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Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger (TV)

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Alternative title:
Knock Out: New Challenger (Tagalog) 
はじめの一歩 New Challenger (Japanese) 
第一神拳New Challenger (Chinese (Taiwan)) 
더 파이팅 뉴 챌린저 (Korean) 
Genres: comedy , drama , tournament 
Themes: boxing 
Objectionable content: Significant 
Plot Summary: Ippo Makunouchi continues his boxing career and his goal on knowing the meaning of being strong, and the desire on fighting his idol Ichiro Miyata once again. Along him are pro boxers Takamura, Aoki and Kimura that each one of them aspire to their own dreams. 
User Ratings: 738 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 237 votes (sub:223, dub:8, others:6
4 Portuguese subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 224 votes (sub:193, dub:13, raw:3, ?:2, others:13
8 Spanish subtitled
3 Portuguese subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed
1 Arabic subtitled
)
 Very good: 160 votes (sub:142, dub:3, ?:1, others:14
5 Spanish subtitled
4 French subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 69 votes (sub:56, dub:9, raw:1, ?:1, others:2
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 25 votes (sub:19, dub:5, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 So-so: 10 votes (sub:9, others:1
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 7 votes (sub:6, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1238 users, rank: #973 (of 9903)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.627 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 1.5357, rank: #127 (of 10050)
Weighted mean: 8.575 (Excellent−), rank: #122 (of 10050) (seen all: 8.62 / seen some: 8.26 / won't finish: 4.15)
Bayesian estimate: 8.555 (Excellent−), rank: #45 (of 7615)
Running time: 23 minutes per episode 
Number of episodes: 26 
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
2009-01-06 
2010-03-17 to 2010-04-14 (Philippines - GMA, Anime Authority) 
Opening Theme:
#1: "Hekireki" by Last Alliance 
Ending Theme:
#1: "8 AM" by coldrain 
Trivia: We have 2
News: Show:
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Hajime no Ippo Rising TV Anime's Cast, Staff Announced (Aug 23, 2013)
Dallas Screens Madhouse's Princess & the Pilot Film on Sunday (Apr 27, 2013)
The Princess and the Pilot's 9-Minute Digest Streamed (Dec 8, 2011)
Canada's Waterloo Shows Madhouse's Recollections of a Certain Pilot (Nov 9, 2011)
To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku's 1st 12 Minutes Streamed (Sep 19, 2011)
Scotland Loves Anime To Screen Madhouse's To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku (Updated: Cancelled) (Sep 8, 2011)
To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku Anime Film Trailer Posted (Aug 5, 2011)
To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku, Priest Promos Streamed (Apr 25, 2011)
Part of Yoshiyuki Tomino's 'Ring of Gundam' Previewed (Aug 21, 2009)
Sequel to Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger Being Planned (Jun 12, 2009)
2nd Hajime no Ippo Show Named, Dated: New Challenger on January 6 (Nov 27, 2008)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Jun Shishido 
Series Composition: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu 
Script:
Fumie Muroi (ep 18) 
Jun Nakagawa (eps 13, 24) 
Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (eps 1-12, 21) 
Sei Moriwaki (eps 20, 25-26) 
Yasuhiro Kadowaki (ep 16) 
Storyboard:
Fumie Muroi (eps 10, 24) 
Futoshi Higashide (ep 13) 
Jun Shishido (eps 1-4, 26) 
Junichi Sakata (ep 11) 
Kenichi Kawamura (9 episodes
eps 6-9, 12, 14, 16, 22, 25
) 
Kotono Watanabe (ED) 
Masanori Shino (OP) 
Masato Tamagawa (ep 19) 
Masayoshi Nishida (eps 18, 20) 
Shigeyuki Miya (ep 17) 
Takahiro Ikezoe (ep 21) 
Tomoya Takahashi (eps 5-6) 
Toshiya Niidome (ep 15) 
Yukina Hiiro (ep 23) 
Unit Director:
Eiichi Kuboyama (ep 25) 
Fujiaki Asari (eps 11, 18) 
Fumie Muroi (eps 10, 24) 
Futoshi Higashide (ep 13) 
Hisato Shimoda (eps 4, 9) 
Kenichi Kawamura (OP) 
Kotono Watanabe (ED) 
Mana Uchiyama (ep 17) 
Satoshi Ōsedo (eps 2, 8) 
Takahiro Ikezoe (ep 21) 
Takahiro Natori (eps 6, 20) 
Takatoshi Suzuki (eps 3, 7, 15) 
Tomoya Takahashi (eps 1, 5, 14) 
Yoshifumi Sueda (ep 19) 
Yukina Hiiro (ep 23) 
Music: Yoshihisa Hirano 
Original creator: George Morikawa 
Character Design: Kōji Sugiura 
Animation Director:
Hiroaki Imaki (ep 5) 
Kazuyuki Ikai (ep 25) 
Kenichi Shimizu (ep 24) 
Kōji Sugiura (ep 26)  (OP, ED) 
Kyōko Kotani (ep 3) 
Manabu Yasumoto (ep 17) 
Masaki Hinata (ep 18) 
Noriyuki Fukuda (ep 1) 
Takafumi Hori (eps 19, 22) 
Tetsuya Wakano (eps 7, 25) 
Tomokatsu Nagasaku (ep 21) 
Yoshiaki Tsubata (eps 8, 14) 
Yutaka Kawasuji (ep 17) 
Sound Director: Toshihiko Nakajima 

