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turboraton
Aug 28, 2011
Lmao I was just rewatching the Sendo vs Shigeta fight and the Coach is yelling: "Save your boxer, throw the towel" hahaha what a guy

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Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Lol who here on the forums reminded Mangastream that we needed to know how far Ippo's brain damage goes?

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Wrong thread.

Drink Top
Jul 21, 2012

Wark Say posted:

I'd be curious to see a Woli OVA happen because, like, Madhouse doesn't do anything technically super impressive with any of the fights, but goddamn do they feel so... physical.

Super Eyepatch Wolf said something in his video about why you should watch the series but for real, the fights in Ippo have a strength that you rarely get from normal anime. Like, you don't get this vibe from an anime adaptation from any Battle/Sports Manga unless they pour in the motherfucking sakuga. It doesn't feel like that with Ippo. When Sendo starts beating the poo poo out of Ippo here it's not just the animation aspects that, while solid but fairly average for Madhouse, they are very consistent and, summed for some very impressive audio editing (as a audio/recording engineer, I am constantly loving awed with how much the audio edits enhance the fights), you get the whole visceral package. Also bonus for Masaya Onosaka (Sendo's VA) bringing in the hot-blooded screams home.

This scene reminded me that Takamura is the only worthwhile second at that gym.

Asuron
Nov 27, 2012

Drink Top posted:

This scene reminded me that Takamura is the only worthwhile second at that gym.

Do you remember when the Coach’s plan for Ippo to beat Volg was to have him endure a beating for four rounds until Volg ran out of endurance? Against an opponent he knew had a history of crippling opponents to the point they could never box again? With strategies like that it’s a miracle Ippo made it to the japanese title at all.

pnumoman
Sep 26, 2008

I never get the last word, and it makes me very sad.

Asuron posted:

With strategies like that it’s a miracle Ippo made it to the japanese title at all lived long enough to retire and everyone in the manga is admitting it without pointing the finger at coach.

Rhonne
Feb 13, 2012

Do you want to know what we do to artists?
It makes more sense of you pretend that the coach secretly hated Ippo and has been trying to get rid of him for years.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
comparing moe the bartender and kamogawa is always good for a laugh

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Rhonne posted:

It makes more sense of you pretend that the coach secretly hated Ippo and has been trying to get rid of him for years.

*Single tear in Kamogawa's eye as Ippo wins*

Coach: 'Kid!'

Coach internally: *crying* you little fucker I was going to retire.

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen
The coach managed to turn his hands hard as steel by inflicting horrific and permanent damage onto them, so he thought if he did the same to Ippo's skull it would be just as hard

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
Remember when Ippo was implied to have learned magical fist techniques s during the Woli fight?

Hypocrisy
Oct 4, 2006
Lord of Sarcasm

We're up to chapter 1226 and we've come full circle with chapter 1.

SwissArmyDruid
Feb 14, 2014

by sebmojo

Fabricated posted:

Remember when Ippo was implied to have learned magical fist techniques s during the Woli fight?

You mean during the Gedo fight.

Hypocrisy posted:

We're up to chapter 1226 and we've come full circle with chapter 1.

Is there anywhere else to read this besides Mangastream?

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
I'm actually enjoying this series a bunch more now that Ippos not fighting.

Hypocrisy
Oct 4, 2006
Lord of Sarcasm

SwissArmyDruid posted:

Is there anywhere else to read this besides Mangastream?

Here you go. chapter 1226.

Enjoy acknowledgement that Ippo is a super masochist.

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

Dexo posted:

I'm actually enjoying this series a bunch more now that Ippos not fighting.
You do know that all of this is just to get Ippo back in the ring right

he'll be a bad second, a bad recruiter, a bad mentor, but hey you can still beat people up good

TaurusOxford
Feb 10, 2009

Dad of the Year 2021

Fabricated posted:

You do know that all of this is just to get Ippo back in the ring right

At this point that's the worst possible option for the series to go.

tbp
Mar 1, 2008

DU WIRST NIEMALS ALLEINE MARSCHIEREN
im still angry at the series but ippo throwing the chair gag was funny as hell

Frabba
May 30, 2008

Investing in chewy toy futures

TaurusOxford posted:

At this point that's the worst possible option for the series to go.

Which by virtue of Morikawa's razor, is absolutely what will happen.

Hypocrisy
Oct 4, 2006
Lord of Sarcasm

Fabricated posted:

You do know that all of this is just to get Ippo back in the ring right

he'll be a bad second, a bad recruiter, a bad mentor, but hey you can still beat people up good

Ippo has been a pretty good second so far though.

I was worried that they were setting up an early return with Hayami but we saw how that went.

I think it's pretty clear that we will get some nice arcs with Ippo training this new kid into a contender until he gets corrupted and Ippo has to fight him in a parking lot.

Hypocrisy fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Jul 2, 2018

TaurusOxford
Feb 10, 2009

Dad of the Year 2021

Frabba posted:

Which by virtue of Morikawa's razor, is absolutely what will happen.

Oh I know it's doomed to happen, but gently caress man, what a waste of everyone's time. Morikawa should have just ended the series at chapter 1209 - It's not like we're ever gonna see all the loose ends tied up anyway.

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
"You're the only one that likes that bullshit"

Takamura is the best

Shindragon
Jun 6, 2011

by Athanatos
Wooow we missed out on alot, and I gotta say Ippo being a second has been a very fun take/development to this manga.

Also goddamn it better not to turn into Rocky 5. :v:

Hypocrisy
Oct 4, 2006
Lord of Sarcasm

Hajime no Ippo 1227 where Ippo is defeated by his dog. Also, it looks like the bully kid is more likely to start boxing so yes, it's time for Rocky 5.

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
Ippo's dog has gotten more trim than he has, think on that

ed: honestly just end this poo poo, or focus on Takamura, gently caress Ippo

ElGroucho fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jul 7, 2018

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
While it's very predictable so far I'm still enjoying this.

Mostly though I wonder how much longer Morikawa plans to keep it going. It feels like it could end at any moment or be only halfway.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

The joke with Ippo thinking his mighty boxer aura was intimidating them when it was really his dog was funny.

busysignal
Nov 28, 2013
Ippo is no Takamura, that's for sure.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
someone is finally translating rikudou again. not from the most recent chapter just where i restarted from

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Rikudou has insanely good art.

Wild Horses
Oct 31, 2012

There's really no meaning in making beetles fight.
Riku is one murderer you want to fix up and nurture

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Wild Horses posted:

Riku is one murderer you want to fix up and nurture

manslaughterer. it was in self defense

Hypocrisy
Oct 4, 2006
Lord of Sarcasm

Chapter 1228 is out.

Ippo discovers a genius!

Shindragon
Jun 6, 2011

by Athanatos
Hahahahaha. Rekt.

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
lmao

loving owned man

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
I'm okay with Ippo being a comedy from now on.

TaurusOxford
Feb 10, 2009

Dad of the Year 2021

Sindai posted:

I'm okay with Ippo being a comedy from now on.

It was always a comedy - now it's just a corpse.

Drink Top
Jul 21, 2012
I actually liked this last chapter.

tbp
Mar 1, 2008

DU WIRST NIEMALS ALLEINE MARSCHIEREN
i have a feeling the bully will be the one to join the gym in some sense if anyone does

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Hypocrisy
Oct 4, 2006
Lord of Sarcasm

They do repeatedly say his name and show his face.

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