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Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger (TV)

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Alternative title:
Knock Out: New Challenger (Tagalog)
はじめの一歩 New Challenger (Japanese)
第一神拳New Challenger (Chinese (Taiwan))
더 파이팅 뉴 챌린저 (Korean)
Genres: comedy, drama, tournament
Themes: boxing
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Ippo Makunouchi continues his boxing career and his goal on knowing the meaning of being strong, and the desire on fighting his idol Ichiro Miyata once again. Along him are pro boxers Takamura, Aoki and Kimura that each one of them aspire to their own dreams.
User Ratings: 737 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 237 votes (sub:223, dub:8, others:6
4 Portuguese subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 224 votes (sub:193, dub:13, raw:3, ?:2, others:13
8 Spanish subtitled
3 Portuguese subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed
1 Arabic subtitled
)
 Very good: 159 votes (sub:141, dub:3, ?:1, others:14
5 Spanish subtitled
4 French subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Good: 69 votes (sub:56, dub:9, ?:1, raw:1, others:2
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 25 votes (sub:19, dub:5, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 So-so: 10 votes (sub:9, others:1
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 7 votes (sub:6, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1235 users, rank: #973 (of 9763)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.628 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 1.5366, rank: #131 (of 9909)
Weighted mean: 8.575 (Excellent−), rank: #123 (of 9909) (seen all: 8.62 / seen some: 8.26 / won't finish: 4.14)
Bayesian estimate: 8.556 (Excellent−), rank: #44 (of 7492)
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
2009-01-06
2010-03-17 to 2010-04-14 (Philippines - GMA, Anime Authority)
Opening Theme:
#1: "Hekireki" by Last Alliance
Ending Theme:
#1: "8 AM" by coldrain
Trivia: We have 2
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Jun Shishido
Series Composition: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
Script:
Fumie Muroi (ep 18)
Jun Nakagawa (eps 13, 24)
Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (eps 1-12, 21)
Sei Moriwaki (eps 20, 25-26)
Yasuhiro Kadowaki (ep 16)
Storyboard:
Fumie Muroi (eps 10, 24)
Futoshi Higashide (ep 13)
Jun Shishido (eps 1-4, 26)
Junichi Sakata (ep 11)
Kenichi Kawamura (9 episodes
eps 6-9, 12, 14, 16, 22, 25
)
Kotono Watanabe (ED)
Masanori Shino (OP)
Masato Tamagawa (ep 19)
Masayoshi Nishida (eps 18, 20)
Shigeyuki Miya (ep 17)
Takahiro Ikezoe (ep 21)
Tomoya Takahashi (eps 5-6)
Toshiya Niidome (ep 15)
Yukina Hiiro (ep 23)
Unit Director:
Eiichi Kuboyama (ep 25)
Fujiaki Asari (eps 11, 18)
Fumie Muroi (eps 10, 24)
Futoshi Higashide (ep 13)
Hisato Shimoda (eps 4, 9)
Kenichi Kawamura (OP)
Kotono Watanabe (ED)
Mana Uchiyama (ep 17)
Satoshi Ōsedo (eps 2, 8)
Takahiro Ikezoe (ep 21)
Takahiro Natori (eps 6, 20)
Takatoshi Suzuki (eps 3, 7, 15)
Tomoya Takahashi (eps 1, 5, 14)
Yoshifumi Sueda (ep 19)
Yukina Hiiro (ep 23)
Music: Yoshihisa Hirano
Original creator: George Morikawa
Character Design: Kōji Sugiura
Animation Director:
Hiroaki Imaki (ep 5)
Kazuyuki Ikai (ep 25)
Kenichi Shimizu (ep 24)
Kōji Sugiura (OP, ED; ep 26)
Kyōko Kotani (ep 3)
Manabu Yasumoto (ep 17)
Masaki Hinata (ep 18)
Noriyuki Fukuda (ep 1)
Takafumi Hori (eps 19, 22)
Tetsuya Wakano (eps 7, 25)
Tomokatsu Nagasaku (ep 21)
Yoshiaki Tsubata (eps 8, 14)
Yutaka Kawasuji (ep 17)
Sound Director: Toshihiko Nakajima

