No wonder Miyata keeps challenging him, he's probably afraid he'll miss his chance to severe brain damage.
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I side with Sendou, Ippo is VASTLY overpowered against Sawamura. All the buildup he got, dodging Mashiba's flicker, freaking out Vorg, easily beating the "Man of the sea" who Ippo barely scraped by in his last match.
Frankly, Ippo looks kind of like an idiot for relying in the Dempsy when he has that much power and speed. Drop the DR, up your stupidly ridiculous power until you start breaking arms.
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Much as I like the Sawamura fight, all this talk of an "evolved dempsy" is annoying.
A tactic that destroys your knees and hips is NOT viable! Ippo isn't using this against every counter puncher!
The fact Ippo has to resort to such self destructive measures should be proof enough he should either drop the dempsy roll, or come up with something else against counters.
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
I don't blame Ippo. The dude discovered the Dempsey Roll on his own so it makes sense that he desperately wants to make it work. I actually think it is exciting watching him try and optimize his fighting style but it does give him tunnel vision as the most recent chapters are driving home.
Why am I picturing a conversation between Ippo and Kamogawa where the latter says "YOU'RE DESTROYING YOUR CAREER!", and the former with a half crazed look says "Maybe knee replacements.. No, prosthetic legs!", as the crew looks on in horror?
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Sawamura and Mashiba need a proper fight. Scary evil vs goofy evil, Flicker vs bullet, cheater vs cheater.
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
After the "coconut" fight, if I was Ippo I'd tell Kamogawa I want to go up to Lightweight, so I can cakewalk to the world.
Seriously, it seems like Featherweight has all the monsters. Kimura, he has to contend with Mashiba (And apparently later Sawamura), but who's in Aoki's class? No real monsters.
Just about anyone from Featherweight could steamroll Lightweight in a week.
Hell, Kimura would he viable on that stage! His friendship with Aoki held back his career, I just can't feel bad for Aoki when everyone makes fun of him.
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
I'm more on board with Vorg now. I don't agree with his "word of god" hyping at the main characters expense, but it's hard not to back someone that lost literally everything, and needs a handout just to find where to go or sleep inside.
The more I see of Mashiba, the more I like him. His concern for his sister is awww.
As always, I like Sendou as a character. He's by far one of the more relatable characters, but his appeal is how he's strong, yet a genuinely nice guy. Most strong guys in this manga are either sociopaths (Mashiba) or dicks (Miyata), and Sendou is neither.
Especially when he interacts with Ippo, you can't help but like him. He seems to "get" Ippo, and treats him like a younger brother instead of a hated rival. (I also HATE his grandmother for calling him a thug. Even if he was in a gang, he never seemed to pick on anybody or hurt anyone that wasn't an *******.)
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Don't know anyone from Lightweight that is anything special besides some random "world ranker" Mashiba beats near the 1100th chapter. But given how much "world class" gets touted at the current stages of the manga, I'd reckon that Morikawa counts any top 5 in the weight class / Champion level boxer as being nigh invincible to anyone whose name isn't Takamura or Martinez. Because when you're on the world stage, you're on "a whole other level" apparently.
Seems likeable, but too early to tell. Looking forward to his Rookie King performance.
So far, I think he's mainly meant a contrast of his feud was Miyata, only in reverse.
To be honest, I'd kind of prefer it if he was in his own offshoot series, instead of rolled in with Ippo's baggage.
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Brian Hawk, is he white? In the manga he looks black, but the anime is more whitish.. Sure, black and white manga has a limited color scheme, but he was shaded pretty darkly.
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Takamura/Eagle is brilliant. It's a complete 180 from Hawk, with Takamura essentially becoming a better built Hawk in it (Judging by the Hawk like punch's he threw, and how he stood with open guard just like him, and the uncharacteristic visciousness against his opponent, I almost wonder if the first quarter is a 1:1 crib of an unused Eagle/Hawk script.)
Only thing that keeps me cheering for Takamura is the fact he has to near starve himself just to get a road to a heavyweight someday, so he kind of has every right to hate golden boy from the land of higher weight competition..
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Takamura vs Eagle was good, however . . . Eagle is the better boxer and Takamura only won due to PIS from the ref. As far as I'm concerned, Eagle won the fight.
Oh yeah, the ref's in Ippo are terrible.. They probably moonlight as boxing refs and make their real money calling professional wrestling..
Taka's blind rush is the best part for me. For the look of abject horror on everyone's face.. Ippo especially looked like he walked into Walter White chopping someone into pieces in a plastic tupperware container.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
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