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[FallingEdge]

This year's 34th issue Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine is revealing on Wednesday that a third season of the television anime adaptation of George Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo (Fighting Spirit) manga has been green-lit. The anime is scheduled to begin airing this fall in Japan. The announcement image reads, “Ippo fights the formidable enemy, Sawamura! Dempsey breaks down!?”

Morikawa's long-running manga has spawned two television anime series, an OVA, and a TV special. Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger, the second season of the anime, aired in 2009. Geneon Entertainment (USA) released the first television series on DVD in North America. Kodansha is publishing the manga in Japan, and will release the 104th compiled volume next month.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-07-19/3rd-season-of-hajime-no-ippo-anime-green-lit

A few days old but I just heard about this. Didn't see a thread about it either.

Wooooooooooooo can't wait!

 

[harSon]

omg

 

[chickdigger802]

Shame the next few ippo fights are super boring.

Takmura fight will be the highlight like always.

 

[FlashbladeGAF]

ROLLING GOOOO!

 

[tri_willy]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

my body is ready!

 

[Vivalaraza]

HOLY SHIT

 

[hom3land]

HOLY SHIT

My thoughts exactly

 

[Poetic.Injustice]

They'll still have more than 500 chapters to cover at the end of the season. :lol

 

[a secret-boss]

damn that's a long break.

time to rewatch

 

[sixteen-bit]

I should catch up on this series

 

[Lord Ghirahim]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat.

 

[smalls]

HOLY FUCK

 

[Lebron]

DAT DEMPSEY ROLL

 

[UrAvgGuy]

omg this is huge

 

[Kurita]

I wonder if they'll ever manage to cover the entire series :lol

 

[Wellington]

Woah, great news. I loved the series.

 

[Jamie OD]

That's cool. Loved the first series but never followed up on it with the new episodes.

 

[Westlo]

That's cool. Loved the first series but never followed up on it with the new episodes.

Do yourself a favor son and watch takmura vs Bryan hawk pronto.

 

[Staab]

Oh my fucking god, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

 

[Sn4ke_911]

 

[Jirotrom]

YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!! OMG LORD HAVE MERCY YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ReiGun]

Fall? Fuck, I need more time to rewatch!

This is so awesome.

 

[kazebyaka]

Hell yeah, can't wait to see the action.

 

[Tacitus_]

Cool, the New Challenger season was great.

 

[Torraz]

Not sure why I'm even excited. Main crew always wins, at least when it counts, right?

Still, should be worth it if there are some third party fights, like that buddy of Ippo who got smashed by the world champion dude.

 

[O.DOGG]

Awesome! Finally anime series I can look forward to.

 

[Sword Familiar]

I was just talking about this the other week with my brother wondering if there would be a new season soon or what. Great news. Looking forward to it.

 

[Gambit61]

YES. I love this series. I thought they were done animating the manga after the second season.

 

[schuey7]

Yes !! I am so happy with this news.While the manga is great ,it goes by at such a slow rate and the previous anime were awesome. Really cannot wait.

 

[Relix]

There is a GOD!

FUCK YES!!!

Now all we need is:

1) New Bleach season.
2) Fairy Tail new season.
3) Dragon Ball remake. Full series
4) Kenshin full-remake.

And I'll die happily.

 

[y2dvd]

More Takmura is always a good thing.

 

[Radec]

Who are the opponents for this season?

I hope we get to see this in action:

A bit spoilerish (manga)

1) New Bleach season.

yo what? Anime?

 

[Kensuke]

We've been waiting for years. I had lost all hope actually. Man, such great news.

 

[Relix]

Who are the opponents for this season?

I hope we get to see this in action:

A bit spoilerish (manga)



yo what? Anime?

Yeah. The last Manga arc is really good (actual surprise!)

 

[Passive Assassin]

YES. YES. YES.

 

[Pein]

 

[Dysun]

Sawamura fight, yes please

 

[Radec]

Yeah. The last Manga arc is really good (actual surprise!)

Awesome.

It was pretty good, I just hope

Spoiler

more Captains dies in the following chapters.

 

[kazebyaka]

Not sure why I'm even excited. Main crew always wins, at least when it counts, right?

Still, should be worth it if there are some third party fights, like that buddy of Ippo who got smashed by the world champion dude.

Ippo lost just once, but everybody else lose all the time

 

[chickdigger802]

There is a GOD!

FUCK YES!!!

Now all we need is:

1) New Bleach season.
2) Fairy Tail new season.
3) Dragon Ball remake. Full series
4) Kenshin full-remake.

And I'll die happily.

having seen the new OVA movies... you probably don't.

Others will come probably (well besides dbz which they just recently did dbkai. maybe in another decade when anime is truly out of ideas and things that sell). Bleach is on its final stretch, they probably just waiting for that to end.

 

[ArjanN]

Ippo lost just once, but everybody else lose all the time

The other characters might lose a little more, but it's pretty obvious how most fights will turn out if you've read a couple of shounen mangas.

 

[sfedai0]

Its like Initial D. The guy cant lose.

 

[Daingurse]

Bout damn time, watched the Ippo anime and OVA's a few years ago. Good shit, I wanted more but there was no more to watch

 

[TheKaeptain]

YES! YES! YES! YES!!!

 

[Kurita]

There is a GOD!

FUCK YES!!!

Now all we need is:

1) New Bleach season.
2) Fairy Tail new season.
3) Dragon Ball remake. Full series
4) Kenshin full-remake.

And I'll die happily.

This one is coming.

 

[Amagon]

About damn fucking time!!!

 

[Naxx]

Yeah Baby1!

 

[blind51de]

I hope the Wally/Woli match doesn't make the cut, or gets pushed to an OVA special.
That whole fight was tiresome.

 

[FlashbladeGAF]

I hope the Wally/Woli match doesn't make the cut, or gets pushed to an OVA special.
That whole fight was tiresome.

Any fight in a manga where your waiting week to week over the course of 2+ months is tiresome.

 

[B-Dubs]

Shame the next few ippo fights are super boring.

Takmura fight will be the highlight like always.

The Sawamura fight and the Okinawa guy are coming up, both of which were pretty good fights.