Hajime no Ippo - The First Step - Vol. 140 Ch. 1441 - Itagaki's Blowing Up!

[Anrhaa]

Twitter so 2006 at earliest. That's still 17 years ago. Now, what age is Ippo supposed to be then? 31?!?!

https://www.reddit.com/r/hajimenoippo/comments/l444nr

 

[ribbitribbitsaga]

told yall old man Morikawa was cheesing it and just doing the minimum

 

[AngelHQ]

Considering Twitter's X now I don't really see a reason to call it Thwitter for brand safety...

True. It's more of a tradition in japanese media, but it's just a guess.

 

[AngelHQ]

told yall old man Morikawa was cheesing it and just doing the minimum

Well I guess he just dropped the ball. Maybe his editor thought they can't jump the shark and get cancelled at this point. Or maybe that's their objective? Either way they win, too big to fail?

 

[Hypemancer]

If anyone of you knows about irl boxing well, a certain guy called Shakur has uh, not been doing well on Twitter. This seems hilariously timed.

 

[R2D2TS]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[NotSomeone]

Twitter so 2006 at earliest. That's still 17 years ago. Now, what age is Ippo supposed to be then? 31?!?!

https://www.reddit.com/r/hajimenoippo/comments/l444nr

Yeah and Takamura 40 something, and Komogawa is like 93 or something.
Takamura is likely too old to compete in lower weight classes at that age, lmao.

 

[Dennis-aka-Denji]

This chapter was accurately written but it still feels very "how do you do fellow kids".

I also just can't reconcile it with the era considering that Sendo mentioned buying an SNES in earlier chapters (I know a few years have passed since then but still).

Might be publisher pressure, they might feel the manga is getting harder to relate to perhaps with the time gap? In any case it's jarring af.

 

[Dennis-aka-Denji]

What even was this chapter

 

[Alesund]

The series had a consistent timeline spanning 1989-99 for 35 years and all of that is just gone now. Just reeks of an author not caring anymore, and that's just sad.

I never cared about when it took place either so this is just fine to me.

 

[2hot4you]

I bet its Takamura lol

 

[codetaku]

I bet its Takamura lol

I came here to say exactly that lol, mukky is definitely takamura

Also yeah I'm just as unhappy with HnI suddenly switching to a floating timeline as most of you (since it was incredibly consistent up until super recently), but whatever, maybe Morikawa thought of a good way to finally move the plot forward via the internet. It's been teased so much, we all just want Ippo to hurry up and unretire and maybe him beating the shit out of mashiba will finally be the spark that makes everyone convince him to do it.

 

[Graywing]

this is bullshit! i love the 90s vibe but now its a mess, first smart phone now twitter ?
cmon morikawa you are better than that.

Looks like Morikawa is using a floating timeline for this manga. Like Baki's author.

 

[Coinflxp]

I'm pretty sure this is about manga authors being required to reveal their faces, and Morikawa doesn't like it. I mean, the whole anonymity thing seems like a pretty dead give away.

 

[Idk_Bro]

Have they fucked everything after 1400 chapters

 

[soccerstar403]

Idk I don't think its such a big deal with the tech upgrade. It was a pretty abrupt addition so that can definitely be jarring but at the end of the day who cares as long as it doesnt effect the story too much

 

[soccerstar403]

We finally see Aoki's trainees back after hundreds of chapters and they've upgraded their notebook for a computer