Fighting Spirit
Release Date: N/A
Rating: 8.658 / 10
Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers. Always a target for bullying at school (the family fishing business grants him a distinct odor), Ippo's life is one of hardship. One of these after-school bullying sessions turns Ippo's life around for the better, as he is saved by a boxer named Takamura. He decides to follow in Takamura's footsteps and train to become a boxer, giving his life direction and purpose. Ippo's path to perfecting his pugilistic prowess is just beginning...
Episodes
Season 1
Episode 1: The First Step
Air Date: 2000-10-03
Ippo is a high school student who works full time at his mother's fishing though...
Episode 2: Fruits of Labor
Air Date: 2000-10-10
Ippo succeeds in catching 10 falling leaves, and is granted his first sparring s...
Episode 3: Tears of Joy
Air Date: 2000-10-17
Ippo loses his first sparring session, but shows enough potential to be accepted...
Episode 4: Shadow Boxing
Air Date: 2000-10-24
Ippo practices shadow boxing....
Episode 5: 3 Months to Counter
Air Date: 2000-10-31
Ippo trains for a rematch....
Episode 6: The Opening Bell of the Rematch
Air Date: 2000-11-06
Ippo and Miyata face off in a rematch....
Episode 7: The Destructive Force Of One CM
Air Date: 2000-11-13
Ippo and Miyata are in the last round of the rematch...
Episode 8: Promise to Meet Again
Air Date: 2000-11-20
Ippo trains with Takamura and discovers the hardship of pro boxing....
Episode 9: C Class License
Air Date: 2000-11-27
Ippo takes the License Test and meets Mashiba....
Episode 10: Debut Match!
Air Date: 2000-12-04
Ippo and his opponent Yusuke train for Ippo's debut match....
Episode 11: Obsession for Victory
Air Date: 2000-12-11
Ippo defeats Yusuke via K.O....
Episode 12: Becoming a Bully's Buddy
Air Date: 2000-12-18
Ippo fights and wins his second match via K.O.,After the fight he was befriended...
Episode 13: The Eastern Japan Rookie Championship Tournament Begins
Air Date: 2000-12-25
Ippo and his opponent Jason prepare for the first match of the Rookie King Tourn...
Episode 14: Powerful Arms! Hooks vs. Uppercut!
Air Date: 2001-01-08
Start of Ippo vs Jason match, both men exchange powerful punches but neither goe...
Episode 15: Test of Endurance
Air Date: 2001-01-15
Ippo defeats Jason via K.O. after a tough match....
Episode 16: Premonition of a Hard Battle
Air Date: 2001-01-22
Ippo watches the fight videos of Kobashi and Hayami, his future opponents....
Episode 17: Ippo on the Beach
Air Date: 2001-01-29
Ippo joins Takamura, Kimura, and Aoki in a training camp near the beach....
Episode 18: Clinch
Air Date: 2001-02-05
Start of Ippo vs Kobashi match, Ippo is loosing by points because of Kobashi's s...
Episode 19: K.O. Dream
Air Date: 2001-02-12
Kobashi abandoned his strategy and loses the match to Ippo via K.O....
Episode 20: Threat of Shotgun
Air Date: 2001-02-19
Takamura wins the Japanese Middleweight Championship belt, Ippo trains with Aoki...
Episode 21: The Way to Capture a Prodigy
Air Date: 2001-02-26
Start of Ippo vs Hayami fight, Hayami takes the advantage during the early round...
Episode 22: Forward! Forward!!
Air Date: 2001-03-05
Ippo defeats Hayami via K.O. Ippo's training with Aoki and Kimura's help Ippo wi...
Episode 23: Another Semi-Final
Air Date: 2001-03-12
Ippos day off. Miyata and Mashiba face off....
Episode 24: To the Place We Promised...
Air Date: 2001-03-19
Miyata and Mashiba continues to fight. Ippo is angred by the outcome....
Episode 25: Every Emotion
Air Date: 2001-03-26
Ippo trains for Mashiba flicker jabs....
Episode 26: Battle for Distance
Air Date: 2001-04-02
Ippo VS Mashiba Round 1...
Episode 27: Death Match
Air Date: 2001-04-09
Ippo VS Mashiba continues....
Episode 28: Victory or Defeat
Air Date: 2001-04-16
Ippo defeats Mashiba for Rookie King of Eastren Japan....
Episode 29: Rocky of Naniwa
Air Date: 2001-04-23
Sendo goes to Japan to meet Ippo and make him go to All Japan and gets a chance ...
Episode 30: To Enemy Ground
Air Date: 2001-04-30
Ippo learns how to heal his right fist and gets ready for the All Japan but some...
