Episode 31
Hajime No Ippo 11-20 Review
Ippo two times in a row! Listen in as the Southern Senpais give their review of Hajime No Ippo! Episode 11 through 20.
Transcript
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Speaker:It's the Southern Senpais Show, where small town Southerners explore big
Speaker:time Japanese entertainment, anime, manga, and everything in between.
Speaker:Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.
Speaker:Hello Southern Senpais, I'm Nicholas.
Speaker:I'm DJ, we're two Southern guys who explore Japanese culture together.
Speaker:Don, you doesn't get this right.
Speaker:Oh man.
Speaker:That's crazy.
Speaker:I think it's a staple at this point.
Speaker:No, I think you just need to learn how to do it.
Speaker:How about I, I think I, I think the fans appreciate it.
Speaker:It shows realness.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's real that I've stopped editing the these, it intros big messed up.
Speaker:That's what's really about it.
Speaker:Lemme see how many episodes we have so far.
Speaker:I'm actually, I'm, Nope, nope.
Speaker:This isn't the right one.
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Speaker:So we've done 30, 30 episodes with the last one the last one,
Speaker:because Ippo was number 30.
Speaker:29 right before that so we've done this too many times for you not to know To do
Speaker:this, but what are we talking about today?
Speaker:We are talking about Ippo's anime 11 through 20.
Speaker:Ippo's anime.
Speaker:That's the title of it.
Speaker:It's called Ippo's anime.
Speaker:Ippo What is it called?
Speaker:Hajime no Ippo.
Speaker:Hajime no Ippo.
Speaker:Yes, and A lot kinda happened.
Speaker:He beat that guy Oda.
Speaker:Yeah, so he he Boxes against Oda Yasuka.
Speaker:The boxer from Osaka.
Speaker:I'm gonna let you say that last name.
Speaker:I don't know you suck So he's actually really nervous before he gets into the
Speaker:fight because he's is his first pro fight It's just bloody has beat right?
Speaker:But yeah, I mean he's gonna win because this is his anime, right?
Speaker:It's anime, but initially, he doesn't do well.
Speaker:No initially That's what I think that it was a real roller coaster Of a fight.
Speaker:I will have to say in this anime, they choreographed these fights really well.
Speaker:To be fair, it's only punches.
Speaker:So it's alright, so let, lemme get this straight.
Speaker:I have to make a anime.
Speaker:Apparently this first season's something like 75, 76 episodes.
Speaker:It is crazy.
Speaker:. But think about it like this, you had to do 75 episodes
Speaker:of a show, of a boxing show.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Potentially, half of those are the fight episodes.
Speaker:That means, bro, you're talking about like at least, at least like over 30
Speaker:punt boxing matches where people are just straight up punching each other.
Speaker:You gotta make it interesting.
Speaker:You gotta be good at choreographing that stuff or else
Speaker:it'll get boring immediately.
Speaker:Obviously, so he does the match.
Speaker:Ippo.
Speaker:It's a powerful body blow that knocks out Oda.
Speaker:And The crowd's cheering him on, but also what we haven't, what we haven't
Speaker:stated is over time Nobody knows Ippo's a boxer because he's in high school, right?
Speaker:He's a loser in high school that smells like fish.
Speaker:Oh, yeah, he's still fish loser, even though he just beat someone up.
Speaker:Also one of the things I Think he's weird None of his boxer friends ever bring that
Speaker:up bring it what that he smells like fish Probably because they're all sweaty in
Speaker:the gym, too that's that's what I thought.
Speaker:I was like, they all probably really stink.
Speaker:There's no women around.
Speaker:No They all probably stink they get no women at all.
Speaker:They all probably stink as well One of the boxing gym characters,
Speaker:this is whole reason for boxing.
Speaker:He's like I want pretty women to like me.
Speaker:But the crazy part is one of the friends likes really ugly women.
Speaker:Yeah, that's like his thing.
Speaker:That's his thing.
Speaker:Yeah, that's the dude, that's the Aoki, right?
Speaker:Oh, yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, Aoki's oh, I box for women to like, locker or something like that.
Speaker:And it's all eugh.
Speaker:Yeah, apparently he's really attracted to ugly women.
Speaker:It's the sentiment.
Speaker:Hey man, everybody has their thing.
