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r/hajimenoippo • u/negative5 • May 20 '26
Announcement We do not know when the next chapter will be released! Do not ask where it is!
Hola!
I know everyone is waiting for the next chapter to be released so we can continue along with the story, however I would like to remind everyone to wait PATIENTLY until then. Remember that Morikawa was hospitalized earlier this year and yes while he was discharged, he is well within his right to take his time in getting back to work on the series.
Currently it is unknown when the next chapter will be released as Weekly Shonen Magazine hasn’t advertised Hajime No Ippo for the next issue either. Updates will be provided as they come but please do not flood the subreddit with posts asking for the next chapter! They will be removed.
For any further questions, please look to the FAQ or reach out via the modmail.
Gracias.
r/hajimenoippo • u/negative5 • Mar 30 '26
Announcement Morikawa has been hospitalized! Chapters delayed while he recovers!
Per his Twitter, Morikawa was admitted to the hospital. He said if things go smoothly he will be back in a month, meaning the next chapter will not be released until May. Everyone please be patient as Morikawa recovers! I will keep everyone updated if any new information comes out.
Gracias
Update:
It looks like the series is officially going on hiatus while Morikawa recovers. The next chapter is currently scheduled for release on May 20 but is subject to change based on his health. Click Here for more information. Get well soon Morikawa! ♥️
Update 2:
Morikawa had a successful surgery and will begin his rehab soon! Hopefully he rests well and recovery goes smoothly! ♥️
Update 3:
Morikawa has been discharged from the hospital! Please allow him to take his time recovering as we wait patiently for him to get better ♥️
r/hajimenoippo • u/No-Fix3156 • 11h ago
Shitpost what are your favourite panels for curis?
galleryi'm from latino america so i don't know how they say it in english, but basically i need panels to draw over them
in the first image is another image adapted to ippo
in the second image it's the panel of kimura and i draw myself over he
send panels funny or epic, so i draw them over them
r/hajimenoippo • u/ZDTStudios • 10h ago
Fanart HNI Color Wheel
Had to make a color wheel for a college subject. Decided to do HNI. I tried to correspond the colors to the trunks as much as possible. Kinda messed up with the darker colors, especially Takamura. I had to put a bright white background behind it to even see the drawings, but other than that, it came out alright.
r/hajimenoippo • u/Altruistic_Teach_674 • 19h ago
Misc Found 2 figures in akihabara
galleryIf anyone is interested, I found them under the railroads.
The price is a little bit on the high side for me, so if anyone is interested go for it. I found them today, 21.10.26
r/hajimenoippo • u/justarandomguy372 • 4h ago
Question About animation
I just finished s1 and started s2 and i dont like the new animation. Will it change in later episodes or in s3
r/hajimenoippo • u/Ok-Argument-6559 • 1d ago
Discussion Why was takamura so brutal during the Gonzales fight.
This is my 3rd re read of the manga and something about the ippo vs Gonzales fact always makes it stand out compared to all the other fights, first the sheer magnitude and weight of the fight in the overall story being a preliminary world title match after all.
I felt that compared to all of ippos fights this is where we see him take on boxing in the most half hearted way he’s boxing solely to see if the coaches boxing can stand up against the world and didn’t even consider thinking to himself boxing because HE wanted to take on the world but that’s not what I want do discuss.
What I really wanna talk about is takamuras overall attitude during and after the fight we all know takamura has a pretty high boxing iq and apart from his usual tomfoolery he’s a pretty trusted source when it comes to fight tactics and the game state during the matches but after this fight he goes on about how kamogawa should never look like that (that being worried over ippos life i assume) but he off all people should have known how half heartedly ippo was taking boxing as a virtual older brother to him and someone whose taken on the world before I think that not expecting this kind of thing to happen and then getting hard pressed when the old man was worrying over ippo is an over sight on his part.
