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Hajime no Ippo
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ippo Makunouchi
はじめの一歩
Genre	Action Comedy Sports
Manga
Written by	George Morikawa
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	Kodansha (digital)
Imprint	Shōnen Magazine Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	October 11, 1989 – present
Volumes	141 (List of volumes)
Further information Anime television series Directed by Satoshi Nishimura Produced by Hiroshi Yamashita Mitsuru Ohshima Manabu Tamura Masao Maruyama Written by Tatsuhiko Urahata Music by Tsuneo Imahori Studio Madhouse Licensed by NA: Geneon (former) Discotek Media (current) Original network Nippon TV Original run October 4, 2000 – March 27, 2002 Episodes 76 (List of episodes) Anime television film Hajime no Ippo: Champion Road Directed by Satoshi Nishimura Produced by Hiroshi Yamashita Manabu Tamura Masao Maruyama Written by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu Music by Tsuneo Imahori Studio Madhouse Licensed by NA: Geneon (former) Discotek Media (current) Original network Nippon TV Released April 18, 2003 Runtime 90 minutes Original video animation Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura Directed by Hitoshi Nanba Produced by Hiroshi Yamashita Manabu Tamura Masao Maruyama Written by Tatsuhiko Urahata Music by Tsuneo Imahori Studio Madhouse Licensed by NA: Discotek Media Released September 5, 2003 Runtime 60 minutes Anime television series Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger Directed by Jun Shishido Produced by Toshio Nakatani Manabu Tamura Written by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu Music by Yoshihisa Hirano Studio Madhouse Original network Nippon TV Original run January 6, 2009 – June 30, 2009 Episodes 26 (List of episodes) Anime television series Hajime no Ippo: Rising Directed by Jun Shishido Produced by Toshio Nakatani Manabu Tamura Tomohiro Shindo Written by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu Music by Yoshihisa Hirano Tsuneo Imahori Studio Madhouse MAPPA Licensed by Crunchyroll Original network Nippon TV Original run October 5, 2013 – March 29, 2014 Episodes 25 (List of episodes) Related media Hajime no Ippo video games
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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 141 tankōbon volumes as of July 2024. It follows the story of high school student Ippo Makunouchi, as he begins his career in boxing and over time obtains many titles and defeats various opponents.

A 76-episode anime adaptation produced by Madhouse aired on Nippon TV from October 2000 to March 2002. A television film and an original video animation (OVA) were released in 2003. A second series titled Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger aired from January to June 2009. A third series Hajime no Ippo: Rising aired from October 2013 to March 2014.

In North America, the first series, including the television film, was licensed by Geneon in 2003, which released it under the name Fighting Spirit. It was re-licensed by Discotek Media in 2020, including the television film and the OVA.

By July 2023, the manga had over 100 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 1991, Hajime no Ippo won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.

Plot

Ippo Makunouchi is an extremely shy high school student, unable to make friends due to always being busy helping his mother run their family fishing charter business. Because he kept to himself, a group of bullies led by Umezawa got into the habit of picking on him. One day, when these bullies gave him a rather serious beating, a middleweight professional boxer who was passing by stopped them and took the injured Ippo to the Kamogawa Gym (鴨川ボクシングジム, Kamogawa Bokushingu Jimu), 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 gave the situation a lot of thought and decided that he would like to begin a career as a professional boxer. When he conveys this message to Mamoru Takamura, he gets verbally reprimanded: Takamura thought Ippo was taking professional boxing too lightly. However, Takamura felt that he couldn't outright refuse Ippo, especially since his feat of punching the sandbag much harder than anybody else in the gym (except for Takamura). Therefore, he challenges Ippo to catch 10 falling leaves from a tree simultaneously after a week of training, fully convinced that Ippo would fail, Takamura jogs away as he continues his roadwork.

However, after a week of tough training, involving nightly hours, Ippo manages the technique in the nick of time. He waits for the jogging Takamura to come by his usual path and surprises him by catching all 10 of the falling leaves and only doing so with his left hand. This impresses Takamura greatly, and he informs Ippo that the action required to catch all 10 leaves is called a boxing jab. Takamura invites Ippo back to the boxing gym for introductions.

When they got back to the gym, the coach, Genji Kamogawa, was not at all impressed by Makunouchi's lack of fighting spirit, and therefore, was challenged by Takamura to have a practice spar against a member of the gym. However, Kamogawa decides to give Ippo a severe challenge and tells him to spar with Miyata, who is 16, the same age as Ippo. Miyata is known as a boxing prodigy and is one of Kamogawa gym's future hopes. Takamura gets extremely worried with this prospect, as Miyata skill is way above the four-rounder pro boxer. As expected, Ippo loses by KO, but not until Miyata struggles dodging his punches and finally ends the match with his trump card: "The Counter". Coach Kamogawa decides that he has great fighting sense and spirit and decides to train him to eventually become the Japanese champion with a world ranking while Miyata became the OPBF (Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation) Champion. Both are expected to hit high in the rankings and, eventually, fight each other for the world champion's belt.

