Hajime No Ippo 1 - 10 Review

Listen in as the Southern Senpais give their review of Hajime No Ippo! Episode 1 through 10.

Episode Transcript

(00:01):
Howdy!
It's the Southern Senpai Show.
Where small town southerners explorebig time Japanese entertainment.
Anime, manga, and everything in between.
Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.
What's going on y'all?
Southern Senpais here.

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Two American guys from the South.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Who explore Japanese culture.
Hell yeah!
You're such a dick, dude.
He was about to Come on, man,let's do the fucking episode.
He was about to say what I do.
I'm DJ!

(00:43):
I'm Nicholas.
What are we doing today, DJ?
Today, we we just recently startedwatching this show, Hanji made no Ippo.
Do you want to tell the audiencehow we got To watching this anime?

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Yeah, sure.
It was a me and Nicholas, we haveday jobs And those day jobs require
us To sometimes be attached To theentertainment industry And because of
those day jobs we're working on a projectright now that has to do with boxing.
Someone was like, hey, check out a boxingTV show, you should check out Hajime.
And we're like, okay, cool.

(01:24):
And they're like, you shoulddo it on your podcast.
I'm like, chill out, bro.
I don't know but the show's really good.
Yeah, the, I would hate to, Ireally hate to be that guy that
says, oh, you have to watch it.
It gets really good, after, a couple ofepisodes because I know on the past, in
the past, we have said, Hey man, justmake the anime good from the start.

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How hard is that, man?
And the thing is it's not that it's notgood from the start, but it is a bit slow
and it is like a slow burn type of thing.
It keeps you at least interested.
So we're, so we're reviewingepisodes one through ten.
Yeah, one through ten.
And the main character's name is Ippo.
Makanouchi.
Ippo Makanouchi.

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And Ippo basically he, it'sthe typical anime setup.
He gets bullied in high school,and then he gets saved by a boxer.
And then Takamora.
Takamora.
He gets saved by Takamora who saves himfrom some bullies, which because of anime
logic sparks his interest in boxing.
Also, this also implies a grown manwas like beating up 16 year olds.

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And trolling high schools.
What is he he was out running.
Oh, yeah.
He was out running, right?
And then he sees Ippo being beat upunder a bridge and he's you know what?
I'm not only am I going to stopthis fight, I'm going to beat up
the children that we're doing.
Someone's got to teach them.
And then, we don't.
Someone's got to raise them, eithertheir parents or the streets.
And we also remember the reason whyhe gets bullied so much is because

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his mom runs a fishing business,so he always smells like fish.
Oh yeah, so these bullies are like,haha, your single mom was trying to
pro you're helping out your single mom,trying to provide for her, by helping
out with the family business so you guysaren't poor and homeless, even though
you guys are obviously clearly poor.
We should beat you up for this,because and that's the reason

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why his self esteem is so low.
That's the one thing that animenever really connects with.
In real life at least Americanculture, I don't know, maybe in
Japanese culture, they beat upon kids who have single parents.
But, maybe, I don't know, maybethat's what ticks them off.
But over here, it's usually oh,you look funny, or even if someone
smells funny, you're like, Dude,why do you stink like that?
And someone goes, Oh,I'm sorry, my dad's dead.

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So I had to help out my singlemom on our, in our business.
You know what I'm saying?
So that way, we can eat.
And you're just like, oh, okay.
Yeah, now you feel like a dick.
Yeah, and then you see And then youwould also, if you saw someone picking
on this guy, you'd be like, Oh, I'mabout to beat up this bully's ass.
Bro don't pick on this guy.
What's wrong with you?
His, it's not his faulthe smells like fish.

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He's trying to survive, like, anyway,so that sparks his interest in boxing.
And he has natural punching talent.
And his what's the, Takamurabasically gives him a test.
Cause he's ah, I want to be a boxer.
And he basically gives him a test.
And Takamura's eh, I don'treally want to deal with you.
And he said, listen, ifyou can catch ten leaves.

