Hajime No Ippo 11-20 Review

Ippo two times in a row! Listen in as the Southern Senpais give their review of Hajime No Ippo! Episode 11 through 20.

Episode Transcript

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Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.
Hello Southern Senpais, I'm Nicholas.

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I'm DJ, we're two Southern guys whoexplore Japanese culture together.
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Oh man.
That's crazy.
I think it's a staple at this point.
No, I think you just needto learn how to do it.
How about I, I think I, Ithink the fans appreciate it.

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It shows realness.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's real that I've stopped editingthe these, it intros big messed up.
That's what's really about it.
Lemme see how manyepisodes we have so far.
I'm actually, I'm, Nope, nope.
This isn't the right one.
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Yep, on Instagram.
So we've done 30, 30 episodeswith the last one the last one,
because Ippo was number 30.
29 right before that so we've done thistoo many times for you not to know To do
this, but what are we talking about today?
We are talking aboutIppo's anime 11 through 20.

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Ippo's anime.
That's the title of it.
It's called Ippo's anime.
Ippo What is it called?
Hajime no Ippo.
Hajime no Ippo.
Yes, and A lot kinda happened.
He beat that guy Oda.
Yeah, so he he Boxes against Oda Yasuka.
The boxer from Osaka.
I'm gonna let you say that last name.

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I don't know you suck So he's actuallyreally nervous before he gets into the
fight because he's is his first profight It's just bloody has beat right?
But yeah, I mean he's gonna winbecause this is his anime, right?
It's anime, but initially,he doesn't do well.
No initially That's what I think thatit was a real roller coaster Of a fight.

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I will have to say in this anime, theychoreographed these fights really well.
To be fair, it's only punches.
So it's alright, so let,lemme get this straight.
I have to make a anime.
Apparently this first season'ssomething like 75, 76 episodes.
It is crazy.
. But think about it like this,you had to do 75 episodes
of a show, of a boxing show.

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Okay.
Potentially, half of thoseare the fight episodes.
That means, bro, you're talking aboutlike at least, at least like over 30
punt boxing matches where people arejust straight up punching each other.
You gotta make it interesting.
You gotta be good atchoreographing that stuff or else
it'll get boring immediately.
Obviously, so he does the match.

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Ippo.
It's a powerful bodyblow that knocks out Oda.
And The crowd's cheering him on, butalso what we haven't, what we haven't
stated is over time Nobody knows Ippo's aboxer because he's in high school, right?
He's a loser in high schoolthat smells like fish.
Oh, yeah, he's still fish loser,even though he just beat someone up.

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Also one of the things I Think he's weirdNone of his boxer friends ever bring that
up bring it what that he smells like fishProbably because they're all sweaty in
the gym, too that's that's what I thought.
I was like, they allprobably really stink.
There's no women around.
No They all probably stinkthey get no women at all.

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They all probably stink as wellOne of the boxing gym characters,
this is whole reason for boxing.
He's like I want pretty women to like me.
But the crazy part is one of thefriends likes really ugly women.
Yeah, that's like his thing.
That's his thing.
Yeah, that's the dude,that's the Aoki, right?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Aoki's oh, I box for women tolike, locker or something like that.
And it's all eugh.
Yeah, apparently he's reallyattracted to ugly women.

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It's the sentiment.
Hey man, everybody has their thing.
Some people like people being tall andsmall, and some people like some people
with a little Some people are chubbychasers, yeah, some people like them with
a little baggage, some people like skinny,screen beings, you know what I'm saying?
Now, I will say this I think that oneof the, one of the greatest things
about Ipoh that I've seen, one of theepisodes, I really locked in on one

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of the characters in the background,because we're talking about appearances.
The boxers they like, they'relike, Oh, we're muscular,
we're flexing, and whatever.
But it's okay I don'treally care about that.
And animation, especially in theanimation back in the day, and this
is how really the rest of the worldlearned how to animate, was from
the animated minstrel shows, right?
With the, the monkey, black people beingmonkeys, and the big lips, and the, that's

