It appeared in volume 84, where some sites list it as like Round 806.5, and some sites don't have it with it. Also there is a Sendo Gaiden/One shot about when he was in middle-school. It should be noted the quality of some chapters does decrease a little, where the scanlators were only able to use lq scans from Weekly Shonen Magazine at the time, and never went back and re-did it. If you do read it and don't want to get spoiled with the story, you might not want to browse this sub or the wiki since you will probably get spoiled by reading some thread titles. Or you can read what Rising cut out (like the training for the Shimabukuro match/weight in, and other stuff) start at volume 47. 558, where you are only reading 66 volumes instead of 126/127. So if you want to catch up to the current chapter, you can probably start where the Eagle vs Takamura match ended in Ch. Rising - Episodes 25 - Cover Volume 47 to Volume 61 (and Volume 45/46) New Challenger - Episodes 26 - Covers volume 36 to volume 46 (but it cut out WWII Flashback in volume 45/46 moved to Rising last 3 episodes. Kimura vs Mashiba Ova - Cover volume 31 to volume 33 Season 1 - Episodes 76 - Cover volume 1 to volume 30Ĭhampionship Road movie - Covers volume 33 to volume 35 Rising cut out a few volumes worth of content in order to fit like 16 volumes worth into 25 episodes. At some point, it would be worth to re-read the story from the begin, where it is worth it because the anime did cut out a few things, or re-arranged content in order to fit into an anime/movie format. Since you watched the anime, you can probably skip those chapters since there are only minor differences between the anime and manga. If you decide to read the series, you don't need to read all 1276 chapters right away. (Longest is 40 chapters.) Then when the story focuses on other characters, that slows the pacing down more. Or if you only enjoy the slice of life/comedy outside the ring, you might not enjoy some of the matches in it.Ĭharacters do progress some in it, but the pacing tends to be really slow considering some of the bigger matches tend to be 20 chapters long in it. Some people enjoy the current story, while some people not so much, it just depends on what you enjoy about Hajime no Ippo.įor example, if you only care about Ippo, you might not enjoy other character's matches like Itagaki, Miyata, Mashiba, Sendo, Takamura, or Volg when the story focuses on them for their big matches. The series does have its up and downs, where some fights are great and some fights not so great, but that is sort of expected for a long running series. I assume most people on this subreddit would probably recommend you to read the manga since we are fans of it.

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