(04:13):
With your jabs all in the same cuz he'sgot a hit the tree And then he leaves
Russell and right if you could do that,then I'll train you I'll bring you to
the gym and you can become a boxer,which is funny because After this, he
does not train him, the coach does.
Exactly.
Actually Well, to be fair,the coach is I'm training him.

(04:34):
Because Takamora's hey, I found him.
But he's nah, but you can fuck off.
I'm training him.
Yeah, because Takamora's a bit of a howwould you describe Takamora, Nicholas?
A dick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, he's, this dude isa, dude, He's a huge guy.
He's a huge guy.
Physically assaults his so calledfriends all the time and fuckin looks
at people's dicks in the shower.

(04:55):
Yeah, he grabs their dicks in the shower.
Now, I'll be honest, I have neverdone that to either one of my friends.
My friends have never done that to me.
And I feel like that would be groundsfor not being my friend anymore.
That would be like, hey man,how come you're not my friend?
Cause you grabbed my dick?
And also What's wrong with you, bro?
Epo just so happens tohave a big dick, right?
Which is like a plot pointin one of the episodes?

(05:17):
In one of the episodes, the plot pointis, Oh my god, you've got a huge dick, ha.
Yeah, uh, this is, that part was madweird, but the rest of it's good!
The rest of it's fine!
We're taking it to a new level!
The, yeah the shower scenes are,I, maybe that's a cultural thing?
We are Southern Senpais, so weare exploring different cultures.
That's not a side that Ireally want to explore.

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No, when you're in high school, youhave locker rooms when you're like,
training and stuff like that, but I'veIt's not been my experience of people
going around grabbing each other'sdicks, but once again, maybe it's
because we're from the south, right?
Maybe that's it.
This could be a greeting in japan.
You don't know they were oh hello.
Nice to meet you I mean in one of thelater episodes they do, you know walk
in and they're grabbing on each other.

(05:59):
Yeah!
It's what is happening?
But anyway.
Anyway.
Usually out of these 10episodes, it was maybe like seven
minutes, which is very jarring.
But and then, so we sit there and, likeyou said, Ippo has this incredible boxing
power, punching power that they find outjust through the magic of anime logic.

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And his, he sucks.
Yeah, he sucks pretty hard, buthe has like good punching power.
So they're like, oh okay, cool.
So then, they start, he's, he alsonot Hold on, we gotta back up.
By the way, Takamora did not think thathe would Succeed in the leaf thing.
No, he didn't.
He just told him that just to just like tobullshit him, but Apo actually does do it.

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So that's why he's oh, Iguess I have to train you now.
Because the thing is he offeredthat as a training to be like,
if you'll just get away from me.
He was like, nobody with no boxingexperience could ever do this.
But because anime.
He does it.
And then he gets introduced to all ofthe, the friends of the boxing gym.

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All the other characters.
They talk about the importance ofdiscipline and hard work and, he
journeyed towards becoming a boxer andhe's oh, maybe I can Now, I watched
the American dub of this and thecoach sounds like he sounds like Mr.
Krabs from Spongebob.
He sounds exactly like Mr.
Krabs.
Get your head out of the game, kid!
But it's like Mr.
Krabs saying it.

(07:21):
I didn't realize that till justnow that he sounds like Mr.
Krabs.
He sounds exactly like Mr.
Krabs.
It's if you in this show, because wewatched the English dub of it, in this
show, if you like, Epo, I need you to,I know you, you need to stop boxing
and start frying up some patties.
I would not have thought twice.
I'm like, yeah, no, that makes sense.
You know what's really crazy is that, Thefriends that they find, they're actually

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really encouraging of Ippo, right?
Because whenever he first starts,everybody is just miles better than him.
And they're just like, butthen they're just like, oh this
dude has got knockout power.
If he's got that, then, youknow what's interesting?
There's like a, there's like ahave some shots where you see
there's clearly a whole bunch ofother people there in the gym.

