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Since no one in the Hajime no Ippo anime thread is making a manga discussion thread, I decided to make one for you! Now everyone in the anime thread can browse it without pages of unmarked manga spoilers! here is a brief summary blatantly stolen from wikipedia! Ippo Makunouchi is a very shy high school student who never had the time to make friends because he was always busy helping his mother with the family charter boat fishing business. Because he kept to himself, a group of bullies led by Umezawa got into the habit of picking on him. On one particular day these bullies decided to give him a rather serious beating, but a middle-weight professional boxer who was passing by stopped the bullies and took the injured Ippo to the Kamogawa Gym, 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 started his regular training and began his path in Japan's professional boxing. The story focuses heavily on character development, even during the matches something is learned about the fighters. Ippo and his friendly rivalry with Miyata is the main draw in the early part of the series. That later changes to Ippo's path towards the Japanese Featherweight Championship and eventually the world championship. Along the way we are given glimpses into the other side character's pasts, motivations, relationships to others and current boxing trials. Apparently the manga is well over 800 chapters and has been running for just about 20 years now. It can be found here. For the record I have never actually read a single page of the manga, and I cant go digging around for any humorous images because I don't want to spoil the anime for myself. Feel free to have the thread closed and make a better OP yourself!  If you enjoyed the anime and you would like to start reading the manga, chapter 399 is where the anime ends. thanks Guyver!
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I demand a massive OP!
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Feb 25, 2009 03:09
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Needs more pictures, words and possibly homosexual undertones between Miyata and Ippo.
Soth fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Feb 25, 2009 |
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Feb 25, 2009 03:15
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Soth posted:Needs more pictures, words and possibly homosexual undertones between Miyata and Ippo. I'll put them in the OP if you can find some. 
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Feb 25, 2009 04:58
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A great Online Ippo manga viewer: http://www.confusticated.com/ignition-one/ippo.php?chap=843&img=01 Newest Chapter 844 RAW: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W859X19G or http://www.sendspace.com/file/0m0ejh No comment on this chapter, you'll have to see it for yourself to believe it. I'm totally unsure how I feel about the fight.
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Feb 25, 2009 05:03
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Jedah posted:A great Online Ippo manga viewer: As much as I see the spoilers for Naruto (maybe not a good example) and the One Piece spoiler (a good example) I can at least resist not looking at them. This one is gonna be hard, merely because I need to know how this fight ends (Miyata better lose, but he wont).
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Feb 25, 2009 06:57
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The most demanded topic in ADTRW history... Rolling Go!
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Feb 25, 2009 07:29
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844 RAW That's it?! God drat it, I wanted a smash shouryuken. Although I guess the fight isn't technically over yet. At least his ribs are hosed..
KajiTheMelonMan fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Feb 25, 2009 |
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Feb 25, 2009 07:29
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Man, Ippo looked like a midget on the early chapters, the artstyle has come a long way.
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Feb 25, 2009 19:47
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Honest Thief posted:Man, Ippo looked like a midget on the early chapters, the artstyle has come a long way. Well he was also like 15 or 16
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Feb 25, 2009 20:01
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Honest Thief posted:Man, Ippo looked like a midget on the early chapters, the artstyle has come a long way. Yes, though I'm not quite sure how his current physique isn't totally freakish by now, or how he's remained comfortably in the same weight class despite becoming a superhuman. At one point, it is shown that Ippo's own arm strength is almost equivalent to Takamura, during a game of arm wrestling. This was way earlier in the series too. Takamura is what, about 6 weight classes above Ippo? I'd think, at the least, he'd resemble Shimabukuro's body type more, or maybe (at least) Sendo.
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Feb 25, 2009 20:57
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Jedah posted:Yes, though I'm not quite sure how his current physique isn't totally freakish by now, or how he's remained comfortably in the same weight class despite becoming a superhuman. It's because Ippo is secretly black and has superior black muscles 
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Feb 26, 2009 01:00
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Jedah posted:Yes, though I'm not quite sure how his current physique isn't totally freakish by now, or how he's remained comfortably in the same weight class despite becoming a superhuman. Different people have different strength threasholds for their muscles so someone who has a ton of mass may be weaker than the guy who looks kind of flabby. A good rule of thumb is don't judge a fighter based on physique.
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Feb 26, 2009 01:30
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Jedah posted:Yes, though I'm not quite sure how his current physique isn't totally freakish by now, or how he's remained comfortably in the same weight class despite becoming a superhuman. comic book. No but seriously he's super short and he's not over training muscles like a body builder might, plus you can infer that he has a sort of natural strength. His punch has always been strong most of his training has been to build up other muscles to support his power and deliver it in different ways
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Feb 26, 2009 04:40
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I've always thought that part of the reason is due to the brutal weight maintenance regimes they put themselves through. They train like hell but keep restricting their food and water intake, thus their actual muscle mass gain is limited.
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Feb 26, 2009 06:34
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844 is upRemo posted:I've always thought that part of the reason is due to the brutal weight maintenance regimes they put themselves through. They train like hell but keep restricting their food and water intake, thus their actual muscle mass gain is limited. DamnGlitch posted:comic book. Guyver fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Feb 26, 2009 |
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Feb 26, 2009 11:24
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Guyver posted:844 is up
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Feb 26, 2009 13:24
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Guyver posted:844 is up This is just taking too long, I mean, I know it's how usually a fight goes in Ippo, but the ammount of punishment Myata took is just astounding. DamnGlitch posted:Well he was also like 15 or 16 So? It's just a very early state of the author's drawing, it just goes to shows how he evolved, it's no wonder the anime didn't kept this early look for Ippo.
