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Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! - Champion Road
Hajime no Ippo: Champion Road
Makunouchi Ippo is the new Featherweight champion of Japan and is now ready for his first title defense. His opponent, the former Jr. Featherweight champion and a medical student, Sanada Kazuki. In addition to this feud, Sanada is being coached by Kamogawa's former rival, Hama Dankichi. What makes things worse is that Sanada works at the same hospital where Kumi is a nurse at and everybody at the hospital wants Sanada to win. Not only does Ippo have to defend his title, he has to reclaim his love.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Last updated
Mar 3, 2026, 02:14 AM
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59.1
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Signal coverage: 92% • Signal freshness: High • Updated 2 hours ago
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- Cross-platform audience rating — Weighted audience rating 81.0
- Cross-platform popularity index — Aggregate reach of ~10,340 followers
- IP reach across services — Multi-platform footprint of ~10,155 users
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| Source | Metric | Geo | Value | Collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anilist | average score | GLOBAL | 80 | Feb 28, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | favorites | GLOBAL | 358 | Feb 28, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | popularity | GLOBAL | 31,306 | Feb 28, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| anilist | trending | GLOBAL | 0 | Feb 28, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | favorites | GLOBAL | 38 | Jan 1, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | member count | GLOBAL | 12,081 | Jan 1, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | rating rank | GLOBAL | 633 | Jan 1, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| kitsu | score mean | GLOBAL | 80.69 | Jan 1, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | completed | GLOBAL | 129,441 | Jan 1, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | plan to watch | GLOBAL | 19,952 | Jan 1, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| mal | watching | GLOBAL | 3,415 | Jan 1, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| shikimori | score mean | GLOBAL | 82.5 | Jan 1, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| tmdb | popularity | GLOBAL | 4.1 | Feb 26, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| tmdb | vote count | GLOBAL | 19 | Feb 26, 2026, 12:00 AM |
| wikipedia | pageviews daily | EN.WIKIPEDIA | 14 | Feb 17, 2026, 12:00 AM |