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Fighting Spirit (TV)

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© VAP.


[ adapted from Hajime no Ippo (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Hajime no Ippo - Champion Road (special) (sequel)
    Hajime no Ippo - Mashiba vs. Kimura (OAV) (spinoff)
    Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger (TV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Espíritu de Lucha (Spanish)
Espiritu de Pelea (Spanish)
Hajime no Ippo (Japanese)
Ippo le Challenger (French)
Knock Out (Tagalog)
The First Step
はじめの一歩 (Japanese)
第一神拳 (Chinese (Taiwan))
더 파이팅 (Korean)
시작의 일보 (Korean)
Genres: comedy, drama, tournament
Themes: boxing, sports
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Ippo, a timid highschooler, is one day saved from being beaten up by Takamura, a boxer. Enthralled by Takamura's skills Ippo begins to learn boxing, soon finding love for the sport and a drive to challenge the boxing world.
User Ratings: 1023 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 413 votes (sub:354, dub:35, Spa.sub:13, Por.sub:4, ?:3, Spa.edit.dub:1, Tag.dub:1, raw:1, Rus.dub:1)
 Excellent: 300 votes (sub:263, dub:25, Spa.sub:7, raw:4, ?:1)
 Very good: 159 votes (sub:123, dub:21, Spa.sub:5, Spa.dub:3, Por.sub:2, Tag.dub:2, Rus.sub:1, ?:1, raw:1)
 Good: 81 votes (sub:65, dub:6, ?:3, Tag.dub:3, Fre.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, raw:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Decent: 17 votes (sub:13, raw:1, Tag.dub:1, Fre.sub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 17 votes (sub:14, dub:2, Ita.sub:1)
 Not really good: 9 votes (sub:8, dub:1)
 Weak: 16 votes (sub:11, dub:2, Spa.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Awful: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 1755 users, rank: #332
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.752 (Excellent-.24), std. dev.: 1.6357, rank: #66
Weighted mean: 8.697 (Excellent-.30), rank: #66 (seen all: 8.90 / seen some: 7.74 / won't finish: 4.66)
Bayesian estimate: 8.686 (Excellent-.31), rank: #25
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 76
Episode titles: We have 76
Vintage:
2000-10-03 to 2002-03-27
2005-11-27 (Chile - ETC TV)
2006-03-06 (Chile - Chilevision)
Opening Theme:
#1: "Under Star" by Shocking Lemon (eps 1-25)
#2: "Inner Light" by Shocking Lemon (eps 26-52)
#3: "Tumbling Dice" by Tsuneo Imahori (eps 53-76)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Yuuzora no Kamihikouki" by Naoya Mori (eps 1-25)
#2: "360°" by Mori Naoya (eps 26-52,75)
#3: "Eternal Loop" by Saber Tiger (eps 53-74,76)
Links: We have 5
Trivia: We have 11
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Related releases:
    Fighting Spirit - The First Step (DVD 1) 2004-07-06 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - The Debut Match (DVD 2) 2004-10-12 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - Test of Endurance (DVD 3) 2004-12-14 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - Dream of a KO (DVD 4) 2005-02-15 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - Forward! Forward! (DVD 5) 2005-04-19 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - Death Match (DVD 6) 2005-06-21 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - Smash Force (DVD 7) 2005-08-23 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - The Champ and I (DVD 8) 2005-10-25 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - The Speed Star (DVD 9) 2005-12-20 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - The Red Wolf (DVD 10) 2006-02-21 (from $4.39)
    Fighting Spirit - The Japan Featherweight (DVD 11) 2006-04-25 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - Look of Determination (DVD 12) 2006-05-09 (from $24.41)
    Fighting Spirit - Youth of Fire (DVD 13) 2006-08-29 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - Trap of the Southpaw (DVD 14) 2006-10-31 (from $5.00)
    Fighting Spirit - DVD Collection 1 (DVD 1) 2007-10-30
    Fighting Spirit - DVD Collection 2 (DVD 2) 2007-10-30
    Fighting Spirit (Hajime No Ippo) - One Step (DVD 15) 2006-12-19 (from $5.00)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Satoshi Nishimura