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Feb 26, 2009 15:47
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Honest Thief posted:This is just taking too long, I mean, I know it's how usually a fight goes in Ippo, but the ammount of punishment Myata took is just astounding. His art style AND ippo's size changed.
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Feb 26, 2009 22:26
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Do we even need to spoiler? I think he'll get up. Miyata's ribs are hosed so that probably took a lot of power out of the punch. Everytime they show an injury or such before a punch something similar happens.
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Feb 27, 2009 05:18
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Honest Thief posted:So? It's just a very early state of the author's drawing, it just goes to shows how he evolved, it's no wonder the anime didn't kept this early look for Ippo. Mashiba looked totally different when he first appeared, as time went on his features became more and more 'evil' looking. One thing about the overall art style, he has always drawn ears like a 1st grader  And about 844, who else thinks Miyata wins the fight but ends his boxing career? Glass ribs? Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jan 30, 2023 |
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Feb 27, 2009 07:24
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sephiroth669 posted:Mashiba looked totally different when he first appeared, as time went on his features became more and more 'evil' looking. I think that would be ideal. Otherwise it would be pretty bogus in terms of believability
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Feb 27, 2009 08:28
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DamnGlitch posted:I think that would be ideal. Otherwise it would be pretty bogus in terms of believability But would Miyata do then? He's a popular character! (teaches Ippo the counter! Ippo takes Miyata's dreams TO ZA WORLD in his fists)
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Feb 27, 2009 09:17
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I've always assumed the finale of the manga would be Ippo vs Miyata for the world title after one of them takes it from Ricardo - probably Miyata. Or them being 2 and 3 in the world when he retires or something. But the manga has surprised me before.
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Feb 27, 2009 15:14
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Would love for the finale to be Itagaki vs Ippo. It would be Ippo's first title defense as World champion, after beating Martinez. Jedah fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Mar 1, 2009 |
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Mar 1, 2009 06:52
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Jedah posted:Would love for the finale to be Itagaki vs Ippo. It would be Ippo's first title defense as World champion, after beating Martinez. What's up with the foreshadowing done earlier with throwing a punch in a uncomfortable stance and the training done with uppercuts? It looks like Miyata will win with just his usual cross counter punch.
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Mar 1, 2009 08:10
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Jedah posted:Would love for the finale to be Itagaki vs Ippo. It would be Ippo's first title defense as World champion, after beating Martinez. I somehow think that will be Ippo's last japanese title defense. From there he can finally leave Japan rankers behind and move onto the world stage.
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Kave posted:I somehow think that will be Ippo's last japanese title defense. From there he can finally leave Japan rankers behind and move onto the world stage. Haven't they already said he's vacating the title as soon as his next match is set up?
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They were going to vacate before Miyata canceled his match with Ippo in favor of Randy Boy Jr. Ippo decided to quit boxing but later reconsidered, one of the Coach's conditions for taking Ippo back was that he take on both OPBF and Japanese national boxers.
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Mar 2, 2009 06:31
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Isn't Ippo supposed to be taking out all these OPBF fighters, basically brute forcing his way to Miyata's throne? It's pretty obvious that despite what has happened he'll be fighting Miyata again, but I don't think it'll be on the world stage, I reckon it'll be the OPBF title match.
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Mar 2, 2009 06:40
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Wasn't it said that you can't fight someone from your gym? Itagaki is waiting for the title to be dropped by Ippo to go after it.
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Guyver posted:They were going to vacate before Miyata canceled his match with Ippo in favor of Randy Boy Jr. Ippo decided to quit boxing but later reconsidered, one of the Coach's conditions for taking Ippo back was that he take on both OPBF and Japanese national boxers. Do you have a chapter range for this? I can barely remember this at all.
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Guyver posted:They were going to vacate before Miyata canceled his match with Ippo in favor of Randy Boy Jr. Ippo decided to quit boxing but later reconsidered, one of the Coach's conditions for taking Ippo back was that he take on both OPBF and Japanese national boxers. I remember this. I believe the coach's thinking for this was also that it would help Ippo improve for the world stage.
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Broken Toaster posted:I remember this. I believe the coach's thinking for this was also that it would help Ippo improve for the world stage. I just hope they time lapse this a bit. I'm really looking forward to less gimmicks and more ippo just destroying people. The guy he took out all calm and cool without the dempsy was one of my favorite fights because it finally seemed like he was the loving champion and not punch drunk love. Ippo always wins but the way he's been winning seems to be more stringing us along more than anything.
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dag01 posted:Do you have a chapter range for this? I can barely remember this at all. Chapter 721 is where Miyata delivers the bad news, 726 is when Ippo comes back to the Coach.
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Broken Toaster posted:Wasn't it said that you can't fight someone from your gym? Itagaki is waiting for the title to be dropped by Ippo to go after it. Yeah, but it is possible that Itagaki could leave the gym to be able to take on Ippo. That's what Miyata did so that they could face each other in the future. Itagaki could end up at Mashiba's gym, since they seem to get along.
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Kave posted:Yeah, but it is possible that Itagaki could leave the gym to be able to take on Ippo. That's what Miyata did so that they could face each other in the future. Itagaki could end up at Mashiba's gym, since they seem to get along. I can't really see Itagaki leaving the gym though.
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Chapter 845 RAW: http://www.sendspace.com/file/oem8wv http://www.mediafire.com/?jqmhnnzyezl I tell ya, this drat fight...
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Jedah posted:Chapter 845 RAW: I can't read it in class, but did Miyata finally do it? 
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The "!?" in the last panel about sums it up for me.
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