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Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting!
はじめの一歩 THE FIGHTING!
Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life. Constantly running errands and being beaten up by his classmates, Ippo has always dreamed of changing himself, but never has the passion to act upon it. One day, in the midst of yet another bullying, Ippo is saved by Takamura Mamoru, who happens to be a boxer. Ippo faints from his injuries and is brought to the Kamogawa boxing gym to recover. As he regains consciousness, he is awed and amazed at his new surroundings in the gym, though lacks confidence to attempt anything. Takamura places a photo of Ippo's classmate on a punching bag and forces him to punch it. It is only then that Ippo feels something stir inside him and eventually asks Takamura to train him in boxing. Thinking that Ippo does not have what it takes, Takamura gives him a task deemed impossible and gives him a one week time limit. With a sudden desire to get stronger, for himself and his hard working mother, Ippo trains relentlessly to accomplish the task within the time limit. Thus Ippo's journey to the top of the boxing world begins.
Episodes
1. The First Step
Ippo is a high school student who works full time at his mother's fishing though. Because of this, he gets bullied on by the kids at his school. That's when his life turns around, when a professional boxer happens to be jogging along the way, and introduces Ippo to the world of boxing.
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2. Fruits of Labor
Ippo succeeds in catching 10 falling leaves, and is granted his first sparring session.
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3. Tears of Joy
Ippo loses his first sparring session, but shows enough potential to be accepted into the gym.
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7. The Destructive Force of 1cm
Ippo and Miyata are in the last round and Ippo does a short upercut to Miyata's chin, Miyara was knocked down and was unable to get up, Ippo wins the rematch.
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8. Promise to Meet Again
Ippo trains with Takamura and discovers the hardship of pro boxing.
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12. Becoming a Bully`s Buddy
Ippo fights and wins his second match via K.O.,After the fight he was befriended by Umezawa, his former bully.
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13. The Eastern Japan Rookie Championship Tournament Begins
Ippo and his opponent Jason prepare for the first match of the Rookie King Tournament.
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14. Powerful Arms! Hook vs. Uppercut!
Start of Ippo vs Jason match, both men exchange powerful punches but neither goes down.
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16. Anticipating a Fierce Fight
Ippo watches the fight videos of Kobashi and Hayami, his future opponents.
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17. Ippo on the Beach
Ippo joins Takamura, Kimura, and Aoki in a training camp near the beach.
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18. Clinch
Start of Ippo vs Kobashi match, Ippo is loosing by points because of Kobashi's strategy.
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20. The Threat of Shotgun
Takamura wins the Japanese Middleweight Championship belt, Ippo trains with Aoki to counter Hayami's Shotgun punch.
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21. The Way to Capture a Prodigy
Start of Ippo vs Hayami fight, Hayami takes the advantage during the early rounds.
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22. Forward! Forward!!
Ippo defeats Hayami via K.O. Ippo's training with Aoki and Kimura's help Ippo win the match.
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24. To the Promised Place...
Miyata and Mashiba continues to fight. Ippo is angred by the outcome.
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29. Rocky of Naniwa
Sendo goes to Japan to meet Ippo and make him go to All Japan and gets a chance to spar with Takamura.
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30. To Enemy Ground
Ippo learns how to heal his right fist and gets ready for the All Japan but something happens his powerful right punches!
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31. Traces of Intense Battles
A recap of the boxing matches that have taken place thus far.
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32. Throw Your Right!
Ippo is still having trouble with his right fist but his match with Sendo begins.
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33. Smash Force
Ippo tries a different fighting stance making his match with Sendo only get more intense.
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34. The Rookie King
Ippo and Sendo keep fighting, the crowd starts cheering Sendo on and the match reaches its climax.
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35. The Continuing Journey
Ippo graduates and takes photos with people from his school. New people join the gym and are put to the test by running with Takemura, Ippo, Aoki, and Kimura.