Speaker:Some people like people being tall and small, and some people like some people
Speaker:with a little Some people are chubby chasers, yeah, some people like them with
Speaker:a little baggage, some people like skinny, screen beings, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker:Now, I will say this I think that one of the, one of the greatest things
Speaker:about Ipoh that I've seen, one of the episodes, I really locked in on one
Speaker:of the characters in the background, because we're talking about appearances.
Speaker:The boxers they like, they're like, Oh, we're muscular,
Speaker:we're flexing, and whatever.
Speaker:But it's okay I don't really care about that.
Speaker:And animation, especially in the animation back in the day, and this
Speaker:is how really the rest of the world learned how to animate, was from
Speaker:the animated minstrel shows, right?
Speaker:With the, the monkey, black people being monkeys, and the big lips, and the, that's
Speaker:where Bugs Bunny's hands come from, that's why he wears gloves, and stuff like that.
Speaker:Are you talking about the so there's a frame.
Speaker:You ain't gonna stop me.
Speaker:There's a frame in which, cause usually what happens in anime is every time
Speaker:there's a black guy, he has these big giant lips, even in today, in 2024,
Speaker:they will animate a black guy who is the most stereotypical, like racist
Speaker:looking black guy at an animation.
Speaker:And they're like, yeah, no, that's fine to put.
Speaker:Because again, they don't know about America is very attuned to racism.
Speaker:Like everyone in Japan is fucking Japanese.
Speaker:They think it's hilarious.
Speaker:But in this show, I saw a white guy with giant lips, and that, I don't know,
Speaker:that just made me feel a lot better.
Speaker:You guys don't understand, this man actually texted me the picture
Speaker:I couldn't, I had never seen it before of the TV, with the white
Speaker:dude that had the black guy lips.
Speaker:It was crazy.
Speaker:It was like, can you believe this?
Speaker:Wow I have a whole new respect for this anime.
Speaker:But anyway, so after the fight he gets some acknowledgment from
Speaker:his peers of, they find out.
Speaker:They're like, oh wow, you're a boxer?
Speaker:And he's yeah, haha.
Speaker:And then the bullies are like, bro, seriously?
Speaker:Cause the bullies, they kept trying to, they tried to still try to bully
Speaker:him, but he's him doing his road work, he like runs away from them and it's
Speaker:like too fast and stuff like that.
Speaker:They were like, this guy is, I don't know what he's doing, but he just
Speaker:keeps getting faster and stronger.
Speaker:And eventually they're like.
Speaker:Aren't we going to catch him?
Speaker:He's no man, like, why are we going to do that?
Speaker:And then one of them, they take his his pro card, like
Speaker:his card that he fought for.
Speaker:And Basically, he almost knocks all of them out trying to get it back.
Speaker:He's bro, hey, listen to me.
Speaker:I ain't down for this bullsh t no more, bro.
Speaker:I will beat your ass, give me back my boxing card.
Speaker:The next episode we're Coming to is the Rookie King title, right?
Speaker:EPO's next challenge is to compete in the Rookie King title.
Speaker:The Rookie King Tournament.
Speaker:Tournament.
Speaker:And one of the, one of the scenes is, we were talking about this the
Speaker:last episode, One of the scenes was they're at the ramen shop, right?
Speaker:Cause apparently this guy makes great ramen.
Speaker:Apparently.
Speaker:And what ends up happening is they just clown on the ramen guy the
Speaker:whole time because they're like, oh, yeah, Ipoh, you can do this.
Speaker:You got this.
Speaker:Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker:I'm like, this loser who needs a second job.
Speaker:Is he so bad at boxing?
Speaker:This guy right here, he boxes like this and he can't do
Speaker:anything and blah, blah, blah.
Speaker:And I was like, bro, these guys are And then Ipoh's just there, just I don't know.
Speaker:That's how you know they're really friends.
Speaker:Because I ain't gonna lie if if we were doing like we were both boxers, right?
Speaker:And all the other boxers are able to make a living wage by boxing,
Speaker:and you are the only boxer in the gym who has to have a second gym.
Speaker:I'm like, bro, what are you doing?
Speaker:Honestly like you, you taking LS right now, dog.
Speaker:Like in life, not in life.
Speaker:not in life, but you're taking some life Ls right now, bro.
Speaker:And it's like how you go get your ass beat and then go.
Speaker:Make some ramen.
Speaker:It's Oh, you can't go home and rest.
Speaker:Got a clock in, bitch.
Speaker:But the thing is also, it's in there, in a guy's own weird way.