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So there's Takamura, there's Ippo,there's the coach, there's like
the general manager guy who wearsglasses, and there's two other guys.
Who is that's like the main cast.
And then, he has this little gym rival.
Yes.
Rival with Midoriya.
Midoriya.
And Midoriya's thing is he can'tthrow heavy punches, but his
technique is like Impeccable.

(08:27):
He's like a genius, right?
Cause his dad's a his dad wasa former professional boxer.
So he's Because of anime logic,what ends up happening is Ippo has
never boxed before in his life.
He is just a little punk.
And Midoriya has beentraining his entire life.
Has flawless footwork.
The only thing he lacks is punching power.

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And Ippo gets there and is Okay,if you can survive in the ring
for three rounds, I'll make sureyou become a professional boxer.
And what he means by that isthat he'll get his, he'll go
off and do the boxing card.
And Ippo wins because anime.
Because anime.
But I will say this.
And mi what's Miata, right?
Miata the rival mid,is it mid or mid Miata?

(09:12):
It's Miata.
Yeah, it's E Iro.
Iro Miata.
I'm thinking Meria from my hero.
Academia.
Yeah.
I'm not really little of thewrong show here but anyway, we are
southerners, so so is all the M names.
Hey, y'all gotta figure that out.
Anyway, so Iro Miata, this guy, hetakes that loss and is you know what?

(09:37):
Now that I've lost and I'm gonna goenter, it's cause they enter in, I
think a tournament later, don't they?
First, what happens is he loses.
But then And he's shookto his core about this.
But then But I went to, bro, I'vebeen training for 10 years, and
this guy's ooh, I to do anything.
And then he knocks me out, I'm like,okay, so what the fuck have I been doing?
Yeah, my whole life, if this nobody,who's nothing, Can sit there.

(09:58):
Mind you, these peopleare like 16 years old.
Oh, yeah.
Because anime, they're 16.
And then and even though he, thenhe goes I think he gets his, I
think he gets his boxing car too.
Yeah.
And but what ends up happening ishe has the three months, right?
They train for three months to counter,what's very interesting is I like how
they have kinda like realistic timeframes.

(10:19):
They're not like, oh,your fight is next week.
Give a week to master this.
Okay, you fight's in another week,give em a week to master this.
It's no, it takes monthsof training, right?
It take, it takes monthsand months of training.
And there's a lot of training in the show.
There is a lot of training in thisshow, but I think it's realistic,
because in some instances, they'relike, Oh, you have a month till this
fight, so you better really train up.

(10:41):
It's okay a month is a long time.
And they're like, no, it's not.
It's no time at all.
It's no time at all, but at least it'snot like in, Dragon Ball Z, where it's oh.
You had 48 minutes.
You have three days to make surethat you don't lose in this fight
that will destroy the Earth.
So I think that the one thing I likeabout this show I'll say this one

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thing I really enjoy about the show isthat the main character, he's like a
very he's like a very likable person.
I think this is like the era of likeanime where like all the main characters
are just like unnaturally nice.
To like early thousands, likelate nineties or something
like that, those first seasons.
Also whenever he winsa match, he just bows.

(11:23):
He's Oh, thank you.
I think they do that in Japan, though.
I think they bow for Oh, so we'rejust the dicks that are just like,
whenever we win a match, we'rejust like, Yeah, fuck you, man!
Yeah, I think that's I think theydo to show respect or thanks.
Us, we just eh, screw it.
And then also, towards the end, it's inpreparation for his first match, right?

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He has his first matchwith this guy named Oda.
And Oda is this, first ofall, once again, Ippo is 16.
Oldest mid twenties, and they'reboth featherweight class.
And for some people who are inthe featherweight, these guys have
some giant, ripped muscles to be inthis frickin featherweight class.
These people look likethey're in their mid twenties.

