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| Cal | Feb 7 2014, 06:01 PM Post #1 |
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So, I recently read all current 1046 chapters of Hajime No Ippo (last 7 were raw versions). What follows is my opinion on why it's one of my favorite sports manga as well as it's individual pros and cons. Spoilers if you haven't read it.. Synopsis: The story follows the highs and lows of Kamogowa Boxing Gym which features boxers across different weight classes in East Tokyo. The protagonist is none other than Makunouchi Ippo who goes from a bullied student in his local hometown to the potential hopes of Japan and his gym throughout his eventual boxing career within the Featherweight Division. Characters: The characters are well developed for the story. Along with Makunouchi, his other gym-mates that can be considered main cast are Takemaru, Aoki, Kimura, Ikatage (comes later), and the head trainer and second for the gym, Kamogawa. Rivals that fit in the main secondary cast are Miyata, Sendo, and Volg. All three of these boxers train in other gyms but are passed opponents from Makunouchi that the mangaka keeps relevant. I enjoy the way the main cast outside of Ippo is used well for comic relief, especially Takemaru and Sendo. Takemaru is Ippo's senpai and easily the most successful boxer within the gym. The story shows his rise from being a national ranker to his eventual winning of the Japanese Championship and 2 world titles. His plan in the story is to conquer 6 different weight classes, which he's done a good job of so far having stayed undefeated in his boxing career. He likes to give all the other members of the gym a hard time because he considers himself the best-granted he is. Sendo is a straightforward boxer within the Featherweight division who has fought Ippo twice already and has held the Japanese Featherweight Championship. His character just like his fighting style is straightforward against all odds-grit your teeth and push on, which I love. If I had to guess I would say that the mangaka never intended for him to stay around in the story but he was so popular that he kept him relevant after his matches with Ippo. For the main character it's a love-hate relationship. Despite his huge success in the boxing ring he has low confidence (still even to a degree in current chapters). He has a pathetic love relationship with a sister of one of the boxers he defeated while still a rookie which is ridiculously cliche. Despite all this though it does show him grow as a boxer and a person throughout the series in a well mannered way. Also, he's not untouchable, like any main character he wins most of the time and stays true to his awesome nature, but he has lost a match before and it did well to show how he grew from it. The character that's probably hated the most out of the ones listed is probably Volg. A lot of people think the mangaka is just continually trying to push him in the story when he doesn't belong in it. He makes random appearances throughout the manga since his debut and somehow does a good job of staying unrelievedly relevant. Art: No complaints with the art. A lot of times with manga that involves basic hand fighting as the manga goes on the fights seem to all blur into the same thing. This one still does that sometimes, but as Ippo grows we see his movements change in matches as well as how he does fundamental things like take punches, etc. Outside of boxing it's still pretty good. Sometimes there's a lack of backgrounds but I don't even care about that too much with this one. Plot Stupidity Fights: There is only one of these really. That would be when Ippo faces the Indonesian Champion who has a record of only 3 wins and 0 losses. The manga portrays him as a genius with no real equal destined to go to the top. It sort of diminishes the idea we've been working for the whole time with effort and training with the Komagawa gym. Despite Ippo winning, his coach said he would never fight him again because he would lose the next time. Despite all this he sort of falls off the radar after the fight. It just didn't make a lot of sense after Ippo had beaten boxers more talented than him with guts, grit, and believing in his second, but whatever. Back-story for Main Characters: This frustrates me sometimes. It took forever to find out how Ippo's dad died, and we still don't know much about his father's life despite hinting at it randomly being important to the plot. Story does well with secondary main cast like Takemaru, Miyata, Aoiki, Kimaru, etc. It gives just enough info about them to make you understand how they ended up like they are. The story also does well with back-stories from boxers who are fighting people within the main cast ranks, especially Ippo's-him being the main character and all. They're not all really repetitive either which is nice. I enjoy most of them actually and sometimes I even want to root against the main characters for someone else, haha. -- Will be back later with more on the manga, but let me hear your opinions to what I've said, etc. |
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| + Pelador | Feb 7 2014, 06:13 PM Post #2 |
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I read a bit of the manga and I enjoyed it. However I find reading manga online is not the same as holding it in my hands. Which is a shame because this is definitely a great series. I do intend to read it all one day. When I have literally nothing else to do. Until then I'll stick to watching the anime which is currently one of my favourites of all time. Even if the fights do drag on way too long sometimes. |
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| Paste-Ninja | Feb 8 2014, 04:54 PM Post #3 |
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Woo! I'm glad I'm not the only one who is up to date with Hajime no Ippo. It's one of my favorite  I've gave up on the anime until there are a chunk of episodes out that I can watch without having to wait for the next ep
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 I'm just a piece of trash.. but there are things I learned. The hole in your heart is something other people can fill. If you reject your friends' feelings and this world.. Just because something didn't go as you wished, no one will ever come to you. And so that hole won't be filled either, if you just run away without doing anything people won't do anything for you either.. As long as you don't give up, you can still be saved | |
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| EightyThor | Mar 6 2014, 01:20 AM Post #4 |
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A great thing about manga is that it can make a regular event or thing seem so much more epic. This is a classic of a manga, the prolonged gaps in-between chapters can get bait annoying though. |
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