Speaker:It's we're trying to make fun of you so that you come up on our level.
Speaker:We're not making fun of you because you just a bitch.
Speaker:We're trying to egg you on to become a better boxer.
Speaker:Other people might not see it like that, but.
Speaker:I know, there's one thing I also really like about this show, it's
Speaker:like, The culture, it's I the fighter culture There's gonna be dark jokes.
Speaker:These are the type of people where a lot of fighters are that way.
Speaker:Where they're, like, very harsh with each other.
Speaker:But it's not out of admiration.
Speaker:It's not because they actually hate each other.
Speaker:And then also what me and DJ have been talking about a lot in this
Speaker:anime is they do a really good job of making you empathize with the loser.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Depot will win.
Speaker:And you'll be like yeah.
Speaker:And the guy goes, I guess my girlfriend's gonna leave me now.
Speaker:We're like, oh yeah.
Speaker:We forgot about that.
Speaker:I hope you guys don't break up and then they stay together.
Speaker:She's oh, all I really wanted was for you to, see the old, whatever his name was.
Speaker:Wait, break out of that rut.
Speaker:Old Oda, the old Oda, and then he's I guess my boxing career
Speaker:is over with, and it's no, your boxing career is not over with.
Speaker:She's yeah, actually, we're not gonna quit on you, we just wanted you to care again.
Speaker:And now that you care, we'll never hear from you again.
Speaker:Now there's exactly.
Speaker:But there is this new guy, apparently with some like shotgun punch.
Speaker:Or something like that.
Speaker:The first the next guy is the black dude.
Speaker:Yo, yes.
Speaker:Remember?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:There's a black dude that comes out.
Speaker:He's in Japan because reasons.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:Because anime.
Speaker:Because anime.
Speaker:He's an American black guy.
Speaker:And, to be fair, it's pretty smart.
Speaker:If I was Japanese.
Speaker:Now, this is a little bit about writing.
Speaker:Because if I was.
Speaker:Boxing.
Speaker:Almost all the boxers they mention.
Speaker:In this anime, so far, are just straight up American.
Speaker:They're not talking about any Thai boxers.
Speaker:They're not quoting any Japanese boxers either.
Speaker:They only talk about, All oh, the flicker jab.
Speaker:This was invented by this American boxer.
Speaker:Oh, he's doing peek a boo style, like Mike Tyson.
Speaker:It's Okay, and, you know what's crazy?
Speaker:Since they all talk about, I think, Was boxing invented in America?
Speaker:I don't know, maybe.
Speaker:I do not believe.
Speaker:That, before 1776, no one threw hands with each other.
Speaker:I genuinely don't believe that.
Speaker:Hold on.
Speaker:Boxing invention.
Speaker:You looked it up.
Speaker:out to, Jason Azuma comes out, that's his name, comes out to challenge Ippo, right?
Speaker:And he comes from the sticks of Japan.
Speaker:Eight Six Eighty Eight B.
Speaker:C.
Speaker:was the first Box Boxing first came into the Olympics in Greece.
Speaker:So then why are you only quoting Americans?
Speaker:Not you, but did you also know that the Olympics were so prevalent in
Speaker:Greece and of the culture at that time that they used to stop wars
Speaker:so they could do the Olympics?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Same thing happens here with football.
Speaker:Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker:Yeah, and literally remember, it was like Christmas that one time during
Speaker:World War II, and everyone was like, oh yeah, we're gonna just stop fighting.
Speaker:We'll just stop fighting, and we'll have a great Christmas day.
Speaker:It shows you how frivolous these wars actually are.
Speaker:They're like, oh, what, I hate you, I'm gonna kill you, but, how about Christmas?
Speaker:That's messed up, dude.
Speaker:What do you mean?
Speaker:This is no man's land.
Speaker:What do you mean?
Speaker:Imagine you're like, 5, 000 of my friends died yesterday.
Speaker:Like I murdered 20 of your friends, you murdered 50 of mine, so I'm like, we
Speaker:hate each other, because we murder each other's friends, and it's oh wait oh!
Speaker:The Chiefs are playing.
Speaker:The Chiefs are playing, we can't I was like, oh, yo, this is the common ground.
Speaker:When both of us go to Buffalo Wild Wings we didn't just murder
Speaker:each other's best friends.
Speaker:But anyways this dude comes from the country of Japan, right?
