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Tony K.
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Finally, some love for Ippo
 ! I was listening to the soundtrack on Youtube at work, and while I was reading the comments for all the tracks, I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of fans the franchise actually has. A little over half the comments were in English, but there had to be another good 30% of Spanish and Japanese comments, too.
Whenever Morkiawa decides to end the manga, I can only hope we get additional seasons to finish the story in anime form. Won't be the same without Kenji Utsumi as Coach Kamogawa and Keiji Fujiwara as Kimura, but I'll take what I can get for anymore Madhouse Masterpieces. |
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Beatdigga
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I truly believe this show is a seminal one for a reason. The core is still extremely good as a story even if it is something a slow burn from Ippo's initial bullying to his first pro fight, the characters are all fairly likable and entertaining between Takamura the jackass big brother Ippo never had, or wanted, and Kamogawa, who besides Mickey from Rocky, is the archetypical old boxing coach. And the animation, even all these years later, still holds up as one of the last shows to use traditional coloring methods (the show was airing just as digital coloring was coming into vogue). Every punch has impact and force that lesser shows wouldn't have.
For all the faults of the manga's pacing with later chapters and waiting for the payoffs, there's a reason it's still so iconic, that the manga is still running over 30 years later (to put things in perspective, manga Ippo originally took many of his cues from an in-his-prime Mike Tyson as a shorter, stocky power puncher who uses the peekaboo guard), and that the anime convinced a lot of people to lace up the gloves, even if just for fun and exercise. It's why I'm still hoping all these years later Netflix makes more when the manga reaches a certain point. Given that Season 1 of the show apparently beat the brakes off of Scavenger's Reign on Netflix when they aired at the same time, it's not the worst investment they could make. |
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