Fighting Spirit
Fighting Spirit
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Fighting Spirit

The moment you back down is the moment you lose!

8.6 / 10
2000
3 seasons
126 episodes
AnimationComedyDramaAction & Adventure

Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers. Always a target for bullying at school (the family fishing business grants him a distinct odor), Ippo's life is one of hardship. One of these after-school bullying sessions turns Ippo's life around for the better, as he is saved by a boxer named Takamura. He decides to follow in Takamura's footsteps and train to become a boxer, giving his life direction and purpose. Ippo's path to perfecting his pugilistic prowess is just beginning...

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Opening [Subtitled]

Where to Watch(AU)

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Cast

Seasons

  • The First Step

    1.The First Step

    8.7
    03-10-200024m

    Ippo is a high school student who works full time at his mother's fishing though. Because of this, he gets bullied on by the kids at his school. That's when his life turns around,...

  • Fruits of Labor

    2.Fruits of Labor

    8.8
    10-10-200024m

    Ippo succeeds in catching 10 falling leaves, and is granted his first sparring session.

  • Tears of Joy

    3.Tears of Joy

    9.2
    17-10-200024m

    Ippo loses his first sparring session, but shows enough potential to be accepted into the gym.

  • Shadow Boxing

    4.Shadow Boxing

    8.8
    24-10-200024m

    Ippo practices shadow boxing.

  • 3 Months to Counter

    5.3 Months to Counter

    9.0
    31-10-200024m

    Ippo trains for a rematch.

  • The Opening Bell of the Rematch

    6.The Opening Bell of the Rematch

    9.0
    06-11-200024m

    Ippo and Miyata face off in a rematch.

  • The Destructive Force Of One CM

    7.The Destructive Force Of One CM

    9.2
    13-11-200024m

    Ippo and Miyata are in the last round of the rematch

  • Promise to Meet Again

    8.Promise to Meet Again

    9.5
    20-11-200024m

    Ippo trains with Takamura and discovers the hardship of pro boxing.

  • C Class License

    9.C Class License

    9.0
    27-11-200024m

    Ippo takes the License Test and meets Mashiba.

  • Debut Match!

    10.Debut Match!

    8.4
    04-12-200024m

    Ippo and his opponent Yusuke train for Ippo's debut match.

  • Obsession for Victory

    11.Obsession for Victory

    8.8
    11-12-200024m

    Ippo defeats Yusuke via K.O.

  • Becoming a Bully's Buddy

    12.Becoming a Bully's Buddy

    8.8
    18-12-200024m

    Ippo fights and wins his second match via K.O.,After the fight he was befriended by Umezawa, his former bully.

  • The Eastern Japan Rookie Championship Tournament Begins

    13.The Eastern Japan Rookie Championship Tournament Begins

    8.8
    25-12-200024m

    Ippo and his opponent Jason prepare for the first match of the Rookie King Tournament.

  • Powerful Arms! Hooks vs. Uppercut!

    14.Powerful Arms! Hooks vs. Uppercut!

    8.8
    08-01-200124m

    Start of Ippo vs Jason match, both men exchange powerful punches but neither goes down.

  • Test of Endurance

    15.Test of Endurance

    9.0
    15-01-200124m

    Ippo defeats Jason via K.O. after a tough match.

  • Premonition of a Hard Battle

    16.Premonition of a Hard Battle

    8.2
    22-01-200124m

    Ippo watches the fight videos of Kobashi and Hayami, his future opponents.

  • Ippo on the Beach

    17.Ippo on the Beach

    8.5
    29-01-200124m

    Ippo joins Takamura, Kimura, and Aoki in a training camp near the beach.

  • Clinch

    18.Clinch

    9.0
    05-02-200124m

    Start of Ippo vs Kobashi match, Ippo is loosing by points because of Kobashi's strategy.

  • K.O. Dream

    19.K.O. Dream

    8.2
    12-02-200124m

    Kobashi abandoned his strategy and loses the match to Ippo via K.O.

  • Threat of Shotgun

    20.Threat of Shotgun

    8.2
    19-02-200124m

    Takamura wins the Japanese Middleweight Championship belt, Ippo trains with Aoki to counter Hayami's Shotgun punch.

  • The Way to Capture a Prodigy

    21.The Way to Capture a Prodigy

    9.2
    26-02-200124m

    Start of Ippo vs Hayami fight, Hayami takes the advantage during the early rounds.

  • Forward! Forward!!

    22.Forward! Forward!!

    8.8
    05-03-200124m

    Ippo defeats Hayami via K.O. Ippo's training with Aoki and Kimura's help Ippo win the match.

  • Another Semi-Final

    23.Another Semi-Final

    8.8
    12-03-200124m

    Ippos day off. Miyata and Mashiba face off.

  • To the Place We Promised...

    24.To the Place We Promised...

    9.0
    19-03-200124m

    Miyata and Mashiba continues to fight. Ippo is angred by the outcome.

  • Every Emotion

    25.Every Emotion

    8.8
    26-03-200124m

    Ippo trains for Mashiba flicker jabs.

