Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger - It Begins I’ve been blogging a lot of “my POV as a chick” stuff lately so it’s about time we get back to THE FIGHTING. If only they’d let us - the build-up to this Hawk v. Takamura fight has been dragging on for ages. At least they can’t hold off on it any longer because the starting bell rang in the last five seconds of this episode, haha. I couldn’t believe they could spend another entire episode getting us hyped for the fight but they managed it - by bringing in every boxer from Miyata to Date to Sendo to the Japanese national champs of every weight class to lay their hopes on Takamura. Our senshu also got a private moment with every member of the Kamogawa gym AND a sentimental flashback of his entire career as a boxer. Hard to believe there was still time to fit in the opening theatrics for both Takamura and Hawk’s entrances and even some friction in the ring before the bell. This fight is LONG AWAITED. Makes me wonder if they’re planning on stretching it to go the whole next 4 episodes, taking us to the end of the season. I mean, of course they will. But I hope they’ll announce another season in that case cuz there really hasn’t been enough of Ippo himself in this one. Major fight arcs for Miyata, Date and now Takamura, while all Ippo pulled off was an easy title-defence or two - disappointing!
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