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where Bugs Bunny's hands come from, that'swhy he wears gloves, and stuff like that.
Are you talking aboutthe so there's a frame.
You ain't gonna stop me.
There's a frame in which, cause usuallywhat happens in anime is every time
there's a black guy, he has these biggiant lips, even in today, in 2024,
they will animate a black guy who isthe most stereotypical, like racist

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looking black guy at an animation.
And they're like, yeah,no, that's fine to put.
Because again, they don't know aboutAmerica is very attuned to racism.
Like everyone in Japanis fucking Japanese.
They think it's hilarious.
But in this show, I saw a white guywith giant lips, and that, I don't know,
that just made me feel a lot better.
You guys don't understand, thisman actually texted me the picture

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I couldn't, I had never seen itbefore of the TV, with the white
dude that had the black guy lips.
It was crazy.
It was like, can you believe this?
Wow I have a whole newrespect for this anime.
But anyway, so after the fighthe gets some acknowledgment from
his peers of, they find out.

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They're like, oh wow, you're a boxer?
And he's yeah, haha.
And then the bullies arelike, bro, seriously?
Cause the bullies, they kept tryingto, they tried to still try to bully
him, but he's him doing his road work,he like runs away from them and it's
like too fast and stuff like that.
They were like, this guy is, I don'tknow what he's doing, but he just
keeps getting faster and stronger.
And eventually they're like.
Aren't we going to catch him?
He's no man, like, whyare we going to do that?

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And then one of them, theytake his his pro card, like
his card that he fought for.
And Basically, he almost knocks allof them out trying to get it back.
He's bro, hey, listen to me.
I ain't down for thisbullsh t no more, bro.
I will beat your ass, giveme back my boxing card.
The next episode we're Coming tois the Rookie King title, right?

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EPO's next challenge is tocompete in the Rookie King title.
The Rookie King Tournament.
Tournament.
And one of the, one of the scenesis, we were talking about this the
last episode, One of the scenes wasthey're at the ramen shop, right?
Cause apparently thisguy makes great ramen.
Apparently.
And what ends up happening is theyjust clown on the ramen guy the

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whole time because they're like,oh, yeah, Ipoh, you can do this.
You got this.
Blah, blah, blah.
I'm like, this loserwho needs a second job.
Is he so bad at boxing?
This guy right here, he boxeslike this and he can't do
anything and blah, blah, blah.
And I was like, bro, these guys are Andthen Ipoh's just there, just I don't know.
That's how you knowthey're really friends.

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Because I ain't gonna lie if if we weredoing like we were both boxers, right?
And all the other boxers are ableto make a living wage by boxing,
and you are the only boxer in thegym who has to have a second gym.
I'm like, bro, what are you doing?
Honestly like you, youtaking LS right now, dog.
Like in life, not in life.
not in life, but you're takingsome life Ls right now, bro.

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And it's like how you go getyour ass beat and then go.
Make some ramen.
It's Oh, you can't go home and rest.
Got a clock in, bitch.
But the thing is also, it's inthere, in a guy's own weird way.
It's we're trying to make fun of youso that you come up on our level.
We're not making fun of youbecause you just a bitch.
We're trying to egg you onto become a better boxer.

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Other people might notsee it like that, but.
I know, there's one thing I alsoreally like about this show, it's
like, The culture, it's I the fighterculture There's gonna be dark jokes.
These are the type of people wherea lot of fighters are that way.
Where they're, like, veryharsh with each other.
But it's not out of admiration.
It's not because theyactually hate each other.
And then also what me and DJ havebeen talking about a lot in this

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anime is they do a really good job ofmaking you empathize with the loser.
Yeah.
Depot will win.
And you'll be like yeah.
And the guy goes, I guess mygirlfriend's gonna leave me now.
We're like, oh yeah.
We forgot about that.
I hope you guys don't break upand then they stay together.
She's oh, all I really wanted was for youto, see the old, whatever his name was.

