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Wiki Ippo

New Challenger is Round 26 of the Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! - New Challenger anime, which is the adaptation of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo series.

Summary[]

In the final episode of this season, we see Miyata training at the Kawahara gym and afterwards, he goes and tells to his father if Kamogawa gym responded yet. Next morning at Kamogawa gym we see Ippo taking an interview about his defences. Asking him if he aims higher or has someone who want to beat. The interviewers disappointingly leave with nothing, then Aoki , Kimura and Takamura shout to Ippo of why he didn't tell that he wants to go after Ricardo's belt and take him down. At the same time Yagi comes out, saying that they have matches in spring (Ippo's fourth title defence, Aoki's title match, Itagaki East Japan Rookie King Tournament match and Takamura's world title defence). Everyone got surprised that Aoki has a title match, which he got it by luck. The rankers fell apart and only Aoki left which he is ranked 5th. After Aoki mocked Kimura, they went immediately punching sandbags, and Ippo started training with Kamogawa. Later that night when Ippo was going home, he was talking to himself of what he is after until Wanpo runs on him alone, and behind, Miyata walking towards him and takes him from the shirt, yelling him about not responding to the match. Ippo didn't know anything about it so he ran back to the Gym to tell Coach why he didn't respond. Kamogawa gets all angry, shouts at him for reasons that he doesn't understand yet. The next day Ippo tells to Kamogawa that he has speed up the Dempsey Roll, and Kamogawa likes to see what he came up with. The results...weren't good, Kamogawa countered him right at the beginning. It was fast but it wasn't powerful, his punches were light. Later at night Kamogawa is speaking to Yagi about Ippo, that he tries to find a way to evolve the Dempsey Roll, and at the same time on Kawahara gym, Miyata tells his father that the Dempsey Roll is weak to counters, and that's why Kamogawa gym has yet to respond. Miyata goes on the roof of their gym saying that Ippo will evolve the Dempsey Roll. Back at Kamogawa, he says that he will challenge modern boxing, and make it to the top. In the end we see Ippo and Kamogawa training, and later we see him at the tree were it all started. Kumi watches him throwing some jabs from the path behind him, Ippo says that he will become faster and stronger.

Anime and Manga Differences[]

  • In the manga Aoki was with Ippo's belt after he heard of his title match.
  • The anime did not show Iwao Shimabukuro being interviewed by Fujii and Mari.
  • The Kamogawa crew watching a video of Shimabukuro's last fight was omitted.
  • The crew talking about how Ippo is no longer training with his gloves was also omitted.

Trivia[]

  • The list of the lightweight division's rankings after Aoki rose to the first rank was partially shown. It showed the second ranker, which was "Yūsuke Tanaka" (田中 雄介) from the "Kitagawa" (北川) gym.
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