Fighting Spirit: New Challenger
Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger / Hajime no Ippo Season II / Hajime no Ippo 2Summary
Ippo Makunouchi continues his boxing career and his goal on knowing the meaning of being strong, and the desire on fighting his idol Ichiro Miyata once again. Along him are pro boxers Takamura, Aoki and Kimura that each one of them aspire to their own dreams.
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Details
- Format
- TV series
- Number of Episodes
- 26
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Estimated total length
- ≈ 9 h 58 min (26 × 23 min)
- Season
- Winter 2009
- Start date
- January 6, 2009
- End date
- June 30, 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Source
- Manga
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Studios
- MADHOUSE
- Romaji title
- Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger
- English title
- Fighting Spirit: New Challenger
- Native title
- はじめの一歩 New Challenger
- Other titles
- Hajime no Ippo Season II · Hajime no Ippo 2
Relations
Suggested watch order
Based on known prequels and sequels.
Characters 25
Main characters
- Tatsuya Kimura木村達也Main
- Manabu Itagaki板垣学Main
- Mamoru Takamura鷹村守Main
- Masaru Aoki青木勝Main
- Genji Kamogawa鴨川源二Main
- Ippo Makunouchi幕之内一歩Main
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- Ichirou Miyata宮田一郎Supporting
- Nanako Itagaki板垣 菜々子Supporting
- Bryan Hawkブライアン・ホークSupporting
- Takeshi Sendo千堂武士Supporting
- Naomichi Yamada山田直道Supporting
- Miyata no Chichi宮田の父Supporting
- Masahiko Umezawa梅沢正彦Supporting
- Mari Iimura飯村真理Supporting
- Aiko Date伊達愛子Supporting
- Kyousuke Imai今井京介Supporting
- Hachinoe Coach八戸Supporting
- Eiji Date伊達英二Supporting
- Minoru Fujii藤井稔Supporting
- Haruhiko Yagi八木晴彦Supporting
- Yuuji Date伊達雄二Supporting
- Jikkyou Announcer実況アナウンサーSupporting
- Tomikoトミ子Supporting
- Ricardo Martinezリカルド・マルチネスSupporting
- Ginpachi Nekota猫田銀八Supporting
Staff and studios
Studios
Key staff
- Jun ShishidoDirector
- George MorikawaOriginal creator
- Kazuyuki FudeyasuSeries composition
- Yoshihisa HiranoMusic
- Hidetoshi KanekoArt director
- Toshihiko NakajimaSound director
Show the full staff (16)
- LAST ALLIANCETheme Song Performance (OP)
- ColdrainTheme Song Performance (ED1)
- Mieko HosoiKey Animation (ep 23)
- Kotono WatanabeEpisode Director (ep 26)
- Kotono WatanabeStoryboard (ep 26)
- Kotono WatanabeScript (ep 15)
- Satoshi OosedoEpisode Director (eps 2, 8)
- Tetsuo HirakawaKey Animation (ep 25)
- Miyako YatsuKey Animation (ep 23)
- Tetsuya WakanoAnimation Director (eps 7, 25)
- Tetsuya WakanoKey Animation (eps 7, 25)
- Yoshifumi SuedaEpisode Director (ep 19)
- Masaru KitaoKey Animation (eps 18, 24)
- Kenichi KawamuraStoryboard (eps 6-9, 12, 14, 16, 22, 25)
- Kenichi KawamuraEpisode Director (OP)
- Takahiro NatoriEpisode Director (eps 6, 20)