Speaker:And He means the apparently there's some stick boonies in Japan.
Speaker:Let me go back to what I was saying real fast.
Speaker:So the black guy, this is a really great rating.
Speaker:So they're always referencing American boxers and black boxers.
Speaker:It's sports, American sports, but whatever.
Speaker:But talking about American boxes, right?
Speaker:Here's the thing.
Speaker:There's no better way to get someone interested.
Speaker:If I was Japanese, I would do the same thing where it's okay, how do I show
Speaker:that these fighters are real fighters?
Speaker:Have him be an American black guy.
Speaker:Show that the Japanese Japan's Mike Tyson The 16 year old Japanese kid
Speaker:and featherweight Who's 5'5 can somehow can dominate this, I, first
Speaker:of all, I, he's supposed to be like 5'10 5'11 and he's a featherweight?
Speaker:Again, it's hard to believe, but this guy who's like in his, again, mid
Speaker:twenties, black guy from America.
Speaker:I don't believe it, but if I was Japanese, I would have written it that
Speaker:way as his first opponent too, because it's okay, cool I'll let you know that.
Speaker:We're on this, we're, we up here.
Speaker:We, I'm not saying it's not possible, but he's 16.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:This other guy is, this is a full grown man.
Speaker:Forget that fact that he's black.
Speaker:This is a full grown man with hair on his chest.
Speaker:This is like Miata all over again.
Speaker:This man has been training since he was born.
Speaker:This, yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:This Miata, but him and Miata I, IPO and Miata were the same age.
Speaker:But it's the same concept of this dude is a grown man, boxing for
Speaker:years, and Ippo beats him the same way Miata's been training for years.
Speaker:Yeah, and it's like Bro, what you mean?
Speaker:Now one thing I will say, is that Again, they hit you with, in the feels, right
Speaker:before you're about to fight someone.
Speaker:Cause you're always like yeah, if I want you to knock him out.
Speaker:And then it goes, plays our super sad backstory.
Speaker:He's I was just a lonely black guy in Japan.
Speaker:And then these Japanese people embraced me.
Speaker:Now, for some reason, a lot of them have the Timmy Turner syndrome.
Speaker:When they had that weird, U buck teeth.
Speaker:As Southerners, can we stop doing this?
Speaker:Yeah, that would be great.
Speaker:To the world, like a whole bunch of people in the South
Speaker:don't have Timmy Turner mouth.
Speaker:All right, I don't what some of them do but
Speaker:Toothbrushes right what's not freaking?
Speaker:We're talking like we're Britain or something.
Speaker:But anyway the thing is he comes from a very poor, country, Japanese
Speaker:This man's hidden hay sacks to train.
Speaker:community.
Speaker:And the only way that this community seems like it's gonna survive is
Speaker:if He starts winning these fights.
Speaker:Yeah, he's Yeah, you guys did so much for me, I'm gonna do this for you guys.
Speaker:And he loses his first round in the tournament.
Speaker:It's really sad.
Speaker:And they're like, look, it's okay.
Speaker:As long as you tried your best.
Speaker:And then you like never hear from these boxers ever again.
Speaker:Ever again.
Speaker:They have been banished to the shadow realm.
Speaker:They're like, oh, it's okay that you lost.
Speaker:It's really sad that you lost.
Speaker:Let's go off to the shadow realm.
Speaker:You'll never hear from us again Because you lose or you lose and the craziest
Speaker:part is shadow realm that takamura was like hey, man, That's life.
Speaker:Someone wins and someone loses both.
Speaker:Y'all can't win.
Speaker:You should tell the epo He's even though you're a good guy, like
Speaker:That's how it is Right, and the thing is, Ippo still sucks at footwork.
Speaker:Yeah, and he's beating like everyone.
Speaker:This man is just doing it off of pure willpower and punching power.
Speaker:Wait a minute, I like boxing.
Speaker:So they're like, hey man, you gotta get faster, stronger, and better footwork.
Speaker:And Takamura's yeah dude, you fucking suck.
Speaker:And to be fair, when I was with Ippo, I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker:then how come I keep winning?
Speaker:If I suck so bad This I fought exclusively adults.
Speaker:I am a child fighting exclusively adults who have 10 years on me and winning.
Speaker:Eh, I don't know if I believe all that.
Speaker:I don't know if I believe that hype.
Speaker:So then his next his next opponent is I don't even know how to pronounce this.
Speaker:Agatski?
