52 as of this year, Plus another 20+ years, yeah... No effin' way he'd be able to draw that long, being a mangaka taxes on their health, specially Weekly serializations.
Also, I want to see just the start of the Trainer-Trainee relationship, apart from that... time skip and an end.
i hope ippo will come back as a boxer, cause if he train the yankee dude to let him fight miyata or to make him into the new champion i would be really disappointed.
@tanteiii-kun i'm expecting something similar, something like: train him and see him become rotten as a boxer and make a comeback to take him down. And then show all his training and the new demsey, right before tokugawa died.
I don't know what Morikawa wanted after writing Ippo retiring. Did he have a plan? Were the next 200 Chapters just based on feelings and vibes? Or did bad reader feedback make him change course?
We'll probably never know, but I can't stop wondering.