  • Battle for Distance

    26.Battle for Distance

    8.5
    02-04-200124m

    Ippo VS Mashiba Round 1

  • Death Match

    27.Death Match

    9.2
    09-04-200124m

    Ippo VS Mashiba continues.

  • Victory or Defeat

    28.Victory or Defeat

    8.8
    16-04-200124m

    Ippo defeats Mashiba for Rookie King of Eastren Japan.

  • Rocky of Naniwa

    29.Rocky of Naniwa

    8.5
    23-04-200124m

    Sendo goes to Japan to meet Ippo and make him go to All Japan and gets a chance to spar with Takamura.

  • To Enemy Ground

    30.To Enemy Ground

    8.7
    30-04-200124m

    Ippo learns how to heal his right fist and gets ready for the All Japan but something happens his powerful right punches!

  • Traces of Intense Battles

    31.Traces of Intense Battles

    7.0
    07-05-200124m

    Episode 31 is a retrospective on the hope that managed Ippo championship. It is made in the form of a newspaper article commented and written Fuuji, journalist of the monthly "boxi...

  • Throw Your Right!

    32.Throw Your Right!

    8.5
    14-05-200124m

    After two straight missed Ippo, the sparring match is abandoned. Meanwhile, Sendo, the great favorites of the match, continues to train. Just before the game, the pain in the fist...

  • Smash Force

    33.Smash Force

    9.5
    21-05-200124m

    Makunouchi takes the smash improved Sendo, and crashed into the ropes, but do not fall! Alas, his legs tremble, Sendo and the opportunity to boost its smash. Ippo then chooses the...

  • The Rookie King

    34.The Rookie King

    9.0
    28-05-200124m

    Sendo Makunouchi and continues to cast powerful blows to turn, but neither weakens, they are very determined !! But after a few moments, Sendo eventually take the lead, and pushes...

  • The Continuing Journey

    35.The Continuing Journey

    8.7
    04-06-200124m

    It is the day of graduation, Ippo has also obtained his. At his high school, he became The Star, Idol of all students. This awareness leads logically significant upsurge in new box...

  • The Champ and I

    36.The Champ and I

    8.3
    11-06-200124m

    Ippo finally meets the champion in its class, Eiji Date. The latter is there to comment on the evening's matches as a guest. It turns out that date and Takamura are old friends. It...

  • A Thing to Strive For

    37.A Thing to Strive For

    9.0
    18-06-200124m

    Ippo gets to get up, the game resumes. Date returned, and hardly the match resumed, Ippo is again stuck in the ropes. Date then returns its corkscrew, trying to anticipate where Ip...

  • Two Rookies of the Year

    38.Two Rookies of the Year

    8.7
    26-06-200124m

    Okita also control the blow that had allowed Date set down Ippo 2 times !! Ippo, panicked, took distance, and Okita feints put the uncomfortable, it can not predict its moves. Ippo...

  • Challenge in a Foreign Land

    39.Challenge in a Foreign Land

    8.7
    03-07-200124m

    In Thailand, Miyata a draw against a second-class boxer. Decision of the arbitrator although debatable, the Japanese are not welcome there, and Miyata seems to be the target of com...

  • A Counter to Surpass All Counters

    40.A Counter to Surpass All Counters

    8.7
    10-07-200124m

    The boxing stadium tremble with excitement, the crowd goes wild and wants to see only one thing, the victory of Jimmy Sisfer, and the defeat of Ichiro Miyata ... While the gong is...

  • Barf-michi's Big Fight

    41.Barf-michi's Big Fight

    8.7
    17-07-200124m

    At sunset, While Ippo's mother prepares the material for fishing, it can hardly his training, sorry for being late to help his mother. The next day at Kamogawa club, while everybod...

  • Sharing a Dream

    42.Sharing a Dream

    8.7
    24-07-200124m

    Ippo thinks of quitting boxing.

  • The Speed Star

    43.The Speed Star

    9.0
    31-07-200124m

    Ippo gets ready for his match against Saeki the Speed Star.

  • Blind Spot in the Ring

    44.Blind Spot in the Ring

    8.7
    07-08-200124m

    Ippo fights Saeki.

  • The White Fangs of the Wolf

    45.The White Fangs of the Wolf

    9.0
    14-08-200124m

    Gero-michi leaves and has to move away.

  • Be the Gazelle

    46.Be the Gazelle

    9.0
    21-08-200124m

    Aoki, Kimura & Ippo train hard for their next match of the tournament class A. They linked together jogging, sparring and Shadow Boxing to be at their best. It is time for the semi...

  • The Fighting Spirit Within

    47.The Fighting Spirit Within

    9.3
    28-08-200124m

    The tactics of the coach against Vorg is based on a succession of sudden melee after which the least enduring two boxers will drop his guard for breath. The victory Ippo so upon hi...

  • The Red Wolf

    48.The Red Wolf

    9.0
    04-09-200124m

    The match between Volg and Ippo begins.

  • The Courage to Believe

    49.The Courage to Believe

    9.0
    18-09-200124m

    Volg and Ippo continue to duke it out in a hard-fought and long battle.