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And heavyweight, dude.
Epo shows up ripped, jacked, andthey're like, I'm like, dude, what?
I thought he was a And they'relike, he's he looks huge.
And he's yeah, I'm a featherweight.
Are you?
Are you?
And I was like thesepeople are 125 pounds.
Bro, I ain't gonna lie, thatepisode where wherever that, the
evil guy's name is where they had,where they were going for that card.

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He, so there's this, I don'tknow who this person is yet.
I think he's, I thinkit's Machiba is his name.
Machiba?
Yeah, Royal Machiba.
Anyway.
He they took some sort of tests forthe boxing card, to get their boxing
card, which I think is pretty standardin Japan, I assume, I have no idea.
But, during the fight, all you had to dowas just say, you put on your headgear,

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you go in front of the judges andsay, Hey, just so that you know how to
box, just punch around a couple times,dodge a couple times, and then leave.
You're not really supposed towin or lose who cares, right?
It's just to show thatyou can box in general.
Or that you're learningsomething at your gym, right?
So oh, I know different kinds of punches,I know how to defend, this is that.
This man obliterates one of thethis other kid for no reason.

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With a whole bunch of Flicker Jabs.
I do First of all, that's somethingthat this series has done a lot.
They see a whole bunch ofdifferent types of punches.
That I did not even know existed.
No, didn't know.
They have The Hitman style Flicker Jab.
That And that's justthat's this bad guy style.
The Hitman Flicker Jabs.
And I'm just, And They referenceso many American boxers, I'm, like
Dang, we're gonna look this up.
Who are this guy?
And so what ends up happeningis they do a rematch to they do

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a rematch to What is his name?
Miyata?
They do a rematch That's his name, right?
Ichiro I don't know who you'retrying to talk about right now.
Ichiro Miyata.
What about him?
They do their rematch.
Oh in the gym.
You just said that we'retalking about that.
I was talking about something else.
How was I supposed to know that'swho you were talking about?

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Yeah, but Yeah, so they do it, sothey finally do their rematch, and,
it goes a lot better this time.
And but then, they have apromise to meet again, right?
Towards, remember, Miata leaves his gem.
Oh yeah, Miata leaves the gems, thatway, cause he can't be Ippo's rival
if they belong to the same gem.
Because what ends up happening is thathe loses, and then They don't see him.

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And what's the guy's, what is itMachina Uchi, loses his inspiration and
loses his determination to get better.
Because, you haven't seen Miyata.
His, Miyata was like his goal.
He lost to Miyata the first time.
And it's oh.
Now I'm going to fight Miata andlike he wins the second time so
now he's lost that and he meetshim outside right and then this man

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wanted to be Sasuke so bad standingon top of the stairs Looking down.
I'm like, we're gonna meet again.
Like bro.
You are not son.
You're not in the edit, broAin't no bitches about to
come out when you say this.
There's no like music that's about toplay like chill out, man Because he
thinks that he lost he left the gymbecause he beat him, because he beat

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him and he's just a little bitch, right?
And he's he couldn't handle it,he's no, the only way we can face
each other in the pros, is ifwe don't belong to the same gym.
If we don't belong to the same gym.
Which makes sense.
That does make sense, butyou couldn't say that?
Be like, hey, yo hey, I'mleaving because of this reason.
To be fair, Epo's the only one whowould be left in the dark about
this, cause, I assume that, I guessthe other ones would know that.

(15:33):
Yeah, why wouldn't anybody tell him?
I don't know.
These, again, these people arehis boxing friends are dicks.
So Dude, his boxingfriends are some weirdos.
Yeah, you know what's crazy?
It's like I mean It didn't seemlike he was unpopular in school.
Didn't some people like ask to hangout with him in like the first episode?
And he was like no, I'm not gonna do that.

(15:54):
Yeah, they asked to hang out with him,but he couldn't hang out with them
because of the fact that he workedwith his mom's fishing business.
And the only reason why he was able toget into boxing was because his mom told
him, hey listen, it seems like you've beenreally happy these past couple of days.
Do you like boxing?
Whatever it is that's making you happy.

