You can watch the anime whithout laughing once =D. The Anime is not just a great sports anime, but it is also a very funny, since one of his freinds Mamoru Takamura a great heavyweight boxer makes always fun of him. Well i normally like to watch boxing, but when somebody told me to try watch this anime because i love all kinds of anime, then i thought why not it cant harm.Īnd i really dont regret watching this anime, it is more fun to watch then normal boxing because you get into Ippo´s life and watch him train and hang out whit his new freinds from the boxing club. Overall, Hajime no Ippo gets a 7/10 from me. The show excels when inside of the ring and production values are high, and with a character like Miyata (though kind of shafted off to the side towards the end) great potential, and sometimes originality is displayed. Hajime no Ippo is an average shounen anime that doesn't do much different besides its presentation. I will say the first few fights are scripeted well, but the quickly become formulaic. The problem is the show didn't do a good job of making us feel for any of these characters outside of the ring with the exception of the few romantic elements. If you have seen other shounen anime, Rocky movies, or even those generic once a year 'see how this team of ragtag individuals beat the odds and triumph' sports movies, you'll know how this plays out, who the viewer is supposed to feel sorry for, and who we're supposed to root for. Some are well done, while others are wooden, and maybe offensively sterotypical/two-dimensional. Pretty average characters and archetypes of shounen anime are present here. There were many variations in color and tone of the actors, and all had a good grasp of what was given. Show was quite catchy and set a good tone for the show. Hajime no Ippo had a passable foley effects and music. The quality of animation clearly increases as the episodes go by so that, by the end there was much more polish overall in the quality. However I will give credit to the rendering of bodies and musculature and especially differentiating characters body types. So unappealing, Hajime no Ippo was an eyesore, and honestly painful to watch the faces of the characters speak, cry, get excited or display any type of emotion.
I absolutely hate the character design of this show.