  • Something to Convey

    50.Something to Convey

    8.7
    25-09-200124m

    The end of the Volg match.

  • Group Date

    51.Group Date

    8.7
    02-10-200124m

    Group date, literally. Ippo walks Mashiba's Kumi home.

  • The Challenger

    52.The Challenger

    8.0
    09-10-200124m

    Recap episode.

  • So That I Can Be Myself

    53.So That I Can Be Myself

    8.0
    16-10-200124m

    Background episode for Date Eiji.

  • Fists of the Champ

    54.Fists of the Champ

    8.7
    23-10-200124m

    "The champions have special powers! "That is what was said to Takamura Ippo before his defense of the title match. But after weight problems and a passage in a sauna that has signi...

  • The Japan Featherweight Title Match

    55.The Japan Featherweight Title Match

    8.7
    30-10-200124m

    The episode begins the day before the match for the title of Ippo, during training with mittens. But the latter is shortened, the coach looks ill. While Aoki asks Ippo to reach him...

  • The Power that Stands in the Way

    56.The Power that Stands in the Way

    8.3
    06-11-200124m

    During the break, Ippo is concerned, he has not had the sensation he usually hit when Date but his coach made him regain confidence in him. The beginning of the 3rd round is the pe...

  • Conclusion

    57.Conclusion

    8.3
    13-11-200124m

    "What should I do?". This is the question that arises while Ippo Date street shots, then he remembers that he told Takamura just give the maximum for this fight. It resumes and con...

  • Heartbroken

    58.Heartbroken

    10.0
    20-11-200124m

    While the coach Okita Date and congratulated the champion, Ippo wishes to thank for this game then goes on a stretcher to applause from the audience ... We then see Takeshi Sendo r...

  • Look of Determination

    59.Look of Determination

    8.7
    27-11-200124m

    The match between Sendou Takeshi and Volg Zangief starts.

  • Rival

    60.Rival

    8.7
    04-12-200124m

    Sendou wins the match versus Volg.

  • Comeback Anxiety

    61.Comeback Anxiety

    9.0
    11-12-200124m

    Miyata Ichirou defeats Li Chou Bil.

  • Revival

    62.Revival

    8.7
    18-12-200124m

    Coach returns from the hospital, and Makunochi "hits without being hit".

  • Youth of Fire

    63.Youth of Fire

    8.7
    25-12-200124m

    The past of Aoki and Kimura is shown.

  • Hot Rod Era

    64.Hot Rod Era

    8.7
    08-01-200224m

    Second part of Aoki's and Kimura's past.

  • The Summer of the Kamogawa Corps

    65.The Summer of the Kamogawa Corps

    8.7
    15-01-200224m

    The group go to training camp in the mountains.

  • Mr. Takamura's Tears

    66.Mr. Takamura's Tears

    8.7
    22-01-200224m

    Takamura fights a bear.

  • The Kamogawa Gym Swings Into Action

    67.The Kamogawa Gym Swings Into Action

    9.0
    29-01-200224m

    After this strong hectic camp, we find our boxers at the gym. While the coach told them all to go to rest, two men have one a shin-coach nihon club and the other being Shigeta Akir...

  • The Chief's Peril

    68.The Chief's Peril

    9.0
    05-02-200224m

    Finally the day of the games of our boxers happens, Kimura very fit explodes his opponent, when Aoki to beat his opponent but as usual with a little more difficulty. But hey go to...

  • The Trap of the Southpaw

    69.The Trap of the Southpaw

    8.5
    12-02-200224m

    Ippo and coach arriving in the city where the featherweight champion, Takeshi Sendo must defend his title against Shigeta Akira, 4th category. At the beginning of the match, we see...

  • The Young Punk

    70.The Young Punk

    9.0
    19-02-200224m

    We find our hero in him, in his room, he can not help thinking about the game he has just seen in Osaka, acceleration Sendo, his blows so powerful and his expression bloodthirsty k...

  • Time for the Showdown

    71.Time for the Showdown

    10.0
    26-02-200224m

    While the title match approach Ippo trains again and again. As it enters its footing, a crowd gathered in front of the room, there are people coming to buy their tickets for this m...

  • Lollapalooza

    72.Lollapalooza

    8.7
    05-03-200224m

    What wonder what Dempsey Roll early in the 1st round, Ippo sends his best and most powerful blow while Sendo had not yet had time to get into position. The champion is found on lan...

  • Surpass That Moment

    73.Surpass That Moment

    9.0
    12-03-200224m

    Ippo happens somehow to join his corner. This end of the second round was very rude for the challenger, the 3rd round starts in exactly the same way as has finished the second. Ipp...

  • Mixup

    74.Mixup

    9.3
    19-03-200224m

    Takamura has noticed, Ippo has had enough it is burnt and courage in this game is like a time bomb because if Sendo quite put down Ippo, it will never recover. 5th round begins wit...

  • One Step Further

    75.One Step Further

    9.6
    26-03-200224m

    Ippo and Sendo's match concludes.

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