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TaurusOxford posted:I would still recommend you read the whole Wally fight, if only for the pure hilarity of it. Yeah the wally fight sucked when you read it on a weekly basis since it dragged on forever but if you just read it from beginning to end, it's actually sort of unintentionally hilarious.
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The 1208 raws are available. Kumi arranges a referral for Ippo to go see a brain specialist, after a discussion about CTE with him. Ippo does a full round of scans and finds that while he's showing some symptoms, he isn't fully punch drunk, but he's at a high risk if he chooses to continue boxing the way he does. Ippo then visits the gym, and has a meeting with Kamogawa, where he declares that he's retiring while he's still relatively healthy, and after a farewell from Takamura, he does the leaf-catching exercise from the start of the series. 1208 ends with a statement saying that it will continue on to the next issue - ergo, not done yet.
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Vagabundo posted:The 1208 raws are available. an acorn from the tree falls on his head and gives him brain damage for good
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Jan 24, 2018 22:09
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Vagabundo posted:The 1208 raws are available. So honestly, what's the best case scenario here to end the series? There's obviously going to be a timeskip, but will it be a timeskip just to show us some resolution to the other characters, or a timeskip so Ippo can pull a Date and come out of retirement?
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Jan 24, 2018 22:12
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Woli was an actual solid textbook boxer but Ippo's brain damage was that strong that he imagined the whole jungle shenanigans.
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Jan 24, 2018 22:36
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I hope the ending is Ippo going to the championship brain damaged only to fight a trained Woli who instantly kos him.
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Jan 24, 2018 22:50
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TaurusOxford posted:So honestly, what's the best case scenario here to end the series? There's obviously going to be a timeskip, but will it be a timeskip just to show us some resolution to the other characters, or a timeskip so Ippo can pull a Date and come out of retirement? The Taggart manoeuvre.
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Jan 24, 2018 23:03
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ippo should just become some sort of grappler. He's got the physique for it and wouldn't have to worry about cte as much.
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Jan 25, 2018 01:23
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This is shaping up to be a crap ending, if it's an ending.
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The doctor looks at Ippo's brain scans, sighs, and says "Ippo....you're already dead." Ippo's eyes open in shock and his body begins to decompose now that the illusion holding it together has finally been shattered. Everyone looks away uncomfortably, since they knew that it would come to this eventually.
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A time-skip in a manga 30 years old would be some real poo poo. Like you had 29 years to do this before. Hand. You know what I can’t even muster up the effort to write more about this.
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Ytlaya posted:The doctor looks at Ippo's brain scans, sighs, and says "Ippo....you're already dead." Ippo's eyes open in shock and his body begins to decompose now that the illusion holding it together has finally been shattered. Everyone looks away uncomfortably, knowing that it would come to this eventually. N-nani!?
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Ytlaya posted:The doctor looks at Ippo's brain scans, sighs, and says "Ippo....you're already dead." Ippo's eyes open in shock and his body begins to decompose now that the illusion holding it together has finally been shattered. Everyone looks away uncomfortably, since they knew that it would come to this eventually. Phase 2 of the manga begins: Underworld Skeleton Boxing.
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Jan 25, 2018 02:32
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Ytlaya posted:The doctor looks at Ippo's brain scans, sighs, and says "Ippo....you're already dead." Ippo's eyes open in shock and his body begins to decompose now that the illusion holding it together has finally been shattered. Everyone looks away uncomfortably, since they knew that it would come to this eventually.
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I forgot to mention that there was a huge step forward in Ippo's relationship with Kumi: he touched her boobies. Ippo's mum makes him walk her home after he comes home from a day of work on the fishing boats. As they're walking and discussing CTE, she strongly implies she wants to be with Ippo, and then she trips over a rock. Ippo quickly catches her as she falls, and inadvertently places his hand on her boob. He then quickly moves his hand to her shoulder because he senses Mashiba glaring at him. Ippo's talk with Takamura is around "going on an adventure and finding a treasure," implying that Ippo is finally ready to settle down with Kumi.
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TaurusOxford posted:So honestly, what's the best case scenario here to end the series? The coach kills himself in shame for destroying the life of a promising boxer with his total incompetence.
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Jan 25, 2018 07:11
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Maybe we get a Vinland Saga moment and the next issue will conclude with "The End of the Prologue" Thirty more years of virgin Ippo.
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Jan 25, 2018 08:22
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ippo needs to hook up with someone, anyone. dedicating his adult life to his moronic father figure with no room for any other relationships was pretty hosed up.
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Gonna be funny when after 20 IRL years and I can't remember how many in-universe years, we still need a time skip for someone to teach Ippo how to actually box.
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LordNagash posted:Gonna be funny when after 20 IRL years and I can't remember how many in-universe years, we still need a time skip for someone to teach Ippo how to actually box. Eight in-universe years. 
