Screens: Summary: After visiting Date, Ippo is at river bank discussing the matter with  Takamura, Kimura, and Aoki. Ippo feels like he won’t be able to take Date’s place leading younger boxers and Aoki and Kimura agree with him and Kimura says he wouldn’t want to follow him. After talking about how Ippo is at his 2nd [...]
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Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger 9 I guess I was so late watching episode 8 that I’m doing 2 Ippo posts in a row! But that’s cool, since I’m also marathoning season 1 at the same time so Ippo is basically my life. Haha. Ha. That being said, this episode kind of bummed me out. We get a new character - Itagaki, a talented young amateur who wants to turn pro and joins the Kamogawa Gym because he looks up to Ippo. And we get an old character - Ippo’s former kohai at Kamogawa, the little puking Geromichi who has reinvented himself as a bald bruiser called “Hammer Nao” and is now challenging Ippo for the Japanese title. Itagaki is a little bit obnoxious as the new guy but I’m sure I’ll grow to like him. Geromichi on the other hand seems to be a real scary mofo and I hated all the scenes he was in. It seems like he’s going to take advantage of Ippo’s weakness - being way too much of a nice guy. It looks like Ippo’s going to have trouble punching his old puking friend. ~sniffle~ Gambatte, uchi no Ippo-kun! P.S. I chose this flashback screenshot for the sole reason that Ippo looks weirdly hunky in it. You got a problem with that?
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