

Fighting Spirit
“The moment you back down is the moment you lose!”
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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Cast
Seasons

1.The First Step
8.703-10-200024mIppo 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,...

2.Fruits of Labor
8.810-10-200024mIppo succeeds in catching 10 falling leaves, and is granted his first sparring session.

3.Tears of Joy
9.217-10-200024mIppo loses his first sparring session, but shows enough potential to be accepted into the gym.

4.Shadow Boxing
8.824-10-200024mIppo practices shadow boxing.

5.3 Months to Counter
9.031-10-200024mIppo trains for a rematch.

6.The Opening Bell of the Rematch
9.006-11-200024mIppo and Miyata face off in a rematch.

7.The Destructive Force Of One CM
9.213-11-200024mIppo and Miyata are in the last round of the rematch

8.Promise to Meet Again
9.520-11-200024mIppo trains with Takamura and discovers the hardship of pro boxing.

9.C Class License
9.027-11-200024mIppo takes the License Test and meets Mashiba.

10.Debut Match!
8.404-12-200024mIppo and his opponent Yusuke train for Ippo's debut match.

11.Obsession for Victory
8.811-12-200024mIppo defeats Yusuke via K.O.

12.Becoming a Bully's Buddy
8.818-12-200024mIppo fights and wins his second match via K.O.,After the fight he was befriended by Umezawa, his former bully.

13.The Eastern Japan Rookie Championship Tournament Begins
8.825-12-200024mIppo and his opponent Jason prepare for the first match of the Rookie King Tournament.

14.Powerful Arms! Hooks vs. Uppercut!
8.808-01-200124mStart of Ippo vs Jason match, both men exchange powerful punches but neither goes down.

15.Test of Endurance
9.015-01-200124mIppo defeats Jason via K.O. after a tough match.

16.Premonition of a Hard Battle
8.222-01-200124mIppo watches the fight videos of Kobashi and Hayami, his future opponents.

17.Ippo on the Beach
8.529-01-200124mIppo joins Takamura, Kimura, and Aoki in a training camp near the beach.

18.Clinch
9.005-02-200124mStart of Ippo vs Kobashi match, Ippo is loosing by points because of Kobashi's strategy.

19.K.O. Dream
8.212-02-200124mKobashi abandoned his strategy and loses the match to Ippo via K.O.

20.Threat of Shotgun
8.219-02-200124mTakamura wins the Japanese Middleweight Championship belt, Ippo trains with Aoki to counter Hayami's Shotgun punch.

21.The Way to Capture a Prodigy
9.226-02-200124mStart of Ippo vs Hayami fight, Hayami takes the advantage during the early rounds.

22.Forward! Forward!!
8.805-03-200124mIppo defeats Hayami via K.O. Ippo's training with Aoki and Kimura's help Ippo win the match.

23.Another Semi-Final
8.812-03-200124mIppos day off. Miyata and Mashiba face off.

24.To the Place We Promised...
9.019-03-200124mMiyata and Mashiba continues to fight. Ippo is angred by the outcome.

25.Every Emotion
8.826-03-200124mIppo trains for Mashiba flicker jabs.

26.Battle for Distance
8.502-04-200124mIppo VS Mashiba Round 1

27.Death Match
9.209-04-200124mIppo VS Mashiba continues.

28.Victory or Defeat
8.816-04-200124mIppo defeats Mashiba for Rookie King of Eastren Japan.

29.Rocky of Naniwa
8.523-04-200124mSendo goes to Japan to meet Ippo and make him go to All Japan and gets a chance to spar with Takamura.

30.To Enemy Ground
8.730-04-200124mIppo learns how to heal his right fist and gets ready for the All Japan but something happens his powerful right punches!

31.Traces of Intense Battles
7.007-05-200124mEpisode 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...

32.Throw Your Right!
8.514-05-200124mAfter 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...

33.Smash Force
9.521-05-200124mMakunouchi 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...

34.The Rookie King
9.028-05-200124mSendo 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...

35.The Continuing Journey
8.704-06-200124mIt 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...

36.The Champ and I
8.311-06-200124mIppo 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...

37.A Thing to Strive For
9.018-06-200124mIppo 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...

38.Two Rookies of the Year
8.726-06-200124mOkita 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...

39.Challenge in a Foreign Land
8.703-07-200124mIn 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...

40.A Counter to Surpass All Counters
8.710-07-200124mThe 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...

41.Barf-michi's Big Fight
8.717-07-200124mAt 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...

42.Sharing a Dream
8.724-07-200124mIppo thinks of quitting boxing.

43.The Speed Star
9.031-07-200124mIppo gets ready for his match against Saeki the Speed Star.

44.Blind Spot in the Ring
8.707-08-200124mIppo fights Saeki.

45.The White Fangs of the Wolf
9.014-08-200124mGero-michi leaves and has to move away.

46.Be the Gazelle
9.021-08-200124mAoki, 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...

47.The Fighting Spirit Within
9.328-08-200124mThe 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...

48.The Red Wolf
9.004-09-200124mThe match between Volg and Ippo begins.

49.The Courage to Believe
9.018-09-200124mVolg and Ippo continue to duke it out in a hard-fought and long battle.

50.Something to Convey
8.725-09-200124mThe end of the Volg match.

51.Group Date
8.702-10-200124mGroup date, literally. Ippo walks Mashiba's Kumi home.

52.The Challenger
8.009-10-200124mRecap episode.

53.So That I Can Be Myself
8.016-10-200124mBackground episode for Date Eiji.

54.Fists of the Champ
8.723-10-200124m"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...

55.The Japan Featherweight Title Match
8.730-10-200124mThe 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...

56.The Power that Stands in the Way
8.306-11-200124mDuring 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...

57.Conclusion
8.313-11-200124m"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...

58.Heartbroken
10.020-11-200124mWhile 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...

59.Look of Determination
8.727-11-200124mThe match between Sendou Takeshi and Volg Zangief starts.

60.Rival
8.704-12-200124mSendou wins the match versus Volg.

61.Comeback Anxiety
9.011-12-200124mMiyata Ichirou defeats Li Chou Bil.

62.Revival
8.718-12-200124mCoach returns from the hospital, and Makunochi "hits without being hit".

63.Youth of Fire
8.725-12-200124mThe past of Aoki and Kimura is shown.

64.Hot Rod Era
8.708-01-200224mSecond part of Aoki's and Kimura's past.

65.The Summer of the Kamogawa Corps
8.715-01-200224mThe group go to training camp in the mountains.

66.Mr. Takamura's Tears
8.722-01-200224mTakamura fights a bear.

67.The Kamogawa Gym Swings Into Action
9.029-01-200224mAfter 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...

68.The Chief's Peril
9.005-02-200224mFinally 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...

69.The Trap of the Southpaw
8.512-02-200224mIppo 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...

70.The Young Punk
9.019-02-200224mWe 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...

71.Time for the Showdown
10.026-02-200224mWhile 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...

72.Lollapalooza
8.705-03-200224mWhat 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...

73.Surpass That Moment
9.012-03-200224mIppo 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...

74.Mixup
9.319-03-200224mTakamura 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...

75.One Step Further
9.626-03-200224mIppo and Sendo's match concludes.
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