Fighting Spirit

About Fighting Spirit

Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers.

Fighting Spirit is an action-adventure, animation, and comedy series made for Nippon TV. Kohei Kiyasu stars as Ippo Makunouchi (voice), Rikiya Koyama as Mamoru Takamura (voice), Wataru Takagi as Masaru Aoki (voice), and Jurota Kosugi as Ralph Anderson (voice).

Its 3 seasons and 126 episodes were broadcast from October 2000 to March 2014. That is around 42 episodes a season. The story is adapted from a manga.

Shelv files it under excited, bold, tournament, and exhilarated. It streams on Cineverse Amazon Channel, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel, and Netflix in the United States. It scores 8.7 out of 10 from 1,245 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-PG rating.

Dragon Ball Z, Hunter x Hunter, and Dr. STONE make useful companions to Fighting Spirit, all filed under friendship, shounen, and based on manga.