Overall, I think takamura could have done better and played more of a part in ippos preparation to take on the world.
r/hajimenoippo • u/Spiritual-Swan8765 • 20h ago
Question Overall, would you say he’s a good or bad trainer?
r/hajimenoippo • u/Metzli_eek • 1d ago
Discussion Do you think Morikawa concluded Martinez vs Sendo before serialization resumes?
galleryBased on the recent five fights:
Takamura vs Dragon concluded at 33 chapters
Mashiba vs Garcia concluded at 12 chapters
Mashiba vs Rosario concluded at 31 chapters
Martinez vs Wally concluded at 18 chapters
Martinez vs Sendo is ongoing, but halted at 20 chapters, with George Morikawa likely having finished six chapters at this point ahead of release, so it probably is 26 chapters at the point of the current story and perhaps he finished a few more manuscripts by the time there are chapter releases weekly eventually after his team decide when to balance his schedule.
If this fight is the conclusion of a character’s arc, is it fair to assume it takes 30ish plus chapters?
r/hajimenoippo • u/Perfect_Mondo • 1d ago
Fanart Ippo vs Alfredo animated (rough sketch)
Hajime No Ippo chapter 1034 animated sketch
r/hajimenoippo • u/New_Young_8009 • 6h ago
Discussion Takamura beating up a bear is a bad writting
Honestly i think takamura beating up a bear is the weakest writing we have seen in the series and is Morikawa’s biggest miss
r/hajimenoippo • u/SnooSketches1649 • 1d ago
Question HNI-Scantrad down??
Hi guys, just wondering if any of you have visited HNI-Scantrad recently? I was going to reread a chapter, but when I checked, it was already gone. Is it the same for you guys?
r/hajimenoippo • u/yacinebenchouita • 2d ago
Discussion Kamogawa really pushed Ippo too far in this fight.
. I would’ve definitely thrown in the towel after that punch!"
r/hajimenoippo • u/ezz_Alex • 1d ago
Question Donde puedo leer el maga en español y gratis
Porfa ayúdeme en eso (soy nuevo viendo el anime y quiero leer el manga)
r/hajimenoippo • u/Metzli_eek • 2d ago
Question How would you rate Miguel Zale as a trainer?
galleryAs a Coach, all his fighters had lost in their most prominent fights. As a cornerman, he gave clear assessments and pointers to Ralph Anderson, a sergeant who was formerly a fifth-world-ranked fighter with textbook skills. So he clearly knows more than just searching for talent and not teaching them anything of note. It is not mentioned often, but overall, Zale trained at least six world champion boxers, with Hawk being his sixth. We just don’t know the quality of the fighters he trained beforehand.
Then spotted and scouted Bryan Hawk in the streets of New York, whose innate talent made him a phenom with a ceiling higher than those of Takamura, yet he plateaued once his unorthodox methods failed, since they naturally worked still even if they were figured out against lesser fighters, but it was against a fighter of similar ability. He only refined what he chose to work on, as his prowess and accelerated reflexes as a brawler were good enough to reach a championship belt. So he probably thought don’t fix what ain’t broken.
As a boxer, he did not have the mental fortitude to rely on anything in the lack of effort in preparation, so he just pushed harder the same way he was fighting, which was good thanks to pride, but backfired because at this point Takamura had already handled him at his best and knew what was coming.
Hawk lacked the mentality to train consistently, and the likelihood is he would have walked away from the sport if anyone else had tried to recruit him.
Wally too was a prodigy, where fluently he could execute techniques in his first try without needing to learn of them beforehand, based on what obstacle he comes across. However, Zale instead of focusing on refining what are already first-rate skills accompanied by attributes in agility, reflex, and adaptation that cannot be replicated, kept him prepared by giving him the resources, experience, and preparation such as a camp with the White Fang Team. He fought and sparred world rankers but didn’t apply to him to fight conventionally as it affects certain strengths, like it happened against Ippo at the start of the fight, which are unorthodox. This too might be applied to Hawk; however, he didn’t particularly put the effort to train for extensive periods of time, so there were likely wasted opportunities to build up more basic skills as options to fall back on and a built up strategy.
r/hajimenoippo • u/Arrmyst • 1d ago
Question I haven’t read the manga is it worth it?