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36. The Champ and I
Kimura, Aoki, and Takemura each fight their match. Ippo spars with the featherweight champion, Date.
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37. A Thing to Strive For
Dante uses his secret weapon on Ippo, the fact that Date used it on Ippo made Okita challenge Ippo to a real match.
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38. Two Rookies of the Year
Okita uses moves that makes him unpredictable for Ippo. Okita also uses a fighting style like Dante and he uses a corkscrew.
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39. Challenge in a Foreign Land
Miyata's in Thailand and he get's a tough opponent with a great record, Jimmy Sisfa.
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40. A Counter to Surpass All Counters
Miyata's fight with Jimmy Sisfa begins, Miyata starts off bad and when that happens Miyata tries a counter punch.
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41. Barf-michi`s Big Fight
Aoki, Kimura, and Ippo all try going A-class. Yamada has his first fight. All the guys want to go to training camp.
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42. Sharing a Dream
Ippo's mother collapses from overworking so Ippo has to look after the family business. Ippo thinks about quitting boxing so that his mother doesn't overwork herself again.
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46. Be the Gazelle
Aoki and Kimura fight their matches. Kamogawa wants Ippo to train his legs to get flexible muscles so that he can deliver a more powerful punch that can beat Volg.
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47. The Fighting Spirit Within
Ippo meets Volg after Volg gets lost. Volg tells Ippo that he boxes so he can get money for his mother.
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49. The Courage to Believe
Volg and Ippo continue to duke it out in a hard-fought and long battle.
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54. Fists of the Champ
Takemura has real trouble at the beginning of his match. Ippo finds out that Mashiba won the championship and celebrates with him and his sister.
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55. The Japan Featherweight Title Match
Ippo's title match with Date has begun, Date is surprised by how much better Ippo is since the last time he sparred with him.
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56. The Power that Stands in the Way
Ippo punches Date in the face quite a bit but Date isn't taking the full impact of the punch because he's twists his neck.
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58. Heartbroken
After Ippo loses he finds out that Sendo and Volg will fight for the title. Kamogawa tells Ippo that he shouldn't go to the gym for three months because of all the damage from his fights. Ippo goes out with Kumi, Mashiba's sister.
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67. The Kamogawa Gym Swings Into Action
Ippo spars with Shigeta who's ranked fourth among Japanese featherweights and who also uses southpaw. People find out about Takemura fight with a bear. There is talk about Takemura getting a world title fight.
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68. The Chief`s Peril
Aoki, Kimura, and Takemura all fight their fights. Before fighting Takemura makes a grand entrance wearing a bear pelt and fight his match only using his left hand. Nekota starts teaching at the gym for a bit.
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69. The Trap of the Southpaw
Sendo begins his title defense match with Shigeta the southpaw user. Sendo fights Shigeta but gets more angry with him as the fight goes on.
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70. The Young Punk
Ippo invites Kumi to the zoo. Kumi lets Ippo know that she was the one who wrote idiot outside the gym. Sendo's grandma tells Iimura Mari about Sendo's childhood and how he was brought up.
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71. Time for the Showdown
Ippo reads Mari's article. Ippo invites Nekota to his fight. Both Sendo and Ippo have their weigh in. Sendo and Ippo begin their rematch with Ippo getting a very early knockdown on Sendo.
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72. Lollapalooza
Sendo and Ippo's fight begins guns blazing with the two giving each other blow for blow. Ippo finds out that Sendo has the advantage of having a bigger frame.
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73. Surpass That Moment
Ippo starts the third round by charging at Sendo but then hesitates which leads to Sendo beating Ippo all through the third round. The fourth round is a different story being more in the favor of Ippo.
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74. Mixup
A flashback shows how Sendo joined his gym. Ippo gets knocked down two times but when he gets up the fifth round gets more brutal. The fifth round ends and after that, the sixth round begins and is just as brutal as the last round.
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75. One Step Further
The match between Ippo and Sendo finally reaches its conclusion after seven ruthless rounds.
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