posted on by Anita Tai
© George Morikawa, Kodansha
This 12 months’s twentieth concern of Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine revealed on Wednesday that George Morikawa‘s Hajime no Ippo boxing manga could be on hiatus this week with a purpose to put together for the journal’s mixed twenty first and twenty second double concern.
K MANGA publishes the collection in English and describes the collection:
What does it really feel prefer to be robust? That is the query on the thoughts of Ippo Makunouchi, a careless high-school child who will get bullied lots. However when he runs into professional boxer Mamoru Takamura, it is not lengthy earlier than the dynamite in his fists is unleashed! Dreaming of becoming a member of Takamura within the professional ranks, Ippo joins him on the Kamogawa Boxing Gymnasium—and there his quest for true energy begins, out and in of the ring!
The collection commemorated over 100 million copies in circulation in July.
Morikawa launched Hajime no Ippo in 1989, and the collection is his solely manga.
The manga impressed a tv anime adaptation in 2000, adopted by the Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger sequel in 2009 and the Hajime no Ippo Rising sequel in 2013. The collection additionally impressed the Hajime no Ippo – Champion Road special and the Hajime no Ippo – Mashiba vs. Kimura unique video anime in 2003. Geneon Entertainment launched the primary tv anime season on DVD in North America earlier than the corporate ceased operations in 2007.
Discotek licensed the primary anime and is releasing the collection on Blu-ray Disc. Crunchyroll is streaming the unique anime adaptation and Hajime no Ippo Rising.
The manga impressed its first stage play adaptation in 2020.
Kodansha began releasing the manga digitally in 2021. The manga’s a hundred and fortieth compiled e book quantity shipped on February 16. The manga’s first 110 volumes are at present obtainable on Kodansha‘s Magazine Pocket web site.
Supply: Weekly Shōnen Journal concern 20