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Wait, break out of that rut.
Old Oda, the old Oda, and thenhe's I guess my boxing career
is over with, and it's no, yourboxing career is not over with.
She's yeah, actually, we're not gonna quiton you, we just wanted you to care again.
And now that you care, we'llnever hear from you again.
Now there's exactly.
But there is this new guy, apparentlywith some like shotgun punch.

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Or something like that.
The first the next guy is the black dude.
Yo, yes.
Remember?
Yeah.
There's a black dude that comes out.
He's in Japan because reasons.
And.
Because anime.
Because anime.
He's an American black guy.
And, to be fair, it's pretty smart.
If I was Japanese.
Now, this is a little bit about writing.
Because if I was.

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Boxing.
Almost all the boxers they mention.
In this anime, so far, arejust straight up American.
They're not talking about any Thai boxers.
They're not quoting anyJapanese boxers either.
They only talk about,All oh, the flicker jab.
This was invented by this American boxer.
Oh, he's doing peek a boostyle, like Mike Tyson.
It's Okay, and, you know what's crazy?

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Since they all talk about, I think,Was boxing invented in America?
I don't know, maybe.
I do not believe.
That, before 1776, no onethrew hands with each other.
I genuinely don't believe that.
Hold on.
Boxing invention.
You looked it up.
out to, Jason Azuma comes out, that's hisname, comes out to challenge Ippo, right?

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And he comes from the sticks of Japan.
Eight Six Eighty Eight B.
C.
was the first Box Boxing firstcame into the Olympics in Greece.
So then why are youonly quoting Americans?
Not you, but did you also know thatthe Olympics were so prevalent in
Greece and of the culture at thattime that they used to stop wars

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so they could do the Olympics?
Yeah.
Same thing happens here with football.
Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah, and literally remember, it waslike Christmas that one time during
World War II, and everyone was like, ohyeah, we're gonna just stop fighting.
We'll just stop fighting, andwe'll have a great Christmas day.
It shows you how frivolousthese wars actually are.
They're like, oh, what, I hate you, I'mgonna kill you, but, how about Christmas?
That's messed up, dude.
What do you mean?

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This is no man's land.
What do you mean?
Imagine you're like, 5, 000of my friends died yesterday.
Like I murdered 20 of your friends, youmurdered 50 of mine, so I'm like, we
hate each other, because we murder eachother's friends, and it's oh wait oh!
The Chiefs are playing.
The Chiefs are playing, we can't I waslike, oh, yo, this is the common ground.

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When both of us go to BuffaloWild Wings we didn't just murder
each other's best friends.
But anyways this dude comes fromthe country of Japan, right?
And He means the apparently there'ssome stick boonies in Japan.
Let me go back to whatI was saying real fast.
So the black guy, thisis a really great rating.
So they're always referencingAmerican boxers and black boxers.

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It's sports, Americansports, but whatever.
But talking about American boxes, right?
Here's the thing.
There's no better way toget someone interested.
If I was Japanese, I would do the samething where it's okay, how do I show
that these fighters are real fighters?
Have him be an American black guy.
Show that the Japanese Japan's MikeTyson The 16 year old Japanese kid

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and featherweight Who's 5'5 cansomehow can dominate this, I, first
of all, I, he's supposed to be like5'10 5'11 and he's a featherweight?
Again, it's hard to believe, but thisguy who's like in his, again, mid
twenties, black guy from America.

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I don't believe it, but if I wasJapanese, I would have written it that
way as his first opponent too, becauseit's okay, cool I'll let you know that.
We're on this, we're, we up here.
We, I'm not saying it'snot possible, but he's 16.
Yeah.
This other guy is, thisis a full grown man.
Forget that fact that he's black.
This is a full grown manwith hair on his chest.

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This is like Miata all over again.
This man has been trainingsince he was born.
This, yeah.
Yeah.
This Miata, but him and Miata I,IPO and Miata were the same age.
But it's the same concept of thisdude is a grown man, boxing for
years, and Ippo beats him the sameway Miata's been training for years.
Yeah, and it's like Bro, what you mean?