(16:15):
Please just continue to do that.
I'll handle the fishing business and thenshe or did she already know it was boxing?
No, he had to tell her and then itwas like she was like, oh, go do
that cuz he was like, I'm worriedthat you don't have enough help.
She was like nah, I got thisSo he's like, all right, cool.
And then he goes Which is crazy becausehis mom works at night loading fishing
boats Yeah, I'm not gonna seem like thesafest job for you know Built different

(16:42):
I guess they built different that'swhy they're drawn like white people
because they're just built different.
They're white people who live in Japan.
They're built different, bro.
There's a part that you don'tunderstand about things.
The culture of Japan is just different.
To be fair, even what's his name?
Takamora?
Takamora is like really tan.
Takamora is a menace, dude.

(17:03):
He is.
He's he's the middleweight.
And he's they always call him the big guy.
Which I'm like, dangbro, he's a middleweight?
He seems to me like he wouldbe a heavyweight, right?
Cause like how big he'sdrawn and 5'9 right?
Yeah!
They call him big guy and he's likehuge and towers over everyone else.
But he's 5'9 5'10 And I'm like, bro,what, How tall are these 16 year olds?

(17:28):
Yeah, cuz I'm like this doesn't makehow tall cuz Ippo is so in episode
10 where we already stopped He'sabout to go fight this guy named Oda
who's like a mid 20s person, right?
And this is a grown ass man.
Everybody else is grown ashell Ippo is a little shorter
than him, but not really right?
So I'm just like Bro, how bigare these regular people because

(17:48):
Ippo I guess it's five five Okay.
Yeah, but that doesn't make like theymake Takamura seems like he's like
6'4 compared to his 5'5 Yeah, he lookslike he's 6'4 I mean he's a psychotic
person when it comes to training.
Yeah, to training, and he, no,I think the starvation diet is
like a real thing that people do.
So to get ready for one of hisfights, he does this thing called

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like a starvation diet, which helike only eats a tomato for the day.
Oh, and one of his one of theirfriends owns a ramen shop?
He, I think he works at theramen shop to make money.
Works and Takamura's yeah, he'ssuch a shitty boxer That he has to
earn money by working a regular job.
I was like, dude, that's, it's, andthen he Maybe if you were better at

(18:33):
boxing, the thing you wanted to doin your entire life, you wouldn't
have to work this job, bitch.
Terrible.
You're an What's his name?
Mak Ippo.
Ippo, yeah.
Ippo's damn, these peopleare weird and crazy.
Yeah, so they have theother two guys names.
One of them is Masuri Aoki.
Aoki is one of them.
And then, the other one Aoki's the onewho's working at the ramen place, though.

(18:57):
Aoki's the one thatworks at the ramen place?
Yeah, Aoki does.
And, there's also thisreporter guy named Fuji.
Now, I remember Fuji because I'vebeen thinking to myself like,
not hearing the word mountain infront of that is really weird.
But, he's Fuji and he'slike a sports writer.
Now, here's the thing.
Fuji's drawn like he's 45, buthe's only 23, so Oh, really?

(19:20):
Yeah.
Yeah, he looks like he'sin his mid thirties.
Bro, this man And I was like,why does he look so old?
I get it anime, but seriously,this guy looks super, super old.
23.
And then I was like, oh, he's a reporter.
No, I get it.
This guy's chain smoking.
This guy has a a problems and shit.
Oh, he's a reporter.
Okay, yeah, cool.

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And then, Are in the 1 through 10.
This is the, this is, we're in the sameepisode arc where the guy who's like lazy.
Yeah, so it's about the fight.
So Oda, his upcoming rival, so at theend he stepped in the ring, but we
actually didn't get to see the fight yet.
This guy named Oda is basically,he's a good boxer, but he's just
super lazy because he wins allof his fights really lazily.

