Hajime no Ippo (はじめの一歩, lit. 'The First Step') is a Japanese boxing -themed manga series written and illustrated by George Morikawa. It has been serialized by Kodansha in the shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine since October 1989, with its chapters collected in 142 tankōbon volumes as of December 2024.

Essentially the coming-of-age tale of a weakling maturing into the strongest rookie boxer in Japan, Hajime no Ippo doesn't deviate from the sports anime formula in any notable manner. Ippo discovers boxing on a school day like any other then spends numerous staged fights and training montages thereafter rising through the ranks.

Ippo Makunouchi (幕之内 一歩, Makunouchi Ippo) Voiced by: Kōhei Kiyasu. Ippo is the main protagonist of the series. His boldness as a boxer is juxtaposed with his shy and amiable personality outside the ring.

Victorious Boxers: Ippo's Road to Glory, [a] known as simply Victorious Boxers, is a boxing video game developed by New Corporation for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is based on the Hajime no Ippo franchise. [1] .

Ippo Makunouchi (幕之内一歩, Makunouchi Ippo) is the eponymous protagonist of Hajime no Ippo. He is a trainer, and also a retired featherweight professional boxer from the Kamogawa Boxing Gym and a former reigning featherweight JBC champion. At first, he started boxing to try and answer one simple...

Nov 28, 2023 · “Hajime no Ippo,” known as “Espíritu de lucha” in Latin America and “Fighting Spirit” in the United States, is an anime about boxing created by the mangaka Jyoji Morikawa. Netflix’s official synopsis makes it clear that it has all the ingredients of the best sports anime:

Mamoru Takamura, an up-and-coming boxer, rescues Ippo from a violent after-school incident and takes him back to the Kamogawa Boxing Gym for recovery.

The awaited moment has come, And Ippo's first official match against boxer Oda has begun. Becoming a Bully's Buddy . S1 : E12 | TV-PG | 25 min | Aired: 01.01.00. The news of Ippo's boxing spreads in the school, which makes the thugs …

Ippo Makunouchi is a loser. He has no friends, he spends his free time helping his mom with work, and he's constantly being beaten up by bullies. But that all changes when one day he's saved from another beating by Takamura, an up-and-coming boxer.

Rescued from bullies by professional boxer Mamoru Takamura, young Ippo Makunouchi takes up boxing to pursue what it means to be strong. Watch trailers & learn more.