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Now one thing I will say, is that Again,they hit you with, in the feels, right
before you're about to fight someone.
Cause you're always like yeah,if I want you to knock him out.
And then it goes, playsour super sad backstory.
He's I was just a lonelyblack guy in Japan.
And then these Japanesepeople embraced me.
Now, for some reason, a lot of themhave the Timmy Turner syndrome.
When they had that weird, U buck teeth.

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As Southerners, can we stop doing this?
Yeah, that would be great.
To the world, like a wholebunch of people in the South
don't have Timmy Turner mouth.
All right, I don't whatsome of them do but
Toothbrushes right what's not freaking?
We're talking like we'reBritain or something.
But anyway the thing is he comesfrom a very poor, country, Japanese

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This man's hidden hay sacks to train.
community.
And the only way that this communityseems like it's gonna survive is
if He starts winning these fights.
Yeah, he's Yeah, you guys did so muchfor me, I'm gonna do this for you guys.
And he loses his firstround in the tournament.
It's really sad.
And they're like, look, it's okay.
As long as you tried your best.

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And then you like never hearfrom these boxers ever again.
Ever again.
They have been banishedto the shadow realm.
They're like, oh, it's okay that you lost.
It's really sad that you lost.
Let's go off to the shadow realm.
You'll never hear from us again Becauseyou lose or you lose and the craziest
part is shadow realm that takamurawas like hey, man, That's life.
Someone wins and someone loses both.
Y'all can't win.

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You should tell the epo He's eventhough you're a good guy, like
That's how it is Right, and the thingis, Ippo still sucks at footwork.
Yeah, and he's beating like everyone.
This man is just doing it off ofpure willpower and punching power.
Wait a minute, I like boxing.
So they're like, hey man, you gotta getfaster, stronger, and better footwork.

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And Takamura's yeahdude, you fucking suck.
And to be fair, when I waswith Ippo, I was like, oh yeah,
then how come I keep winning?
If I suck so bad This Ifought exclusively adults.
I am a child fighting exclusively adultswho have 10 years on me and winning.

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Eh, I don't know if I believe all that.
I don't know if I believe that hype.
So then his next his next opponent is Idon't even know how to pronounce this.
Agatski?
Aitigaxi?
Manabu?
Yeah, my nebu, whatever.
Like the whole point with this guy thoughis that he's some sort of pretty boy

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that, like a lot of people like Yeah.
He's a pretty boy.
A lot of people like him.
And this is the guy that all thegirls like him, I'm pretty sure,
like here's the one thing I willsay about Ippo, and it's really,
hurting my memory of these episodes.
Is that they all feellike one long movie to me.
They all, they, Cause they, cause itflows, this is crazy, I'm gonna say it

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as if it's a negative, but it's not.
It flows so well, and you justwatch the episodes in one binge,
so you're like, yo I feel like Ijust watched a long movie, right?
Yeah, and you're sittingthere Okay what happened?
And, who is this?
And then you're like oh, that's the guy.
What what did Kevin Hart say?
The snap finger famous?

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Oh, that's that's that's But now,the Battles, and the fights that
Ippo is on, it almost seems like he'sskinning by, by the skin of his teeth.
He's getting by the skin of his teeth.
I don't think he fights the guywith the shotgun the second time.
No?
No, I don't think so.
It's that's not important.

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What were you saying?
But it seems but but that'spart of the storytelling, right?
That he gets by the skin of his teeth.
Literally every time.
And it's oh you have to trainthat much harder next time.
And if you don't, and it always seemslike this dude is just Miles better
than like They always seem likethey're always way better than him.
He's oh my gosh I don't know if I can beatthem and it's It doesn't matter if you

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think you can beat them or not becauseyou have to now one thing I will say
I did like I think was like episode 17where they go to the training camp, right?
Right people wants to be a superhard worker, And that the person
you were trying to pronounce beforethat was the American black guy.
They named him No, they named himJason The black guy was Jason What?

