Episode 13 (Season 2)

Ippo on the Beach 2
Episode Information
Previous	The Conditions for Being a Pro
Episode	Season 2 #13
Next	Two Sparring
Japanese Title	イッポ・オン・ザ・ビーチ 2
Romanized Title	Ippo on za Bīchi 2
Arc	Battle of Hawk Arc
Manga	Round 355 (p.1-19) Round 356 (p.2-18) Round 357 (p.1-17)
Air dates
Japanese	March 31, 2009
Music
Opening	Hekireki
Ending	8AM

Ippo on the Beach 2 is Round 13 of the Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger anime, which is the adaptation of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo series.

Summary

A day after defeating Yamada, Ippo goes outside the Makunouchi Fishing Boat and witnesses Takamura taking Wanpo with him to the beach for a training camp, along with Itagaki and Kimura as the three have upcoming matches in October. Takamura prevents Ippo from coming as he is supposed to take three weeks off. After the group leaves, Aoki and Tomiko arrive, wanting to take Ippo to the beach. Ippo was reluctant until he saw Kumi with them. At the beach, Takamura, Kimura, and Itagaki run in the sand, and Kimura mentions to Itagaki that Takamura is tense because his world title match got delayed. While running, Takamura accidentally gets hit with a beach ball by Ippo. Since Ippo was supposed to be resting, the three chases him and runs into Aoki. After seeing Kumi and Tomiko, Takamura assumes that the two are taking a vacation with their girlfriends to rub it in their faces. Wanpo then attacks Takamura as Hachi and Nekota approaches the group. Takamura decides to leave with Kimura and Itagaki to go back to train. Nekota wishes for Ippo and Aoki to have fun after winning their matches as he joins them. As Ippo thanked Aoki, Aoki mentions he set up two rooms to stay during the night, one for him and Tomiko, and one for Ippo and Kumi, suggesting for Ippo to show Kumi what kind of man he is, hand gesturing sex.

That night at the hotel, Kumi decides to break the silence between her and Ippo by taking a walk at the beach. Ippo realises that this is the best chance for him to say that he likes her, planning to say it. Near the water, when Kumi becomes afraid of a light in the sky, Ippo uses the opportunity to tell a scary story about it to tease her. After it turns out to be fireworks, he decides to tell her he likes her after the next one goes off. Elsewhere at the beach, Takamura leads Kimura, Wanpo, and Itagaki as he watches a couple from afar. Kimura and Itagaki are annoyed that Takamura brought them along to partake in voyeurism. It then turns out to be Aoki groping Tomiko, which Takamura then partakes in. When the next fireworks go off, Takamura gets caught in the act, shocking everyone in the area. Aoki is furious with Takamura, who is also angry at Aoki for letting him touch Tomiko. After everyone runs away, Kimura and Itagaki wonder where Takamura went. Takamura unknowingly gets caught up into the water. He then gets frightened as he believes he is being grabbed and pulled into the water by a ghost. Remembering that a world title match is right in front of him, he is able to come back to the surface and attempts to frantically hit the ghost. Wanpo alerts Kimura and Itagaki, who then finds Nekota and Hachi laying on the ground beaten after being hit by Takamura as Nekota was "the ghost". At Ippo and Kumi's hotel room, Tomiko and a drunk Aoki go back to their room, leaving Ippo and Kumi by their selves again. Kumi recalls meeting Ippo at the bakery and then was happy about coincidentally meeting him again at her hospital. Ippo then attempts to confess his love to her. However, Kumi falls asleep after Ippo's lengthy build up to it. Ippo, however, was satisfied that he said it at all.

The next day, with Aoki misunderstanding the reason of Ippo's satisfaction, Aoki wants Ippo to return the favour, by helping him take revenge on Takamura for the act he did on Tomiko the previous night. Aoki has Ippo catch a sea slater to put in a okonomiyaki. Ippo and Aoki goes to the Jōnan University Training Camp, where they see Kimura and Itagaki sparring, which Aoki notes of Itagaki being faster than Kimura. Ippo and Aoki gets spotted by Kimura and Itagaki after Wanpo jumps on Ippo outside. Takamura attempts to apologise to make up with him by giving him a compliment. However, Takamura could only think of complimenting on Tomiko's breasts, making the situation worse between the two. Aoki proceeds with his revenge plan by making Takamura eat the okonomiyaki. Takamura suspects Aoki's "thoughtful" gift, and ends up splitting it in half and forcing Aoki to eat one half while Takamura eats the other half. Neither could tell who ate the half with the sea slater in it since the sauce was so strong.

Anime-Manga Differences

See also: Anime-Manga Differences

Credits

Characters are named as they appear in the credits.

Role	English Name	Japanese	Rōmaji
Ippo Makunouchi	Kōhei Kiyasu	喜安 浩平	Kiyasu Kōhei
Mamoru Takamura	Rikiya Koyama	小山 力也	Koyama Rikiya
Masaru Aoki	Wataru Takagi	高木 渉	Takagi Wataru
Tatsuya Kimura	Keiji Fujiwara	藤原 啓治	Fujiwara Keiji
Manabu Itagaki	Daisuke Namikawa	浪川 大輔	Namikawa Daisuke
Coach Kamogawa	Kenji Utsumi	内海 賢二	Utsumi Kenji
Kumi Mashiba	Yuka Hirata	平田 裕香	Hirata Yuka
Tomiko	Shōko Tsuda	津田 匠子	Tsuda Shōko
Ginpachi Nekota	Ichirō Nagai	永井 一郎	Nagai Ichirō
Beachgoer	Noriko Obata Naoko Sugiura Aki Nakajima Kazumi Makabe	小幡 記子 杉浦 奈保子 中嶋 アキ 真壁 かずみ	Obata Noriko Sugiura Naoko Nakajima Aki Makabe Kazumi

Episode Credits

Role	English Name	Japanese	Rōmaji
Screenplay	Jun Nakagawa	中川 淳	Nakagawa Jun
Storyboard	Futoshi Higashide	東出 太	Higashide Futoshi
Director	Futoshi Higashide	東出 太	Higashide Futoshi
Animation Director	Futoshi Higashide	東出 太	Higashide Futoshi