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The sad thing is that this comic could easily become really good if they actually had Ippo realize that he needs to more carefully study boxing and gain more technical skill. Like, just have him legitimately improve upon his weak areas and start to win as a result, instead of just relying on his YAMATO SPIRIT and Dempsey Roll.
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Takamura starves himself, gets into featherweight, beats Ricardo and dies from his diet.
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Drink Top posted:Takamura starves himself, gets into featherweight, beats Ricardo and dies from his diet. *kills Ricardo
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Ytlaya posted:The sad thing is that this comic could easily become really good if they actually had Ippo realize that he needs to more carefully study boxing and gain more technical skill. Like, just have him legitimately improve upon his weak areas and start to win as a result, instead of just relying on his YAMATO SPIRIT and Dempsey Roll. No man, he needs to tie a ship anchor to his rear end in a top hat, real macho Japanese training, skills are for weenies
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ElGroucho posted:He's never going to go in to the ring with bad intentions bad intentions like "blocking"
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Ippo knew the whole time. At least it being a functional suicide mission makes his proclamation easier to swallow. I guess we'll see where it goes from here...
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Ippo going into the match knowing he's broken, but wanting to show the new dempsey before he would be forced to retire is so heart-breaking. Also, 1203 RAW is up: http://netabare.city/archives/6261
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Hmph. Well, we'll see!
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That was especially brutal because not only did the coach not throw in the towel when he should have and is going to have to live with that, but Ippo never even got to fulfill his last wish of showing off all the hard work they put into his new form. He got robbed of even that much. The author really wanted you to feel all that lost potential. Now no one will know that he had become a murder machine because he learned it while broken.
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TaurusOxford posted:Ippo going into the match knowing he's broken, but wanting to show the new dempsey before he would be forced to retire is so heart-breaking. Ok for that RAW I admit I teared up a little, even not being able to read the translation , seeing the crowd give Ippo a clapping ovation was pretty nice of them. Also drat. Ippo might not be the best character in his own series but the fact he kept going even knowing he was not gonna have time left was pretty heart breaking. Also when he gave the coach that final look (MS chapter) it pretty much was him saying goodbye
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I have to admit, I am genuinely interested in where this is going, even if it feels like the story could have ended at Ippo's 2nd loss So where does Ippo go from here? He is too sick to continue boxing. A few theories I have are... 1) The reason Ippo is ending is that the author is too sick to continue. We'll get a few flash-forward chapters of Takamura winning the world belt and Ippo finally kissing a girl/getting married. He narrowly avoided the Ashita no Joe ending and finds happiness outside of the sport. 2)Someone else becomes the lead, like Takamura, Miyata, or Sendo. Don't see this one being that likely. 3)We get a flash-forward to Ippo taking over the gym and teaching someone else how to be a horrible boxer. This could possibly lead to a Boruto style situation where a new artist takes over, but with the original author overseeing the story.
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DeadBonesBrook posted:I have to admit, I am genuinely interested in where this is going, even if it feels like the story could have ended at Ippo's 2nd loss He'll hook up with Kumi and in a timeskip a few years later after running the fishing boat he'll be confronted by not fulfilling his potential and go back to boxing after the coach dies or something, kinda like Date
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can he still work a fishing boat with that level of brain damage, though?
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ippos boruto should be called bippo
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DeadBonesBrook posted:I have to admit, I am genuinely interested in where this is going, even if it feels like the story could have ended at Ippo's 2nd loss For your theories I think more of it has to do with reason one. Dude's like 50 years old and considering how working in the manga industry takes a toll, I wouldn't be surprised if this is him hanging the towel and ending the series.
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Probably repeatedly concussed himself with all the infinity-loop weaving. Imagine his brain pinballing around every Dempsey wind-up. Guess I still have enough in me to see where this story goes from here, even if a happy ending is no longer an option.
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Ok, having those other 3 chapters before the end of the fight makes this a much easier pill to swallow. Now I am interested to see what happens next.
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Ippo retires as a fighter and becomes a coach, continuing the cycle of creating brain damaged meatheads
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the storytelling is fine. everything makes sense, nothing feels weirdly asspulled however, gently caress this
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for a number of reasons this direction is stupid as hell. what a shame, if only the author didn't waste hundreds of chapters and like 10 IRL years meandering nowhere we couldve had a legitimate ending. oh well
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What a fucktacular way to end This is what happens when you don't plan out the over arching plot and just push out poo poo, thinking you've got plenty of time to wrap things up ElGroucho fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Nov 29, 2017 |
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Nov 29, 2017 02:21
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Those were some pretty good chapters.
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ElGroucho posted:What a fucktacular way to end
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Patware posted:the storytelling is fine. everything makes sense, nothing feels weirdly asspulled That's about right yesss sir
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I suppose I have to give some credit to making Ippo the story of a brilliant prodigy that got his life ruined by an elderly failure that doesn't know the first thing about boxing.
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Why has Morikawa spent years dragging out this stupid loving disappointment? I remember once upon a time considering Ippo among my favourite manga, but honestly it feels like we have just had to wait years for Morikawa to dismantle his own legacy.
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maybe we'll follow the adventures of the monkey boy, he has a real coach and everything
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CharlestonJew posted:maybe we'll follow the adventures of the monkey boy, he has a real coach and everything The Wally fight to me, is the beginning of the descent of this manga. I remember hating everything about it at the time and I don't think its ever truly recovered from it.
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FiftySeven posted:The Wally fight to me, is the beginning of the descent of this manga. I remember hating everything about it at the time and I don't think its ever truly recovered from it. The Vorg fight gave me some hope after that that it was going to get better, but... yeah.
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Please look forward to Morikawa's new manga, Hajime no Takamura, where the coach petitions to have the rules of boxing rewritten so Takamura can fight two people at once.
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Ippo's descent into brain-damaged mediocrity would've been a much more compelling story had the previous story arcs not involved a Philipinno kid who could jump off the turnbuckles like they were jungle trees and Takamura beating a guy by spinning his entire body off his goddamn big toe. I guess what I'm saying is Morikawa is not a very good writer. He's a chapter-to-chapter guy, and that seems to work well for guys like him and Toriyama. That said while I legitimately take umbrage with a lot of the guy's beliefs (the After the War arc springs odiously to mind) he's not Kubo Tite levels of "I've mismanaged my creation and grown to hate my own product and just don't care about it anymore."
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I wouldn't call an ending like this Bleach-esque. It's certainly not a happy ending, but at least you have visual confirmation as to how it happened, as opposed to "Let's just assume the main character actually DID beat the big bad and move on, shall we?" Ippo got a fist in his facehole.
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Ippo learns that real strength is about letting something go instead of holding on tight. The true Samurai spirit.
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So uh what's going to be the legacy of this series. Is it just going to fade away cause of this ending?
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Huzzah! posted:4 new chapters out I think you mean RIppo 
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Stairmaster posted:So uh what's going to be the legacy of this series. Is it just going to fade away cause of this ending? To a degree it's tarnished it's legacy by being stunningly mediocre for longer than it was at it's peak, but it's highs were very high indeed and that buys it a place in history.
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drat nice chapters, gently caress the haters.
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Stairmaster posted:So uh what's going to be the legacy of this series. Is it just going to fade away cause of this ending?
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