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It doesn't matter.
I don't want to talk about the training.
It's just training camp.
Episode 17, they go totheir training camp.
And they're like, yeah, we'regonna go over here and learn.
And Ippo thinks he's about to have areally great shot to like train for stuff.
And get really, a lot stronger.
But all they really do isjust dick around on the beach.
They just dick around and tryand get ladies and Epo's hey, I

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thought we came here to train.
He said, no, don't worry.
We're going to train.
Just not right now.
We're just going to be perverts right now.
So when there are people on thebeach and there's women on the
beach, they like, they're all aboutthat, but then they say, okay, we're
going to work on your footwork.
And so they make this guy like run, buthe's not as fast as they are on the beach.
And then also they throw tennisballs at him and stuff like that.

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This is another thing that I thinkis so interesting about the series.
You actually do learn awhole bunch about boxing.
Takamura is oh, it's cause you're notrunning, it's cause you haven't developed
your like, you're developing your calfmuscles, but you haven't really developed
your toe strength for you to push off.
To really put more, even more powerthan you already have in your punches.
So they have him running on thebeach to like, strengthen that up.

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And it's crazy.
Because then they also are shooting offfireworks whenever they feel like it.
Which is crazy.
Yeah.
I get it, to commemoratethe camp, but that's.
Like one of them goes loose and istipped over and like firing, like
into like where someone can get it.
And I guess they just don't care.
I want, it's also very, I actuallyfind this anime actually funny.

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Yeah there's definitely times thatwhere I'm just I'm laughing and I'm
like, oh, this is this is pretty crazy.
There's a lot of action,but it's also pretty funny.
Now, there's, and then also you seehis rival fight, Yes, not his rival.
The guy before the pretty boy thathe fights this guy who has this style
in which he can't punch hard, right?

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He he, and they're like, look,dude, you can't punch hard.
Because, straight up, genetics, alright?
Imma lay it to you out like this.
It was someone like, just put there.
Oh, this is the guy that clinches.
Wait, so this is Fighter, who'swon a whole bunch of matches.
He on points alone.
He tags people 40, 400 times.
Clenches the rest of the time, becausehe has no defense, he's super weak.

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But he wins all of hismatches through points.
And people are like, Oh, we hate you,boxing that way, oh, you suck, boo,
because you don't get any knockouts.
Boo, boo.
Bye.
Then again, his trainer is Hey, look,man, all that matters is that you win.
Yeah, like honestly, like allthat matters is that you win.
And if you become champion withthis boxing style of yours,
that's just mainly on points.

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That's all that matters.
And he gets it.
So like he's the completeopposite of Ippo.
Ippo has all this like raw strength.
This guy is like only technical.
He doesn't have any strength at all.
It's like only technical.
But he's worse technical thanhis rival, which is Mador miata.
I keep wanting to say Midoriya.
I know you do, I don't know why.
But Miata is better technically, but thisguy has really great technical skill too,

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and It's funny, Ippo beats him by allowinghim to get one really good hit in, and
that one really good hit was so solid, hewas like, oh, maybe I can get a knockout,
and people stop making fun of me, andthen Ippo just wipes the floor with him.
Yeah, cuz he was like Cuzhe stops clenching, right?
He was gonna win!
But he finally got that onesolid punch on the chin.
And I was like, Oh,let's go punch for punch.

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And that's when, And then andthen that's when Ippo was like,
yeah, let's go, motherfucker.
Let's go punch for punch.
I'm an infighter.
And then, so that's whenever that'swhenever he gets knocked out and it's
also sad too because he's like manI want to be a really great boxer.
I want to be the best but justbased off my genetics I just
can't throw that dealt right?
I just can't throw good punches Eventhough he trains super hard everyone at

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this other guy's gym and like bro Youcan't throw punches harder than that.
You'll never be a great boxer, butit's like dude He's winning all of
his matches though, but they're like,yeah, but you just have people on
the side and then you clinch It's notvery flashy, you know what I'm saying?
But then, again they name anAmerican boxer who like, that was
who won almost all of his points,boxes boxing matches on points.
Yeah, Floyd.

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Floyd?
Is that who they name?
Floyd Mayweather?
Is that what, is that who you're sayingthey're no, they didn't reference him.
Oh.
But did Floyd Mayweatherwin mostly on points?
I don't think so.
He's got great defense, don't he?
Yeah, but Floyd Mayweather has knockouts.
This guy this this, He's the, so Ippo beatthe black guy, they go to advance, right?

