Episode 25 (Season 2)

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Episode Information
Previous	King
Episode	Season 2 #25
Next	NEW CHALLENGER
Japanese Title	銅像をどうぞ
Romanized Title	Dōzō o Dōzo
Arc	Battle of Hawk Arc Submarine Wars Arc
Manga	Round 397 (p.1-19) Round 398 (p.1-19) Round 415 (p.1-2, 4-19)
Air dates
Japanese	June 23, 2009
Music
Opening	Hekireki
Ending	8AM

Please Accept This Bronze Statue is Round 25 of the Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger anime, which is the adaptation of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo series.

Details

• Characters Introduced: Haseo Baraki, Nanako Itagaki, Manabu and Nanako's Father, Manabu and Nanako's Mother
• Locations Introduced: Shimada Boxing Gym
• Misc. Introduced: Statue of Takamura

Summary

Takamura won the WBC junior middleweight match, defeating Hawk. He is now a world champion, and now he has enough money that he spend it on many things, like for example his clothes and the bronze Takamura statues. The next night we have Itagaki's match, and when he wins, Itagaki tells him that he can visit his house and his family. Ippo thought it will be a good family, but turns down to be a bad humour one.

Trivia

• Fitting in with the Itagaki family's use of homophonic wordplay as jokes, the name of this episode ("Dōzō o Dōzo") has wordplay in it as well.

Anime-Manga Differences

See also: Anime-Manga Differences

• The episode goes from Round 398 to Round 415, skipping the Post-War Arc to start adapting the Submarine Wars Arc. The Post-War Arc gets adapted in third season.
• The anime adds a match poster labeled "MEMORY OF OMEGA" for Itagaki's comeback match that reveals his opponent's name and gym affiliation, as well as showing more of the match.
• In the manga, while watching Itagaki's match, Takamura looked down as Ippo tells Kimura that Takamura was ordered to stop selling the mini Takamura statues and the remaining stock was destroyed. In the anime, this is removed.
• In the manga, after visiting Itagaki's family, an exhausted Ippo went home and ate dinner after saying "Itagakimasu". In the anime, this is removed.

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
Ginpachi Nekota	Ichirō Nagai	永井 一郎	Nagai Ichirō
Eiji Date	Masaki Aizawa	相沢 正輝	Aizawa Masaki
Ichirō Miyata	Tomokazu Seki	関 智一	Seki Tomokazu
Takeshi Sendō	Masaya Onosaka	小野坂 昌也	Onosaka Masaya
Yagi	Toshihiko Nakajima	中嶋 聡彦	Nakajima Toshihiko
Suguru Takamura	Ken'yū Horiuchi	堀内 賢雄	Horiuchi Ken'yū
Kyōka Takamura	Kikuko Inoue	井上 喜久子	Inoue Kikuko
Wataru Takamura	Megumi Matsumoto	松元 恵	Matsumoto Megumi
Itagaki's Father	Nobuaki Fukuda	福田 信昭	Fukuda Nobuaki
Itagaki's Mother	Mie Sonozaki	園崎 未恵	Sonozaki Mie
Nanako Itagaki	Yū Kobayashi	小林 ゆう	Kobayashi Yū
Live Announcer	Jin Horikawa	堀川 仁	Horikawa Jin
Referee	Hisashi Izumi	いずみ 尚	Izumi Hisashi
Ring Announcer	Kenji Nomura	乃村 健次	Nomura Kenji
Interviewer (Role Uncredited)	Biichi Satō	佐藤 美一	Satō Biichi
Haseo Baraki (Role Uncredited)	Yū Amano	天野 ユウ	Amano Yū

Episode Credits

Role	English Name	Japanese	Rōmaji
Screenplay	Sei Moriwaki	森脇 誠	Moriwaki Sei
Storyboard	Ken'ichi Kawamura	川村 賢一	Kawamura Ken'ichi
Director	Eiichi Kuboyama	久保山 英一	Kuboyama Eiichi
Animation Director	Tetsuya Wakano Kazuyuki Ikai Minoru Kawano (Assistant) Ken'ichi Shimizu (Assistant) Ichirō Uno (Chief Animation Director)	若野 哲也 飯飼 一幸 河野 稔 清水 健一 夘野 一郎	Wakano Tetsuya Ikai Kazuyuki Kawano Minoru Shimizu Ken'ichi Uno Ichirō