The story focuses heavily on character development—even during the matches something is learned about both fighters. Ippo has a habit of running into his opponents before matches, giving him a chance to learn more about their backgrounds and even sympathize with them. Ippo is an extremely timid and modest person who never assumes that he is strong enough. He instead draws courage from seeing the strength of his opponent and realizing that he is able to stand up to it. 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 toward the Japanese Featherweight Championship and eventually the world championship. Along the way the audience is given glimpses into the other characters' pasts, motivations, relationships to others, and current boxing trials. A colorful cast of supporting characters and opponents as well as side stories concerning their paths in the boxing world rounds out the series.

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by George Morikawa, Hajime no Ippo has been published in Kodansha's shōnen manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Magazine since October 11, 1989. It has run in the magazine for over 30 years, and reached its 1000th chapter in December 2012. It became one of the longest running manga series with over 1,400 chapters released in Japan by 2022. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on February 17, 1990. As of July 17, 2024, 141 volumes have been published. In June 2021, it was announced that the series would get a digital release, for the first time in 33 years of publication, starting on July 1 of the same year.

Kodansha started publishing the series digitally in English on its K Manga service, with the first ten volumes (first 87 chapters) released in September 2023, with new chapters released every week.

Anime

Hajime no Ippo has been adapted into an anime series franchise. The first 75-episode anime television series, produced by Madhouse, Nippon Television and VAP and directed by Satoshi Nishimura, aired on Nippon TV between October 4, 2000, and March 27, 2002. The episodes were collected into twenty-five DVDs released by VAP from March 16, 2001 to March 21, 2003. The last DVD includes a special episode which did not air in Japan, numbered 76. A television film titled Hajime no Ippo: Champion Road aired on April 18, 2003. An original video animation (OVA) titled Hajime no Ippo Mashiba vs. Kimura was released on September 5, 2003.

A second series titled Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger aired on Nippon TV from January 6 to June 30, 2009.

In 2009, Rikiya Koyama, the voice actor of Mamoru Takamura, revealed on his blog that a sequel to the Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger television series was being planned. At the end of his blog entry, he wrote, "Of course, a sequel is also being planned!!". In July 2013, it was reported in that year's 34th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine that a third season of Hajime no Ippo would air in 2013. The third season, titled Hajime no Ippo: Rising, ran for 25 episodes from October 5, 2013 to March 29, 2014. Hajime no Ippo: Rising was streamed on Crunchyroll.

In North America, the first series was licensed by Geneon Entertainment in 2003, which released it under the name Fighting Spirit. Geneon distributed Fighting Spirit on 15 DVDs with five episodes per disc. The first DVD was released on July 6, 2004 and the fifteenth released on December 19, 2006. The DVDs included English and Spanish language tracks, as well as the original Japanese. The TV film Champion Road was released on North America on January 9, 2007. There were no plans to release the OVA, Mashiba vs. Kimura. Disc sales of the series did not perform well. In September 2020, Discotek Media announced that they had licensed the series, including the 76 episodes, Champion Road and, for the first time in North America, the OVA Mashiba vs. Kimura. The first Blu-ray Disc set (episodes 1–24) was released on January 26, 2021. The second set (episodes 25–48) was released on March 30, 2021.

Music

The music for the first anime series was composed by Tsuneo Imahori, who also did the third opening theme song. Tracks of guitars, drums, piano, horns, and combinations of the instruments were used to help accentuate the mood and action of the scenes. The soundtrack was released in Japan on two CDs, First KO and Final Round. The music for the second series was composed by Yoshihisa Hirano. In the third series, Yoshihisa Hirano and Tsuneo Imahori are credited for the music.

Anime theme songs

Opening theme songs

1. "Under Star" by Shocking Lemon (episodes 1–25)
2. "Inner Light" by Shocking Lemon (episodes 26–50, TV movie)
3. "Tumbling Dice" by Tsuneo Imahori (episodes 51–76)
4. "Hekireki" by Last Alliance (episodes 77–102)
5. "Yakan Hikou" by Wasureranneyo (episodes 103–127)

Ending theme songs

1. "Yuuzora no Kamihikouki" by Mori Naoya (episodes 1–25, TV movie)
2. "360°" by Mori Naoya (episodes 26–50, 75, OVA)
3. "Eternal Loop" by Saber Tiger (episodes 51–74, 76)
4. "8 AM" by Coldrain (episodes 77–102)
5. "Buchikome!!" by Shikuramen (episodes 103–127)

Video games

A total of nine video games based on the series have been released, included on the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Wii, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation 3. Three of the games have been released in North America and in PAL territories.