Series Composition: Tatsuhiko Urahata

Script:
Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
Tatsuhiko Urahata

Music: Tsuneo Imahori

Original Manga: George Morikawa

Character Design: Koji Sugiura

Art director:
Hidetoshi Kaneko
Koji Sugiura

Chief Animation Director:
Hiroshi Koujina
Masanori Shino

Animation director:
Atsushi Hasebe
Masaki Hosoyama
Satoshi Tazaki
Toshiyuki Kanno

Sound director: Masafumi Mima

Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai

Color Coordination: Akihiko Isozaki

Recording Assistant: Shigeru Fujibayashi

Recording engineer: Fujio Yamada

Sound Effect Assistant:
Leiji Matsumoto
Tsutomu Kashiwakura

Sound Effects: Kenji Koyama

Theme Song Performance:
Naoya Mori (ED)
Saber Tiger (ED)
Shocking Lemon (OP)

 

Kohei Kiyasu as Ippo Makunouchi

Issei Futamata as Genji Kamogawa 

Keiji Fujiwara as Tatsuya Kimura

Rikiya Koyama as Mamoru Takamura

Sanae Kobayashi as Kumi Mashiba

Tomokazu Seki as Ichiro Miyata

Wataru Takagi as Masaru Aoki

Akemi Okamura as Reiko Mikami

Daisuke Sakaguchi as
Masahiko Umezawa (some eps)
Naomichi Yamada

Emi Shinohara as Mari Iimura

Hiroaki Hirata as Ohkita Keigo

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Akira Shigeta

Ichirô Nagai as Genkpachi Nekota

Issei Futamata as Hachinohe gym manager

Kanko Ohnaka as Sumire

Katsuyuki Konishi as Hachinohe boxer (eps 13-15)

Kazue Koujiro as Chana

Kazuko Sugiyama as Sendoh's grandmother

Kenichi Ono as Fujii

Kenji Utsumi as Genji Kamogawa

Kiyoyuki Yanada as Saeki

Kouji Tsujitani as Ryuichi Hayami

Mariko Suzuki as interviewer

Masahiko Tanaka as Ryo Mashiba

Masaki Aizawa as Date Eiji

Masami Kobayashi as Jason Ozuma

Masaya Onosaka as Sendo Takeshi

Masumi Asano as Akemi

Megumi Tano as Young Miyata

Mitsuaki Madono as Masahiko Umezawa

Naomi Wakabayashi as Yuuji Date

Narumi Hidaka as Miyuki

Nobutoshi Canna as Yusuke Oda

Sakiko Tamagawa as Aiko Date

Shigeru Ohkawa as Kida

Shigeru Shibuya as Payao

Shoko Tsuda as Nurse Tomiko

Tomoko Kawakami as Kumiko Morita

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Alexander Volg Zangief

Unshou Ishizuka as Miyata's father

Yorie Terauchi as Ippo's Mom

Yukari Tamura as Aikawa (ep 1)

Yuko Kobayashi as Dr. Yamaguchi

Yuriko Yamaguchi as Mama-san

Japanese companies 

Animation: Madhouse Studios

Broadcaster: NTV

Production: VAP

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director: Richard Epcar

Translation: Yurika Dennis

Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto

Producer:
Sook Waiquamdee
Yukio Kusumoto
Yurika Dennis
Yves Chicha

Adaptation: Darlene Waddington

ADR Editor: Gina Nuccio

ADR Recording Engineer: Skyie Lewin

DVD Engineer: Joe Torcello

Re-Recording Mixing: Thanos Kazakos

Subtitling: Anna Exter

Video Editor: Alex Agoston

 

