Chapter 525

Arena Debut
Chapter Info
Next	Chapter 526
Chapter	525
Previous	Chapter 524
Volume	58
Japanese Title	大会場デビュー
Romanized Title	Dai Kaijō Debyū
Pages	18
Arc	A Passing Point Arc
Episode	Round 17 (Season 3) (p.1-18)
Issue	Weekly Shōnen Magazine #25, 2001 (cover date): June 6, 2001
Release (JP)	May 23, 2001

Arena Debut is Round 525 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.

Details

• Title Page Character(s): Masaru Aoki, Tatsuya Kimura

Summary

In their waiting room, Aoki and Kimura are nervous and got surprised when Ippo and Itagaki barged in he room. After Aoki asked Ippo how he dealt with fighting in a large crowd as a semi-final for Takamura's last title match, and Itagaki mentioned how he wants to fight in a big crowd, Aoki and Kimura felt better. Aoki, Ippo, Itagaki, and Kimura goes to Takamura's room and Aoki and Kimura gets encouraged to win and is reminded about the haircut promise, further firing their desire to win. When Kimura's match against Eleki is about to start, Kimura walks to the ring, nervous about the haircut bet and the amount of people looking at him. When the match begins, Kimura is still trying to get used to fighting in a big crowd as he tries to get away from Eleki, however, Eleki is able to keep up.