Episode 65 (Season 1)

Kamogawa Corps' Summer
Episode Information
Previous	Enthusiastic Era
Episode	Season 1 #65 (Watch Online)
Next	Takamura-san's Tears
Japanese Title	鴨川軍団の夏
Romanized Title	Kamogawa Gundan no Natsu
Arc	Aoki and Kimura's Delinquent Youth Days Arc Mountain Training Arc
Manga	Round 222 (p.16-19) Round 223 (p.2-19) Round 224 (p.2, 18-19) Round 225 (p.1-19) Round 226 (p.2-19)
Air dates
Japanese	January 15, 2002
English	August 29, 2006
Music
Opening	Tumbling Dice
Ending	Eternal Loop

Kamogawa Corps' Summer is Round 65 of the Hajime no Ippo anime, which is the adaptation of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo series.

Details

• Characters Introduced: Ginpachi Nekota, Hachi, The Bear
• Locations Introduced: Pension Yoshio
• Real Life People Mentioned: Yoshio Shirai, Charlito Dignos, Rocky Lin, Jack Dempsey

Summary

At the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, defending his JBC featherweight title for the first time, Sendō knocks out Saeki with a Smash in the first round, leaving Yagi and Kamogawa in shock. Outside the venue, Yagi mentions to Kamogawa how it ended in one minute, seven seconds, breaking the record for the fastest JBC featherweight title match. As Yagi notes how it took Ippo four rounds to knockout Saeki, Sendō approaches them and reveals that he made sure to beat Saeki faster than Ippo did, and that he noticed them in the audience while in the ring. Sendō states that he can not say he is the champion with pride until he beats Ippo, so he asks them to let him fight Ippo to settle on who the strongest in Japan is. Kamogawa claims that Ippo will likely re-challenge the title soon in the future, but will take the belt next time for sure no matter who the champion is at the time, warning Sendō to get his burial plot picked out. Sendō sees that Kamogawa is confident, but warns him that the Dempsey Roll will not work on him. A group of children makes Sendō leave as they mention that reporters are waiting for him and the coach is getting angry.

At the Makunouchi Fishing Boat, Ippo watches Sendō's title defence, and just like Kamogawa and Yagi were, he is in shock at the sight of Saeki losing in such a way. He notices how it looks like Sendō can predict where Saeki will hit next, an combining his eyes and shoulder feints, he is able to corner and knock him out. Kamogawa pays Ippo a visit and they talk about how much they have improved since the All Japan Rookie King Tournament that happened eighteen months ago. Ippo confesses that he is not satisfied with the result of their first match, as he still feels it is not over. He remembers how Sendō was sitting in his corner when the match ended but if he had gotten up, he would have won for sure. Kamogawa tells him that he has improved just as much and that this time they will take the belt. Before going back in, Ippo tells Kamogawa that against Sendō, the Dempsey Roll will be useless. As Kamogawa walks away, Ippo notices that he has realised it as well.

On the day of the training camp, the gym members are ready with items for the beach but are surprised when Kamogawa tells them that their destination is in the mountains. As the group arrives, they meet Ginpachi Nekota; an old friend of Kamogawa's, at the Pension Yoshio they will be staying during training. Nekota recognises Ippo and Takamura, however, he thought that Aoki and Kimura were Charlito Dignos and Rocky Lin. While Takamura stays to talk to Kamogawa about his next match, Shinoda takes the remaining trio to run around the mountain. While jogging, they encounter a bear, but since they are going downhill, the animal is too afraid to follow them, and allows them to escape. Later that night and still in shock of the bear incident, Ippo is unable to sleep as he sits outside and begins remembering Sendō beating Saeki. Seeing this, Kamogawa approaches Ippo and tells him that the Dempsey Roll is extremely powerful against someone backing off, while being a bad bet against those who drive forward. When adding Sendō's overwhelming punch numbers and overbearing attitude, it will be rendered ineffective before it can even begin to work. After Ippo asks what he should do, Kamogawa points out that the Dempsey Roll isn't just one technique by itself. Kamogawa adds that when the creator of the technique, Jack Dempsey used it, he would always force back his opponent first, as it was linked from the groundwork to force an opponent to retreat, to technique, and finally to finishing blow. He adds that once all those elements are assembled, the Dempsey Roll will near perfection. However, Kamogawa realises that Sendō is a difficult opponent to force to back off. He tells Ippo that in the training camp, he will acquire a lower body that won't be stopped by his power punch and the strength to make the most hits even if charged bodily.

