Fighting Spirit Anime
Fighting Spirit Anime, known in Japan as Hajime no Ippo is a sports anime and manga series created by Jyoji "George" Morikawa which was serialized by Kodansha in Shonen Weekly.
A 76-episode Fighting Spirit Anime version was produced by Madhouse Production and ran on the Nippon TV Network from October 2000 to March 2002. The anime is licensed in North America by Geneon as Fighting Spirit. The manga currently has 72 volumes and is still running in Japan.
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 fishing boat business. Because he kept to himself a group of bullies got into the habit of picking on him. On one particular day these bullies decided to give him a rather serious beating. A middle-weight professional boxer who was passing by stopped the bullies and took Ippo to the Kamogawa Gym owned by a retired boxer Genji Kamogawa ( Kamogawa Genji) to treat his injuries. 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 on the path of Japan's professional boxing.
The series has two spin-off movies - Kimura Vs. Mashiba, which pits one of Ippo's senpai (upper classmen) against the Japanese lightweight champion (who happens to be Ippo's girlfriend's brother) and Champion Road which provides further development for the characters as Ippo reaches ever higher.
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