TV series
Fighting Spirit
Overview
Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers. Always a target for bullying at school (the family fishing business grants him a distinct odor), Ippo's life is one of hardship. One of these after-school bullying sessions turns Ippo's life around for the better, as he is saved by a boxer named Takamura. He decides to follow in Takamura's footsteps and train to become a boxer, giving his life direction and purpose. Ippo's path to perfecting his pugilistic prowess is just beginning...
Details
- First air date
- 2000-10-03
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 3 seasons
- Episodes
- 126 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure
- Network
- Nippon TV
- Production
- Madhouse, MAPPA, Nippon Television Network Corporation, D.N. Dream Partners, VAP
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Kohei Kiyasu as Ippo Makunouchi (voice)
- Rikiya Koyama as Mamoru Takamura (voice)
- Wataru Takagi as Masaru Aoki (voice)
- Keiji Fujiwara as Tatsuya Kimura (voice)
- Tomokazu Seki as Ichiro Miyata (voice)
- Kenji Utsumi as Genji Kamogawa (voice)
- Toshihiko Nakajima as Haruhiko Yagi (voice)
- Sanae Kobayashi as Kumi Mashiba (voice)
- Masaya Onosaka as Takeshi Sendo (voice)
- Akemi Okamura as Reiko Mikami (voice)
- Emi Shinohara as Mari Iimura (voice)
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Akira Shigeta (voice)
Creators and crew
- Mitsuru Oshima - Producer
- Hiroshi Yamashita - Producer
- Toshio Nakatani - Producer
- Tomohiro Shindo - Producer
- Chiharu Sato - Director
- Yukina Hiiro - Director
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