Hajime no Ippo: Champion Road
Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! - Champion Road • はじめの一歩 -Champion Road-
Special · 2003 · 1 eps · Finished · Score 8.0
Genres: Comedy, Sports
Themes: Boxing, Martial Arts, Shounen, Male Protagonist
Studios: MADHOUSE
Synopsis
As the new Champion, Ippo must protect his title against some of the best boxers available. Makunouchi Ippo is the new Featherweight champion of Japan and is now ready for his first title defense. His opponent, the former Jr. Featherweight champion and a medical student, Sanada Kazuki. In addition to this feud, Sanada is being coached by Kamogawa's former rival, Hama Dankichi. What makes things worse is that Sanada works at the same hospital where Kumi is a nurse at and everybody at the hospital wants Sanada to win. Not only does Ippo have to defend his title, he has to reclaim his love. (Source: Anime News Network)
Voice Actors
- Kouichi Yamadera as Kazuki Sanada
- Kouhei Kiyasu as Ippo Makunouchi
- Seizou Katou as Dankichi Hama
- Kenji Utsumi as Genji Kamogawa
- Tomokazu Seki as Ichirou Miyata
- Masaya Onosaka as Takeshi Sendo
- Yorie Terauchi as Hiroko Makunouchi
- Jin Horikawa as Jikkyou Announcer
- Keiji Fujiwara as Tatsuya Kimura
- Mitsuaki Madono as Masahiko Umezawa
- Rikiya Koyama as Mamoru Takamura
- Masahiko Tanaka as Ryou Mashiba
- Wataru Takagi as Masaru Aoki
- Kenichi Ono as Minoru Fujii
- Sanae Kobayashi as Kumi Mashiba