Last updated on April 27th, 2012, 8:05pmĪs an ex-competitive boxer / Thai boxer, I had to stop reading this after seeing the protagonist suffer so much head trauma, with the never-ending focus on simple 'toughness'. I won't say its uniformly good by any choice of words but its still damn good even on the verge of the 100th volume Please read this and do not worry about the length. I'm glad to have read this best of all sports manga and glad to have come to terms with a sport that I'd never have encountered by choice otherwise. I've fully enjoyed the ride even when it was at its lowest (Gedo). I think its quite worth reading, 100 volumes or 200 volumes as long as the author is able to keep his creative/expressive juices flowing because a certain kind of stamina is necessary on a work this long about a single subject. Miyata saying essentially that he doesn't care about 'fastest in Japan' but only interested in the 'fastest in the world'Īmong other things. Well, I don't know about others but while the recent two fights for Ippo have been not up to par and not keeping the excitement up, it feels like the mangaka has regained some of the creative, expressive juice of old. Last updated on August 18th, 2020, 11:08am I'd rather this long series gets a good ending than a bad one. The backstories, slapstick humor, and plot twists outweighed this problem before but as the tropes get old, it's get the readers on your side or go home. These excel at giving readers insight into the characters' thought processes and challenges and this helps create a much more intimate relationship with character struggles. I fantasize about the author getting a little inspiration from works such as the Dune novels. This late into the series, readers should be empathizing rather than feeling dissociated from characters. What follows but a panel of ippo standing there with an unreadable expression. Between chapter 12, characters question ippo's choices multiple times. It always feels like the winner was decided by freak chance. You often follow 10 or more chapters of blow exchanges, there is a flashback, and one of the really beat up guys win. In matches, you rarely get insight into the opponents' competetive edges in terms of psychology and conditioning. But after 1000 episodes, the lack of clue-ins into why things are happening the way they are makes me feel more and more distant from the series.

I grew up with ippo, enjoyed his growth, the slapstick and surprises.

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