Hajime no Ippo
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Hajime no Ippo (はじめの一歩), also known as Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting, is a manga series created by Morikawa Jouji. It began serialization in Kadonsha's Weekly Shonen Magazine in 1989 and is currently still running.
The title literally means The First Step, but it is also a pun on main character Ippo's name (hajime meaning "beginning" or "first" and Ippo meaning "one step").
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[edit] Overview
Hajime no Ippo follows the story of Ippo Makunouchi's rise to fame as a pro boxer. In addition to Ippo, the fights of many of his friends and rivals are also depicted. The flagship series of Weekly Shonen Magazine, Hajime no Ippo has sold over 73,000,000 copies as of 2007. Each chapter of the series is marked as Round ○○ (Round 1, Round 2, etc). In 1991, Morikawa won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen Manga.
As of 2009, Hajime no Ippo has entered it's 20th year of serialization and been collected into 86 volumes and counting. It has surpassed Koutarou Makaritooru (ended at 51 volumes) as the longest running series in Shonen Magazine history and is the 2nd longest running sports manga still being serialized (the first is Abu-san, which has been in serialization since 1973).
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[edit] Manga Chapters
- Main Article: List of Hajime no Ippo chapters
[edit] The Naniwa Tiger
- Main Article: The Naniwa Tiger: Hajime no Ippo Side Story
[edit] Characters
- Main Article: List of Hajime no Ippo characters
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[edit] Anime
- Main Article: Hajime no Ippo (anime), Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger
[edit] Games
- Main Article: List of Hajime no Ippo games
