In the 21 years since, Ippo has held onto a fervent yet small American fanbase, and the stymied growth is due entirely to the fractured release it’s had in North America. It took Jyoji “George” Morikawa roughly a decade before he would agree to permit his signature boxing manga series, Hajime no Ippo (“The First Step” or maybe “Ippo’s Beginning”) to be adapted into anime, only acquiescing once he found out that producer Masao Maruyama and animation studio Madhouse were responsible for the definitive boxing anime of his childhood: Tomorrow’s Joe, whose legacy lives on through the commemorative series Megalobox. ![]() ![]() The definitive boxing anime of the 2000s is back, and perhaps for the first time it’s getting a fair shot at success in the US.
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