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Hajime no Ippo (manga)

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Alternative title:
Ippo, la rage de vaincre (French)
The Fighting!
はじめの一歩 (Japanese)
第一神拳 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Makunouchi Ippo is always busy with his night fishing job, and gets bullied a lot. After some inspiration from magazines, videos, and boxers, he decided to take up boxing. Boxing changed Ippo's life, and now his dream is to become pro and fight in matches.
User Ratings: 175 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 76 votes (sub:33, Eng:28, dub:6, raw:3, ?:2, others:4
2 French
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 51 votes (Eng:32, sub:17, dub:2)
 Very good: 26 votes (Eng:19, sub:7)
 Good: 13 votes (Eng:8, sub:4, dub:1)
 Decent: 6 votes (Eng:3, sub:2, others:1
1 Korean
)
 So-so: -
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:1, Eng:1)
 Weak: 1 vote (Eng:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 412 users, rank: #196 (of 6062)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.943 (Excellent), std. dev.: 1.2949, rank: #255 (of 6454)
Weighted mean: 8.835 (Excellent), rank: #309 (of 6454) (seen all: 9.21 / seen some: 8.65 / won't finish: 7.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.810 (Excellent−), rank: #17 (of 3319)
Number of pages: 177
Chapter titles: We have 1208
Vintage: 1989 (Shukan Shonen Magazine)
Release dates: We have 301
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 2
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: George Morikawa
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Kodansha
French staff
French cast
Director: Grégoire Hellot

Adaptation: Atomic Panda
Lettering: Julien Cordero
(none)
French companies
Publisher: Kurokawa

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