Fighting Spirit, known in Japan as Hajime no Ippo (はじめの一歩) is an anime television series based on the manga series written and illustrated by George Morikawa. The series was directed by Satoshi Nishimura and produced by Madhouse, Nippon Television and VAP. The series originally aired in Japan between October 2000 and March 27, 2002, consisting of 75 episodes. The series was released in North America on DVD by Geneon Entertainment between July 6, 2004 and December 19, 2006.
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Cast[]
| Image | Character | Seiyū | Dub Actor |
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Ippo Makunouchi | Kōhei Kiyasu | Steve Staley |
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Mamoru Takamura | Rikiya Koyama | Eddie Frierson |
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Masaru Aoki | Wataru Takagi | Peter Doyle |
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Tatsuya Kimura | Keiji Fujiwara | Grant George |
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Genji Kamogawa | Kenji Utsumi | Richard Epcar |
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Yagi | Toshihiko Nakajima | Paul St. Peter |
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Fujii | Kenichi Ono | Joe Cappelletti |
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Ichiro Miyata | Tomokazu Seki | Jason Palmer |
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Miyata's Father | Unshō Ishizuka | Paul St. Peter |
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Ryo Mashiba | Masahiko Tanaka | Terrence Stone |
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Chairman Toho | Yukitoshi Hori | Richard Epcar |
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Kumi Mashiba | Sanae Kobayashi | Stephanie Sheh |
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Hiroko Makunouchi | Yorie Terauchi | Joan-Carol O'Connell |
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Umezawa | Mitsuaki Madono | Kirk Thornton |
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Shinoda | Seiji Sasaki | David Lodge |
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Ginpachi Nekota | Ichirō Nagai | Joey D'Auria |
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Eiji Date | Masaki Aizawa | Tony Oliver |
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Nakadai | Mitsuru Ogata | Michael Sorich |
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Aiko Date | Sakiko Tamagawa | Dorothy Elias-Fahn |
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Yūji Date | Naomi Wakabayashi | ¿? |
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Takeshi Sendo | Masaya Onosaka | Doug Erholtz |
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Yanaoka | Naoki Tatsuta | Dave Mallow |
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Alexander Vorg Zangief | Toshiyuki Morikawa | Dave Wittenberg |
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Fujiko Takimoto (child) |
Barbara Goodson | |
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Ruslan Ramuda | Motomu Kiyokawa | Michael Sorich |
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Keigo Okita | Hiroaki Hirata | Tom Fahn |
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Naomichi Yamada | Daisuke Sakaguchi | Tony Oliver |
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Mari Iimura | Emi Shinohara | Michelle Ruff |
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Tomoko Yamaguchi | Yuko Kobayashi | Mona Marshall |
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Takuma Saeki | Kiyoyuki Yanada | Lex Lang |
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Akira Shigeta | Hiroyuki Yoshino | Sam Riegel |
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Jason Ozuma | Masahiro Kobayashi | Hall Hollis |
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Chairman Hachinoe | Issei Futamata | Robert Axelrod |
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Otowa | Keiichi Sonobe | Peter Doyle |
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Yusuke Oda | Nobutoshi Canna | Joe Cappelletti |
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Mikami | Chō | Bob Papenbrook |
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Reiko Mikami | Akemi Okamura | Michelle Ruff |
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Kenta Kobashi | Taiki Matsuno | Richard Cansino |
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Yasuda | Toshiya Ueda | Steve Kramer |
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Ryuichi Hayami | Kōji Tsujitani | Nathan Smythe |
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Tomiko | Shōko Tsuda | Ellyn Stern |
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Reiko | Yuka Komatsu | Dorothy Elias-Fahn |
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Megumi | Mayuko Arai | Stephanie Sheh |
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TV Announcer | Jin Horikawa | Kirk Thornton |
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Teacher | Masashi Hirose | |
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Referee | Naoshi Izumi | Richard Cansino |
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Takemura | Kōichi Hasebe | |
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Matsuda | Shinichi Namiki | Terrence Stone |
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Ring Announcer | Katsuyuki Konishi | Beau Billingslea |
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Reporter | Naomi Shindō | ¿? |
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Sendo's Grandma | Kazuko Sugiyama | Mona Marshall |
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Volg's Mother | Mizuka Arima | |
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Kida | Tōru Ōkawa | ¿? |
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Atsushi Tamaoki | Hiroshi Yanaka | ¿? |
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Chana | Chie Kōjiro | Mona Marshall |
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Kumiko Morita | Tomoko Kawakami | Stephanie Sheh |
Additional Voices[]
- Beau Billingslea
- Richard Cansino
- Joe Cappelletti
- Steve Cassling
- D.C. Douglas
- Peter Doyle
- Michael Forest
- Grant George
- Steve Kramer
- Mona Marshall
- Joan-Carol O'Connell
- Sam Riegel
- Michelle Ruff
- Stephanie Sheh
- Michael Sorich
- Ellyn Stern
- Doug Stone
- Kirk Thornton
- Kari Wahlgren
- Dave Wittenberg
Notes[]
- The final dubbing role of Joan-Carol O'Connell.
- Episode 76 was never dubbed.
Video Releases[]
| Distributor | Year | Format | Contents | Region | Country | |
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| Geneon Entertainment | 2004-2006 | 
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The Complete Series | 1 NTSC |
United States | 
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| 15 Volumes | ||||||
| 2007 | The Complete Series | |||||
| 2 Volumes | ||||||
| Discotek Media | 2021 | 
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The Complete Series* | A DVB-T | ||
| 3 Volumes | ||||||
*including Champion Road OVA
See Also[]
External Links[]
- Fighting Spirit at the Internet Movie Database
- Fighting Spirit (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia