Alternative TitlesEnglish: The Fighting! Ippo Synonyms: The Fighting!, Fighting Spirit Japanese: はじめの一歩
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Type: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Feb 17, 1990 to ?
StatisticsScore: 8.831 (scored by 1724 users)
Ranked: #122
Popularity: #173
Members: 2,855
Favorites: 452 1 indicates a weighted score
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SynopsisMakunouchi Ippo is always busy with his night fishing job, and gets bullied a lot. After some inspiration from magazines, videos, and boxers, he decided to take up boxing. Boxing changed Ippo's life, and now his dream is to become pro and fight in matches. (Source: ANN)
There is a spinoff chapter in the 84th volume of the series titled "Hajime No Ippo Gaiden: Naniwa Tiger" |
Related MangaAdaptation: Hajime no Ippo - Mashiba vs Kimura, Hajime no Ippo, Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger, Hajime no Ippo - Champion Road
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smurfdude
11 of 20 people found this review helpful
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859 of ? chapters read
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What can I say about Hajime No Ippo other then it's a great story that gives otaku everywhere some self confidence to be strong.
The story consists of one Makanouchi Ippo, a social outcast who is picked on because he is passive, poor and smells bad because of his family fishing shop. One day Ippo is being bullied out in the open and a man jogging by scares off the kids. Ippo asks the man to teach him how to be strong and thus begins Ippo's run of determination.
The theme of this manga is "What is it like to be strong?" and pure determination and hard work. It has very good character development showing every last spec of emotion that all the characters feel at every moment, as well as epic fights (although I do admit the fights wouldn't be like that if they were real)
There is a good bulk of training in this series and it takes up a good chunk of the series but is more then made up for when the fights roll around. And you know what? I don't mind all mind that much because that's what boxers do. Train, fight, train, fight. Very good insight on what a boxers day to day life is like.
The comedy in this manga is great. Usually in manga when there is filler people dread, but Hajime no Ippo delivers the most hilarious filler I have ever seen in my days.
All in all Hajime no Ippo is a great long running story with a mangaka that has as much stamina as his protagonist when it comes to writing. (And I'm not sure about all of you but Hajime no Ippo has motivated me to start working out more and become more active)
Overall Rating
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Since the author realized that he's going to make this run as long as he lives (or as long as there's interest) it has become a formulaic, and repetitive story. It basically runs like this:
-Training
-Fights
-End fight filler
-Rinse and repeat... FOREVER!
Of course there are good fights with the occasional serious Takamura title match. However, there are too many filler fights (Ippo title defense and Kamogawa gym underling matches) to keep things interesting during volume 50+. With how things are going, this manga will stretch forever.
It is likable though since I have lasted up to v60 and still going but I have found myself scanning the post and pre-fight fillers as well as the filler matches in hopes to get to the more important matches. This basically sums up how HNI is going.
Unless the author keeps things interesting, I will simply skim through the repetitive and formulaic discussions/fights and go through the important matches.
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both have to do with boxing
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Both mangas have parallel stories of talentless, downtrodden boy who work hard to gain gain strength and improve themselves. in kenichi the main character develops his martial arts skills in a dojo through sheer hard work and will just like ippo who trains in a boxing gym and improves through determination rather than talent. both are superb mangas a lover of one will surely enjoy the other.
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