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Mar 20, 2012 8:23 AM
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And so its finished. Surprised Ashina just confessed to it, guess Ricky did scare him.

Would have liked to see a real match between Raita and Ricky though.
Mar 20, 2012 4:35 PM
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rly nice manga, the fight did end well. he got a decent lady. a kid more. all are happy 9/10 but it could have been abit longer.
Mar 25, 2012 3:22 PM
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I wish this was less rushed, but overall the ending wasn't that bad.Pretty nice manga.
Oct 12, 2012 5:44 PM
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same here 9/10 .......pretty decent manga & the last Boss is awesomely a Douche
May 23, 2014 6:13 PM
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What a great way to end such an inspirational & touching journey.

8/10
Jan 7, 2015 10:57 AM
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That was a great fun read,really love the beginning of the manga but hate it a bit for rushing like mad at the ending.
I'm happy he get a happy family at the end with Hijiri and like her since the beginning.Too bad the ex girlfriend didn't show up but I hated her anyway.
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Mar 23, 2015 11:47 PM
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Well, what can I say . . . I know I'll not be making any friends for saying this, but more than anything this manga was "disappointing". Now I wanna clarify, I "loved" this series, the reason I couldn't fully love it though was that ending. The second Asahina was introduced the series completely shifted gears towards a rushed ending. This series had an extreme amount of potential, I almost wanted to cry when I the events instantly shifted towards the obvious ending, and completely shifted paces. If it had instead taken its time, it could have been a series with great character development with the kid and Iwasaki, as well as that nice little romance, and of course the boxing! Dammit! Why did it have to go down the "rushed end"!!!

Taking that all into account, I still gave this manga a 7/10 because despite the ending I still really enjoyed the manga. Had it instead been like a 300-400 chapter series that did a proper start to finish, following him in detail from rookie to champion I probably would have given this an 8 or maybe even a 9 (which I almost never do). Sad to see it go down this route, but still really enjoyed it and would definitely recommend.
Aug 15, 2015 9:40 PM
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It's a shame it was cut short, I would have love to see more story development.
Dec 8, 2015 9:51 AM
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Was short but was still refreshing. The romance fag in me wanted some development between Ricky and Hijri and not just a time skip of them suddenly having a kid, eh.

Pretty solid manga overall, really great art and I really liked the last arc. I prefer it over Hajime no ippo.

8/10
Dec 14, 2019 11:26 AM

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Eh, a great manga overall, but as you keep reading it you get more and more disappointed...

At first it's very fun and is very addicting, the story is great, characters aren't that good but they are okay for a boxing manga.

But as it went on - you kind of realize that the author is a type of person who despite making a semi tragic story actually always makes the 'good wins' kind of thing..
This killed all the excitement that boxing manga usually gives and made the latter part of the manga extremely dull, since you were not really looking forward to matches and just wanted it to conclude somewhat...

And the conclusion it reached - in a rather rushed development where you kind of stopped caring about the fights itself.. but when you thought it's as bad as it gets - it's even worse and ends in the most predictable way possible.. the protag wins, the culprit surrenders, etc etc.

Overall it was a manga with huge potential to be a good successor to Ashita no Joe, but sadly it didn't make Joe even flinch a little in the end. It made quite a few mistakes: skipping character growth, fast personality changes, predictable fight results.

I still prefer it to Hajime no Ippo which outright lost the direction multiple times.. but still a bit sad that this one didn't end up being a worthy successor to Ashita no Joe.
8/10 because it was actually a great manga, but the few flaws it had were critical to a boxing type manga.
Feb 13, 2021 9:41 AM

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I wish we could've seen how iwamaki and hijiri got together. But overall good chapter, amazing manga
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