Hajime No Ippo-1281 and 1282 Discussion

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Welcome Back to Twilights Cavern ! it’s been a while since I’ve posted on Hajime No Ippo so I’ve fallen behind hence this will be a combination of two chapters so it’s going to be a lengthy post !

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(Hajime No Ippo 1281 Read) (Hajime No Ippo 1282 Read)

In Chapter 1281 we got the finally got the chance to see Miyata again after quite some time. Thankfully enough Miyata gave us some insight on his views on the upcoming Fight between sendo and Alfredo. I’ve saw a few fans swear up and down that because Alfredo knocked out Ippo, that Sendo would only suffer the same fate because Ippo has defeated him twice in the past.

The gym mates of Miyata even mentions this themselves but if you’re savy to this boxing/fight game you’d know that styles makes fights. In Real Life Foreman nearly Killed Joe Frazier and ken Norton who both of which were Tough Fights for Muhammad Ali and yet Ali took out foreman in spectacular fashion in the Rumble in the Jungle.

Smokin Joe Frazier Is A Tough warrior make no Mistake

as Miyata had explained Alfredo is a counter Puncher and to face good fighters like Sendo who have an awkward or unconventional style, it’s tough to time and land counter shots on them the same way you would on a fighter like Ippo whose a lot more conventional in his approach.

Alfredo in my opinion definitely should not focus on landing any big counters early on against Sendo, Otherwise it could go real bad for him real fast. speaking of which depending on how this fight goes, it’s kind of like a sneak peak on how Sendo vs Miyata would play out in a sense.

Who Doesn’t Hate Math lol

Now the seriousness of this chapter didn’t last long as we see how Miyata and every other Fighter in the gym had no clue on how to solve Middle school Math ! now I’ll admit even in real life the math level in middle school is way more advance than when I attended and i’m only 23 !

It was hilarious to see miyata scold his team only to realize that the shit is way more complicated than he realized. (#algebrasucks) Miyata even went as far as calling it useless to actual everyday life and asking his former Rival Mashiba for help who also made an appearance this chapter.

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Turns Out Mashiba is more Intelligent than he leads on with the way he quickly solved the math problems that had perplexed Miyata all day. that wasn’t his only good deed that night as he also fed Miyatas little Cat before finally Taking off.

Takamura also Made it back to Japan from his travels to visit someone who we have not learned of yet but I’m sure that person will play a role In takumuras next Title fight for Sure.


This chapter was just updating us on the struggles of cutting weight and fight preparation. Aoki, Itagaki, and Kimura all have fights coming up and they’re pushing their bodies to the limit.

Most If not all fighters minus most of the heavyweights, do not Fight at their walk around weights due to the fact that for one your fight weight in which you feel the healthiest and more athletic can vary different than when you’re bloated on water weight.

then there’s also the fact that if you walk around at 164 usually the people you get matched up against are going to be cutting from 180 or around that range so that they will have an advantage against smaller opposition.

This was a short and quick chapter so there is not much to talk about but Aoki has been on a tear and I don’t think he’s going to have a problem in his upcoming fight. Itagaki on the other hands needs to buckle down and focus so that he can live up to his potential.

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Everyone seems to go through this struggle except for Ippo and he always seem to point out how it seems unfair for this to be the case. If Ippo did have weight struggles, with his work ethic and mindset it wouldn’t pose a real problem either way.

Kimura seems to be killing himself and he’s down to resorting to reducing the amount of saliva to bring down his weight to the acceptable limit. (Chewing gum and spitting constantly does indeed work and if you’ve competed in a combat sport you would have at least once resorted to doing this yourself) This was a short chapter so not much to expand on but check out Wilders Ko of Ortiz last saturday !


Here’s a shout out to our World champion Deontay Wilder retaining his world Title with a comeback KO that ended the fight with one Shot.

The Warlords vs The Marines. One piece 956 discussion.

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Vegapunks Weapons Take out the Warlords


Man i love world reaction chapters like these ! it’s amazing to see the world that Oda has built with such a huge variety of characters and personalities. in this chapter we started off with big news Morgan having a confrontation with the likes of Cipher pol for releasing news that the world government wants hidden.

Monkey D. Luffy Figure

We also got to witness Morgan put down the Cipher pol agent with relative ease and that should remind us that he was in whole cake walking alongside the rulers of the underworld so he’s no pushover surely. But Morgan was eluding to the death of someone during the clash of revolutionaries and marines at reverie.

