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The Eastern Japan Rookie Championship Tournament Begins is Round 13 of the Hajime no Ippo anime, which is the adaptation of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo series.

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Summary[]

Ippo, Aoki, Kimura, and Takamura celebrates Ippo's one year anniversary at the Kamogawa gym by eating at Iwata's Chinese Noodles. Ippo asks Aoki and Kimura how their All Japan Rookie King Tournament went, Takamura commented on how they failed. At the gym, while Ippo is sparring, Yagi and Kamogawa comes in and announces that Mashiba and Miyata is in a separate block in the tournament and that Ippo's first opponent will be Jason Ozuma. Kimura and Aoki comments that "Jason" is a bold and gruesome ring name. Takamura teases Ippo that the latter needs a new ring name, he then gives suggestions titled "Big Mutha' Ippo" and "Big Daddy Third Leg". Fujii enters the gym and gives details about Ozuma, showing he's from the United States of America and Jason is not a ring name. At the Hachinohe Boxing Club, Ozuma downs a sparring partner. The coach comments on his powerful hook. After training, he sees the coach's wife sewing a punching bag, Ozuma says that he will use his money to buy gloves and punching bags, so that she doesn't have to keep fixing them. Ozuma prepares to leave for Nerima, he receives money and words of encouragement. At the gym, Ippo worries about fighting Ozuma, but then remembers that after winning a lot, he will eventually face a strong opponent, he regains his fighting spirit with Miyata in his mind. At Nerima Boxing Group, while Ozuma is training with a punching bag, Hiroyuki Ōta invites him to a sparring match. Ōta refuses to put on headgear as he rushes to punch Ozuma. After a couple exchanges, Ōta begins to throw a huge punch, he misses, Ozuma delivers a right hook that knocks Ōta out and sends him to the hospital. At the gym, Yagi and Kamogawa discuss about Ozuma's hook, realising that Ippo needs to train to dodge the hook, Kamogawa calls for Takamura and Ippo into the ring. Kamogawa explains how powerful and fast Ozuma's hook is and how Ippo needs to dodge it. He fails to dodge Takamura's hooks and he starts training with hanging bars outside for days until finally he dodges Takamura's hook.

Anime-Manga Differences[]

See also: Anime-Manga Differences

  • In the manga, there is a scene of Ippo and Takamura doing road work while Ippo recaps his matches against Yūsuke Oda and Yoshio Fujiwara, in the anime however, this scene is omitted.
  • The anime removed a scene that was shown in the manga where Aoki appears to have painted his skin black in order to help Ippo face against the black boxer, Jason Ozuma.
  • The anime didn't mention the following boxers; Fighting Harada, Jirō Watanabe, Muguruma Takuya
  • In the manga Ippo says that Takamura is six classes above him. In the anime it is seven classes.

Credits[]

Characters are named as they appear in the credits.

Role English Name Japanese Rōmaji English Voice Actor
Ippo Makunouchi Kōhei Kiyasu 喜安 浩平 Kiyasu Kōhei Steve Cannon
Mamoru Takamura Rikiya Koyama 小山 力也 Koyama Rikiya Eddie Frierson
Coach Kamogawa Kenji Utsumi 内海 賢二 Utsumi Kenji Richard George
Masaru Aoki Wataru Takagi 高木 渉 Takagi Wataru Jim Taggert
Tatsuya Kimura Keiji Fujiwara 藤原 啓治 Fujiwara Keiji Grant George
Manager Yagi Toshihiko Nakajima 中嶋 聡彦 Nakajima Toshihiko George Z. Cole
Reporter Fujii Ken'ichi Ono 小野 健一 Ono Ken'ichi Bobby Hasting
Jason Ozuma Masahiro Kobayashi 小林 正寛 Kobayashi Masahiro Hall Hollis
Hachinohe Boxing Club Coach Issei Futamata 二又 一成 Futamata Issei Robert Axelrod
Coach's Wife Atsuko Mine 峰 あつ子 Mine Atsuko Joan Carol O'Connell
Hachinohe Boxing Club Trainee Katsuyuki Konishi
Akio Suyama
Shūetsu Tōkaichi
小西 克幸
陶山 章央
十日市 秀悦
Konishi Katsuyuki
Suyama Akio
Tōkaichi Shūetsu
Nerima Boxing Club Ōta Hisao Egawa 江川 央生 Egawa Hisao
Nerima Boxing Club Trainee Ken'ichi Suzumura
Takeshi Sasaki
鈴村 健一
佐々木 健
Suzumura Ken'ichi
Sasaki Takeshi
Kumi Mashiba Sanae Kobayashi 小林 沙苗 Kobayashi Sanae

Episode Credits[]

Role English Name Japanese Rōmaji
Screenplay Kenji Sugihara 杉原 研二 Sugihara Kenji
Storyboard Nanako Shimazaki 島崎 奈々子 Shimazaki Nanako
Director Nanako Shimazaki 島崎 奈々子 Shimazaki Nanako
Animation Director Toshiyuki Kan'no
Kōji Sugiura
菅野 利之
杉浦 幸次
'Kan'no Toshiyuki
Sugiura Kōji

Arc Navigation[]

Rookie King Tournament: First Rounder Arc
Manga Volumes
3 4 5 6
Manga Rounds
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43
44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51
Anime Rounds
Season 1
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20