(20:02):
So he doesn't go to training, nothing.
And this guy, his traineris hey, you know what?
If you don't start boxing seriouslyor take box seriously, I'm not gonna
let you have sex with my daughteranymore Wait, what and so have
you lost his last three matches?
Yeah, he lost his last three matchesbecause he wasn't training you're just
being lazy because when he would go outand do his road work His, the coach's

(20:24):
daughter would be like at a cafe.
Yeah, and you just go meet herwith her And he would just stop his
road work and meet her in the cafe.
And the crazy part is,the coach would know that!
Yeah!
And would be out searching around for him.
How big is this town that he knows, likeFirst of all, it seemed In the, I think
they said in the episode, he was like,I always meet you at the same cafe.

(20:44):
Bro, coach, why are you looking?
You know where they are you saw He's overthere, and he's about to put the schmooze
on your daughter again because apparentlythey're in a relationship right and then
so she comes to him and she says heylisten if you don't Win your next fight.

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I'm breaking up with you and he'soh my I, look, I'm a man and,
Nicholas also has the Y chromosome.
Let me tell you something,that's a good motivator.
He literally changesalmost instantaneously.
She's look, if we, if you don't,if you don't take this boxing
seriously, it's over between us.

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He was like, Okay, I'm gonnago start training right now.
Goes on this huge training arc.
Through the rain and everything.
I'm like, bro, all it took wasfor her to say No more coochie?
This shook this man to his core.
To the point to where his trainer waslike, Dang, bro, what kind are you?
Why you training so hard?
So he gets into the ring, right?

(21:46):
Yeah.
And loses.
It's a great, it's a great, match.
Oh, what it does?
Yeah.
I don't think, I think that'sAlright, just full disclaimer.
Nicholas, you've exposed it.
That's not in episode 10.
That's like episode 11 and 12.
Oh.
We might have watchedit a little bit sooner.
Beyond.
Anyway.
And episode 10 is And episode 10 iswhen they went into They, they just
We tried to fake it as if we didn'twatch those episodes, but we did.

(22:09):
Yeah.
I want to say something that's really Iwill say this, I think there's something
also a lot of modern anime is lacking.
It's like really good partsto end the end the episode on.
It's like addictive.
Yes, so The pacing is really great.
The pacing is great because episode10 ends on the fact that he just
goes into It starts, so it's ohman, now I gotta click the next one.

(22:32):
Now I gotta click the next one.
I gotta find out if the guy,you know Gets his girl back.
Does the man get the coochie or not?
But what do you think aboutthe first two episodes so far?
I think it's pretty good.
As a writer, what do youthink about these episodes?
I personally don't thinkI could have written this.

(22:53):
Or I don't think it's a styleof writing that I am really
into, but I really enjoy it.
And so I personally, Ireally like the series.
I like a whole bunch of things about it.
It's pacing is really great.
I enjoy a lot of its characters.
Something I will say is that it does areally great job of getting you to like
a character in five to ten minutes.
Something that thisseries does really well.

(23:15):
You can meet some, meet, they can say,Hey, look, this is my friend, Bojo!
And you'll be like, okay, thisis some new character, Bojo.
And then five minutes later, you'llbe like, I'd kill someone for Bojo.
Bojo's awesome.
One of the craziest things about thisanime, is the character development is
so good, but so fast at the same time.

(23:36):
It's like hard to imagine that I careso much about all these side characters,
and it's not just you walk in the gym andit's just, dialogue here, dialogue there.
These side charactersare developed as well.
Yeah, everyone's, every single one of thecharacters is so developed, you understand
all of their motivations and You're like,you understand all their motivations,

(23:57):
their hopes, their dreams, all 27 ofthe people, and it's only 10 minutes in.
And you're like, dude,what is going on here?
One thing, and that's why I just reallyhave to give it up to its pacing.
It's pacing is at that perfect modeto where it's fast enough to where
nothing is, it's fast enough to wherenothing is wasted, but it's slow enough
for you to just, for you to enjoy it.

