is a Japanese

boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermine ...

manga series written and illustrated by

George Morikawa is a Japanese manga author known for the long-running series '' Hajime no Ippo.'' Born in Tokyo, Morikawa was inspired to become a manga artist upon reading Tetsuya Chiba's '' Harris no Kaze'' in elementary school. He was previously an assis ...

. It has been serialized by Kodansha in ''

Weekly Shōnen Magazine is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published on Wednesdays in Japan by Kodansha, first published on March 17, 1959. The magazine is mainly read by an older audience, with a significant portion of its readership falling under the male hig ...

'' since 1989 and collected in over 136

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or ...

to date. It follows the story of high school student Makunouchi Ippo, as he begins his career in boxing and over time obtains many titles and defeats various opponents. The manga currently has more than 136

volumes published in Japan by Kodansha. The first manga volume released on February 17, 1990, and the 136th on November 17, 2022. __TOC__

Volume list

Volumes 1–20

Volumes 21–40

Volumes 41–60

Volumes 61–80

Volumes 81–100

Volumes 101–120

Volumes 121–current

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