Speaker:Aitigaxi?
Speaker:Manabu?
Speaker:Yeah, my nebu, whatever.
Speaker:Like the whole point with this guy though is that he's some sort of pretty boy
Speaker:that, like a lot of people like Yeah.
Speaker:He's a pretty boy.
Speaker:A lot of people like him.
Speaker:And this is the guy that all the girls like him, I'm pretty sure,
Speaker:like here's the one thing I will say about Ippo, and it's really,
Speaker:hurting my memory of these episodes.
Speaker:Is that they all feel like one long movie to me.
Speaker:They all, they, Cause they, cause it flows, this is crazy, I'm gonna say it
Speaker:as if it's a negative, but it's not.
Speaker:It flows so well, and you just watch the episodes in one binge,
Speaker:so you're like, yo I feel like I just watched a long movie, right?
Speaker:Yeah, and you're sitting there Okay what happened?
Speaker:And, who is this?
Speaker:And then you're like oh, that's the guy.
Speaker:What what did Kevin Hart say?
Speaker:The snap finger famous?
Speaker:Oh, that's that's that's But now, the Battles, and the fights that
Speaker:Ippo is on, it almost seems like he's skinning by, by the skin of his teeth.
Speaker:He's getting by the skin of his teeth.
Speaker:I don't think he fights the guy with the shotgun the second time.
Speaker:No?
Speaker:No, I don't think so.
Speaker:It's that's not important.
Speaker:What were you saying?
Speaker:But it seems but but that's part of the storytelling, right?
Speaker:That he gets by the skin of his teeth.
Speaker:Literally every time.
Speaker:And it's oh you have to train that much harder next time.
Speaker:And if you don't, and it always seems like this dude is just Miles better
Speaker:than like They always seem like they're always way better than him.
Speaker:He's oh my gosh I don't know if I can beat them and it's It doesn't matter if you
Speaker:think you can beat them or not because you have to now one thing I will say
Speaker:I did like I think was like episode 17 where they go to the training camp, right?
Speaker:Right people wants to be a super hard worker, And that the person
Speaker:you were trying to pronounce before that was the American black guy.
Speaker:They named him No, they named him Jason The black guy was Jason What?
Speaker:It doesn't matter.
Speaker:I don't want to talk about the training.
Speaker:It's just training camp.
Speaker:Episode 17, they go to their training camp.
Speaker:And they're like, yeah, we're gonna go over here and learn.
Speaker:And Ippo thinks he's about to have a really great shot to like train for stuff.
Speaker:And get really, a lot stronger.
Speaker:But all they really do is just dick around on the beach.
Speaker:They just dick around and try and get ladies and Epo's hey, I
Speaker:thought we came here to train.
Speaker:He said, no, don't worry.
Speaker:We're going to train.
Speaker:Just not right now.
Speaker:We're just going to be perverts right now.
Speaker:So when there are people on the beach and there's women on the
Speaker:beach, they like, they're all about that, but then they say, okay, we're
Speaker:going to work on your footwork.
Speaker:And so they make this guy like run, but he's not as fast as they are on the beach.
Speaker:And then also they throw tennis balls at him and stuff like that.
Speaker:This is another thing that I think is so interesting about the series.
Speaker:You actually do learn a whole bunch about boxing.
Speaker:Takamura is oh, it's cause you're not running, it's cause you haven't developed
Speaker:your like, you're developing your calf muscles, but you haven't really developed
Speaker:your toe strength for you to push off.
Speaker:To really put more, even more power than you already have in your punches.
Speaker:So they have him running on the beach to like, strengthen that up.
Speaker:And it's crazy.
Speaker:Because then they also are shooting off fireworks whenever they feel like it.
Speaker:Which is crazy.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I get it, to commemorate the camp, but that's.
Speaker:Like one of them goes loose and is tipped over and like firing, like
Speaker:into like where someone can get it.
Speaker:And I guess they just don't care.
Speaker:I want, it's also very, I actually find this anime actually funny.
Speaker:Yeah there's definitely times that where I'm just I'm laughing and I'm
Speaker:like, oh, this is this is pretty crazy.
Speaker:There's a lot of action, but it's also pretty funny.
Speaker:Now, there's, and then also you see his rival fight, Yes, not his rival.
Speaker:The guy before the pretty boy that he fights this guy who has this style
Speaker:in which he can't punch hard, right?