Ippo and Takamura have also appeared in the 2009 crossover video game Sunday vs Magazine: Shūketsu! Chōjō Daikessen as playable characters.

Reception

Hajime no Ippo won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category in 1991. The series also received a Special Award at the 43rd Kodansha Manga Award, commemorating 110 years since Kodansha's founding in 2019. On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150,000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, Hajime no Ippo ranked 47th.

By September 2008, the Hajime no Ippo manga had over 73 million copies in circulation. By November 2019, it had over 96 million copies in circulation. By July 2023, it had over 100 million copies in circulation.

Anime Academy gave the first anime series a glowing response; all five reviewers rated it above 90%, with one referring to the series as "the cream of the crop" of the sports genre in anime, and another stating that "fighting and character development have never tangoed so well together". Gia Manry of Fanboy.com listed the series as one of their "Top Ten Underrated Manga". IGN listed Hajime no Ippo: Rising among the best anime series of the 2010s.

See also

• List of boxing films

• Anime and manga
• Sports

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External links

• Hajime no Ippo official manga website at Pocket Shōnen Magazine (in Japanese)
• Hajime no Ippo official manga website at MAGAMEGA (in Japanese)
• Hajime no Ippo 30th anniversary website at Weekly Shōnen Magazine (in Japanese)
• Hajime no Ippo 100th volume commemorative official website (in Japanese)
• Hajime no Ippo official anime website at Nippon TV (in Japanese)
• Hajime no Ippo anime official website at VAP (in Japanese)
• Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger official website at VAP (in Japanese)
• Hajime no Ippo: Rising official website at VAP (in Japanese)
• Hajime no Ippo (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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Toritsu Aoizaka Kōkō Yakyūbu by Motoyuki Tanaka (2008) Q.E.D. by Motohiro Katou and Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima (2009) 2010s Ace of Diamond by Yuji Terajima (2010) Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama (2011) Those Snow White Notes by Marimo Ragawa (2012) Your Lie in April by Naoshi Arakawa (2013) Baby Steps by Hikaru Katsuki (2014) The Seven Deadly Sins by Nakaba Suzuki and Yowamushi Pedal by Wataru Watanabe (2015) Days by Tsuyoshi Yasuda (2016) Altair: A Record of Battles by Kotono Katō (2017) Beastars by Paru Itagaki (2018) The Quintessential Quintuplets by Negi Haruba and To Your Eternity by Yoshitoki Ōima (2019) 2020s Tokyo Revengers by Ken Wakui (2020) Blue Lock by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura (2021) That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by Fuse and Taiki Kawakami (2022) Shangri-La Frontier by Katarina and Ryosuke Fuji (2023) Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe (2024) v t e Works directed by Satoshi Nishimura Anime television series Trigun (1998) Hajime no Ippo (2000–2002) Ushio & Tora (2015–2016) Karakuri Circus (2018–2019) Films Hajime no Ippo: Champion Road (2003) Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010) Garo: The Fleeting Cherry Blossom (2018) v t e MAPPA Television series Kids on the Slope (2012) Teekyu 1–3 (2012–2013) Hajime no Ippo: Rising (2013–2014) Terror in Resonance (2014) Garo: The Carved Seal of Flames (2014–2015) Rage of Bahamut: Genesis (2014) Punch Line (2015) Ushio & Tora (2015–2016) Garo: Crimson Moon (2015–2016) Days (2016) Yuri on Ice (2016) Idol Incidents (2017) Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul (2017) Kakegurui (2017) Altair: A Record of Battles (2017) Garo: Vanishing Line (2017–2018) Inuyashiki (2017) Banana Fish (2018) Zombie Land Saga (2018) Dororo (2019) Kakegurui ×× (2019) Sarazanmai (2019) To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts (2019) Granblue Fantasy The Animation Season 2 (2019) Uchitama?! Have you seen my Tama? (2020) Dorohedoro (2020) Listeners (2020) The God of High School (2020) Mr Love: Queen's Choice (2020) Jujutsu Kaisen (2020–present) The Gymnastics Samurai (2020) Attack on Titan: The Final Season (2020–2023) Zombie Land Saga Revenge (2021) Re-Main (2021) The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace (2021) Takt Op. Destiny (2021) Dance Dance Danseur (2022) Chainsaw Man (2022) Vinland Saga (season 2) (2023) Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (2023) Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku (2023) Bucchigiri?! 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