Audience reviews
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MichaelMorbius
Despite not reaching the peaks of greatness of the first season, this second season of Hajime no Ippo still remains excellent in many ways. Something was missing to make it truly special but, unlike many other second seasons of other anime, it remains at great levels throughout its duration and leaves you with a great desire to dive straight into the third season.
The story, despite the usual clichés, remains at excellent levels with a more direct and rapid narrative that flows very well.
The characters remain the strong point of the anime: those introduced in this second season leave their mark and the arcs of the characters present from the beginning evolve greatly. Bryan Hawk was an excellent villain and Yamada's return was fantastic. Only note: Kimura's "waste". After the excellent p…
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Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger continues where it left off in the first season. Ippo is now the Japan Featherweight champion. But in the second season, Ippo is not in the major role and the anime focuses more on other characters, especially on Takamura. Which is something great because in my first season review, I mentioned that the characters of this anime are its greatest weapon so focusing more on Miyata, Eiji and Takamura was great to watch. I think each of them took themselves a step further and became even better characters than before. But I can't say the same for Ippo.
Ippo wasn't an original main character in season one, which is not something bad as I also mentioned in my review for the first season. After all, this is still an adaptation of a shounen manga that is older than 3…
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This is the second season continues right where the previous one left off. We already see a Japanese champion ippo and a Takamura aspiring to a world title. I love that throughout the series the characters do not stop evolving, always showing their human side. Of how they got to that moment of the fight, of the life that they do what they want to do. The animation is outstanding, the soundtrack is incredible and it is a masterpiece please if you did not see it, run to see it do you that favor. You will thank me.
En español:
Esta es la segunda temporada continua justo donde se quedo la anterior. Vemos ya a un ippo campeón de Japón y a un Takamura aspirando a un titulo mundial. Me encanta que en toda la serie los personajes no paran de evolucionar siempre mostrando su lado humano. De como l…
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The first season of Hajime no Ippo had already conquered me, but this second season only confirmed my passion for this anime. The story has not lost its pace from the start. It is very gratifying to see the evolution of Ippo and the great evolution of another character, Takamura. I didn't like him very much at first, but in this second season the author made a big development of him in which he made the character even more significant in the story. the animation remains great in both fight and normal scenes. The only big difference now is that the entire anime is in 720p quality. Opening and ending are also really cool, the soundtrack remains the same wonder as always, I felt that only "Stand Proud" was missing at some point, but that's ok. Hajime no ippo takes you to a world where boxing…
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A pretty good season and lives up pretty close to the original though not as good. It was definitely worth the watch though. This season was a change of scenery as it took more screentime from Ippo and focused it on other characters such as Takamura and Miyata.
The story had pretty good pacing and atmosphere. The elements and plot devices used in this season were a complete match to the original though its getting a tad bit dull with these reused elements. First half of the seasons was solid but the 2nd half was great mostly because of Takmaura Vs Hawk. The fights were awesome.
Like I said before this seasons focused less on Ippo and more on other characters. Takaurma dieting was just tuff. Ippo still acts the same but you could certainly see his growth as a boxer. We are introduced to…
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Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger is more of the same following season 1, but is no less superb and really gets our characters into the biggest stakes yet. Ippo's new reputation, Takamura's shot at the world title, Miyata's keeping up with Ippo, everyone here is making big strides and the show handles that progression very well.
Visually the show is a lot cleaner and more refined, which might not be to some people's liking given how the rougher outlines and deeper colors of the previous season definitely added to the show's intensity, but it still is a great looking show with plenty of gorgeous fights and great character animation.
Perhaps if there's one big thing I think is a downgrade from season 1, it's the soundtrack. The general sound design of the fights is still present, but New Ch…
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After a few years in the wilderness, I had suspicions of the anime losing steam or having different voice actors taking roles from the originals. However this was not the case!
Story 10 - It seems Makanouchi almost took a back seat in this season, with the other fighters (esp Takamura) taking up more screen time. This was a great idea as it shows much more dynamics, and just the weight cut Takamura had to make was brilliant.
Art 9 - Even better than the original series, everything was better, from sharper character design to the fight scenes.
Sound 10 - Great music again and the voice acting is just imperious.
Character 10 - Every character in this is unique and adds so much to the whole show, just fantastic.
Enjoyment 10 - I literally binged the season in 2 days, comedy, romance, tensio…
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Story: 7/10
Hajime no Ippo: New Chalanger is alot better than S1. All fights had more Substance than any fight in S1. The fight between Date and ricardo was one of the best fights Hajime no Ippo had to offer together with Hawk vs Takamura.
I love that besides our main character ippo every one gets to shine like Date, Aoki, Kimura, Itagaki and Takamura.
Character: 8/10
Like in S1 here in S2 the characters are all well written. I have lots of fun just watching their fights and their interactions.
Art: 8/10 The art is alot better than S1. its more detailed and crisp. Some punches are visually amazing.
Sound: 7/10
Also the OP and ED are very good and the ost is remarkably better than S1.
Enjoyment: 8/10
S2 was so much more enjoyable than S1. The fights were alot better, ost was also be…
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For me Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger picks up pretty well from where it left off. I myself didn't feel like there was any hitches. It still had a lot of the important things the first series had for me.