2nd Key Animation: Ai Yokoyama (ep 18) 
Assistant Animation Director:
Fumie Muroi (eps 24, 26) 
Kana Miyai (ep 7) 
Kenichi Shimizu (ep 25) 
Minoru Kawano (ep 25) 
Mutsuaki Murata (eps 10, 18, 24) 
Noriyuki Fukuda (ep 8) 
In-Between Check: Jong Youl Lim (ep 22) 
Key Animation:
Ai Yokoyama (eps 21, 23, 26) 
Akiko Matsuo (ep 1) 
Akiko Taniguchi (eps 10, 18, 24) 
Akira Hayashi (eps 10, 14) 
Asami Komatsu (eps 23, 25) 
Atsuko Takahashi (eps 10, 17) 
Atsushi Komatsu (eps 8, 25) 
Atsushi Tsukamoto (ep 13) 
Ayafumi Suzuki (ep 23) 
Chiaki Furuzumi (ep 14) 
Chihiro Hayashi (6 episodes
eps 1, 3, 5, 8, 13, 23
) 
Chikai Okado (ep 17) 
Chikashi Kadekaru (OP) 
Chizuru Kiuchi (ep 25) 
Daisuke Niitsuma (4 episodes
eps 5, 8, 24, 26
) 
Eiichi Kuboyama (eps 17, 25) 
Eiji Komatsu (eps 1, 5, 14) 
Fumie Muroi (eps 10, 24, 26) 
Fuminori Tsukida (eps 13, 25) 
Futoshi Higashide (eps 1, 21) 
Geum-Soo Kim (eps 13, 21, 26) 
Hanako Enomoto (ep 25) 
Haruhito Takada (ep 23) 
Haruma Edo (ep 25) 
Harumi Takagi (ep 1) 
Hideaki Matsuoka (ep 3) 
Hidenori Kawashima (ep 25) 
Hideo Hayashi (eps 5, 23, 26) 
Hiroaki Imaki (eps 1, 5) 
Hiroki Saitō (ep 25) 
Hiromi Nanbe (ep 14) 
Hisatoshi Motoki (ep 21) 
Hitoshi Inaba (ep 8) 
Jin Nishino (ep 8) 
Jin Yoshida (ep 17) 
Jōji Yanase (ep 14) 
Jun Shishido (ep 26) 
Junko Yoshigai (ep 13) 
Kana Hashidate (ep 17) 
Kana Miyai (ep 7)  (Studio Wanpack) 
Keiji Gotō (ep 1) 
Kenichi Shima (eps 21, 24) 
Kenichi Shimizu (ED; 5 episodes
eps 3, 11, 13, 21, 24
) 
Kenta Mimuro (ep 10) 
Kiryou Iwamoto (eps 7, 25)  (Studio Wanpack) 
Kiyoshi Nohji (eps 8, 13, 25) 
Kiyotoshi Aoi (4 episodes
eps 13-14, 18, 25
) 
Kōji Sugiura (ep 26) 
Kozue Matsui (ep 7)  (Studio Wanpack) 
Kumi Ishii (ep 1) 
Kumiko Onaga (eps 17, 25) 
Kunihiko Inoue (6 episodes
eps 3, 10, 14, 18, 24-25
)  (OP) 
Kyōko Kotani (ep 25)  (OP) 
Kyung Nam Ko (ep 21) 
Mari Tominaga (ep 5) 
Masafumi Nakagawa (5 episodes
eps 1, 3, 5, 13, 21
) 
Masahiro Kimura (ep 10) 
Masaki Matsumura (ep 18) 
Masaru Kitao (eps 18, 24) 
Masashi Kojima (ep 24) 
Masato Nishikawa (eps 8, 25) 
Michiko Takahashi (ep 21) 