Speaker:He he, and they're like, look, dude, you can't punch hard.
Speaker:Because, straight up, genetics, alright?
Speaker:Imma lay it to you out like this.
Speaker:It was someone like, just put there.
Speaker:Oh, this is the guy that clinches.
Speaker:Wait, so this is Fighter, who's won a whole bunch of matches.
Speaker:He on points alone.
Speaker:He tags people 40, 400 times.
Speaker:Clenches the rest of the time, because he has no defense, he's super weak.
Speaker:But he wins all of his matches through points.
Speaker:And people are like, Oh, we hate you, boxing that way, oh, you suck, boo,
Speaker:because you don't get any knockouts.
Speaker:Boo, boo.
Speaker:Bye.
Speaker:Then again, his trainer is Hey, look, man, all that matters is that you win.
Speaker:Yeah, like honestly, like all that matters is that you win.
Speaker:And if you become champion with this boxing style of yours,
Speaker:that's just mainly on points.
Speaker:That's all that matters.
Speaker:And he gets it.
Speaker:So like he's the complete opposite of Ippo.
Speaker:Ippo has all this like raw strength.
Speaker:This guy is like only technical.
Speaker:He doesn't have any strength at all.
Speaker:It's like only technical.
Speaker:But he's worse technical than his rival, which is Mador miata.
Speaker:I keep wanting to say Midoriya.
Speaker:I know you do, I don't know why.
Speaker:But Miata is better technically, but this guy has really great technical skill too,
Speaker:and It's funny, Ippo beats him by allowing him to get one really good hit in, and
Speaker:that one really good hit was so solid, he was like, oh, maybe I can get a knockout,
Speaker:and people stop making fun of me, and then Ippo just wipes the floor with him.
Speaker:Yeah, cuz he was like Cuz he stops clenching, right?
Speaker:He was gonna win!
Speaker:But he finally got that one solid punch on the chin.
Speaker:And I was like, Oh, let's go punch for punch.
Speaker:And that's when, And then and then that's when Ippo was like,
Speaker:yeah, let's go, motherfucker.
Speaker:Let's go punch for punch.
Speaker:I'm an infighter.
Speaker:And then, so that's whenever that's whenever he gets knocked out and it's
Speaker:also sad too because he's like man I want to be a really great boxer.
Speaker:I want to be the best but just based off my genetics I just
Speaker:can't throw that dealt right?
Speaker:I just can't throw good punches Even though he trains super hard everyone at
Speaker:this other guy's gym and like bro You can't throw punches harder than that.
Speaker:You'll never be a great boxer, but it's like dude He's winning all of
Speaker:his matches though, but they're like, yeah, but you just have people on
Speaker:the side and then you clinch It's not very flashy, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker:But then, again they name an American boxer who like, that was
Speaker:who won almost all of his points, boxes boxing matches on points.
Speaker:Yeah, Floyd.
Speaker:Floyd?
Speaker:Is that who they name?
Speaker:Floyd Mayweather?
Speaker:Is that what, is that who you're saying they're no, they didn't reference him.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:But did Floyd Mayweather win mostly on points?
Speaker:I don't think so.
Speaker:He's got great defense, don't he?
Speaker:Yeah, but Floyd Mayweather has knockouts.
Speaker:This guy this this, He's the, so Ippo beat the black guy, they go to advance, right?
Speaker:Then you got the clinch guy.
Speaker:This, the clinch guy is like his second rival, right?
Speaker:And his second rival, it's really sad, cause he's Way more pathetic.
Speaker:Then when Ipoh was like getting bullied, essentially.
Speaker:And so he is also risen up through the ranks.
Speaker:So it's like Ipoh is facing another version of him.
Speaker:But instead of being good at punching, this guy's really good at techniques.
Speaker:The effect, this guy, like before the fight was like crying to Ipoh.
Speaker:Like he meets Ipoh.
Speaker:Yeah, that's great.
Speaker:And he starts crying.
Speaker:And Epo's Bro, were you spying on me in the gym?
Speaker:And he's I know, I'm sorry, I'm so pathetic, it's cause I had to like,
Speaker:learn, like, how you box, so I could like, Kinda decipher, like, how I can beat you,
Speaker:I'm sorry, it's cause I'm so pathetic, I had to like, come up with a strategy
Speaker:how to beat you, cause I can't punch.
Speaker:And then Epo sends him his book back!
Speaker:Yeah!
