HAJIME NO IPPO

In Hajime no Ippo we find a sports story focused on boxing where several young people want to make their way in the difficult and harsh world of boxing. Each one for a different reason and reason, obviously. As the main protagonist we have good old Ippo Makunouchi, a fairly shy 16-year-old boy, with hardly any friends, who helps his mother in a fishing store and who, due to his good-natured and introverted character, even receives some bullying from his friends. some classmates from his school... until he crosses paths with Mamoru Takamura, one of the characters with the most weight and charisma in the entire series, who convinces him to put on his gloves and get into the ring. From there begins a fascinating path full of joys and sorrows, victories and defeats, maximum effort and frustration, all mixed with a touch of comedy very well measured and fitted into a plot that shows us the evolution of each and every one. of the characters that appear on the pages of this magnificent work created by George Morikawa.

A sports story that perfectly mixes the action, tension and self-improvement that must be experienced in a sport like boxing, with characters full of charisma and a dramatic charge in the lives and pasts of some of the characters that will make the reader empathize with Each and every one of them. An ode and love letter to a sport that the author masters and knows perfectly (in fact, he is a representative of some boxers), being another clear example of that innate ability that Japanese authors have to make epic, emotional and fascinating any discipline they deal with in a manga.