Hajime no Ippo: THE FIGHTING!
Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! • はじめの一歩 THE FIGHTING!
TV · 2000 · 75 eps · Finished · Score 8.7
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sports
Themes: Boxing, Male Protagonist, Primarily Male Cast, Shounen, Martial Arts, Coming of Age, Fitness, Heterosexual, Ensemble Cast
Studios: MADHOUSE
Synopsis
Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life. Constantly running errands and being beaten up by his classmates, Ippo has always dreamed of changing himself, but never has the passion to act upon it. One day, in the midst of yet another bullying, Ippo is saved by Takamura Mamoru, who happens to be a boxer. Ippo faints from his injuries and is brought to the Kamogawa boxing gym to recover. As he regains consciousness, he is awed and amazed at his new surroundings in the gym, though lacks confidence to attempt anything. Takamura places a photo of Ippo's classmate on a punching bag and forces him to punch it. It is only then that Ippo feels something stir inside him and eventually asks Takamura to train him in boxing. Thinking that Ippo does not have what it takes, Takamura gives him a task deemed impossible and gives him a one week time limit. With a sudden desire to get stronger, for himself and his hard working mother, Ippo trains relentlessly to accomplish the task within the time limit. Thus Ippo's journey to the top of the boxing world begins.
Voice Actors
- Tomokazu Seki as Ichirou Miyata
- Megumi Tano as Ichirou Miyata
- Wataru Takagi as Masaru Aoki
- Kouhei Kiyasu as Ippo Makunouchi
- Keiji Fujiwara as Tatsuya Kimura
- Kenji Utsumi as Genji Kamogawa
- Rikiya Koyama as Mamoru Takamura
- Hiroaki Hirata as Keigo Okita
- Daisuke Sakaguchi as Naomichi Yamada
- Motomu Kiyokawa as Ruslan Ramuda
- Masaki Aizawa as Eiji Date
- Seiji Sasaki as Tomoyuki Shinoda
- Takaya Hashi as Tatsuya Chichi
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as Alexander Volg Zangief
- Fujiko Takimoto as Alexander Volg Zangief
- Unshou Ishizuka as Miyata no Chichi
- Choo as Mikami
- Ichirou Nagai as Ginpachi Nekota
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Akira Shigeta
- Hisao Egawa as Toshiyuki Ohta
- Toshiya Ueda as Yasuda
- Masahiro Kobayashi as Jason Ozuma
- Tomoko Kawakami as Kumiko Morita
- Sanae Kobayashi as Kumi Mashiba
- Fumihiko Tachiki as Yoshio Fujiwara
- Kouji Tsujitani as Ryuuichi Hayami
- Kenichi Ono as Minoru Fujii
- Yoshino Ohtori as Mother Kimura
- Akemi Okamura as Reiko Mikami
- Masaya Onosaka as Takeshi Sendo
- Taiki Matsuno as Kenta Kobashi
- Sakiko Tamagawa as Aiko Date
- Toshihiko Nakajima as Haruhiko Yagi
- Yorie Terauchi as Hiroko Makunouchi
- Emi Shinohara as Mari Iimura
- Kiyoyuki Yanada as Takuma Saeki
- Yuuko Kobayashi as Tomoko Yamaguchi
- Mitsuru Ogata as Nakadai Coach
- Naomi Wakabayashi as Yuuji Date
- Nobutoshi Kanna as Yusuke Oda
- Jin Horikawa as Jikkyou Announcer
- Kazuko Sugiyama as Sendou no Sobo
- Yuka Komatsu as Reiko
- Naoki Tatsuta as Yanaoka
- Masaaki Ookura as Jimmy Sisfar
- Mitsuaki Madono as Masahiko Umezawa
- Masahiko Tanaka as Ryou Mashiba
- Issei Futamata as Hachinoe Coach
- Shouko Tsuda as Tomiko