Speaker:And the guy's this dude's a sucker, he'll even send me the book!
Speaker:Not that he thinks he's a sucker.
Speaker:He thinks oh, like this guy.
Speaker:Oh, this guy's really nice.
Speaker:Yeah, he thinks he's really nice.
Speaker:It's his trainer who's oh, this guy must be a sucker.
Speaker:But actual boxer, he's oh, this guy must be super nice.
Speaker:And so it's like He basically had to beat up the nicest guy in the entire
Speaker:world, who then eventually, because he got beat up, goes to the Shadow Realm.
Speaker:Goes to the Shadow Realm.
Speaker:Goes to the Shadow Realm.
Speaker:And you never see him again.
Speaker:You get nothing.
Speaker:You get nothing.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:You should, what's that phrase?
Speaker:You take up, you serve no purpose.
Speaker:You should kill yourself.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:What?
Speaker:But Ippo, during each fight, is just I'm nothing.
Speaker:I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker:I don't.
Speaker:Sounds like our professional careers.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Sounds like us every single day.
Speaker:I have no idea what's going on.
Speaker:We have no idea what we're doing.
Speaker:Oh, we're successful?
Speaker:No way!
Speaker:Oh my god.
Speaker:Anyway.
Speaker:That's up to episode 20, and then in episode, episode 20 he sees his next
Speaker:rival, the guy with the shotgun punch.
Speaker:Yes!
Speaker:And that's the one that all the girls are really like, and they're like,
Speaker:oh don't he has all these fangirls.
Speaker:And that guy's kind of a a douchebag anyway.
Speaker:Wait, cause he's never lost before.
Speaker:He's never lost, he's never really, I'm not gonna say he doesn't train
Speaker:hard, but he's never had any real motivation to train real hard.
Speaker:He has this secret weapon called the shotgun.
Speaker:And the shotgun is basically him just punching really fast.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And, Then he's got an infighter killer, which is, even if you do get
Speaker:in deep Because he's an outboxer, so even if you do get in deep,
Speaker:he has this killer upper left.
Speaker:If you get in, if you get in fast, he just go ahead and just
Speaker:cut you right up the middle and that's also what he likes to do.
Speaker:He likes to get people this false like sense that they can
Speaker:hit him so they get in close.
Speaker:So then he hits him with the upper left and then he just shotguns
Speaker:him with this super fast punches and the guy that he does it to.
Speaker:You're just like, damn man.
Speaker:Yeah, it's people's like watching his.
Speaker:Opponent fight for this dance and he's bro, he just massacred that's one fight.
Speaker:Are you serious?
Speaker:That's who I have to face.
Speaker:Oh, I should say this the second is second opponent the pathetic guy He
Speaker:was like the same age as Ippo which was refreshing because all these dudes look
Speaker:like grown ass No that they didn't look like they are An anime logic the 16
Speaker:year old five five fighter wins, right?
Speaker:And it's the other fighter, the second guy, who's pathetic, this is more
Speaker:realistic, it's look, I can't beat these bigger guys I'm not, my puberty's not
Speaker:over, so I don't have heavy punches yet, so I gotta use technical skill, right?
Speaker:And all of, but Ippo, who's 16, has Mike Tyson punching power.
Speaker:And their explanation is oh, he worked on a fishing boat, so
Speaker:that's why he's super strong.
Speaker:Huh?
Speaker:I can see if he worked in in a coal mine.
Speaker:Or Or if he worked like, in Hunger Games.
Speaker:The reason why PETA was so tall and big is because his parents owned a flour factory.
Speaker:And he's lifting sacks of flour.
Speaker:Yeah, 50 pound sacks of flour.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Every day.
Speaker:Now, for them, they were like, Oh, he lifts all this really heavy
Speaker:bait and all this giant fish.
Speaker:And it's I don't know.
Speaker:I don't know regardless of which he then has to see then in episode 20 He sees this
Speaker:guy do the shotgun punch and it is a thing in anime where like he throws one punch
Speaker:But then like it's shadow clone jutsu's 15 next to it a bunch of punches and then all
Speaker:the girls are just like I'm not gonna lie like everyone every one of these boxers.
Speaker:He's face Miata Insert black guy name here.
Speaker:Jason.
Speaker:Jason.
Speaker:You're racist towards your own people, man.
Speaker:You don't remember his name.
Speaker:That's cause black guys aren't named Jason.
