The Hajime no Ippo (HnI) thread - Gazelle Punch Her in the Gut!

is ep 2 out yet

That definitely wonā€™t happen

The Arnie fight lasts till ep 4, add in Ippoā€™s fight with Hammer Nao, Dateā€™s title match, and Takamuraā€™s two jr.middle fights and thatā€™s well over 13 eps.

The figure Iā€™ve heard was 90 eps are planned, with Miyata/RBJ as an OAV. Forgot where I heard that, but thatā€™s realistic, though it would be rushing things a bit to cover 500 manga chapters in 90 eps.

If youā€™re talking about the Victorious boxing games, Martinez should be nerfed, he was broken. He had the speed of a featherweight and the punches of a heavyweight.

You would knock someone down with a right, you could KO Takamura within a round with ease.


Miyata should lose but he will likely win. The whole fight is annoying because it is somewhat unrealistic, this whole static BS. Switch hitting regularly is a pretty stupid thing to do against certain opponents as you yourself canā€™t get any rythm and you can leave yourself open in the process.

Is there a sub out yet ?

90 eps is just rumor with no real proof. i do hope your right that they up the eps count later imho i can see them doing 13 eps now and another 13 eps in the fall or direct to dvd.

those are the confirmed episodes from nihon tv. doesnā€™t mean anything, really.

This. Gah Iā€™m so used to speedy fansub service. Itā€™s killing me :looney:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tnvxEWGVGPs&feature=channel for ep 2. I subscribed to this guy since it seems heā€™ll be doing the quick subs for youtube.

As for Ippo switch hitting- he did it in his very first fight against Oda to cover a cut.

That said, Ippo has progressively gotten dumber after the Sawamura fight- I think Sawamura gave him brain damage.

To me, 90eps would put them at around chapter 650-675 in the manga, which isnā€™t a good stopping point, unless they rush things a bit, and end it with the Take fight, which I want to see.

As much as I want to see this, I just canā€™t bring myself to watch anime in shitty youtube quality. Thanks for the link though!

And whoā€™s to say they wonā€™t go for more after that initial order? Tons of source material, why not?

Hmm I think the quality is pretty nice.

watching in high quality makes it pretty good

I think studtrooper is mainly apprehensive about youtube because of the resolution, as was I. In any case, watching in high quality sorta evens that out. This is the only anime Iā€™m willing to watch on Youtube because of the speedsubbing, which, still, is tolerable.

Iā€™m curious to see where miyata goes since heā€™s basicly starving himself to stay in his weight class. I was about to get into the manga but the anime kicked off again :D.

It seems struggling to maintain your weight can be deadly, if youā€™re familiar with Ashita no Joe at allā€¦

Yeah, I know that. Just hope they have a rematch regaurdless of weightclass soon :smiley:

he will probably go up weight classes after the rbj fight.

I want to see Vorg vs. Sawamura (if he isnā€™t permanently retired) or Vorg vs. Miyata if he moves up a weight class.

I broke down and watched the youtube rip because of the comments on here saying it was decent quality. Watching in HQ definitely was better than usual fullscreen.

Not sure if I like this new music. Doesnā€™t feel in the same spirit as the first ā€œseasonā€.

Has the HD version of ep2 been subbed yet? All I see are RAWs.