< Fighting Spirit (2000 - 2002)

SERIES | "Hajime no Ippo" | 30m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 8.8 (18_389)

Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport | Ippo, a teenage boy with a pure heart and unrelenting determination, discovers a passion for boxing after veteran fighter Takamura saves him from bullies.

• Director: Satoshi Nishimura
• Director: Saburo Hashimoto
• Director: Ken'ichi Kawamura
• Rikiya Koyama (37) - Mamoru Takamura
• Kôhei Kiyasu (25) - Ippo Makunouchi
• Steve Staley (31) - Ippo Makunouchi
• Richard Epcar (45) - Genji Kamogawa
• Wataru Takagi (34) - Masaru Aoki
• Katsuyuki Konishi (27) - Ring Announcer // Hachinohe Boxer
• Tomokazu Seki (28) - Ichirou Miyata // Ichiro Miyata
• Kenji Utsumi (63) - Genji Kamogawa
• Grant George (29) - Referee // Kimura
• D.C. Douglas - Genji Kamogawa // Aiko's Brother
• Ichirô Nagai (71 in 2002) - Nekota Ginpachi // Ginpachi Nekota
• Toshiyuki Morikawa (34 in 2001) - Alexander Volk Zangiev
• Mitsuaki Madono (36) - Masahiko Umezawa
• Paul St. Peter (42) - Mr. Yagi // Miyata's Father
• Hitomi (25 in 2001) - Child
• Yorie Terauchi - Ippo's Mother
• Toshihiko Nakajima (38) - Haruhiko Yagi
• Koichi Hasebe - Takemura
• Shinichi Namiki - Matsuda
• Masashi Hirose (53) - Teacher

Some episodes

• 1.1 Hajime no ippo
• 1.2 Doryoku no seika
• 1.3 Ureshi namida