Steve Cannon as Ippo Makunouchi 

David Lelyveld as Alexander Volg Zangief

Doug Erholz as Takeshi Sendo

Eddie Frierson as Mamoru Takamura 

Grant George as Tatsuya Kimura

Jason Palmer as Ichiro Miyata

Jennifer Sekiguchi as Kumi Mashiba

Jim Taggert as Masaru Aoki

Rafael Antonio as Eiji Date

Richard George as Genji Kamogawa

Bob Papenbrook as Mr. Mikami

Bobby Hasting as
Fujii
Yusuke Oda

Edward Villa as Kenta Kobashi

Edward Zilla as
Applicant
Certification Match Judge
Takemura

George C. Cole as
Miyata's Father
Mr. Yagi

Hall Hollis as Jason Ozma

Hamilton Fox as Fujii

Helen Storm as Nurse Tomiko

Jennifer Sekiguchi as
Aikawa
Young Miyata

Joan-Carol O'Connell as
Hachinohe's Wife
Hiroko

John Daniels as
Announcer
Ohta
Yoshio Fujiwara

Kay Jensen as
Classmate
Girl

Michelle Ruff as
Mari Iimura
Reiko Mikami

Nathan Smythe as Ryuichi Hayami

Robert Axelrod as Hachinohe

Ron Allen as
Friendly Applicant
Masahiko Umezawa
Store Clerk
Teacher

Steve Areno as Referee

Steve Kramer as Mr. Yasuda

Terry Roberts as
Kobashi's Opponent
Matsuda
Yajima Fan

Joe Cappelletti

Sam Regal

English companies 

ADR Production: Media Concepts

DVD Authoring: SpeeDVD

Licensed by: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: Christian Brousselle

Adaptation:
Catherine Konetsky
Xavier Varaillon

 

Alexandre N'Guyen as Ippo Makunouchi

Benjamin Pascal as Masaru Aoki

Donald Reignoux as Tatsuya Kimura

Emmanuel Gradi as Mamoru Takamura

Frédéric Cerdal as Genji Kamogawa

Guillaume Lebon as Fuji

Sébastien Desjours as Ichiro Miyata

Aurélien Ringelheim as Yusuke Oda

Susan Sindberg as Ippo (enfant)

Sylvain Lemarié as Mikami (ep 11)

French companies 

Distributor: Rouge Citron Production

Dubbing: Studio Lincoln

Publisher: Kero Video

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 
(none)
 

Cesar Arias as Genji Kamogawa

Gabriel Ramos as Ippou Makinouchi

Irwin Daayan as Takeshi Sendo

Rolando De la Fuente as Ichiro Miyata

Eduardo Garza as Alexander Volg Zangief (normal)

Jose Gilberto Vilchis as Alexander Volg Zangief ((1 ep.))

Mitzy Corona as Kumi Mashiba

Pedro D'aguillon Jr. as Ryo Mashiba

Roberto Carrillo as Tatsuya Kimura

Alejandro Illescas as Eiji Date

Angeles Bravo as Sendoh's grandmother

Benjamin Rivera as Masaru Aoki

Circe Luna as Reiko Mikami

Claudio Velásquez as Manabu

Dulce Guerrero as Kumiko (ep 41)

Enzo Fortuny as Yuusuke Oda

Gabriela Willert as Dr. Yamaguchi

Gerardo Reyero as Minoru Fujii

Gerry Meza as Chana

Jorge Ornelas as Hayami's coach

Maria Fernanda Morales as Kumiko Morita

Mario Arvizu as Mamoru Takamura

Martin Soto as Hachinohe (Ozuma's coach)

Paco Mauri as Miyata's father

Patricia Acevedo as Aiko Date

Pedro D'aguillon Jr. as Ramuda (Volg's coach)

Rene Garcia as Takuma Saeki

Roberto Mendiola as Yanaoka (Sendoh's coach)

Yotzmit Ramírez as Mari Iimura

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster:
Chilevision (Chile)
ETC...TV (Chile)

Distributor: Alebrije Entertainment

Dubbing: Candiani Studios

Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 
(none)
 

Fourth Brillante Lee as Ippo Makunouchi

Francis Ibanez as Masaru Aoki

Montreal Repuyan as Mamoru Takamura

Dada Carlos as
Dr. Yamaguchi
Ippo's mother
Reiko Mikami

Francis Ibanez as
Ryo Mashiba
Ryuichi Hayami

Lloyd Navera as Alexander Volg Zangief

Vincent Gutierrez as
Eiji Date
Ichiro Miyata
Takeshi Sendoh

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster:
GMA Network
Hero

Dubbing: Telesuccess Productions Inc.


Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Licensed by: Top-Insight International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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