Chapter 226

Nekota-san's Advice
Chapter Info
Next	Chapter 227
Chapter	226
Previous	Chapter 225
Volume	26
Japanese Title	猫田さんの助言
Romanized Title	Nekoda-san no Jogen
Pages	19
Arc	Mountain Training Arc
Issue	Weekly Shōnen Magazine #34, 1994 (cover date): August 10, 1994
Release (JP)	July 27, 1994

Nekota-san's Advice is Round 226 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.

Details

• Characters Introduced: Hachi
• Real Life People Mentioned: George Foreman, Floyd Patterson, Henry Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks
• Title Page Character(s): Ippo Makunouchi, Haruhiko Yagi

Summary

While making their way back from training to Pension Yoshio, Takamura is annoyed by the sound of the bells, but the trio tells him that it is an effective system to drive the bear away. Despite this, Ippo is seemingly attacked by a creature, causing Aoki and Kimura to run away and leave him behind. As Nekota prepares to kill the bear and save Ippo, it is revealed that the animal was actually non other than Nekota's dog; Hachi. Kamogawa then assigns different exercises for the boxers, with Takamura running while carrying Yagi, Aoki and Kimura doing squats in the river supervised by Shinoda, and Ippo cutting wood with a hatchet. In an attempt to interact with people, Nekota first tries to do exercise with Aoki and Kimura, but fails and almost drowns, and later tries to train with Takamura, at which he fails as well. After failed attempts to cut the wood, Ippo asks for Nekota's help. Nekota demonstrates a few times his perfect method, and reveals the back-muscles he has gained thanks to that exercise. Ippo realises that gaining strength to make Sendō back up, was the reason for which he was assigned the wood-cutting task. Nekota also mentions that engaging Sendō in an exchange could lead to irreversible injuries, he also reveals that he suffers from punch drunk syndrome himself. After the warning, and realising Ippo has no intention to run away from Sendō, Nekota tells him that there is a way to punch without punching.