Episode 31: Traces of Intense Battles
Air Date: 2001-05-07
Episode 31 is a retrospective on the hope that managed Ippo championship. It is ...
Episode 32: Throw Your Right!
Air Date: 2001-05-14
After two straight missed Ippo, the sparring match is abandoned. Meanwhile, Send...
Episode 33: Smash Force
Air Date: 2001-05-21
Makunouchi takes the smash improved Sendo, and crashed into the ropes, but do no...
Episode 34: The Rookie King
Air Date: 2001-05-28
Sendo Makunouchi and continues to cast powerful blows to turn, but neither weake...
Episode 35: The Continuing Journey
Air Date: 2001-06-04
It is the day of graduation, Ippo has also obtained his. At his high school, he ...
Episode 36: The Champ and I
Air Date: 2001-06-11
Ippo finally meets the champion in its class, Eiji Date. The latter is there to ...
Episode 37: A Thing to Strive For
Air Date: 2001-06-18
Ippo gets to get up, the game resumes. Date returned, and hardly the match resum...
Episode 38: Two Rookies of the Year
Air Date: 2001-06-26
Okita also control the blow that had allowed Date set down Ippo 2 times !! Ippo,...
Episode 39: Challenge in a Foreign Land
Air Date: 2001-07-03
In Thailand, Miyata a draw against a second-class boxer. Decision of the arbitra...
Episode 40: A Counter to Surpass All Counters
Air Date: 2001-07-10
The boxing stadium tremble with excitement, the crowd goes wild and wants to see...
Episode 41: Barf-michi's Big Fight
Air Date: 2001-07-17
At sunset, While Ippo's mother prepares the material for fishing, it can hardly ...
Episode 42: Sharing a Dream
Air Date: 2001-07-24
Ippo thinks of quitting boxing....
Episode 43: The Speed Star
Air Date: 2001-07-31
Ippo gets ready for his match against Saeki the Speed Star....
Episode 44: Blind Spot in the Ring
Air Date: 2001-08-07
Ippo fights Saeki....
Episode 45: The White Fangs of the Wolf
Air Date: 2001-08-14
Gero-michi leaves and has to move away....
Episode 46: Be the Gazelle
Air Date: 2001-08-21
Aoki, Kimura & Ippo train hard for their next match of the tournament class A. T...
Episode 47: The Fighting Spirit Within
Air Date: 2001-08-28
The tactics of the coach against Vorg is based on a succession of sudden melee a...
Episode 48: The Red Wolf
Air Date: 2001-09-04
The match between Volg and Ippo begins....
Episode 49: The Courage to Believe
Air Date: 2001-09-18
Volg and Ippo continue to duke it out in a hard-fought and long battle....
Episode 50: Something to Convey
Air Date: 2001-09-25
The end of the Volg match....
Episode 51: Group Date
Air Date: 2001-10-02
Group date, literally. Ippo walks Mashiba's Kumi home....
Episode 52: The Challenger
Air Date: 2001-10-09
Recap episode....
Episode 53: So That I Can Be Myself
Air Date: 2001-10-16
Background episode for Date Eiji....
Episode 54: Fists of the Champ
Air Date: 2001-10-23
"The champions have special powers! "That is what was said to Takamura Ippo befo...
Episode 55: The Japan Featherweight Title Match
Air Date: 2001-10-30
The episode begins the day before the match for the title of Ippo, during traini...
Episode 56: The Power that Stands in the Way
Air Date: 2001-11-06
During the break, Ippo is concerned, he has not had the sensation he usually hit...
Episode 57: Conclusion
Air Date: 2001-11-13
"What should I do?". This is the question that arises while Ippo Date street sho...
Episode 58: Heartbroken
Air Date: 2001-11-20
While the coach Okita Date and congratulated the champion, Ippo wishes to thank ...
Episode 59: Look of Determination
Air Date: 2001-11-27
The match between Sendou Takeshi and Volg Zangief starts....
Episode 60: Rival
Air Date: 2001-12-04
Sendou wins the match versus Volg....
Episode 61: Comeback Anxiety
Air Date: 2001-12-11
Miyata Ichirou defeats Li Chou Bil....
Episode 62: Revival
Air Date: 2001-12-18
Coach returns from the hospital, and Makunochi "hits without being hit"....
Episode 63: Youth of Fire
Air Date: 2001-12-25
The past of Aoki and Kimura is shown....
Episode 64: Hot Rod Era
Air Date: 2002-01-08
Second part of Aoki's and Kimura's past....
Episode 65: The Summer of the Kamogawa Corps
Air Date: 2002-01-15
The group go to training camp in the mountains....