Midori Yoshii (ep 7)  (Studio Wanpack) 
Mieko Hosoi (ep 23) 
Miho Kawasaki (eps 17, 25) 
Miki Kato (ep 14) 
Minami Yoshida (ep 14) 
Miwako Shibata (eps 17, 25) 
Miyako Yatsu (ep 23) 
Miyoko Kawamoto (ep 17) 
Miyuki Nakamura (ep 24) 
Mutsuaki Murata (eps 10, 18, 24) 
Nagisa Nakajima (ep 5) 
Naoto Abe (ep 25) 
Narihito Sekikawa (eps 3, 21, 24) 
Natsuko Shimizu (4 episodes
eps 21, 23-24, 26
) 
Noriyuki Fukuda (4 episodes
eps 8, 14, 23, 26
) 
Nozomi Goto (ep 5) 
Reika Hoshino (ep 25) 
Rie Kimura (ep 25) 
Sai Yamane (eps 21, 24) 
Satoshi Kadowaki (ep 23) 
Sawako Miyamoto (eps 1, 3, 5, 8) 
Sayaka Kawai (ep 23) 
Sayaka Toda (ep 18) 
Sayo Aoi (ep 1) 
Shigeyuki Miya (OP) 
Shingo Okano (ep 3) 
Shinya Suzuki (eps 8, 14) 
Shuichi Hara (ep 5) 
Shūji Sakamoto (ep 25) 
Shunsuke Masuda (ep 25) 
Sung-Chul Kim (ANIHOUSE SUN; ep 19) 
Taeko Ōgi (ep 25) 
Taichi Atarashi (eps 7, 25)  (Studio Wanpack) 
Takahiro Arai (ep 13) 
Takahiro Ikezoe (ep 21) 
Takashi Tomioka (OP) 
Takehiro Hamatsu (ep 3) 
Takeshi Miyamoto (ep 17) 
Tatsunori Sakamoto (eps 7, 25)  (Studio Wanpack) 
Tetsuo Hirakawa (ep 25) 
Tetsuya Wakano (eps 7, 25)  (Studio Wanpack) 
Tomohiro Kamitani (4 episodes
eps 5, 13, 18, 26
) 
Tomokatsu Nagasaku (ep 21) 
Tomoki Kōda (ep 25) 
Tomoko Kusuki (ep 25) 
Tomomi Ikeda (ep 7)  (Studio Wanpack) 
Toshiharu Sugie (ep 5) 
Toshiyuki Hashimoto (ep 3) 
Toshiyuki Kanno (OP) 
Yasuyuki Kai (ep 23) 
Yoshiaki Toki (OP) 
Yoshifumi Nakamura (eps 7, 25)  (Studio Wanpack) 
Yoshiharu Ashino (ep 25) 
Yoshinori Kanemori (eps 5, 8, 13-14) 
Yoshiyuki Itō (OP; eps 23, 25) 
Yosuke Jinbo (8 episodes
eps 5, 8, 11, 13, 18, 21, 24, 26
) 
Yousuke Toyama (ep 3) 
Yuichi Hirano (ep 14) 
Yuka Koiso (eps 10, 14) 
Yuki Tsugihashi (ep 25) 
Yuko Yazaki (eps 5, 14) 
Yūsuke Uda (eps 17, 25) 
Production Advancement: Satoshi Itō (eps 17, 25) 
Sound Effects: Kenji Koyama (Sound Box) 
Theme Song Performance:
coldrain (ED) 
Last Alliance (OP) 
アクション作監:
Hideo Hayashi (eps 12, 14, 16) 
Kenichi Shimizu (7 episodes
eps 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 22, 25
) 
Kohei Kiyasu as Ippo Makunouchi 