(24:18):
Yes, it's for it to be believable,rather for it to there's a
lot of it that is believable.
I think that's I thinkthat's its biggest thing.
Yeah, because they're trainingfor months upon months of for
this one fight for this one fight.
I think people really What's the word?
They really identify with Ippo, right?

(24:40):
Because what the saying goes, it's like,it's okay if you don't know how to fight,
but if you choose not, if you don'twant to learn how to, or no, what is it?
It's it's okay if you'reweak, but if you stay weak.
Then that's the issue.
Oh, I thought I was used to force.
Something like that.
What are you doing, Star Wars?
What the fuck?
He said something like that.

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We're not talking about Star Wars.
This is anime.
Adam, why did you agree with me?
You're like, yeah, something like that.
I was trying to think, I was like There'ssome type of quote that's like I, I
don't know, I don't know the quote.
I know, you're talking aboutthat one where it's like It's
better to be a warrior in agarden than a gardener in water.

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No, that's, but I get what you're Isthat what you're trying to say or no?
No, that's not what I'mtrying It's a different one.
It's But that's basically the sentiment.
It's Hey, listen, there's noproblem if you are weak, But it's
your problem if you stay weak.
Thanos.
Somebody.
Somebody say it.
No man, it's not that house.
Somebody.
I don't know who it is.
So I'm no better off than you.

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I don't know, but I feel like I haveheard that from somewhere before.
I don't know where.
It's probably another anime.
Probably.
But we're not.
What would you say about this?
Do you like it?
I like it it's got a bitof a slow burn to it.
Yeah.
The fight I do like the way,like the inner dialogue.
Some of it's not, because usually,especially with anime, you have

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these long inner dialogues.
It's hilarious.
We were watching what wasthat other anime, the soccer
anime that we were watching?
Bluelock.
Bluelock, and then, the inner Man,the inner dialogues in Bluelock
were like the whole episode.
The whole episode was like, Ican't believe I like boxing.
The, I can't believe I'm smartenough I can't believe I'm smart
enough to understand that if I kickthis soccer ball at this blade of

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grass, it'll kick off at a 45 degreeangle, and you're just like, What?
What are you talking about?
And he's But, my power is that I seewhere the other soccer players are.
Yes.
Y So I'll Spatial awareness.
What?
Spatial awareness?
That's your ability?
That was so stupid.
But I will say this is the inner,this is like the type of anime we

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expect to be a lot of inner dialogues,because they're in there boxing, right?
There is inner dialogues, but it'snot as long or as big as I originally
expected them to, and I think it'sbecause he has those other side
characters, who are basically sayingOh, hey, watch out, or Actually, this
is what's going on with that person.
You know what I'm saying?
Also, what I think that this anime doesis portray real friendship dynamics.

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Instead of it being like, Don'tget me wrong, the fantasy anime
friendship dynamics are cool.
But I think that In this anime,the friendship dynamics are
a little bit more realistic.
Yeah, that's cause like, whenyou're really friends with someone,
sometimes they're just jerks, justcause they are, for no reason.
Because you can just do that.
Comparative to like, a lot ofother animes, they're like,

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we're friends, so look, here,let me share this bread with you.
No, your best friend's gonna be like,hey man, do you want some bread?
Yeah, sure, man.
All right, cool.
I'm gonna eat all this for myself.
I don't know where you're gettingyour bread from, but hey, You know.
I wouldn't piss on youif you were on fire.
And they'll be like, hey, that guy's mean.
and you're like, no, that's my friend.
He's a dickhead.

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Anyway we're going to, in thenext episode, we're gonna do,
what is it, 11 through 21?
Sure, why not?
Yeah, 11 through 21 is the next one.
All right, cool.
So what would you read it so far?
I'll be I'd probably give it a 7.
5 7.
5.
What would you give it?
I'm leaving it.
I'll give it a solid 8.
I think it's a solid 8.
Solid 8?
Yeah All right, cool.

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I'm Nicholas Killian.
I'm DJ.
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