The next day, the group goes jogging once again, but this time Nekota gives them each a bell to wear in order to keep the bear away, however, Takamura doesn't wear a bell. While making their way back from training to the Pension Yoshio, Takamura asks for Ippo, Aoki, and Kimura to not follow him as they are making him look bad, but the trio tells him that they didn't encounter any bears because of the bells. Takamura decides to run faster and go back himself. Suddenly, Ippo is seemingly attacked by a "bear", causing Aoki and Kimura to run away and leave him behind. After Aoki and Kimura tell Kamogawa, Yagi, Shinoda, and Nekota about Ippo being attacked by a bear, Nekota prepares to kill the bear and save Ippo. However, it is revealed that the animal was actually none other than Nekota's dog; Hachi as Ippo runs back with the dog. Kamogawa then assigns different exercises for the boxers, with Takamura running while carrying Yagi, Aoki and Kimura doing squats in the river supervised by Shinoda, and Ippo chopping thirty wooden logs into quarters with an axe. In an attempt to interact with people, Nekota first tries to do exercise with Aoki and Kimura, but fails and almost drowns, and later tries to train with Takamura, at which he fails as well.

After failed attempts to chop the wooden logs, Ippo asks for Nekota's help. Nekota demonstrates a few times his perfect method, and reveals the back-muscles he has gained thanks to that exercise. Ippo realises that gaining strength to make Sendō back up, was the reason for which he was assigned the wood-chopping task. Nekota also mentions that he will need power to force Sendō back, however if that is all he did, he would be destroying himself even if he did win. Ippo wonders if he is referring to the Punch Drunk Syndrome. Nekota claims that there was once a boxer who would never back off for anything no matter how many times he was dropped, always getting back up to fight until he was eventually forced to retire due to brain damage. Nekota adds that it took him five years to learn how to function normally again, and he never fully recovered. Ippo is shocked as he realises that Nekota is talking about himself as he notices Nekota's hand trembling. Ippo still believes he needs to exchange punches face-on with Sendō. Seeing that Ippo has no intention to run away from Sendō, Nekota tells him that there are more to slugfests than fists, as there is a way to punch without punching. He adds that if he remembers that, and his punches will double in number. As Ippo is shocked by Nekota's words, Kamogawa remembers how Nekota gave him trouble with that trick, as it forced him to the ropes many times. Kamogawa tells Ippo to call everyone over later in order for him to tell everyone about it.

Trivia

• Nekota mistakenly calls Aoki and Kimura Charlito Dignos and Rocky Lin, who are real life boxers.
  • Charlito Dignos is a real life boxer from the Philippines with a record of three matches, one win, and two losses. He was active 1989-1992.
  • Rocky Lin, real name "Mincha Lin" is a real life boxer from Taiwan who fought in Japan with a record of twenty-eight matches, twenty-six wins, two losses. His amateur record of sixty-three matches, fifty-eight wins, five losses. He won the 1986 and 1987 Oceanian Championships and competed at the 1986 world amateur championships as well as fighting at the Tammer Tournament, in Tampere, Finland, twice. He became a professional boxer in early 1988 and retired in 1998. He was a JBC strawweight champion. One of his memorial matches was against Ricardo López in Japan at Kōrakuen Hall on October 11, 1992, where he lost in the second round.

Anime-Manga Differences

See also: Anime-Manga Differences

• In the manga, the Kamogawa gym members went to the Pension Yoshio in July. In the anime, they went in late August.
• The match between Eiji Date and Jeff Brooks is not shown in the anime.
• In the manga, Kamogawa tells everyone at the gym inside the gym that their training camp will be in the mountains. In the anime, Kamogawa tells them while he is in the vehicle.

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 Epcar
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
Trainer Shinoda	Seiji Sasaki	佐々木 誠二	Sasaki Seiji	David Lodge
Takeshi Sendō	Masaya Onosaka	小野坂 昌也	Onosaka Masaya	Doug Erholtz
Takuma Saeki	Kiyoyuki Yanada	梁田 清之	Yanada Kiyoyuki	Brandon Jones
Live Announcer	Jin Horikawa	堀川 仁	Horikawa Jin	Ron Allen
Manabu	Tomo Shigematsu	重松 朋	Shigematsu Tomo	Mona Marshal
Child	Shihori Niwa' Hitomi	丹羽 紫保里 ひと美	Niwa Shihori Hitomi
Ginpachi Nekota	Ichirō Nagai	永井 一郎	Nagai Ichirō	Tony Tang

Episode Credits

Role	English Name	Japanese	Rōmaji
Screenplay	Ryōsuke Nakamura	中村 亮介	Nakamura Ryōsuke
Storyboard	Mitsuyuki Masuhara	増原 光幸	Masuhara Mitsuyuki
Director	Mitsuyuki Masuhara	増原 光幸	Masuhara Mitsuyuki
Animation Director	Tomoaki Kado 'Toshiyuki Kan'no	かど ともあき 菅野 利之	Kado Tomoaki Kan'no Toshiyuki