8.8 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... TV-14 79685 79685 tt0481256 42705 10292 Action Animation Anime Comedy Sport Ended 2000-10-03 2014-03-29 Nippon TV Kohei Kiyasu Ippo Makunouchi Rikiya Koyama Takamura Mamoru https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/293454/primary.jpg Keiji Fujiwara Tatsuya Kimura https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/280705/61c2dd5fc83ea.jpg Wataru Takagi Masaru Aoki https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/280739/primary.jpg Kenji Utsumi Genji Kamogawa [S1 & S2] https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/v4/actor/349284/photo/67e9a1d6595d4.jpg Tomokazu Seki Ichiro Miyata https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/v4/actor/271007/photo/64f306ddec8df.jpg Sanae Kobayashi Kumi Mashiba [Season 1] https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/294826/61b725125a6ae.jpg Daisuke Namikawa Manabu Itagaki [Season 3] https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/292928/61c5cf2112b7b.jpg Masaya Onosaka Takeshi Sendou https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/271005/primary.jpg Toshiyuki Morikawa Alexander Volg Zangief https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/v4/actor/280728/photo/62e236fe09406.jpg Kenichi Ono Minoru Fujii https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/v4/actor/277081/photo/667a8a92cea2f.jpg Emi Shinohara Mari Iimura https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/271008/primary.jpg Masaki Aizawa Eiji Date https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/277086/primary.jpg Masahiko Tanaka Ryou Mashiba https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/280707/primary.jpg Shin'ichirou Miki Ryuuhei Sawamura https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/7874486/primary.jpg Hidenobu Kiuchi Davide Eagle [Season 3] https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/280709/primary.jpg Hisao Egawa Toshiyuki Ohta [Season 1], Iwao Shimabukuro [Season 3] https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/345283/primary.jpg Shouko Tsuda Tomiko https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/7888165/5ee86ad0ebdb8.jpg Shuhei Sakaguchi Katsutaka Imae [Season 3] https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/460882/primary.jpg Yu Kobayashi Nanako Itagaki [S2 & S3] https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/7864379/primary.jpg Toshihiko Nakajima Yagi Haruhiko https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/300983/primary.jpg Shozo Iizuka Genji Kamogawa [Season 3] https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/v4/actor/375287/photo/679c3130c6019.jpg Yuka Hirata Kumi Mashiba [Season 2] https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/v4/actor/489351/photo/676eeef29edc6.jpg Saori Hayashi Kumi Mashiba [Season 3] https://artworks.thetvdb.com/banners/person/7921856/primary.jpg