Hajime no Ippo - Ch. 1422 - The One Who Can't Accept It

[MangaDex]

 

[SaitoZX]

So Mashiba playing fouls by " I will get the belt anyway so it won't be that long" ?

 

[Wazouille]

Thanks for the tl.
That said, this manga is beginning to bore me.
Makunoishi stopped fighting for 422 chapters now, and what does he have to show off for it ?
Nothing. No progress with the girl THAT MADE HIM STOP HIS CAREER, his friends just keep getting further and further away, and now this...

 

[Graywing]

Kumi needs to beat up Mashiba. Thanks for the chapter!!!

 

[rudezki]

It's like Morikawa hates progress of any kind.

 

[inazumaday]

Mashiba confirmed for never getting that belt

 

[AeroKnight]

Thanks for the tl.
That said, this manga is beginning to bore me.
Makunoishi stopped fighting for 422 chapters now, and what does he have to show off for it ?
Nothing. No progress with the girl THAT MADE HIM STOP HIS CAREER, his friends just keep getting further and further away, and now this...

I feel like we are about to get some serious whiplash. I think the opponent is gonna do something terrible to Kumi to throw Mashiba into a tizzy for the fight and Ippo getting riled up to the point that when Mashiba loses or possibly almost dies, he will barge in to challenge after Kumi gets angry enough to ask him to get revenge.

 

[iseedrawnpeople]

I feel like we are about to get some serious whiplash. I think the opponent is gonna do something terrible to Kumi to throw Mashiba into a tizzy for the fight and Ippo getting riled up to the point that when Mashiba loses or possibly almost dies, he will barge in to challenge after Kumi gets angry enough to ask him to get revenge.

good take. Something needs to shake this up if any significant changes are to be had

 

[TheNamekianClown]

I feel like we are about to get some serious whiplash. I think the opponent is gonna do something terrible to Kumi to throw Mashiba into a tizzy for the fight and Ippo getting riled up to the point that when Mashiba loses or possibly almost dies, he will barge in to challenge after Kumi gets angry enough to ask him to get revenge.

They are in different weight classes now though.

That's also part of the drama with Miyata. Ippo's natural weight seems incapable of going out of feather weight, where Miyata has naturally long gone out of it, but forces himself into it so that when Ippo comes back they can have their fight, which is causing him to "become a zombie".

 

[ReadUsoguiPlease]

Thanks for the tl.
That said, this manga is beginning to bore me.
Makunoishi stopped fighting for 422 chapters now, and what does he have to show off for it ?
Nothing. No progress with the girl THAT MADE HIM STOP HIS CAREER, his friends just keep getting further and further away, and now this...

400 chapters already? and he still hasn't cross that line.

 

[NotSomeone]

It's like Morikawa hates progress of any kind.

I feel like he hates us, actually. At this point I'm convinced he's just blue balling everyone on purpose just to see how much he can get away with making a fool out of people.

 

[NotSomeone]

I feel like we are about to get some serious whiplash. I think the opponent is gonna do something terrible to Kumi to throw Mashiba into a tizzy for the fight and Ippo getting riled up to the point that when Mashiba loses or possibly almost dies, he will barge in to challenge after Kumi gets angry enough to ask him to get revenge.

Probably not. At this point the fanbase is just begging for someone to die. Wally, Sendo, Komogawa and now Mashiba. The fans suffered enough that we're convinced that the only way for Ippo to get his ass back on track is for someone to die.

 

[Beastkun]

lol Mashiba is evil

but in the end he's all for his sister and ippo to be together cause its all about her being happy but of course he needs to troll at the same time

loved this short little interaction between these 3

 

[Jachinz]

Itagaki outside the house is gonna be me outside Morikawa sensei's own, one of these days.....

 

[Captival]

Cuckonuchi strikes again

 

[Amariithynar]

I feel like he hates us, actually. At this point I'm convinced he's just blue balling everyone on purpose just to see how much he can get away with making a fool out of people.

Morikawa is writing a world, not just a story. Remember that the very first volume came out in 1989. It's been running for 24 years at this point. Ippo's fights were really not that large in number, compared to the chapters dealing with other things. It's just that it's been so long since a fight of his that it feels differently now.

 

[ghostkun]

oh fuck you mashiba

 

[Dennis-aka-Denji]

Morikawa is writing a world, not just a story. Remember that the very first volume came out in 1989. It's been running for 24 years at this point. Ippo's fights were really not that large in number, compared to the chapters dealing with other things. It's just that it's been so long since a fight of his that it feels differently now.

My man over a quarter of the entire manga went by since his last fight

 

[Amariithynar]

My man over a quarter of the entire manga went by since his last fight

his last fight. Not the last fight. We had a fight relatively recently, in fact. And that's the point. The story is centralized on Ippo, but not on Ippo's fights.

 

[NotSomeone]

Morikawa is writing a world, not just a story. Remember that the very first volume came out in 1989. It's been running for 24 years at this point. Ippo's fights were really not that large in number, compared to the chapters dealing with other things. It's just that it's been so long since a fight of his that it feels differently now.

It's not that deep. I love this series as much as everyone else that's still reading up to this point, but let's not pretend this is not a manga about boxing that got famous because the characters are funny and the fights are well written. "Its not a story, its a world" makes this seem much more than it actually is.

his last fight. Not the last fight. We had a fight relatively recently, in fact. And that's the point. The story is centralized on Ippo, but not on Ippo's fights.

Yeah, the story is centralized on Ippo and has been this whole time. Has it now? For some ~300 chapters Ippo did absolutely nothing but hint at progress while other characters get center stage. And while I love Takamura, Mashiba, Sendo and the rest of the gang, they're side charactes and the progress of side characters should have connection or impact of some sort to the main story (And by consequence, to Ippo, as he's the main character) otherwise that's just filler... I mean, in some years when this manga is finished, almost all of these chapters of the retirement arc could be skipped be a new reader without losing any substance to the understanding of the story as a whole.