In terms of the story it felt like Ippos kinda back-tracked a little bit, becoming a little more timid compared to how he left us at the end of the first series despite his accomplishments. That's not to say he went ALL THE WAY back to how he was in the very beginning. I'm not trying to say its bad or anything but really, it didn't feel like the same Machunouchi and it was a little unexpected. For me that goes throughout this installment of the show. He did take a back seat to some of the other characters this time around but still, it felt different.
Expanding more on the story portion…
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When I wrote a review on the first season I was very glad to be able to write so many good things about it . All the expectations I had heading into the show were met . The 2nd season however didn't live up to my expectations at all .The show took away most of the things I loved about the first animated season . Let's take a look at the story first .While the first season had an amazing structure with builds and progress , this had little of that . I will deal with the progress issue in characters section but however lets talk about the pacing . The pacing was pretty inconsistent this season . The first few episodes hardly meant anything . Note that the series resumed after quite a few years and so they felt the need of putting way too many flashbacks . Hence the pacing wasn't good and the…
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Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger Review
Story (10/10) Outstanding
The arcs that Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger covered in the 26 episodes it was given were outstanding. I can see why it was named "New Challenger" because literally almost if not every fight had to do with a Challenger going up against a title holding Champion and one would think that it would get repetitive when this is said but every single fight lives up to the build up of the setup and background story around each match arc just was well as the 75 episode season 1.
Art and Animation (9/10) Great
More Specifically (9.75/10) Great+
With the previous season I feel having a having a bit better animation quality than this one and that one being far older than this one and almost 50 episodes longer, I would have assume t…
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Overview:
Time to review something that actually DOESN'T suck! Hajime no Ippo is back with a vengeance!
The sequel to Hajime no Ippo continues the tale of Ippo's rise to the top of the boxing world. While the first Ippo series started as a coming of age story in which a bullied young man must learn to stand up for himself and achieve his dreams, the sequel starts right at the action and comes out swinging furiously. However, unlike the Rocky sequels, Ippo actually manages to keep the character development, pacing, and quality storytelling that made the first Ippo good. The opponents don't simply devolve into cartoon caricature bad guys that our hero must smash...well besides Bryan Hawk. At least Hawk is hilariously goofy and fun to hate though. Also his eyebrows are only rivaled by that…
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Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger, ah this brings me back. Even though most people are probably reading this review after watching the first season, I still must address this note anyways. Yes this is about boxing, but it is about so much more than that. A love of boxing, or any sport for that matter, is not needed to enjoy this show. The Ippo anime will give you an entirely new view of boxing as a whole. I'm writing this review to try and convince at least someone to look past their anti-sport anime list to watch this.
Story 10/10
The Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger story has a different approach of other sports anime like Haikyu!! and Kuroko no Basket. The difference boxing has with volleyball and basketball is that boxing is not a team sport. The boxer has to fight for him and what he has…
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Story: 9/10
As usual, Hajime no Ippo steps up with the excellent story telling. There is not much of Ippo actually fighting in here, which came as somewhat of a disappointment to me, but we get more in depth stories and back stories to supporting characters. And, there are some cameos from characters that we barely got to see, so that is nice. I felt like there was a little bit more focus on the matches/side characters this series around rather than the outside life, or the training, which the first season had a lot of montages of. While the lessons and values of Hajime no Ippo are kind of repetitive, they do have a lot of meaning and are good things to be learned by anyone.
These aren't all the fights, but they are the major ones.--->
> Miyata Ichiro vs Arnie "Crocodile" Gregory for the…
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It's heartbreaking to see one of your favorite anime series end, so you can guess why I was so happy to hear that there was a sequel to Hajime no Ippo. I wasn't disappointed. New Challenger lived up, and passed, everything it should be. From the side splitting comedy, to the heartwarming matches; you'll never be let down. What New Challenger lacks in length, it makes up in perfection. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and then you'll laugh until you cry. You won't be able to pull away until the end. Yes, I was sad when I realized that New Challenger was only 26 episodes, but no, I was not disappointed. It ended right when it needed to, even if it was heartbreaking and I want to say it was too soon, but only because I love the series so much.I'm kind of hoping and praying here, but I really think t…
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You know, I've always loved boxing. Yet i never imagined that anime series about boxing could be much more interesting than the "real thing". Well, actually, It's not!
In this anime you don't just have pure fight, action non-stop. NO!
You get to know each one of the characters in the series. It's like you're one part of this anime. I don't know, I've never felt it before. The "gang"...It always looked like I am part of it, laughing and sorrowing with them. Watching them get beat up and yet stand again.
I know this review sounds like shit, and there are 100% lot better reviews then this, but I'm sorry, i can't write review about this series and not get my emotions here. You know, reviews are about scores, studying all segments of series, but this anime HAS SOUL.
The characters are so vivid,…
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To start things off, I can say is that it’s about damn time that a new anime installment of Hajime no Ippo came under way. Even though the first anime series was 70 plus episodes, I felt I didn’t get enough by the time I finished watching it. To me, Ippo vs Sendo 2 was actually the beginning!!! Since then, I decided to read the manga and currently up to date on it which is now nearly 90 volumes, and I’ll say I still haven’t gotten enough!!! But moving on, to a certain extent, New Challenger for what it covers is faithful to the manga about 85% of the time though a few things are omitted. For example in the Date/Martinez fight, Okita fought in the undercard in the manga, but for some reason they cut it out in the anime and yet, they dedicate half of an episode to recapping Ippo’s fight with…
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