Keiji Fujiwara as Tatsuya Kimura 
Kenji Utsumi as Genji Kamogawa 
Masahiko Tanaka as Ryo Mashiba 
Rikiya Koyama as Mamoru Takamura 
Tomokazu Seki as Ichiro Miyata 
Wataru Takagi as Masaru Aoki 
Yuka Hirata as Kumi Mashiba 

Akimitsu Takase as
Domestic Fights Announcer (ep 4) 
Ring Announcer (eps 10, 15-16) 
Akio Ōtsuka as Brian Hawk 
Dai Matsumoto as World Championship Referee (eps 8, 20-24) 
Daisuke Namikawa as Manabu Itagaki 
Daisuke Sakaguchi as Hammer Nao/Naomichi Yamada 
Emi Shinohara as Mari Iimura 
Hisashi Izumi as
Domestic Fights Referee (ep 4) 
Referee 
Ichirō Nagai as Ginpachi Nekota 
Issei Futamata as Hachinohe Gym Coach (eps 9-12) 
Jin Horikawa as Announcer 
Keiichi Sonobe as Otowa Gym Coach (ep 14) 
Kenichi Ono as Minoru Fujii 
Kenji Nomura as World Championship Ring Announcer (eps 6-8, 20-25) 
Kenyū Horiuchi as Suguru Takamura 
Kikuko Inoue as Kyouka Takamura 
Kiyoshi Katsunuma as
Customer (ep 1) 
Makino's Trainer (ep 15) 
Mari Yokoo as Yamada's Mother 
Masaki Aizawa as Eiji Date 
Masashi Sugawara as Ricardo Martinez 
Masaya Onosaka as Takeshi Sendo 
Masayuki Katō as
Customer (ep 1) 
OPBF Referee (eps 2-4) 
Masayuki Omoro as Bill Stewart 
Megumi Matsumoto as Wataru Takamura 
Mie Sonozaki as Mother Itagaki (no first name given) 
Minoru Inaba as Mr. Sakaguchi 
Mitsuaki Madono as Masahiko Umezawa 
Mitsuru Ogata as Nakadai Gym Coach (eps 5-8) 
Naomi Wakabayashi as Yuuji Date 
Nobuaki Fukuda as Father Itagaki 
Nobuyuki Furuta as OPBG Ring Announcer (eps 1-3) 
Ryuuta Morikawa as Arman Algeria (ep 15) 
Sakiko Tamagawa as Aiko Date 
Seiji Sasaki as Tomoyuki Shinoda 
Shoko Tsuda as Tomiko 
Shōzō Iizuka as Miguel Zeel 
Takaya Kuroda as Arnie Gregory 
Takuma Suzuki as Morris's Cornerman (ep 16) 
Takuya Satō as Makino Fumito (ep 15) 
Tomoyuki Shimura as Morris West (eps 15-16) 
Tōru Ōkawa as Kida 
Toshihiko Nakajima as Haruhiko Yagi 
Unshō Ishizuka as Miyata-san 
Yorie Terauchi as Hiroko Makunouchi 
Yū Kobayashi as Nanako Itagaki 
Yūichi Nakamura as Kyosuke Imai 

Aki Nakajima (ep 13) 
Ayaka Shimizu (ep 18) 
Biichi Satō (ep 25) 
Chikara Ōsaka (eps 9, 18) 
Fuminori Komatsu (ep 19) 
Genta Fukuda (ep 16) 
Goblin 
Ikumi Nakagami (ep 2) 
Katsunori Kobayashi (eps 10-11, 18) 
Kazumi Makabe (eps 13, 16-17) 
Kazutoshi Hatano (5 episodes
eps 2-3, 7-8, 16
) 
Kenji Takahashi (ep 12) 
Kensuke Nishi (ep 21) 
Kiyoshi Katsunuma (6 episodes
eps 2-3, 5-7, 22
) 
Kunio Ida (6 episodes
eps 2, 5-7, 12, 19
) 
Kunpei Sakamoto (eps 19, 21, 26) 
Mari Kanou (ep 2) 
Masaki Aizawa (ep 9) 
Masayuki Katō (ep 5) 
Misaki Sekiyama (ep 2) 
Naoko Sugiura (eps 13, 16-17) 
Noriko Fujimoto (eps 3, 12, 15) 
Noriko Obata (ep 13) 
Raimai Yamashita (eps 8, 11-12) 
Satoru Inoue (eps 16, 18) 
Seiko Ueda (ep 15) 
Shin Mori (eps 19, 21) 
Tadashi Miyazawa (eps 5-6) 
Takashi Oohara (eps 3, 24) 
Takuya Satō (eps 9, 22) 
Tomoharu Suzuki (eps 5-6) 
Tomoko Nakamura (ep 15) 
Tsutomu Densaka (ep 12) 
Yoriko Nagata (ep 2) 
Yuu Amano (eps 2, 25) 
Japanese companies
English staff
English companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Netflix 
English cast
(none)
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Dubbing: MilVox (Latin America) 
Internet Streaming: AnimeOnegai (Latin America) 
Licensed by: REMOW (Latin America) 
Spanish cast
(none)
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
Dubbing Director: Montreal Repuyan 

Script/Translation:
Aprille Fernandez 
Nica Rojo 
Fourth Lee as Ippo Makunochi 
Vincent Gutierrez as Takeshi Sendō 

Bon Reyes as
Genji Kamogawa 
Tatsuya Kimura 
Grace Cornel as Kumi Mashiba 
Louie Paraboles as Masaru Aoki 
Montreal Repuyan as Mamoru Takamura 
Vincent Gutierrez as Ichiro Miyata 

Bon Reyes as
Ricardo Martinez 
Takeshi Sendō 
Grace Cornel as
Dr. Yamaguchi 
Manabu Itagaki 
Nanako Itagaki 
Lloyd Navera as
Arnie Gregory 
Brian Hawk 
Minoru Fujii 
Louie Paraboles as Kyosuke Imai 
Montreal Repuyan as Hammer Nao/Naomichi Yamada 
Vincent Gutierrez as
Eiji Date 
Ichiro's Father 
Tagalog companies
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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