Is "Hajime No Ippo" Finally Ending? After nearly 30 years the manga series may be hanging up its gloves for good. Manga and anime rumors are abuzz once again with talk about the end of "Hajime no Ippo," a popular boxing manga that first began serialization in 1989 and spawned multiple anime seasons and video games.
Considering the fact that the manga has been running for nearly three decades has fans believing that the author, George Morikawa, may be close to closing the final chapter of Ippo's tale.
Following his loss, worries about him suffering from brain damage are brought to light as the accumulated damage from his previous fights has started to stack up. 10 months pass, and after many tests and trials, Ippo finds himself ready to return to the ring. He faces off against the Filipino champion, Antonio Guevarra.
In this fight, Ippo is knocked unconscious after taking some serious hits. Following his loss, worries about him suffering from brain damage are brought to light as the accumulated damage from his previous fights has started to stack up. 10 months pass, and after many tests and trials, Ippo finds himself ready to return to the ring.
Hajime No Ippo – Chapter 595 – Dead end.
It has been serialized by Kodansha in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since October 1989 and collected into 133 tankōbon volumes as of March 2022....Hajime no Ippo.はじめの一歩Original runOctober 11, 1989 – presentVolumes134Anime television seriesDirected bySatoshi Nishimura60 more rows
And then there's Hajime no Ippo, which is squaring off in the ring at a whopping 124 volumes with no end in sight. Series creator George Morikawa addressed this during an appearance on an Abema TV program last week.
The Hajime no Ippo manga was written and illustrated by author Jōji Morikawa. It is one of the longest weekly running series, spanning over 130 volumes and more than 1350 chapters, ongoing since 1989.
An anime with a status like this needs to take its time to bounce back. Still, many experts believe that Hajime no Ippo season 4 will be out in late 2022 or early 2023.
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In this final round, Ippo threw his newly acquired uppercut in an attempt to end the fight, but seemingly missed. It was this uppercut that caused Miyata to go down and unable to get up, making Ippo the winner.
Personality. At the start of the series Ippo is a 16-year-old high school student. He is usually a kind and reserved person who dislikes fighting, and because of that he had been bullied since grade school. He has changed slightly but not a lot since his debut as a professional boxer.
Kumi Mashiba Kumi has been Ippo's love interest ever since the Rookie Kings.
Roberto DuránTakamura is based off Roberto Durán. It was said in the 5th volume of the Bunko series of Hajime no Ippo. It mentioned that Takamura's bear incident was similar to Durán's horse incident.
If you really wanted to, you could start from Chapter 1 anyway to pick up the minor details that were cut. You may end up enjoying the series more, or it might not make much of a difference.
However, as the fight went on, not only Miyata, but everyone present was surprised at Ippo's durability, stamina and determination, which took the fight to the third round. After much struggle, Miyata was finally able to defeat Ippo with his signature counter, and realised just how interesting boxing really is.
Ippo's latest chapters have revolved around the calm after the storm of his defeat, and based on some fan translations of the leaked images of the manga, it appears that Ippo is announcing his retirement and going back to his family's fishing business.
Considering the fact that the manga has been running for nearly three decades has fans believing that the author, George Morikawa, may be close to closing the final chapter of Ippo's tale.
It has run in the magazine for over 30 years, and reached its 1000th chapter in December 2012. It became the 8th longest running manga series with over 1300 chapters released in Japan as of 2021. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on February 17, 1990. As of June 17, 2021, 131 volumes have been published. In June 2021, it was announced that the series will get a digital release, for the first time in 33 years of publication, starting on July 1 of the same year.
Hajime no Ippo video games. Anime and manga portal. Hajime no Ippo (はじめの一歩, lit. "The First Step") is a Japanese boxing -themed manga series written and illustrated by George Morikawa.
Ippo Makunouchi was an extremely shy high school student, unable to make friends due to always being busy helping his mother run their family fishing charter business. Because he kept to himself, a group of bullies led by Umezawa got into the habit of picking on him. One day, when these bullies gave him a rather serious beating, a middleweight professional boxer who was passing by stopped them 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. 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. It was then that they had their first glimpse into Ippo's talent for boxing. 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. When he conveys this message to Mamoru Takamura, he gets verbally reprimanded: Takamura thought Ippo was taking professional boxing too lightly. 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). 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.
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, after a week of tough training, involving nightly hours, Ippo manages the technique in the nick of time.
The third season, titled Hajime no Ippo: Rising, ran for 25 episodes from October 5, 2013 to March 29, 2014. Hajime no Ippo: Rising was streamed on Crunchyroll. In North America, the first series was licensed by Geneon Entertainment in 2003, which released it under the name Fighting Spirit.
Disc sales of the series did not perform well. In September 2020, Discotek Media announced that they had licensed the series, including the 76 episodes, Champion Road and, for the first time in North America, the OVA Mashiba vs. Kimura. The first Blu-ray Disc set (episodes 1–24) was released on January 26, 2021.
However, Kamogawa decides to give Ippo a severe challenge and tells him to spar with Miyata, who is 16, the same age as Ippo. Miyata is known as a boxing prodigy and is one of Kamogawa gym's future hopes. Takamura gets extremely worried with this prospect, as Miyata skill is way above the four-rounder pro boxer.