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Ytlaya posted:The doctor looks at Ippo's brain scans, sighs, and says "Ippo....you're already dead." Ippo's eyes open in shock and his body begins to decompose now that the illusion holding it together has finally been shattered. Everyone looks away uncomfortably, since they knew that it would come to this eventually. Dr. Kenshiro loses another one
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TaurusOxford posted:
if they do another season of the tv show i wonder how they'll animate this  or maybe they just skip it altogether but I doubt it so maybe Madhouse looked at that and how the rest of the series is progressing and went like "nah gently caress it" and season 3 is the last we'll get 
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Jan 25, 2018 16:51
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Good soup! posted:if they do another season of the tv show i wonder how they'll animate this Which is a shame because Ippo's next fight would've arguably been the perfect fight to end after.
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This right here is where the boxing stopped. He is swaying completely backwards and yet somehow throws a punch with forward momentum that lets him leap up and strike Ippo across the face. What do you even call that?
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Asuron posted:This right here is where the boxing stopped. He is swaying completely backwards and yet somehow throws a punch with forward momentum that lets him leap up and strike Ippo across the face. What do you even call that? monkey magic
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Hi, so I've never read Ippo. Mostly i've heard praises due to the "recent" anime adaptation, and lately heard about the possible brain damage. Is there even more hosed up examples of "boxing" than this Woolie fella?
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Hi, so I've never read Ippo. Mostly i've heard praises due to the "recent" anime adaptation, and lately heard about the possible brain damage. Is there even more hosed up examples of "boxing" than this Woolie fella? Woli is about the worst really. There are bad marches but nothing quite as bad as that one.
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Gedo happens right before and it's a real loving garbage fight. At the time I was like "gently caress if this is how it keeps going I'm gonna have to check out." Then Woli happened and I did.
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The biggest problem with most of the later fights is that they feel completely like wasted time. Why does Ippo need to defend his Japanese title double digit times? All of the other world stage fighters held onto theirs for 2 or 3 defenses then noped out. He wasted so much time having Ippo fight functionally worthless matches instead of actually progressing his story. Which is probably the most irritating thing about the current development, is that it could have still played out this way but been much more satisfying if he hadn't kept Ippo locked in stasis for years and years unlike just about everyone else in the manga.
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Asuron posted:This right here is where the boxing stopped. He is swaying completely backwards and yet somehow throws a punch with forward momentum that lets him leap up and strike Ippo across the face. What do you even call that? Y'all acting like this hasn't been happening since the manga was considered good. 
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Frabba posted:Y'all acting like this hasn't been happening since the manga was considered good. I am sorry you cannot tell the difference between Sendo's Smash where the punch is thrown from the angle is body is tilted at and that panel where Woli is throwing a punch in a completely different direction from how his body his tilted, while also simultaneously leaping up from that position to move past Ippo.
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Woli moves like someone opened the console and turned on no clip.
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I liked the Gonzalez fight.
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The Notorious ZSB posted:The biggest problem with most of the later fights is that they feel completely like wasted time. Why does Ippo need to defend his Japanese title double digit times? All of the other world stage fighters held onto theirs for 2 or 3 defenses then noped out. He wasted so much time having Ippo fight functionally worthless matches instead of actually progressing his story. Which is probably the most irritating thing about the current development, is that it could have still played out this way but been much more satisfying if he hadn't kept Ippo locked in stasis for years and years unlike just about everyone else in the manga. I guess he thought he was going to milk this poo poo forever, and then one day he looks up and he's 20 years older He pulled the manga version of a Robert Jordan
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Asuron posted:This right here is where the boxing stopped. He is swaying completely backwards and yet somehow throws a punch with forward momentum that lets him leap up and strike Ippo across the face. What do you even call that? Considering that same fight had him vaulting off the corner poles I'd probably call it. gimme the GOD drat candy posted:monkey magic
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ElGroucho posted:I guess he thought he was going to milk this poo poo forever, and then one day he looks up and he's 20 years older Ironically enough I do enjoy the Wheel of Time. Sanderson did a great job mimicking early Jordan to finish it out, but that's an apt comparison. Credit to Morikawa it appears he might finish it himself instead of dying and requiring someone else to even if the ending is worse for it.
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Didn't Miyata, while suffering from a broken rib (or several?) in his fight against Randy Boy Jr, punch RBJ so hard and quickly that it broke the sound barrier and there was a sonic boom that people in the audience saw
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The Notorious ZSB posted:Ironically enough I do enjoy the Wheel of Time. Sanderson did a great job mimicking early Jordan to finish it out, but that's an apt comparison. At least his son Brian Morikawa and Kevin J. Anderson won't get a shot at it.
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