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Then you got the clinch guy.
This, the clinch guy is likehis second rival, right?
And his second rival, it's reallysad, cause he's Way more pathetic.
Then when Ipoh was likegetting bullied, essentially.
And so he is also risenup through the ranks.
So it's like Ipoh is facinganother version of him.
But instead of being good at punching,this guy's really good at techniques.
The effect, this guy, like beforethe fight was like crying to Ipoh.

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Like he meets Ipoh.
Yeah, that's great.
And he starts crying.
And Epo's Bro, were youspying on me in the gym?
And he's I know, I'm sorry, I'm sopathetic, it's cause I had to like,
learn, like, how you box, so I could like,Kinda decipher, like, how I can beat you,
I'm sorry, it's cause I'm so pathetic,I had to like, come up with a strategy
how to beat you, cause I can't punch.
And then Epo sends him his book back!

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Yeah!
And the guy's this dude's a sucker,he'll even send me the book!
Not that he thinks he's a sucker.
He thinks oh, like this guy.
Oh, this guy's really nice.
Yeah, he thinks he's really nice.
It's his trainer who's oh,this guy must be a sucker.
But actual boxer, he's oh,this guy must be super nice.
And so it's like He basically had tobeat up the nicest guy in the entire
world, who then eventually, because hegot beat up, goes to the Shadow Realm.

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Goes to the Shadow Realm.
Goes to the Shadow Realm.
And you never see him again.
You get nothing.
You get nothing.
That's it.
You should, what's that phrase?
You take up, you serve no purpose.
You should kill yourself.
Now.
What?
But Ippo, during eachfight, is just I'm nothing.

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I don't know what I'm doing.
I don't.
Sounds like our professional careers.
Yeah.
Sounds like us every single day.
I have no idea what's going on.
We have no idea what we're doing.
Oh, we're successful?
No way!
Oh my god.
Anyway.
That's up to episode 20, and then inepisode, episode 20 he sees his next

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rival, the guy with the shotgun punch.
Yes!
And that's the one that all the girlsare really like, and they're like,
oh don't he has all these fangirls.
And that guy's kind ofa a douchebag anyway.
Wait, cause he's never lost before.
He's never lost, he's never really,I'm not gonna say he doesn't train
hard, but he's never had any realmotivation to train real hard.
He has this secret weaponcalled the shotgun.

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And the shotgun is basicallyhim just punching really fast.
Yeah.
And, Then he's got an infighterkiller, which is, even if you do get
in deep Because he's an outboxer,so even if you do get in deep,
he has this killer upper left.
If you get in, if you get infast, he just go ahead and just

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cut you right up the middle andthat's also what he likes to do.
He likes to get people thisfalse like sense that they can
hit him so they get in close.
So then he hits him with the upperleft and then he just shotguns
him with this super fast punchesand the guy that he does it to.
You're just like, damn man.
Yeah, it's people's like watching his.
Opponent fight for this dance and he'sbro, he just massacred that's one fight.

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Are you serious?
That's who I have to face.
Oh, I should say this the second issecond opponent the pathetic guy He
was like the same age as Ippo which wasrefreshing because all these dudes look
like grown ass No that they didn't looklike they are An anime logic the 16
year old five five fighter wins, right?

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And it's the other fighter, the secondguy, who's pathetic, this is more
realistic, it's look, I can't beat thesebigger guys I'm not, my puberty's not
over, so I don't have heavy punches yet,so I gotta use technical skill, right?
And all of, but Ippo, who's 16,has Mike Tyson punching power.
And their explanation is oh,he worked on a fishing boat, so

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that's why he's super strong.
Huh?
I can see if he worked in in a coal mine.
Or Or if he worked like, in Hunger Games.
The reason why PETA was so tall and big isbecause his parents owned a flour factory.
And he's lifting sacks of flour.
Yeah, 50 pound sacks of flour.
Yeah.
Every day.
Now, for them, they were like,Oh, he lifts all this really heavy
bait and all this giant fish.

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And it's I don't know.
I don't know regardless of which he thenhas to see then in episode 20 He sees this
guy do the shotgun punch and it is a thingin anime where like he throws one punch
But then like it's shadow clone jutsu's 15next to it a bunch of punches and then all
the girls are just like I'm not gonna lielike everyone every one of these boxers.

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He's face Miata Insertblack guy name here.
Jason.
Jason.
You're racist towardsyour own people, man.
You don't remember his name.
That's cause black guysaren't named Jason.
Alright?
Black guys aren't named Jason.
And if they are, you know what they go by?
They go by Jay.
My name's fuckin Derek.

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If you don't hear me say,Oh, call me De I go by DJ.
Cause I'm an actual black guy.
Now, I'm not saying thatYou are a fake black guy.
I'm not saying that, the creativeof EPO had to research black guys.
They probably were sitting in the officeand they're like, What's an American name?
Jason.
Okay, yeah, that's the black dude's name.
That's the This is a quick Google search.
It's either To be fair, there's a lotof really Would you have rathered them

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call him Jamal Jackson or Jerome oryeah, I mean I know he's a boy I know
he's a boy I want to talk about realismImagine Ibo saying I have to face
Jamal next I like Jeroen, we like causeI ain't gonna lie that one made the
character like maybe like really and helike Man, I'm facing Miyada I'm facing

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Oda Akito, my next character is Jerome.
I'm like, oh shit.
Ibo, you've been trained.
You've been trained.
That's probably why his name is Jason.
Cause if he was named somethinglike Jerome, I'd be like, bro,
Ibo, you're not winning this dog.
You're not.
My name's Tyrone Michaelson.

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Yeah, Ibo, you're not gonna win this, bro.
You're just gonna win it.
I'm going around All of the sakejoints and getting all the women
they never seen a black dude before.
But that's like how with Chris Tuckerwhenever he did the rush hour movies and
they went over to, it was China, right?
They went to China andthey were all fascinated.

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They had never seen a number one.
They'd never seen a black dude andthey'd never seen a tall black dude.
Yeah.
It's quite interesting.
My The times I have met some Asians who,they don't speak a lot of English and
they're really from those other countries,there's over here visiting, right?
They're always very fascinated.
By blind people, which is interestingbecause it's like America has

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a whole bunch of differentraces to get interested in.
We have, there is not a race in theworld that does not exist in America.
I do not believe it.
You know what I'm saying?
Everyone has a community here.
But I don't know, I guessblack people are cool.
It's been my experience, they don't havea lot of tact whenever they are curious.
It's if they're curious with,you've hung out with Asian people.

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I have, yeah.
And, whatever they're curious about.
What?
Asians.
Yeah.
But, whenever they're curiousabout something with it, they
literally just come out and say it.
They don't they're very open about it.
Yeah, they're quite interesting.
What have they always asked you about dj?
I usually the first thingis usually the hair.

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They like to touch my hair a lot oftimes and I And it's famously known
that african americans don't liketheir hair being touched, right?
So sometimes they'll just likethey'll just reach out and grab
it and this is not like children.
They're like 20 30 year olds Those okay.
Cool.
Just reach out the hand and grabit and that We don't like that.
And then sometimes I remember I wasin graduate school and I knew this

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person, his name was his name was SunWon Lee and he really loved hip hop.
He knew so much hip hop, like history.
That he knew more than me justlike in just like not that
I'm a hip hop expert, right?
Don't they all call you brother, too?
Yeah.
Yeah, they call me like I feel sometimesthey call me like soul brother And

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I'm just like Yeah, see you know whatI think it is honestly like it feels
super race, but they don't mean itthat way no but I think the issue is
like some of our, you know how theysay we make it in the West and then
it eventually travels to the East?
I think it's just behind.
I think that's why Korea and like Japanand like China They're really into boy
bands right now because that was 20years ago for us, yeah, I think that some

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people are still watching Miami Vice.
Some people are still back there watchingold school stuff Yeah, but hey guys
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