Makunouchi Ippo is a shy high school student who barely has any friends because he is always busy helping out his single mother with her family fishing charter business. Since he is such shy pushover he gets bullied by a group of students. One day he gets a especially rough beating, luckily for him he gets saved by the pro boxer Takamura who scares the bullies away. Takamura brings the passed out Ippo to his boxing gym to tend to his wounds. When Ippo wakes up he sees the world of boxing for the first time and decides to change his life, and aspire a career as a pro-boxer.
The story follows the hardships and joys of Ippo and his friends in the world of pro-boxing.
Hajime no Ippo explains the world of boxing in every detail. You learn a lot about boxing, from basic knowledge, various techniques to all the short and long term dangers in the ring. The manga doesn't only show the matches in every detail but especially the training and preparations before the match. From all the trainings to build up their muscles and stamina to the unimaginable pains of weight-management.
Compared to other sport manga Hajime no Ippo is almost exclusively about the sport, there is a love story and some other developments included in the story but they can merely be regarded as fillers and barely contribute to it.
The humor of this manga is very crude, meaning penis and poop jokes are a essential part of it. Witch could be easily explained by the fact that almost all characters are male.
The artwork is difficult to judge. Firstly it is very old school and that doesn't fit everyones taste. The fighting scenes are portrait very well and drawn in detail, on the other hand the way people are drawn takes getting used to (especially the faces). But it doesn't disturb the reading experience since you get so into it, you will barely realize that over the 950 chapters the author changes his drawing style regularly.
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