Episode 2 (Season 1)

Fruits of Labor
Episode Information
Previous	The First Step
Episode	Season 1 #2 (Watch Online)
Next	Tears of Joy
Japanese Title	努力の成果
Romanized Title	Doryoku no Seika
Arc	Early Days Arc
Manga	Round 1 (p. 42-61) Round 2 (p. 2-13)
Air dates
Japanese	October 10, 2000
English	July 6, 2004
Music
Opening	Under Star
Ending	Yūzora no Kami Hikōki

Fruits of Labor is Round 2 of the Hajime no Ippo anime, which is the adaptation of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo series.

Details

• Characters Introduced: Ichirō Miyata, Genji Kamogawa, Haruhiko Yagi
• Techniques Introduced: Body Blow, Turtle Strategy

Summary

Ippo continues trying to catch the leafs for a whole week over and over again, day and night. Meanwhile, he finds out that he needs the sound Takamura made with his fist. He remembers how Takamura moved his fist, and copied it until he made it. Ippo makes his first jab, and then continues to throw jabs until he stops so he can do it to catch ten leafs as Takamura said to him. The next day, as Takamura does some roadwork he finds Ippo sitting in the side of the track, waiting for him. Ippo said that he has found the way to catch ten leafs. As Takamura is waiting, Ippo hits the tree, for the leafs to come down and gets ready to catch ten of them. Ippo starts to throw jabs but he only catches ten leafs with his left, and not his both hands. Takamura is surprised and tells him to throw jabs. Ippo over does it, and Takamura gets angry and makes a swing at him to stop. The next day, Takamura introduces Ippo to the Kamogawa gym, but as Ippo tries to say hello to the other gym mates, Genji Kamogawa and Haruhiko Yagi come out of the room and see the new face Takamura brought to the gym, Ippo. He takes Takamura immediately behind the door and shouts that Ippo is not the kind of person for boxing and that he is disappointed with him. Afterwards Takamura takes Ippo to the changing room and to tell him that he will be sparring. Ippo doesn't like the sound of it, but he changes and gets ready for his sparring match. As Ippo comes out with Takamura and greets Kamogawa and Yagi, Takamura asks of who he will be sparring, and Kamogawa shows Ichirō Miyata. Ippo gets in the ring, with Takamura as his second. The gong sounds and Ippo swings completely off what boxing is, Miyata just catches and leaves Ippo's fists as they are nothing at all. Takamura shouts to Ippo to be the turtle and he does it. As Ippo left his body wide open, Miyata comes out with a body blow, and then with a left he hits him in the face as Ippo goes down talking to himself, that he cannot understand what happened, and that it was really quick.

Trivia

• The English dub version mistakenly has Masaru Aoki and Tatsuya Kimura in the English cast credits even though they did not appear in this episode.

Anime-Manga Differences

See also: Anime-Manga Differences

• The anime changed the following:
  • In the manga, when the week is up for the leaf training, Ippo Makunouchi is resting up against the tree. In the anime, Mamoru Takamura finds Ippo resting in the grass.
  • In the manga, when Ippo is jabbing Takamura's hand, Takamura hits him in the head with his fist. In the anime, Takamura kicks the back of his neck.
  • In the manga, Genji Kamogawa and Haruhiko Yagi were watching the Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns world match at the Kamogawa gym. In the anime, they were watching a world match between two unknown boxers.
  • In the manga, Kamogawa is wearing a brown business suit. In the anime, he is wearing his white KBG shirt.
  • In the manga, when Kamogawa first sees Ippo, he grabs Takamura by his arm. In the anime, he grabs him by the neck with his cane.
  • In the manga, Miyata Senior is Ichirō Miyata's second for the spar between Ippo and Miyata. In the anime, he is absent during this spar.
    • As Miyata Senior is absent in the anime, Yagi is the one who gets Miyata ready for the spar.
    • As Miyata Senior is absent in the anime, Kamogawa and Miyata Senior's comments are removed, and it is instead Kamogawa and Yagi making different comments.
  • In the manga, as Takamura explains who Miyata is, Ippo is standing inside the ring. In the anime, he is standing outside of the ring.
  • In the manga, when the spar first begins, Miyata attacks first while Ippo blocks the punches until Miyata hits him with a body blow. In the anime, Ippo goes towards Miyata with awkward punches that Miyata blocks and dodges. Then when he puts his guard up, Miyata hits him with a body blow.
  • In the manga, when Ippo goes down, he falls and hangs onto one of the ropes. In the anime, he falls and lands on his side, in the manga, he falls and hangs onto one of the ropes.
• The anime adds the following:
  • There's more dialog when Takamura explains that Ippo Makunouchi needs to catch 10 leaves.
  • The leaf training is extended, there's added scenes of Ippo being late for breakfast, trying to practice in school, seeing the boat off at the fishing boat, and encountering Masahiko Umezawa and his gang.
  • The anime adds a scene where Ippo does his one month training that Takamura advised.
  • The anime adds a scene of Miyata shadowboxing before Takamura explains to Ippo who he is.
  • The anime adds more dialog after Takamura explains who Miyata is. Takamura tells the worried Ippo that he isn't telling him to win the spar, but to just show his potential and how eager he is, making him remember his leaf catching training before Takamura has Ippo get in the ring.
  • The anime adds Takamura smacking Ippo's back to push him forward for the spar to begin.

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
Ichirō Miyata	Tomokazu Seki	関 智一	Seki Tomokazu	Jason Palmer
Manager Yagi	Toshihiko Nakajima	中嶋 聡彦	Nakajima Toshihiko	George Z. Cole
Ippo's Mother	Yorie Terauchi	寺内 よりえ	Terauchi Yorie	Joan Carol O'Connell
Masahiko Umezawa	Mitsuaki Madono	真殿 光昭	Madono Mitsuaki	Ron Allen
Takemura	Kōichi Hasebe	長谷 部浩一	Hasebe Kōichi	Edward Zilla
Matsuda	Shin'ichi Namiki	並木 伸一	Namiki Shin'ichi	Terry Roberts
Teacher	Masashi Hirose	広瀬 正志	Hirose Masashi

Episode Credits

Role	English Name	Japanese	Rōmaji
Screenplay	Tatsuhiko Urahata	浦畑 達彦	Urahata Tatsuhiko
Storyboard	Kō Matsuo	松尾 衡	Matsuo Kō
Director	Saburō Hashimoto	橋本 三郎	Hashimoto Saburō
Animation Director	Takashi Saijō	西城 隆詞	Saijō Takashi