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| Season 4 please >_< 9/10 |
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| Wow, those body blows. And then the feels at the end (╥﹏╥) One of the best backstories I've watched :) It took me forever to finish this series, but I really hope this gets another season one day! |
| What a way to finish the season! No better fitting way to dedicate the series to Utsumi Kenji (Kamogawa-san) and Nagai Ichiro (Nekota-san). Their voices will live on through millions of fans of this fantastic anime for many, many decades. Loved Miyano Mamoru and Yoshino Hiroyuki voicing the final arc. Hoping to see a sequel. You can never get enough HnI. :) |
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| This has easily become my all-time favorite sports anime and one of my overall favorites. It was tough, but I managed to limit myself to five episodes a day for this season. I was initially put off by the idea of a flashback arc and with the darker tone it almost felt like I was watching a different show, however in the end these last few episodes turned out to be my favorite of the season. I am getting a bit annoyed with the pacing of the Ippo-Kumi romance. It's been 127 episodes and two movies equaling about four or five years in the series. I get that they're both tremendously shy and that her brother's frequent cockblocking doesn't help matters, but for there not to have been a confession(that was heard) or a single kiss by now is absurd. Then again, based on Ippo's underreaction to Sawamura nearly breaking her face, maybe he doesn't actually care for her as much as we or even he himself thinks. Pretty bummed that I've finally caught up. I can only hope that the gap between this season and the next isn't as long as the four years between New Challenger and Rising or worse yet, the seven from The Fighting to New Challenger. 9/10 |
| ippo peleo muy bien hasta el final |
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| Bone shattering Tekken. :) Poor Yuki. The David eagle fight is not as good as the Bryan Hawk fight. Imo.... |
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| Any word on next season? |
| The Ippo series is simply one of the best out there. It's pretty amazing when you stop and think about how it all began and how far both the story and the characters have come. So much greatness! 10/10, Really hope they come out with a 4th season soon. |
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MysticPhantom said: sayyy said: Any word on next season? No word just yet, there is a glimmer of hope that it gets announced in the summer for fall/autumn. If not, I'm almost certain we will see a 2017 release Can only hope. One of my favorites. |
| Amazing.... simply amazing. Gonna miss binge watching this show every day. Hopefully a new season gets announced soon, but this definitely has a good finality to it. Time to move on to the manga I guess. Series as a whole would be a 9/10 for me. Had some of the best fights I have ever seen in anime, but also had some boring ones and moments. All in all though, excellent watch. |
DicklesworthApr 6, 2016 11:31 PM
| Kamogawa and Nekota were amazing. Also I wonder how Yuki lived the rest of her life. IMO the last four episodes were the highlight of HnI due to its grittiness and emotional themes. |
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| Best fight possible to end on. Don't know if there will be another fight in this serious as emotional as that one. 9/10 ps. Mr_Shnb sucks |
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| Great flashbacks. 8/10 This was slightly better than New Challenger. RediceRyan said: ps. Mr_Shnb sucks tf? come at me i'll 1v1 ur ass irl m8 |
| That body blow at the end was awesome! Hajime no Ippo is so good at conveying the feeling of power in those punches, it was like that GI's stomach should have exploded. Great way to end the series, definitely looking forward to the next one. |
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| The best sports anime I've seen and one of the best animes ever made period. |
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Monochrome said: Damn the animation at the end if the fight was amazing. Seriously, they did better than I could have hoped with this arc. In general, this season was amazing. Even though they cut out a few parts I would have liked to see animated, the soundtrack and pacing and interesting fights far surpass NC. I think the only other disappointment in this series is Takamura's fight. So boring. Hopefully we won't have to wait too long for another season. I'll probably end up reading it in the manga before that happens, but I really can't wait to see Aichiro said: Kamogawa is too hard on himself though, I wouldn't have rejected Yuki. j0x said: Kamogawa mainly rejected Yuki for Nekota. Kamogawa only saw her as a friend and even if he did accept her feelings, he probably wouldn't feel right taking her from his best bro. He already said something along these lines in one of the past episodes .-.the only thing that bothered me this episode is that Kamogawa rejected Yuki, why not love both boxing and Yuki at thesame time, damn He loved her, why do you think that he first hit nekota when he spoke about Yuki, both knew they loved her and nekota had respects for kamogawa because he put his friendship with nekota over his love. |