2nd Key Animation: Ai Yokoyama (ep 18)
Assistant Animation Director:
Fumie Muroi (eps 24, 26)
Kana Miyai (ep 7)
Kenichi Shimizu (ep 25)
Minoru Kawano (ep 25)
Mutsuaki Murata (eps 10, 18, 24)
Noriyuki Fukuda (ep 8)
In-Between Check: Jong Youl Lim (ep 22)
Key Animation:
Ai Yokoyama (eps 21, 23, 26)
Akiko Matsuo (ep 1)
Akiko Taniguchi (eps 10, 18, 24)
Akira Hayashi (eps 10, 14)
Asami Komatsu (eps 23, 25)
Atsuko Takahashi (eps 10, 17)
Atsushi Komatsu (eps 8, 25)
Atsushi Tsukamoto (ep 13)
Ayafumi Suzuki (ep 23)
Chiaki Furuzumi (ep 14)
Chihiro Hayashi (6 episodes
eps 1, 3, 5, 8, 13, 23
)
Chikai Okado (ep 17)
Chikashi Kadekaru (OP)
Chizuru Kiuchi (ep 25)
Daisuke Niitsuma (4 episodes
eps 5, 8, 24, 26
)
Eiichi Kuboyama (eps 17, 25)
Eiji Komatsu (eps 1, 5, 14)
Fumie Muroi (eps 10, 24, 26)
Fuminori Tsukida (eps 13, 25)
Futoshi Higashide (eps 1, 21)
Geum-Soo Kim (eps 13, 21, 26)
Hanako Enomoto (ep 25)
Haruhito Takada (ep 23)
Haruma Edo (ep 25)
Harumi Takagi (ep 1)
Hideaki Matsuoka (ep 3)
Hidenori Kawashima (ep 25)
Hideo Hayashi (eps 5, 23, 26)
Hiroaki Imaki (eps 1, 5)
Hiroki Saitō (ep 25)
Hiromi Nanbe (ep 14)
Hisatoshi Motoki (ep 21)
Hitoshi Inaba (ep 8)
Jin Nishino (ep 8)
Jin Yoshida (ep 17)
Jōji Yanase (ep 14)
Jun Shishido (ep 26)
Junko Yoshigai (ep 13)
Kana Hashidate (ep 17)
Kana Miyai (Studio Wanpack; ep 7)
Keiji Gotō (ep 1)
Kenichi Shima (eps 21, 24)
Kenichi Shimizu (ED; 5 episodes
eps 3, 11, 13, 21, 24
)
Kenta Mimuro (ep 10)
Kiryou Iwamoto (Studio Wanpack; eps 7, 25)
Kiyoshi Nohji (eps 8, 13, 25)
Kiyotoshi Aoi (4 episodes
eps 13-14, 18, 25
)
Kōji Sugiura (ep 26)
Kozue Matsui (Studio Wanpack; ep 7)
Kumi Ishii (ep 1)
Kumiko Onaga (eps 17, 25)
Kunihiko Inoue (OP; 6 episodes
eps 3, 10, 14, 18, 24-25
)
Kyōko Kotani (OP; ep 25)
Kyung Nam Ko (ep 21)
Mari Tominaga (ep 5)
Masafumi Nakagawa (5 episodes
eps 1, 3, 5, 13, 21
)
Masahiro Kimura (ep 10)
Masaki Matsumura (ep 18)
Masaru Kitao (eps 18, 24)
Masashi Kojima (ep 24)
Masato Nishikawa (eps 8, 25)