It wasn’t confirmed which branch the agent was from but I am pretty sure that he is not of CP-0, but even so Morgans himself is now on the run from the government so that says the world news is it’s own entity at the moment.

Now since the world government has failed to cover up the incidents that transpired at reverie, there are very surprised reactions from The people of the world. We got to see Ivankov and even Monkey D. Dragon this chapter. From what is implied in the chapter the person who lost his life is Sabo, now it’s understandable for the revolutionaries to concerned with this as they are not able to get into contact with any of their top revolutionaries who went to the holy City alongside Sabo.

Now there are a number of possibilities as to what could be happening since fake news Morgan was spouting about spinning lies and how he is a true journalist.

  1. Sabo is in fact Dead
  2. Sabo mercy Killed Kuma
  3. Sabo is alive but is in hiding with the other revolutionaries
  4. a theory of Sabo saving Vivi from Assassins

I for one doubt Sabo is dead, he can’t be at least not right now in the story, he has so much more to bring and this would be too much of a replay in what happened with Ace in my opinion.

It’s so much that could have went down, we had Admirals, Rob Lucci, Celestial Dragons, jewelry Bonnie, and secret allies of the straw hat pirates all in one place so it had to be complete chaos throughout.

The Marines are stretched so far thin at the moment because of their active mission even stated so by Koby himself, they began to attack and attempt to capture the former warlords. with all of this going on now freaking Blackbeard a Yonko is on the move ! how are they going to be able to keep him in check from whatever he plans on doing. (Popular theories so far)

  1. Mera Mera no mi
  2. Poneglyphs
  3. or to recruit the warlords into his Crew

Revolutionary Sabo Figure

X-Drake is the Captain of a secret group within marine HQ called the swords and Rear Admiral Koby is also apart of said group. its also implied that X-drake was the one to assist in laws escape from the hands of Hawkins as in a panel it zooms in to Drakes feet and cloak which looked very similar to the silhouette that Law spoke to.

Drake relayed information back to Koby regarding what’s been happening in Wano Now this secret group could possibly be unknown to even the admirals at this point so whoever running them is doing so under even the Fleet Admiral Sakazuki because to his knowledge there aren’t any marines in Wano.

But even better through the interchange we find out that Koby’s target is none other than the freaking pirate Empress herself Boa Hancock. I can commend Koby and his courage but I think he’s biting off more than he can chew with someone of Boas caliber. She turns men to stone in droves and has all three types of haki !. Koby was trained by Garp sure but even still he lacks the experience required in a fight like this, the amazons are warriors and won’t go down easy. some people think he’s going to befriend Boa but he is still a Marine and he has His orders so he has to follow his path whole hearted, and no men are allowed on that island except for Luffy and Rayleigh so she wont be playing nice

Going after Mihawk is suicide and there has to be an Admiral within the vicinity otherwise it’s going to be a bloodbath out there and quite literally once hawk eyes finishes sinking their ships. and then they were also crazy enough to attempt capturing weevil who has already single-handedly wiped out entire pirate crews within the new world and seemingly did so without receiving a single scratch on him !

Like Boa had said they were warlords for a reason and for the marines to pull a stunt like this While Big mom and kaido are on the same island and only hoping for them to clash is just a very bold and crazy move to make on their part.

This will end in either the complete annihilation of the marine forces in their attempts to capture the warlords OR they succeed and completely shake up the balance of the world forever. now vegapunk was said to have weapons capable of replacing the warlords by fujitora But they’d have to be leagues more capable than the Pacifistas that we saw in the past to even stand a slight chance. even Buggy-sama has his dangerous criminals from impel down all defending him so even he’s a tough catch at the moment.

The samurai of Wano are very fortunate that news from the outside world are not allowed within it’s borders because man if Luffy had seen whatever was on those papers he’d have took off in a heartbeat and they’d lose a powerful ally in their already downhill battle.


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Hajime No Sendo ! (1274 discussion and review)

Hey you all see the Title ! it’s hajime no Sendo from now on people ! this chapter was freaking epic to say the least. I figured Sendo The Mexican killer, would be catching bodies in Mexico in my discussion of chapter 1272 but I never expected one of the victims to be Ricardo Martinez the man whose NEVER been down in his entire career. To be fair Ricardo had just finished beating up on 3 previous sparring partners and then for most of the 3 rounds Sendo was unable to land a single Blow all the while being dominated By Ricardo’s beastly left hand. (1-3) jab hook combinations and (1-5-3) jab to left uppercut finished with a left hook combinations were probably very frequent. But sometime within that last 3rd round Ricardo’s suspicion came true and he found himself kneeling on the floor before The Naniwa Tiger.

