Hajime no Ippo/Characters: Difference between revisions

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* [[Berserk Button]]: Do ''not'' insult his [[Fire-Forged Friends]]. Never ''ever''!

* [[Bi the Way]] (speculated to be this by some fans, due to his attitude towards Kumi and Miyata)

* [[Butt Monkey]]

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]

* [[The Determinator]]

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* [[Ted Baxter]] (In everything BUT Boxing)

* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]

* [[Training From Hell]] (he subjects others ''and'' himself to this. In his case, he has to forcibly keep himself '''five''' classes underweight for a title match since there's a general lack of credibility in the Pacific Heavyweight scene.

* [[Traumatic Haircut]]: Minor but still significant, he loses his trademark hairstyle after a severe beating by Hawk. [[Inverted Trope|Inversion]] occurs as every fan will tell you [http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu328/Smokie1/takamura8.jpg he looks downright] ''[[Even the Guys Want Him|beautiful]]'' that way.

* [[Trickster Archetype]]

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Manager and Assistant Trainer of Kamogawa Boxing Gym, he also acts as a cutman during matches. Called "Yagi-chan" by his pupils, he is the one responsible for the gym's finances, equipment maintenance, promoting matches and acquiring and selling tickets. He knows a great deal about boxing himself, having been a boxer at Kamogawa Gym once.

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* [[Informed Ability]] - he is a good fisherman.

* [[Mr. Exposition]]

* [[Team Mom]]

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* [[The Ace]] (to a slight degree)

* [[Achilles Heel]] (his lack of physical strength and his "glass jaw" {{spoiler|the second is inherited from his dad}})

* [[Achilles' Heel]] (his lack of physical strength and his "glass jaw" {{spoiler|the second is inherited from his dad}})

* [[Bishonen]] (and ''how'')

* [[Chick Magnet]]

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** [[Mighty Glacier]]: Formerly.

* [[Masaya Onosaka]]

* [[Odd Friendship]] (With Sawamura, of all people, stemming from their first meeting as delinquents where they fought to a stalemate.)

* [[Parental Abandonment]]

* [[Raised by Grandparents|Raised By His Grandmother]]

* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]

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* [[Big Ol' Unibrow]]

* [[Blood Knight]]

* [[Cry for the Devil]] (Has one of the saddest backstories)

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Him {{spoiler|stepping on Miyata's foot}} was genuinely accidental, but it didn't stop him from using it to his advantage. He's [[Genre Savvy]] enough to believe that, even if he explained the circumstances, no one would believe it anyway.

* [[Determinator]] (In his fight against Ippo, {{spoiler|his left arm, which is his main weapon due to his flicker jabs, sustained severe damage to the point he couldn't move, plus he had broken at least a few ribs from all the body blows he took. He not only refused to go down, he managed to use his left arm again despite all the pain. The anime draws even more attention to this because of [[Hell Is That Noise|the dreadful crunching noises]] heard when he moves the arm}})

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* [[Ax Crazy]]: Not on the level of Bryan Hawk, but still.

* [[Blood Knight]]

* [[Blood Lust]]

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]

* [[Combat Sadomasochist]]: He seriously only fights to torture others, not to win.

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* {{spoiler|[[Good Scars, Evil Scars]] (gets terrible burns after an accident)}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]: He seems to have dropped the whole psychopathic aspect of his character after the motorcycle accident which forced him to retire.}}

* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Kawabe-sensei certainly sees him as this.

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]

* [[Morality Pet]]: Kawabe-sensei tries to be this, but more often than not, it doesn't work.

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* [[Kouji Tsujitani]]

* [[Idol Singer]] {{spoiler|after he has to retire because of injuries dealed to him by Kobashi, during their match}}

* [[The White Prince]]

=== '''Takuma Saeki''' ===

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]

* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|Better to lose than to in-fight]] (decides he'd rather take the chance of losing by fighting at middle range than resort to the in-fighting tactics his coach recommends for surviving the round. Even Itagaki is surprised.)

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]

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Volg is a Russian boxer and was Amateur World Champion, born and raised by a single mother near to Leningrad/St. Petersburg. Subverting pretty much every common cliche associated with Russians, Volg is an extremely kind-hearted and soft-spoken person who initially got into pro boxing in order to pay for the medical assistance of his [[Ill Girl]] mother, after his trainer discovered his amazing talent.

Volg quickly becomes friends with Ippo, but after a loss by decision against Sendo, he is forced to leave boxing and return to Russia. Much later, his mother dies of her illness and his life is filled with an emptiness he decides to fill with boxing once again. And so he makes a comeback and decides to do so in America.

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* [[Lonely At the Top]]: He accepted Takamura's challenge, flew to Japan, and fought on enemy turf because he had never faced an opponent against whom he had to fight with everything he had, and he hoped Takamura would be the rival he'd always hoped for. His inner monologue even implies that the reason he lost their neck-and-neck fight was because he was satisfied to finally have a [[Worthy Opponent]], and cared more about this than the outcome of the match, whereas Takamura never lost sight of his goal of taking Eagle's championship belt.

* [[Red Baron]] (Golden Eagle)

* [[The Strategist]]

* [[Worthy Opponent]]

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* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: To not get nervous, whenever he got into fights he pictured his opponent as. . . a fish. Yeah, really. Ippo does the same against Miyata {{spoiler|and Shimabukuro.}}

* [[Death by Origin Story]]

* [[Disappeared Dad]]

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* [[The Ojou]]

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[Sakiko Tamagawa]]

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] {{spoiler|Dealed to her husband when she notices that he's frustrated and depressed after spending years as a [[Salaryman]] to provide for her and their son Yuushi, despite being a born fighter.}}

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]

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=== '''Mari Iimura''' ===

A 23-year-old sportswriter who works alongside Fujii at Boxing Fan Monthly. Iimura's calm indifference and sharp wit serve often to put off those who would judge her only for beauty, but she is an avid boxing fan and, though less experienced than some, an outstanding journalist. Has an interest in Ippo, but as with most of the love in the series, [[All Love Is Unrequited|her love is unrequited]]

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* [[Cool Big Sis]]

* [[Emi Shinohara]]

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=== '''Jinpachi Nekota''' ===

Nekota Ginpachi is a long time friend and eternal rival of Kamogawa Genji. In the past he was a natual boxer with wild instincts that even Kamogawa and Dankichi said were better than theirs but never admitting to Nekota. With fast reflexes and superb agility, Nekota was as powerful as Kamogawa and Dankichi. However, after a match with Kamogawa, Nekota found himself suffering from {{spoiler|Punch Drunk Syndrome}}. Knowing this, he still took on American soldier Ralph Anderson, who was a Welterweight world ranker before WWII. He was beating Anderson before getting hit by a rabbit punch, causing a [[Game-Breaking Injury]] which allowed Anderson to win. Now, Nekota is a freelance boxing trainer on par or better than Kamogawa. He frequently shows up to big fights in the Japanese boxing scene as well as to support the Kamogawa gang in their biggest of fights.

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* {{spoiler|[[Death by Origin Story]]}}

* [[Flower Motifs]] (sunflowers)

* {{spoiler|[[Ill Girl]] (She was a Hiroshima survivor and died of radiation poisoning some time later)}}

* [[The Woobie]]

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]