Michiko Takahashi (ep 21)
Midori Yoshii (Studio Wanpack; ep 7)
Mieko Hosoi (ep 23)
Miho Kawasaki (eps 17, 25)
Miki Kato (ep 14)
Minami Yoshida (ep 14)
Miwako Shibata (eps 17, 25)
Miyako Yatsu (ep 23)
Miyoko Kawamoto (ep 17)
Miyuki Nakamura (ep 24)
Mutsuaki Murata (eps 10, 18, 24)
Nagisa Nakajima (ep 5)
Naoto Abe (ep 25)
Narihito Sekikawa (eps 3, 21, 24)
Natsuko Shimizu (4 episodes
eps 21, 23-24, 26
)
Noriyuki Fukuda (4 episodes
eps 8, 14, 23, 26
)
Nozomi Goto (ep 5)
Reika Hoshino (ep 25)
Rie Kimura (ep 25)
Sai Yamane (eps 21, 24)
Satoshi Kadowaki (ep 23)
Sawako Miyamoto (eps 1, 3, 5, 8)
Sayaka Kawai (ep 23)
Sayaka Toda (ep 18)
Sayo Aoi (ep 1)
Shigeyuki Miya (OP)
Shingo Okano (ep 3)
Shinya Suzuki (eps 8, 14)
Shuichi Hara (ep 5)
Shūji Sakamoto (ep 25)
Shunsuke Masuda (ep 25)
Sung-Chul Kim (ANIHOUSE SUN; ep 19)
Taeko Ōgi (ep 25)
Taichi Atarashi (Studio Wanpack; eps 7, 25)
Takahiro Arai (ep 13)
Takahiro Ikezoe (ep 21)
Takashi Tomioka (OP)
Takehiro Hamatsu (ep 3)
Takeshi Miyamoto (ep 17)
Tatsunori Sakamoto (Studio Wanpack; eps 7, 25)
Tetsuo Hirakawa (ep 25)
Tetsuya Wakano (Studio Wanpack; eps 7, 25)
Tomohiro Kamitani (4 episodes
eps 5, 13, 18, 26
)
Tomokatsu Nagasaku (ep 21)
Tomoki Kōda (ep 25)
Tomoko Kusuki (ep 25)
Tomomi Ikeda (Studio Wanpack; ep 7)
Toshiharu Sugie (ep 5)
Toshiyuki Hashimoto (ep 3)
Toshiyuki Kanno (OP)
Yasuyuki Kai (ep 23)
Yoshiaki Toki (OP)
Yoshifumi Nakamura (Studio Wanpack; eps 7, 25)
Yoshiharu Ashino (ep 25)
Yoshinori Kanemori (eps 5, 8, 13-14)
Yoshiyuki Itō (OP; eps 23, 25)
Yosuke Jinbo (8 episodes
eps 5, 8, 11, 13, 18, 21, 24, 26
)
Yousuke Toyama (ep 3)
Yuichi Hirano (ep 14)
Yuka Koiso (eps 10, 14)
Yuki Tsugihashi (ep 25)
Yuko Yazaki (eps 5, 14)
Yūsuke Uda (eps 17, 25)
Sound Effects: Kenji Koyama (Sound Box)
Theme Song Performance:
coldrain (ED)
Last Alliance (OP)
アクション作監:
Hideo Hayashi (eps 12, 14, 16)
Kenichi Shimizu (7 episodes
eps 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 22, 25
)
Kohei Kiyasu as Ippo Makunouchi

