With a sudden desire to get stronger, for himself and his hard working mother, Ippo trains relentlessly to accomplish the task within the time limit. Thinking that Ippo does not have what it takes, Takamura gives him a task deemed impossible and gives him a one week time limit. It is only then that Ippo feels something stir inside him and eventually asks Takamura to train him in boxing. Takamura places a photo of Ippo's classmate on a punching bag and forces him to punch it. As he regains consciousness, he is awed and amazed at his new surroundings in the gym, though lacks confidence to attempt anything. Ippo faints from his injuries and is brought to the Kamogawa boxing gym to recover. One day, in the midst of yet another bullying, Ippo is saved by Takamura Mamoru, who happens to be a boxer. Constantly running errands and being beaten up by his classmates, Ippo has always dreamed of changing himself, but never has the passion to act upon it. In my opinion it's a 9/10, because I just don't feel like this is a "masterpiece".Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life. Really, there is nothing bad about this, except one thing: I wish they would have told us something about Takamura and his relationship towards Miyata-kun, since he left really early in the anime and we couldn't see how they felt towards each other, although this isn't really necessary I guess. Overall, I think this was a perfect OVA and I can recommend this to every Hajime no Ippo fan out there. The humour of this "episode" is as funny as always and the animation and soundtracks just stayed the same, also the enjoyment level was really high since this is Takamura at his best, who is probably the funniest character throughout the series. Even the fight at the end of the episode told us a lot about Takamura's personality and (especially) his strenght. Also it shows us what kind of character Takamura has and gives us some good hints about his relationship This OVA tells us a lot about Takamura's attitude towards boxing and what he did before he started his career as a boxer.
But that doesn't matter, since it doesn't try to be special at all. Doesn't sound too special, huh? Well, it isn't.
If you haven't read the description yet: It's about Takamura-san's past and how he got to boxing. I am not going to say much about this OVA/Special, since it's only ~20 minutes long, just want to write down my feelings towards this.
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