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| That was ironic I loved that animation it was way too good to be true I was mesmerized. such a good way to end this season Kamogawa was so damn strong even stronger than any other boxer I have ever seen in this series. |
| Damn... I'm awestruck now that I've finally completed Hajime no Ippo anime series. It's gonna be hard to fill up the void building up inside me... The season was alright. It wasn't as good as New Challenger but the spectacular arc of Kamogawa/Nekota's backstory left a great impression me. It's a shame that only Aoki and Ippo got to hear their backstory firsthand haha. When I look back at how it all began, how far we've come together with characters and finally how it made me experience myriad of emotions throughout its journey... I couldn't help and got teary-eyed :') I don't think any season can replace the very first HnI anime which was iconic in every aspect :') Welp, I don't think it'll be getting another anime adaptation anytime soon so I'll be patiently waiting when the time comes. 8/10 |
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| Great episode, it was exciting watching Kamogawa destroy the guy's rib. Sad to see he wasn't able to confess his love to Yuki but he was a good guy letting his best friend have her. Hope to see a new season and the fight between Ippo and Miyata |
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| Watched the whole series S1-S3 within 2 weeks took me long to finish but it's a fucking great ride. This last arc got me into feels, and every after fight tbh. I'm gonna miss the show and the sequel probably will take long like 2020(?) 10/10 |
EuphoriaDec 16, 2017 5:49 PM
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| I honestly think that the last episodes were the best in the second and third seasons. I would had been beter of they left this sory and maked it into forth season 12 eps anime in my personal opinion. Over all the second and the third season are not as good as the first one and the movie of Kimura. They feelt like more chesy and light animes (exsept the first word title mach of Takamyra and the afterwar part). |
| Holy mother of shaky cams, that was one brutal K.O.! This was a very touching finale, and it actually works as a finale for the anime as a whole, too. Even though I'll be moving on to the manga now, I still wish for another season (or a movie) of course. This season gets a 7/10 from me, since I enjoyed it thoroughly! |
| Ouch, that must be really hurt.. I can even stand to see it without cringing That was a nice wrapped ending, but still left me unsatisfied :( It's really sad that both Kamogawa and Nekota's seiyuu have passed away :( |
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| This season is downright dogshit. |
| Kinda was disappointed that they had to end the show with the reminiscent of Nekota and Gen. Gen was the coolest person in that situation, choosing his friendship over love. If it was an American show he would have chosen love instead, those guys are so predictable in making shows. I wanted to see a Miyata/Ippo fight or Ippo going to become world champion, it seems those goals weren't in this season's mind at all. I also would like for him to get with his girl and make it official. I see why now the score was lowers than previous season. 8/10. |
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| I think that's the first time I've got teary eyed watching this anime since the Date flashback arc with the loss of his child. What a fucking arc that was, I'm blown away by it honestly, so glad they gave it a 4 episode run. I'm tempted to bump my rating up to 9/10 just for how strong that arc was and how much I loved the ending. |
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| Holy shit, truly great fight, Kamogawa just defeated someone in a totally different weight class with a true killer punch. This was the best fight this season In my opinion. Damn that goodbye scene, almost teared up until I saw Aoki's hairstyle. Lmao Nekota "And that is Aoki Masaru, you can forget about that one" damn savage Great end for this season. |
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| It’s an amazing episode, it was great! I really hope there will be a new season, I’ve loved so much this series! |