Keiji Fujiwara as Tatsuya Kimura
Kenji Utsumi as Genji Kamogawa
Masahiko Tanaka as Ryo Mashiba
Rikiya Koyama as Mamoru Takamura
Tomokazu Seki as Ichiro Miyata
Wataru Takagi as Masaru Aoki
Yuka Hirata as Kumi Mashiba

Akimitsu Takase as
Domestic Fights Announcer (ep 4)
Ring Announcer (eps 10, 15-16)
Akio Ōtsuka as Brian Hawk
Dai Matsumoto as World Championship Referee (eps 8, 20-24)
Daisuke Namikawa as Manabu Itagaki
Daisuke Sakaguchi as Hammer Nao/Naomichi Yamada
Emi Shinohara as Mari Iimura
Hisashi Izumi as
Domestic Fights Referee (ep 4)
Referee
Ichirō Nagai as Ginpachi Nekota
Issei Futamata as Hachinohe Gym Coach (eps 9-12)
Jin Horikawa as Announcer
Keiichi Sonobe as Otowa Gym Coach (ep 14)
Kenichi Ono as Minoru Fujii
Kenji Nomura as World Championship Ring Announcer (eps 6-8, 20-25)
Kenyuu Horiuchi as Suguru Takamura
Kikuko Inoue as Kyouka Takamura
Kiyoshi Katsunuma as
Customer (ep 1)
Makino's Trainer (ep 15)
Mari Yokoo as Yamada's Mother
Masaki Aizawa as Eiji Date
Masashi Sugawara as Ricardo Martinez
Masaya Onosaka as Takeshi Sendo
Masayuki Katō as
Customer (ep 1)
OPBF Referee (eps 2-4)
Masayuki Omoro as Bill Stewart
Megumi Matsumoto as Wataru Takamura
Mie Sonozaki as Mother Itagaki (no first name given)
Minoru Inaba as Mr. Sakaguchi
Mitsuaki Madono as Masahiko Umezawa
Mitsuru Ogata as Nakadai Gym Coach (eps 5-8)
Naomi Wakabayashi as Yuuji Date
Nobuaki Fukuda as Father Itagaki
Nobuyuki Furuta as OPBG Ring Announcer (eps 1-3)
Ryuuta Morikawa as Arman Algeria (ep 15)
Sakiko Tamagawa as Aiko Date
Seiji Sasaki as Tomoyuki Shinoda
Shoko Tsuda as Tomiko
Shōzō Iizuka as Miguel Zeel
Takaya Kuroda as Arnie Gregory
Takuma Suzuki as Morris's Cornerman (ep 16)
Takuya Satō as Makino Fumito (ep 15)
Tomoyuki Shimura as Morris West (eps 15-16)
Tōru Ohkawa as Kida
Toshihiko Nakajima as Haruhiko Yagi
Unshō Ishizuka as Miyata-san
Yorie Terauchi as Hiroko Makunouchi
Yū Kobayashi as Nanako Itagaki
Yūichi Nakamura as Kyosuke Imai

Aki Nakajima (ep 13)
Ayaka Shimizu (ep 18)
Biichi Satō (ep 25)
Chikara Ōsaka (eps 9, 18)
Fuminori Komatsu (ep 19)
Genta Fukuda (ep 16)
Goblin
Ikumi Nakagami (ep 2)
Katsunori Kobayashi (eps 10-11, 18)
Kazumi Makabe (eps 13, 16-17)
Kazutoshi Hatano (5 episodes
eps 2-3, 7-8, 16
)
Kenji Takahashi (ep 12)
Kensuke Nishi (ep 21)
Kiyoshi Katsunuma (6 episodes
eps 2-3, 5-7, 22
)
Kunio Ida (6 episodes
eps 2, 5-7, 12, 19
)
Kunpei Sakamoto (eps 19, 21, 26)
Mari Kanou (ep 2)
Masaki Aizawa (ep 9)
Masayuki Katō (ep 5)
Misaki Sekiyama (ep 2)
Naoko Sugiura (eps 13, 16-17)
Noriko Fujimoto (eps 3, 12, 15)
Noriko Obata (ep 13)
Raimai Yamashita (eps 8, 11-12)
Satoru Inoue (eps 16, 18)
Seiko Ueda (ep 15)
Shin Mori (eps 19, 21)
Tadashi Miyazawa (eps 5-6)
Takashi Oohara (eps 3, 24)
Takuya Satō (eps 9, 22)
Tomoharu Suzuki (eps 5-6)
Tomoko Nakamura (ep 15)
Tsutomu Densaka (ep 12)
Yoriko Nagata (ep 2)
Yuu Amano (eps 2, 25)
Japanese companies
Tagalog cast
Tagalog staff
Dubbing Director: Montreal Repuyan

Script/Translation:
Aprille Fernandez
Nica Rojo
Fourth Lee as Ippo Makunochi
Vincent Gutierrez as Takeshi Sendō

Bon Reyes as
Genji Kamogawa
Tatsuya Kimura
Grace Cornel as Kumi Mashiba
Louie Paraboles as Masaru Aoki
Montreal Repuyan as Mamoru Takamura
Vincent Gutierrez as Ichiro Miyata

Bon Reyes as
Ricardo Martinez
Takeshi Sendō 
Grace Cornel as
Dr. Yamaguchi
Manabu Itagaki
Nanako Itagaki
Lloyd Navera as
Arnie Gregory
Brian Hawk
Minoru Fujii
Louie Paraboles as Kyosuke Imai
Montreal Repuyan as Hammer Nao/Naomichi Yamada
Vincent Gutierrez as
Eiji Date
Ichiro's Father
Tagalog companies
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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