However, after a week of tough training, involving nightly hours, Ippo manages the technique in the nick of time. Therefore, he challenges Ippo to catch 10 falling leaves from a tree simultaneously after a week of training, fully convinced that Ippo would fail, Takamura jogs away as he continues his roadwork. However, Takamura felt that he couldn't outright refuse Ippo, especially since his feat of punching the sandbag much harder than anybody else in the gym (except for Takamura). When he conveys this message to Mamoru Takamura, he gets verbally reprimanded: Takamura thought Ippo was taking professional boxing too lightly.

After that incident, Ippo gave the situation a lot of thought and decided that he would like to begin a career as a professional boxer. It was then that they had their first glimpse into Ippo's talent for boxing. After Ippo awoke to the sounds of boxers training, the boxer who saved him, Mamoru Takamura, tried to cheer Ippo up by letting him vent his frustrations on a sandbag.

A middle-weight professional boxer who was passing by stopped the bullies and took the injured Ippo to the Kamogawa Gym ( 鴨川ボクシングジム Kamogawa Bokushingu Jimu ?), owned by retired boxer Genji Kamogawa, to treat his wounds. One day, these bullies gave him a rather serious beating. Because he kept to himself, a group of bullies led by Umezawa got into the habit of picking on him. Ippo Makunouchi was an extremely shy high school student who never had the time to make friends because he was always busy helping his mother run their family fishing charter business. Main article: List of Hajime no Ippo characters At the end of 2003, the first season of anime was licensed in North America by Geneon, which released it under the name Fighting Spirit.

The second season is called Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger and concluded on June 30, 2009. On Septemit was announced in Weekly Shōnen Magazine that a second season of Hajime no Ippo would begin airing on January 6, 2009. It follows the story of high school student Makunouchi Ippo, as he begins his career in boxing and over time obtains many titles and defeats various opponents.Ī 76-episode anime adaptation titled Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! was produced by Madhouse, Nippon Television and VAP, directed by Satoshi Nishimura and ran on the Nippon Television Network from October 2000 to March 2002. It has been serialized by Kodansha in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since 1989 and collected in over 114 tankōbon to date. 'The First Step') is a Japanese boxing manga series written and illustrated by George Morikawa. List of Hajime no Ippo episodes#Hajime no Ippo: Rising

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