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| Damn, those punches. I felt them thourgh screen. :D |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| Now this is what you call some top tier drama, very emotional and edge-of-your-seat stuff right here, I love how the Post World War II arc fleshed out Kamogawa and Nekota's backstories. Overall, I think this season was great as it brought out a lot more drama than last season. The fights were awesome, intense and high stakes as usual. I hope we get another season in the making in the near future, I still want to hold off of the manga as much as I can since I'm enjoying the shit out of this series. Only 46 out of ~130 volumes are covered, so we have enough material for several new seasons and hundreds of episodes of HnI. 9/10 rating for this season. |
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| I felt that punch at the end damn you Kamogawa..... ONTO THE MANGA! |
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| Oh boy, oh boy, Nekota and Kamogawa were some real badasses back in the days, especially Kamogawa was some mad fucker. He drilled the log in that hill with his fists and still destroyed Anderson. This man is allowed to call Ippo brat lol. Gotta say it was an amazing backstory/ sidestory arc. It took what made this series so awesome into a different era and it worked. At the end I looked almost as Ippo and Aoki. A great season overall again. It's just a shame that the anime ends here, even tho there's still, so, so much more content left to adapt. Well, maybe one day. 9/10 only because it was more fleshed out, but animation and OST made almost up for it #prayforS4 |
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| Holy shit this was an amazing journey.... MANGA HERE I COME. Also R.I.P to every staff that passed away along the journey: Utsumi Kenji, Nagai Ichirou and every viewer who didn't get to see the end. |
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| It wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that Kamogawa ended up launching the nukes back to America on Japan's behalf because of how he absolutely decimated Anderson's ribcage through those body blows of his, damn! It would've been nice if we got to see Nekota and Yuki together until her final moments had passed Up-style but the vow Kamogawa had made to Yuki definitely made me emotional as hell especially when he had finally found a successor in Ippo. This season felt surprisingly short to me. I suppose that time flies when you're having fun, after all. I hope that season 4 will be coming soon! |
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| The best anime of all time. Is now over.... im so sad rn :( 10/10. |
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| weird decision to end the series with this arc, you would expected for much more "ending" episode than this one like NC did. never the less, it was fine arc and one hell and epic episode that only hajime no ipp knows how to do. though Rising is much better than NC, i still cannot say this was as the first. it started slowly but continued very awesome, but still didn't felt like it influenced by NC direct flow. the animation is great but for me it's seems that only the first series animation can do, no matter how much it isn't "updated" lol. still amazing series, and hoping for more. if there's something that made me stopping watching for some time hajime no ippo is it's repetitiveness, it makes me less get addicted to it. still hajime no ippo is one of the best sport anime out there. 9/10 for Rising 10/10 for the whole series 'till far |
| I came back here after all this time thinking surely there will be a sequel by now. Sigh. |
| Damn it's over already, pretty sad to see the anime end even if this season ended on such a high note. I'll be waiting if S4 ever comes, until then manga here I come |
| Yeah that was a great final arc. I didn't care for the Takamura arc really at all because it was obvious he was gonna win as the Japanese Mary Sue of boxing, but Ippo's big match was pretty good. |
| Thought Rising was a big step down from the previous seasons. Too much focus on unfunny crude comedy, characterization for the various opponents mostly skipped over, bad direction in some of the fights with several moments of noticeably poor continuity from one cut to the next - it really felt like the show wasn't given the level of care it deserved. The last 8 or so episodes managed to partially salvage things, with Takamura's big fight having some real tension, and the post-war arc was of course great, but I can't ignore that I was underwhelmed and even bored for the majority of the season. |
| THIS LAST EPISODE HIT SO HARD. the music, the animation, the drama, the fight, everything was spot on. a really good note to end it on. great season yet again 9/10. i guess this is where my 126 episode hajime no ippo anime journey ends. it has truly been amazing. an experience i won't forget. easily my third favorite anime now. really wish there was a season 4 tho. hopeful it'll happen one day and praying. guess i just gotta pick up the manga now which apparently has over 1400 chapters. more peak, here i come. THANK YOU HAJIME NO IPPO. |
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