Episode 66: Mr. Takamura's Tears
Air Date: 2002-01-22
Takamura fights a bear....
Episode 67: The Kamogawa Gym Swings Into Action
Air Date: 2002-01-29
After this strong hectic camp, we find our boxers at the gym. While the coach to...
Episode 68: The Chief's Peril
Air Date: 2002-02-05
Finally the day of the games of our boxers happens, Kimura very fit explodes his...
Episode 69: The Trap of the Southpaw
Air Date: 2002-02-12
Ippo and coach arriving in the city where the featherweight champion, Takeshi Se...
Episode 70: The Young Punk
Air Date: 2002-02-19
We find our hero in him, in his room, he can not help thinking about the game he...
Episode 71: Time for the Showdown
Air Date: 2002-02-26
While the title match approach Ippo trains again and again. As it enters its foo...
Episode 72: Lollapalooza
Air Date: 2002-03-05
What wonder what Dempsey Roll early in the 1st round, Ippo sends his best and mo...
Episode 73: Surpass That Moment
Air Date: 2002-03-12
Ippo happens somehow to join his corner. This end of the second round was very r...
Episode 74: Mixup
Air Date: 2002-03-19
Takamura has noticed, Ippo has had enough it is burnt and courage in this game i...
Episode 75: One Step Further
Air Date: 2002-03-26
Ippo and Sendo's match concludes....
Season 2
Episode 1: The New Step
Air Date: 2009-01-06
The first episode of the second season starts with mostly the match of Miyata ag...
Episode 2: Bloody Cross
Air Date: 2009-01-13
The second episode of the second season starts off on Miyata's OPBF Title Match....
Episode 3: To a Promise
Air Date: 2009-01-20
The third episode of the second season continues on the OPBF Match with Miyata a...
Episode 4: Towards The World
Air Date: 2009-01-27
Miyata Ichirou wins the title of OPBF Featherweight Champion, but now Ippo feels...
Episode 5: The Strength of the World
Air Date: 2009-02-02
Ippo comes to the sparring match against Ricardo Martinez as focused as if it we...
Episode 6: A Figure to Chase After
Air Date: 2009-02-11
After seven years Eiji Date will finally have his rematch with Ricardo Martinez,...
Episode 7: The Advent of the Devil
Air Date: 2009-02-17
The world featherweight title match has begun, in the first round, neither Date ...
Episode 8: Spirit For One Last Attack
Air Date: 2009-02-25
Date tries the heart-breaker shot but Martinez blocks it with his elbow breaking...
Episode 9: Inheritance Qualifications
Air Date: 2009-03-03
The Kamogawa Boxing Gym gets a new recruit: Itagaki Manabu, the inter-high natio...
Episode 10: Biting Dog
Air Date: 2009-03-10
Ippo is reluctant to fight Nao, who used to be his junior and friend. Nao faces ...
Episode 11: Ippo vs. Hammer Nao
Air Date: 2009-03-17
The match begins. Ippo goes on an all-out offensive, hoping to end this match as...
Episode 12: Requirements For A Pro
Air Date: 2009-03-24
Ippo lowers his guard and it becomes a blow-for-blow confrontation, with Ippo wi...
Episode 13: Ippo At The Beach 2
Air Date: 2009-04-01
No overview available.
Episode 14: Two Spars
Air Date: 2009-04-08
No overview available.
Episode 15: Itagaki`s Debut Fight!
Air Date: 2009-04-14
Takamura and Ippo's next matches are finalized. Itagaki has a jarring introducti...
Episode 16: The Two Hawks
Air Date: 2009-04-21
Takamura's light punches and decreased stamina have put him at a great disadvant...
Episode 17: Wild Kid
Air Date: 2009-04-28
Takamura attacks Hawk in a fit of anger, but Hawk effortlessly blocks his attack...
Episode 18: Extreme Weight Control
Air Date: 2009-05-05
Takamura resolves to reach the top of the world for the sake of his friends and ...
Episode 19: Critical Situation
Air Date: 2009-05-12
The coach and Nagi see Hawk's devastating boxing firsthand. Takamura barely make...
Episode 20: Junior Middleweight World Title Match
Air Date: 2009-05-19
Ippo manages to win his title defense with a 1-round KO as per his promise and r...
Episode 21: Battle of Hawk
Air Date: 2009-05-26
Takamura takes the pace at the beginning of the match, but Hawk unveils his uniq...
Episode 22: Brawl
Air Date: 2009-06-02
Takamura is outsped once more and knocked unconscious, but manages to recover ju...
