The Secret Behind the Magic, or The Secret Behind the Magic Punch in the official K Manga English translation is Round 117 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.
Details[]
- Title Page Character(s): Ippo Makunouchi
Summary[]
Ippo goes down, and the spectators notice that something strange happened. Date walks to his corner and tells Nakadai that he still needs to improve and that he feels bad for using Ippo as a test subject. As he looks back, Date is surprised to see Ippo standing and saying there has not been ten counts yet. The match resumes and they begin trading. In what appears to be an even exchange, Date launches the Corkscrew again. Instead of covering his face, Ippo covers his body, but realises too late that the target was his heart. Being paralysed after the hit, Ippo takes a left and goes down again. As Date walks away, Ippo gets up and they continue the match until the third round. After the match, the Nakadai gym members assume Date had an easy victory, and that the Heart Break Shot was "over kill". Later in the shower however, it is revealed that Date can not wash his hair because his arms hurt from blocking Ippo's punches.
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| Two Rookie Kings Arc | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 13 | 14 | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
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| 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | ||||||||||
| 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | |||||||||||||
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| 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | |||||||||||||||