Family is Round 1241 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.
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- Title Page Character(s): Ippo Makunouchi, Taihei Aoki, Wanpo
Summary[]
As Ippo is training Taihei, he has Taihei wear boxing gloves while he puts on his old coach's mitts. Taihei then hits the mitts while Ippo scolds him. After mitt training, Ippo explains to Taihei how his old coach was to him back when he was an active boxer, how he was grateful for his scolding and wants to pay him back by spreading his teachings. Ippo asks if Taihei has someone similar, which he states that he comes from a big family and that no one is wholehearted to him. He continues, saying that he has a big brother that looked after him, who is good at sports and a fighter that quit high school and moved away from home. Ippo and Taihei continue mitt training until nightfall. Ippo concludes their training and tells the fired-up Taihei not to go out fighting, as using your fists for violence is unacceptable. As Taihei leaves, Itagaki, who was listening to the conversation, tells Ippo that Taihei doesn't have any respect, and as he heard from Umezawa, that he was a bully. Itagaki suggests Ippo to wash his hands of Taihei before he gets in trouble. A storm develops as a typhoon is coming. Ippo goes to the spot where Taihei usually waits and notices he is not there. It starts to rain as Ippo notices someone running to him. Ippo then realises it's Teru, who exclaims that there's trouble with Taihei.