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Banken
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Professional boxing is a dumb, pointless sport and this is a fitting end to the series IMO.
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Beatdigga
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This isn’t about ESports. It’s about an actual sport. |
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Shradow
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Honestly I'm quite annoyed with how the series has been as of late. Ippo has been confirmed healthy by multiple specialists and he only lost this last fight because he acted like an idiot, it's like all of his fight IQ went out the window just because he was so fixated on the new Dempsey.
He's clearly conflicted with his choice of retirement, and even Kumi is conflicted even though she herself thinks she should be happy. Then there's the whole talk with Ippo's mom about him going on a new adventure. I was actually pretty negative until these past couple of chapters, but I think things are actually more positive. Otherwise, for how long this has been dragged out, there's an incredible lack of payoff. Ippo just quietly retires after losing to some nobody and that's that? I don't think so. I'm obviously not the author but from how most of the series has been, I don't think this is the kind of series Hajime no Ippo is supposed to be, to end like this. https://i.imgur.com/iLoK4EJ.gif https://i.imgur.com/iwENchC.gif |
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BadNewsBlues
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Yeah except this loss followed immediately after his second loss (and right when Ippo was supposed to be debuting a new version of his signature move) that's why reactions to this development have been divisive.
Ippo hasn't really displayed the symptoms of having brain damage though the closest the manga has gotten to showing what a boxer with brain damage looks like looks like is with Nekota.
The manga's never been licensed in English likely because A. It's a sports manga B. It's an old manga. C. It has over 1000 chapters across I believe 90 volumes D. As the anime never caught on there was therefore no demand for the manga. |
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Shichiya
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There is a possibility he sets up Ippo for a short retirement before he realizes how much boxing to him or set up having Miyata coming back for him to set up 1 last fight; usually for a lot of fighters/boxers they go through that realization period after a lost whether they have it again for another comeback.
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BadNewsBlues
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I legit forget when it was but Ippo already had this realization ages ago. |
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manapear
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Ahh. I am a few chapters behind now, probably more than I realized. Yikes, I didn't realize that. I do feel the same as Ushio though, heh. As depressing as this situation is for Ippo, the series has always been kind of refreshing to me that isn't an (entirely) typical shonen. It's kind of just following what it started with, in that way. |
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Xiximaro
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And what if Ippo makes a come back from retirement? Is that something believable, that way he could fight Myata and the Mexican again or not?
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#879644
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https://www.reddit.com/r/hajimenoippo/comments/7tm1by/newish_ippo_interview_24th_jan/
This is a reddit post about a interviewer with george mori who created ippo. It gives you insight that the ippo is not going to perm. retire. Also there is many unresolved plot points in the manga...ippo's new dempsy,miyata, takamura's 6 belt conquest, ippo's quest to understand strength, etc. I think ippo is going to make a date-style comeback and itagaki is going to stand in ippo's way for the national championship belt, a true test whether he can truly face down a monster like itagaki in his prime and move back into the world stage. |
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