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Hajime no Ippo
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Ballroom e Youkoso
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Ballroom e Yookoso and Hajime no Ippo start off with a similar premise. They are both the bullied kid, and get saved by a professional sportsman (in Ippo, boxing, in Ballroom, it's a ballroom dancer). They both watch videos of said professional and want to be a pro themselves. The professional then assigns them an impossible task for beginners, and waits for them to fail... Only to be pleasantly surprised when show guts and determination and succeed.
While I've seen most of the Ippo anime, I have only started reading Ballroom E Yookoso so I can't guarantee they will be similar in the end. But the
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The main difference between these two is the sport; One is about competitive dancing, the other is about boxing. But while reading the 1st chapter of Ballroom e youkoso, the first thing that came in my mind is Ippo. Not poor nor rich mcs; both haven't decided of what they're going to do aftee highschool; bullied; get saved by great sportsmen (Takamura-Sengoku) who both would their 'senpai-sensei' (Idk, how should I describe it :V) in that particular sport; after got saved, both mc were brought to the (boxing-dancing) gym and were given a video which sparked their interest on that sport; Bullies started to see
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