I keep hearing about the manga and i wanna read it obviously seeing as i’ve rewatched hajime no ippo a few times but from what i’ve heard its practically nothing like the anime? apparently him and kumi are still “friends” 1500 chapters in and honestly its just been putting me off reading it (this is no hate just things i’ve seen)
r/hajimenoippo • u/LieSelect9676 • 2d ago
Discussion I feel like miyata’s dad doesn’t get taught enough
People always give Kamogawa crap for being a bad corner man, but I feel like Miyata‘a dad is just as worse, though miyata himself also play a part with him being so stubborn with using his dad’s boxing style. I just feel like there should be more discussions with him being like kamogawa
r/hajimenoippo • u/nene_0611 • 2d ago
Misc Questions for Joji Morikawa are being collected!
Just wanted to share that they’re currently collecting questions for Joji Morikawa-sensei’s talk show at DYNAMITE GLOVE 2026 on October 28!
There’s an English submission form too, so international fans can send in questions as well!
If there’s anything you’ve always wanted to ask Morikawa-sensei about Hajime no Ippo, this might be a good opportunity!
r/hajimenoippo • u/ZexweeD • 2d ago
Discussion Sendo’s featherweight win
Hello everyone, I have just started watching this series and had a question.
When Ippo lost to date eiji for featherweight champion,
How did sendo receive it ?
Shouldn’t the victor fight with ippo as he has beat both of them for the belt ?
Thank you.
r/hajimenoippo • u/Available_March_8036 • 3d ago
Discussion This comment shocked me and everyone who doesn't read manga
r/hajimenoippo • u/Metzli_eek • 3d ago
Discussion How do you think Team Martinez operates?
galleryMartinez is an old-school fighter right? During his climb up the ranks, he became world champion in the early '80s, whereas the current story takes place in the early 2000s. He has a renowned trainer in Bill Stewart, who has trained seven world champions. Ricardo has been training under him since his youth. We don’t know if his main gym setup is actually the J.C. Boxing Gym, a run down worn gym.
We only know that he normally trains privately and only occasionally he spars publicly for journalists.
He has an extensive team, though the full extent of it remains unknown. His main sparring partner and stablemate is Jose Nargo, a world-ranked fighter under Stewart with a sharp-shooting, slick out-boxer style. His Team is known to request three sparring partners outside their team per training camp from foreign territories as seen with his preparation for Date, McCallum, Wally, and Sendo.
Stewart, despite his assistance in preparation and setting up what he needs, sees himself as being unable to add much to how Ricardo does things as a second during fight, based on his experience and intelligence he likely has come to the same assessment during the fights on the ring.
Financially speaking, Martinez can afford to live in a mansion and has a massive following in his home country. He always leaves no stone unturned. Yet, it wouldn’t be strange if he opted not to train at a high-tech facility as he might train at the J.C. Boxing Gym, given his background, as he comes from a lineage of mountaineer guides and climbed to the top without the same resources. At the same time, he was trained by a prominent American professional boxing coach who be at a better standing than most. So I wondered if he was brought to train in the United States during his climb instead of Bill settling in Mexico at that point.
Unless he already a fighter from the same country as Ricardo. Not sure if it was his father, but not enough detail of the background has been shown yet.
So question is where he likely trains, how he prepares, and team dynamic
Also Quick Question, when Sendo visited Mexico to challenge Gonzalez, coming across to spar Martinez in the J.C. Gym, which weight divisions do you think these fighters were? The one sitting in the canvas wearing headgear and the two exhausted boxers in the bench, seem unusually large to be in similar division as Ricardo and Sendo. Just a Guess, they look like Welterweights.
So I wonder what is his size limit, when it comes to sparring partners. Ippo sparred with Volg and Mashiba quite affectively, being world class fighters. So in current Ippo’s case, up to Lightweight.
r/hajimenoippo • u/Lowtierinsect • 3d ago
Theory Will Sendo die or just be forced to Retire After fighting Ricardo?
What do yall think?
I think that it might end like how Joe Yabuki from Ashita no Joe did. We've seen him go unconscious from fighting Ippo already and he has taken some insane hits, moreso the panels with his grandma also indicates that something horrible will happen
Thoughts?