Hajime no Ippo Quiz

'Hajime no Ippo' is a popular Japanese boxing manga adapted to anime. Quiz will contain spoilers for the anime but not the manga.
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1. What is the name of Ippo's boxing gym?
Kazama
Kobayashi
Kyosuke
Kamogawa
Ippo's gym owner and coach is retired boxer Genji Kamogawa.
2. What role does Masaru Aoki play in the anime?
Comic relief
Owner of another boxing gym
Ippo's rival
Ippo's school bully
Aoki is Ippo's gym partner, unorthodox boxer, and the butt of many jokes.
3. What family business does Ippo help out his mother with?
Pawn shop
Restaurant
Fishing boat business
Flower shop
Ippo and his mother Hiroko own a fishing boat, inherited from his late father.
4. Which two real-life boxers do characters in the anime often compare Ippo's style to?
Muhammad Ali & Roberto Duran
Rocky Marciano & Joe Louis
Manny Pacquiao & Ricardo Lopez
Jack Dempsey & Mike Tyson
His peekaboo style is reminiscent of Tyson, and his signature move is the 'Dempsey Roll'.
5. After Japanese featherweight champion Date Eiji vacates the title, who is the next boxer to win it?
Takeshi Sendo
Ryo Mashiba
Ichiro Miyata
Alexander Volg Zangief
Sendo and Zangief faced off for the belt, with the former winning by decision.
6. The world featherweight champion in the anime hails from which nation?
Russia
USA
Mexico
Columbia
Ricardo Lopez is a legendary undefeated Mexican boxer, and gave Date Eiji his distinctive scar.
7. Ippo's mentor and friend, Mamoru Takamura, has an older brother Suguru, who is a former athlete. What was his sport?
Rugby
Sprinter
Baseball
Wrestling
Suguru Takamura was a promising rugby player, but he abandoned the sport to run his father's business.
8. Who was the first of these characters to join Ippo's gym?
Ichiro Miyata
Mamoru Takamura
Tatsuya Kimura
Manabu Itagaki
Though Takamura is the senior-most member, Miyata was already training at the gym when Takamura joined.
9. Ryo Mashiba "cheats" to beat Miyata during the Rookie King Tournament. How so?
Steps on his foot
Bribes the referee
Hits Miyata after the bell had rung
Takes performance enhancing drugs
During the fight, Mashiba steps on Miyata's foot and then punches him, which severely hampers his footwork.
10. In which boxing arena do the majority of the fights in the anime take place?
Kourakuen Hall
Osaka Prefetcural Gymnasium
Yokohama Arena
Ryogoku Kokukigan
The majority of fights in the series take place in Kourakuen, though it never hosts a world title bout.
11. Who is Ippo's primary love interest?
Kumi Mashiba
Tomoko Yamaguchi
Imura Mari
Nanako Itagaki
Ippo and Ryo Mashiba's sister have feelings for each other, but are not yet officially dating.
12. How do Japanese boxing fans feel about two of Takamura's American rivals, Bryan Hawk & David Eagle?
Both are disliked
Eagle is liked, Hawk is disliked
Both are well liked
Hawk is liked, Eagle is disliked
Hawk is a pervert and looks down on the Japanese. Eagle is his polar opposite, well-mannered and unusually nice.
13. Who does Miyata beat to claim the Oriental Pacific title?
Arnie Gregory
Ryuhei Sawamura
Randy Boy Jr.
Jimmy Sisphar
Arnie Gregory is an Australian boxer and former OPBF champion.
14. Which of Alexander Volg Zangief's sick family members does he leave Russia to fight for?
Younger Sister
Mother
Father
Younger Brother
Zangief's only family that we are made aware of in the series is his mother, who is dying.
15. What is Ippo's surname?
Tatsuo
Makunouchi
Kiryu
Hajime
His full name is Makunouchi Ippo.
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