Speaker:Alright?
Speaker:Black guys aren't named Jason.
Speaker:And if they are, you know what they go by?
Speaker:They go by Jay.
Speaker:My name's fuckin Derek.
Speaker:If you don't hear me say, Oh, call me De I go by DJ.
Speaker:Cause I'm an actual black guy.
Speaker:Now, I'm not saying that You are a fake black guy.
Speaker:I'm not saying that, the creative of EPO had to research black guys.
Speaker:They probably were sitting in the office and they're like, What's an American name?
Speaker:Jason.
Speaker:Okay, yeah, that's the black dude's name.
Speaker:That's the This is a quick Google search.
Speaker:It's either To be fair, there's a lot of really Would you have rathered them
Speaker:call him Jamal Jackson or Jerome or yeah, I mean I know he's a boy I know
Speaker:he's a boy I want to talk about realism Imagine Ibo saying I have to face
Speaker:Jamal next I like Jeroen, we like cause I ain't gonna lie that one made the
Speaker:character like maybe like really and he like Man, I'm facing Miyada I'm facing
Speaker:Oda Akito, my next character is Jerome.
Speaker:I'm like, oh shit.
Speaker:Ibo, you've been trained.
Speaker:You've been trained.
Speaker:That's probably why his name is Jason.
Speaker:Cause if he was named something like Jerome, I'd be like, bro,
Speaker:Ibo, you're not winning this dog.
Speaker:You're not.
Speaker:My name's Tyrone Michaelson.
Speaker:Yeah, Ibo, you're not gonna win this, bro.
Speaker:You're just gonna win it.
Speaker:I'm going around All of the sake joints and getting all the women
Speaker:they never seen a black dude before.
Speaker:But that's like how with Chris Tucker whenever he did the rush hour movies and
Speaker:they went over to, it was China, right?
Speaker:They went to China and they were all fascinated.
Speaker:They had never seen a number one.
Speaker:They'd never seen a black dude and they'd never seen a tall black dude.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's quite interesting.
Speaker:My The times I have met some Asians who, they don't speak a lot of English and
Speaker:they're really from those other countries, there's over here visiting, right?
Speaker:They're always very fascinated.
Speaker:By blind people, which is interesting because it's like America has
Speaker:a whole bunch of different races to get interested in.
Speaker:We have, there is not a race in the world that does not exist in America.
Speaker:I do not believe it.
Speaker:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker:Everyone has a community here.
Speaker:But I don't know, I guess black people are cool.
Speaker:It's been my experience, they don't have a lot of tact whenever they are curious.
Speaker:It's if they're curious with, you've hung out with Asian people.
Speaker:I have, yeah.
Speaker:And, whatever they're curious about.
Speaker:What?
Speaker:Asians.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But, whenever they're curious about something with it, they
Speaker:literally just come out and say it.
Speaker:They don't they're very open about it.
Speaker:Yeah, they're quite interesting.
Speaker:What have they always asked you about dj?
Speaker:I usually the first thing is usually the hair.
Speaker:They like to touch my hair a lot of times and I And it's famously known
Speaker:that african americans don't like their hair being touched, right?
Speaker:So sometimes they'll just like they'll just reach out and grab
Speaker:it and this is not like children.
Speaker:They're like 20 30 year olds Those okay.
Speaker:Cool.
Speaker:Just reach out the hand and grab it and that We don't like that.
Speaker:And then sometimes I remember I was in graduate school and I knew this
Speaker:person, his name was his name was Sun Won Lee and he really loved hip hop.
Speaker:He knew so much hip hop, like history.
Speaker:That he knew more than me just like in just like not that
Speaker:I'm a hip hop expert, right?
Speaker:Don't they all call you brother, too?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, they call me like I feel sometimes they call me like soul brother And
Speaker:I'm just like Yeah, see you know what I think it is honestly like it feels
Speaker:super race, but they don't mean it that way no but I think the issue is
Speaker:like some of our, you know how they say we make it in the West and then
Speaker:it eventually travels to the East?
Speaker:I think it's just behind.
Speaker:I think that's why Korea and like Japan and like China They're really into boy
Speaker:bands right now because that was 20 years ago for us, yeah, I think that some
Speaker:people are still watching Miami Vice.
Speaker:Some people are still back there watching old school stuff Yeah, but hey guys
Speaker:this has been seven senpais i'm nicholas i'm dj and we'll get that intro right
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