more like this show was Hajime no Everyone else but Ippo. I think Ippo's total fighting time would consist of two episodes at best (Though this does reflect his declined drive upon reaching champion). Also the pacing leading up Takamura's title fight was snail speed. But I still had fun... and this last episode really gave me a lot of hope for a third season to be amazing.

BTW, has a third season even been announced yet, or is this still speculation?

i hope it doesnt take to long for next season, can't wait to see more love it hope they announce it what they gonna do cuz if its gonna take to long I will read the manga

It was a great season overall. 9/10

Awesome episode.

This season was definitely not as good as the first season but it was still enjoying.

can't wait for the next season.


oh and I hope to see mashiba again -_-

9/10 But they have to pull out something super epic, to ever reach the first season of Ippo, and it can't be a 26 episode season.

This was a good episode, but since I just don't understand the thought that the New Challenger is Miyata even though we've seen so little of him (not to mention that lame comparison that Kamogawa was trying to make with Ippos) is totally ridiculous to me. I don't understand why they would have decided to have this episode as it is.

3/5

As for the show...I want to give it a 6 for at least throwing me a bone in Miyata at the end, but it's just not justifiable, especially with the talk of "leveling up'' the Dempsey Roll, instead of maybe adding a new move. Too many things went wrong to rise above mediocrity to me. But at least the next season will have more Miyata.

Good episode . Well, I think this was the best way to end this season.

well i dont know wht u think but this episode was something to remind us the training days before ippo become champion so... imo this last episode pumped me up to the skies
i gave this season and the previous a 10/10 although there were some "mistakes " like takamura VS hawk it was a bit rushed either way i hope next season wont take whole years to come out ... if anyone has any info about it plz pm

the new challenger isnt miyata. it is ippo he isnt going to be defending anymore he is going to be challenging stronger better fighters so he can get stronger at least thats what the coach said he said they aint going to be deffending they are going to be the challengers

I found that comparison with Ippo to be lame...as I said before. He's taking up this new attitude so that he can eventually face Miyata. I just think it was too late in the show to explain the title.