Ricardo and his manager both knew of Sendo and his accomplishments and Ricardo was able to feel how intense and serious of a threat Sendo would be in their inevitable spar in the ring, to the point where he even warned his second to stop it if things became dangerous for himself. Gonzalez also made an appearance this chapter as well, he was going to challenge Ricardo face to face in a similar fashion of Sendo I’d assume. But I can bet after witnessing Ricardo, the man he was unable to beat in 2 battles dropped to his knees before some Japanese boxer he’s going to go crazy and either become angry at Ricardo for letting this happen Or Confront Sendo right there in the ring for them to face off in Mexico in a fight to see who should face Ricardo. Ippo in this chapter has a bad feeling about what Sendo could be doing in mexico and i feel like that bad feeling will come into play at some point, But it’snot anything to do with the spar maybe it’ll be in his confrontation with Gonzalez or even any of the Mexican people themselves because foreign fighters in other countries usually have it tough with the general populace and Sendo just went ahead and hurt one of their Prized fighters in front of multiple journalists.

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Man at this point Sendo has NO competition, If Gonzalez wants to step up i predict he gets Crushed in 8 rounds or under by the Tiger. Gonzalez is a tough guy, he managed to beat a game Ippo but Sendo is on another level at this point and this spar proves it.


Once again I’d like to thank you all for reading my review/discussion. There aren’t enough hajime no ippo reviewers so I’ll take up on it myself and being a boxer as well i can give some cool insight from my own experiences BUT i need to see that this is getting well received so leave a like or even as comment so i know the fans are here !. here are some other discussions and reviews of mine. If you want to see some clips of my own boxing just let me know in comments.

Sendo-Sans Conquest

Definitely a fan favorite of hajime no ippo, He’s the rash and brash rival of Ippo who packs a mighty Punch. while Ippo has been sludging through the Mud, Sendo has been taking Japan by storm and now he sets his sights on the world and he Begins his Conquest in Mexico hunting for the man who defeated Makunouchi. In the latest chapter the author Morikawa is really flexing his ability to grow side characters with their own personal stories and goals. The character development isn’t only focused around ippo in this series, Sendo has matured and he’s even currently looking out for his grandma and protecting his former teacher from a possible would be assailant which i feel will come to head in the near future. He has ambition, a love interest, and the charisma to keep us as fans enthralled until ippo makes his way back into the pro ring. Morikawa was influenced by Yabuki Joe in the making of Sendos character, the hairstyle, his clothing, demeanor, and the way the younger kids love him its pretty apparent so if you haven’t i Recommend giving Ashita no Joe a watch here at kissanime.

Chapter 1272

In this chapter we do see Sendo set out to Mexico in typical Sendo fashion with little planning or preparation. He had done a similar thing when he first met ippo before the rookie tournament final when he demanded ippo step up to the plate and kick that hand injury he had suffered. Sendos teacher got the chance to witness his charisma first hand when he gave charge to the many ruffians he had stationed around and grandmas shop keeping guard. she mentions how he went from a troubled youth to becoming somewhat of a leader or hero of his hometown.

Alfonso Gonzalez and his team are not accepting Sendos request for a match due to being upset over not getting his 3rd shot at Ricardo. they are blaming the Japanese for this happening and he refuses to fight any more Japanese opponents. I predict that upon entering Mexico Sendo will begin make waves by charging into various gyms and laying waste to any competition until he finds Alfonso and they can meet face to face which will more than likely end up with fists being thrown in the ring of coarse. Now when it comes down to it I really can’t say who would win if Sendo and Gonzalez were to Fight officially because if he does indeed win that puts Sendo right under the radar of the world champ Ricardo for a world Title fight, and thats the problem as to where would that leave Ippo ?

I would have no problems with Sendo winning personally but we have to look at it as a whole, If Sendo does manage to topple the World and defeat Ricardo then Ippo would definitely be in a whole new state of confusion. I want you guys to comment below and give me your predictions on Sendo vs Gonzalez in the comments below because the outcome of that fight could be crazy win or lose for Sendo because we know he isn’t planning on retiring or just giving up anytime soon. also guys remember if you enjoyed the read please subscribe below for continued discussions and reviews.