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Hajime no Ippo (manga)

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Alternative title:
Hajime no Ippo: Fighting Spirit!
Ippo, la rage de vaincre (French)
The Fighting!
はじめの一歩 (Japanese)
第一神拳 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Makunouchi Ippo is always busy with his night fishing job, and gets bullied a lot. After some inspiration from magazines, videos, and boxers, he decided to take up boxing. Boxing changed Ippo's life, and now his dream is to become pro and fight in matches.
User Ratings: 178 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 76 votes (sub:33, Eng:28, dub:6, raw:3, ?:2, others:4
2 French
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 52 votes (Eng:33, sub:17, dub:2)
 Very good: 26 votes (Eng:19, sub:7)
 Good: 12 votes (Eng:7, sub:4, dub:1)
 Decent: 8 votes (Eng:5, sub:2, others:1
1 Korean
)
 So-so: -
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:1, Eng:1)
 Weak: 2 votes (Eng:2)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 419 users, rank: #194 (of 6718)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.888 (Excellent), std. dev.: 1.3856, rank: #253 (of 7449)
Weighted mean: 8.783 (Excellent−), rank: #315 (of 7449) (seen all: 9.11 / seen some: 8.62 / won't finish: 7.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.759 (Excellent−), rank: #20 (of 3484)
Number of pages: 177
Chapter titles: We have 1208
Vintage: 1989 (Shukan Shonen Magazine)
Release dates: We have 326
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 2
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: George Morikawa
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Kodansha
English staff
English cast
Translation:
Elodie Legay
Kevin Gifford
Nicholas Plante
Samuel R. Messner
Susamaji

Editing:
Jordan Reynolds
Salud Campos Blasco
Sarah Tilson
Lettering:
Adnazeer Macalangcom (Vol. 1, 7)
Aidan Clarke (Vol. 6)
Andre Bastos
Arbash Mughal
Brendon Hull (Vol. 5)
Carla Gil Gaba
Gareth Bentall
Greta Holko
Kai Kyou
Monika Hegedusova
Toppy
(none)
English companies
Online Distribution: K MANGA
French cast
French staff
Director: Grégoire Hellot

Adaptation: Atomic Panda
Lettering: Julien Cordero
(none)
French companies
Publisher: Kurokawa

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