Hajime no Ippo Chapter 963 Discussion

kennikitty said:


Enough of this, this is seriously horrible. I can't believe anyone (of the readers) is rooting for Itagaki, who doesn't deserve to win one single bit. He's overly full of himself, he's got no hard punches like Ippo, no inhuman stamnia like Ippo and should he down already, but NO! He's the genius, so on top of his huge talent, we're also giving him all the stuff that helped Ippo survive until now, just... BECAUSE!

I mean: he can't win unless he'll beat up Saeki for at least 2 rounds, because he NOT a hard puncher. Who wants to bet he'll win (man I feel sick writing this) this desaster of a fight in this very single round? -_-

I think I've already wrote it somewhere, but I'll do it again: Saeki is in this fight what Ippo usually is and that's the hard-working "traditional" fighter who's up against the genius. Ippo is the prime example that you can win with hard work, even if you're not a super-genius and this is exactly what Saeki is trying to prove as well. Making Itagaki win this battle, pretty much means the message of the entire manga is useless, because it only applies to Ippo and this means Ippo has to have some sort of special talent, that he has not.

If Itagaki wins, I'm seriously considering dropping this manga, I mean.. come on, this is bullshit. :/

As a note: I really liked this manga a while ago, but this fight makes me want to hate it, although there were such incredible cool fights in there, such as the Ippo vs Sendo fights, or Takamura vs Hawk. That was when this manga was still good...