Takamura finally asks Ippo to train in boxing once he feels something stirring deep inside of him. Takamura forces Ippo to punch a punching bag that contains a picture of Ippo’s classmate. He experiences awe and amazement at his new surroundings in the gym when he is able to regain consciousness, yet lacks the confidence to attempt anything. As a result of his injuries, Ippo faints and is taken to the Kamogawa boxing gym for recovery. When Ippo finds himself facing yet another bullying incident, the boxer Takamura Mamoru decides to save him. Ippo, who is always running errands and being beaten by his classmates, has always dreamed of changing himself but has never had the passion to do so.
Takamura gets extremely worried with this prospect, as Miyata skill is way above the four-rounder pro boxer.Īs expected, Ippo loses by KO, but not until Miyata struggles dodging his punches and finally ends the match with his trump card: The Counter.Ĭoach Kamogawa decides that he has great fighting sense and spirit and decides to train him to eventually become the Japanese champion with a world ranking while Miyata became the OPBF ( Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation ) Champion.3 Download The Anime From Drive Hajime no Ippo (Fighting Spirit) Miyata is known as a boxing prodigy and is one of Kamogawa gyms future hopes. However, Kamogawa decides to give Ippo a severe challenge and tells him to spar with Miyata, who is 16, the same age as Ippo. Takamura invites Ippo back to the boxing gym for introductions. This impresses Takamura greatly, and he informs Ippo that the action required to catch all 10 leaves is called a boxing jab. He waits for the jogging Takamura to come by his usual path and surprises him by catching all 10 of the falling leaves and only doing so with his left hand. 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 couldnt 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. It was then that they had their first glimpse into Ippos talent for boxing.Īfter that incident, Ippo gave the situation a lot of thought and decided that he would like to begin a career as a professional boxer. 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 (, Kamogawa Bokushingu Jimu ), owned by retired boxer Genji Kamogawa, to treat his wounds.Īfter 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. In 1991, Hajime no Ippo won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award in the shnen category.īecause he kept to himself, a group of bullies led by Umezawa got into the habit of picking on him.
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 television film and an original video animation were released in 2003.Ī second series titled Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger aired from January to June 2009.Ī third series Hajime no Ippo: Rising aired from October 2013 to March 2014. It has been serialized by Kodansha in Weekly Shnen Magazine since October 1989 and collected into 127 tankbon volumes as of February 2020. The First Step) is a Japanese boxing manga series written and illustrated by George Morikawa.
Hajime No Ippo Manga Torrent Series Written And Kimura Directed by Hitoshi Nanba Produced by Hiroshi Yamashita Manabu Tamura Masao Maruyama Written by Tatsuhiko Urahata Music by Tsuneo Imahori Studio Madhouse Licensed by NA Geneon Released SeptemRuntime 60 minutes.
With a sudden desire to get stronger, for himself and his hard working mother, Ippo trains relentlessly to accomplish the task within the time limit. Thinking that Ippo does not have what it takes, Takamura gives him a task deemed impossible and gives him a one week time limit.
It is only then that Ippo feels something stir inside him and eventually asks Takamura to train him in boxing. Takamura places a photo of Ippos classmate on a punching bag and forces him to punch it.