Episode 23: Supporting Hand
Air Date: 2009-06-09
Despite using all of his remaining energy, Takamura cannot break through Hawk's ...
Episode 24: The King
Air Date: 2009-06-16
Takamura is knocked unconscious while standing yet again, and remembers all of t...
Episode 25: Please Accept This Bronze Statue
Air Date: 2009-06-23
After a gruesome fight, Takamura becomes the WBC Jr. Middleweight World Champion...
Episode 26: New Challenger
Air Date: 2009-06-30
When Miyata confronts Ippo about their promise, it is revealed that Miyata has r...
Season 3
Episode 1: The Strongest Challenger
Air Date: 2013-10-06
Makunouchi Ippo defeated Sendou Takeshi with his Dempsey Roll and became the Jap...
Episode 2: The Dempsey Roll Destroyed
Air Date: 2013-10-12
With his title on the line, Ippo goes toe-to-toe with Shimabukuro. The battle is...
Episode 3: A Woman's Battle
Air Date: 2013-10-19
Ippo emerges victorious after a vicious war with Shimabukuro, and Itagaki’s sist...
Episode 4: The Goddess of Victory
Air Date: 2013-10-25
After an infuriating face-off with Imae, Aoki turns to his girlfriend Tomiko for...
Episode 5: 100% Fake
Air Date: 2013-11-01
Imae’s long hours of research quickly pay off as he decimates Aoki by countering...
Episode 6: The Distance Between Me and Glory
Air Date: 2013-11-08
Imae, cowed by Aoki’s fearsome new move, suddenly realizes what it is Aoki has t...
Episode 7: Cheese Champion
Air Date: 2013-11-15
Sendou Takeshi, the "Naniwa Tiger," returns to the ring! But it's his sparring p...
Episode 8: The Mad Dog and the Red Wolf
Air Date: 2013-11-22
Ippo's next title defense is confirmed to be against Sawamura Ryuuhei, and after...
Episode 9: A Savage Scenario
Air Date: 2013-11-29
Volg has return to Japan to take back his boxing gloves from Ippo. He hopes to t...
Episode 10: The Face Of Determination
Air Date: 2013-12-07
As the fight with Sawamura draws near, Ippo has pinned all his hopes on the newl...
Episode 11: Fearless Challenger
Air Date: 2013-12-28
Sawamura's blatant fouls and bullet-like left jabs leave Ippo scrambling to esta...
Episode 12: The Anti-Dempsey Perfected
Air Date: 2014-01-04
Ippo mounts a desperate, full frontal assault as Sawamura continues to toy with ...
Episode 13: A Fist That Picks You Up
Air Date: 2014-01-04
The evolved Dempsey Roll saved Ippo from the jaws of defeat. Bolstered by the ch...
Episode 14: Empowering Words
Air Date: 2014-01-11
Ippo visits Dr. Yamaguchi and learns the full extent of the damage caused by the...
Episode 15: A Storm Descends on Makunouchi Fishing Boat
Air Date: 2014-01-17
To celebrate Ippo's win and recovery, the whole gym gang hops aboard the Makunou...
Episode 16: Golden Eagle
Air Date: 2014-01-25
While Takamura approaches his physical limits as he cuts weight for his upcoming...
Episode 17: Eleki's Shocker and Papaya's Coconut
Air Date: 2014-02-01
It's time for Kimura and Aoki to step into the ring at the Yokohama Arena! Kimur...
Episode 18: The Unfinished New Counter
Air Date: 2014-02-08
It's the semifinal match, Miyata vs. Dachboy, and the Miyata camp recognizes a f...
Episode 19: Hawk vs. Eagle
Air Date: 2014-02-15
It's finally time for the main event, Takamura Mamoru vs. David Eagle! The chall...
Episode 20: A Lesson Never Forgotten
Air Date: 2014-02-22
Despite being stymied by Eagle, Takamura assures his corner he has a plan for vi...
Episode 21: The End of the Death Match
Air Date: 2014-03-01
Blood sprays across the ring as Takamura and Eagle pound at each other's cuts. T...
Episode 22: Flower of Hope
Air Date: 2014-03-08
And old photo and a little prodding from Ippo and Aoki prompts Coach Kamogawa an...
Episode 23: The Courage to Live
Air Date: 2014-03-15
Prizefighting turns out to be no match for boxing as Sergeant Ralph Anderson eas...
Episode 24: Iron Fist
Air Date: 2014-03-22
Kamogawa breathes a sigh of relief as he watches Nekota run circles around Ander...
Episode 25: A Vow
Air Date: 2014-03-29
Kamogawa resorts to pounding a log with his bare fists as he trains to face Ande...