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Hajime no Ippo
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Shamo
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Imagine what would have happened if Ippo from HnI was not a super naive mother's boy who remains a virgin even after reaching boxing fame but was actually the complete opposite. The result is the male lead of Shamo, a psychopath jailed as a juvenile for murder of his parents and later on a serial rapist who puts on boxing gloves. Be prepared for a chaotic, raw, sick sense of pleasure and pain as you accompany the character through his crazy journey as an outlier.
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Shamo and HnI have many stuff in common - both protagonists are learning martial arts (Ippo learns boxing/ryo learns karate). Ippo wants to be stronger, so he won't get bullied, while ryo wants to survive the humiliation in prison. The effort those 2 put into their martial art is equal, so their progress is as well. And there are many scenes which resemble ti each other (for example the leaf catching). The only big border between those two super good manga is the atmosphere. Shamo is way darker, ryo gives shit about morals, he's a rapist, he works for yakuza and he kills. While ippo
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